Tag Archives: Larry Piltz

Larry Piltz : VERSE | my god is godzilla

my god is godzilla my god is godzilla he too is a killa gets some kind of thrilla and makes a big dilla of the whole magilla by getting his filla keeping it rilla like an Attila or rabid gorilla … Continue reading

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Larry Piltz :
VERSE | The Christmas Keys, a True Carol in Limericks

The Christmas Keys, a True Carol in Limericks On Christmas Eve I lost my keys then dreamt of a very high bridge that spans a river fast and wide that flows below a ridge and on that ridge a town … Continue reading

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Larry Piltz :
VERSE | Bernie Sanders’ Victory Tour 2021

By Larry Piltz | The Rag Blog | February 11, 2021 It’s as if Bernie’s lifelong journey of devotion to betterment of all, and becoming over time a beloved benign dogged pursuer of equality and fairness, almost the coming to … Continue reading

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Larry Piltz :
OPINION | Trump’s revenge: The only way he thinks
he can win

(Or, I’d rather be scared now than shocked and scared later.) By Larry Piltz | The Rag Blog | November 12, 2020 AUSTIN — There’s nothing and no one to stop Trump from disregarding all and every convention, practice, protocol … Continue reading

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Larry Piltz :
VERSE | The Wrens of Consciousness

The Wrens of Consciousness Fittingly and unfailingly in flits and a flash tiny and so brash flirting with bright dusk still time enough to busk a spring wren couple fly in and out and to wisp branch tips and alight … Continue reading

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Larry Piltz :
STORY | Following the creek

By Larry Piltz | The Rag Blog | July 25, 2018 When I was in Taylor early afternoon a few weeks ago, and turning south on 79 heading back toward Manor, a gorgeous adult bobcat, appearing especially dear and vulnerable … Continue reading

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Larry Piltz :
VERSE | TRUE HOMELAND

TRUE HOMELAND Why is this sweet world we live in so torn between chaos and Zen with extremes at either end like enemies and lifelong friends starvation and stock dividends a young child’s death yet love transcends are we really … Continue reading

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VERSE / Larry Piltz : Spurred by Love

Lonesome cowboy, Kiev, Ukraine, 2009. Photo by Phil Douglis / PBase. Spurred by Love [For Buck Ramsey, Cowboy Poet Laureate] On his last mountthe cowboy criesa lonesome rollerand practitionerof the ridingroping artsalso knownas its poetlaureate supremeone late nightsaying goodbyeplease staywon’t … Continue reading

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VERSE / Larry Piltz : Hasan’s Beard

Hasan’s Beard Not one to turn the other cheekHasan’s Beard bristled at the charges.Not guilty by reason of inanity!Not even accessory after the fact.Yet military justice had Hasan’s Beard by the short onesand Hasan’s Beard would ultimately take it on … Continue reading

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Video / Larry Piltz : You Asked Us to Believe

“You Asked Us to Believe.” Music, lyrics, vocal, producer: Larry Piltz; arrangement, instruments, recording enginer: Lamar Pecorino; post-production graphics and duplication: Channel 3 Video. You Asked Us To Believe “Fear Wins” read the headlineson the papers on the windowsas the … Continue reading

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VERSE / Larry Piltz : The Wound of the Gulf

The Gulf of Mexico. Photo from Nature’s Portraits. Oil is the salt in The wound of the Gulf By Houma Cayenne We have saltwater in our veinsand when it pours it biblically rainsGod knows we’ve had our losses and gainshad … Continue reading

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VERSE / Larry Piltz : New Atlantis and Banglateche

“Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn…” Illustration by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming (1905) for “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” tr. Edward Fitzgerald / Wikimedia Commons. New Atlantis and Banglateche By Houma Cayenne Here beside my breathing … Continue reading

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