waka of budouadana: marble

A clear glass marble, Blemished by imperfection,Catches dusky lightAnd glows, casting its uniqueShade upon the earthen path.(ifn ye wonta make a comment, ye gut to click on 'link' below.)

waka of budouadana: fledgling

To fly, each fledglingMust risk plunging from its perch,Landing hard upon its breast,Only to clamber back upTo try once again.(ifn ye wonta make a comment, ye gut to click on 'link' below.)

waka writ by budouadana: water

Though water adaptsTo fit each unique vesselIt should ever grace,Its droplet tapping rhythmGrinds great granite peaks to sand.(ifn ye wonta make a comment, ye gut to click on 'link' below.)

waka writ by budouadana: a ole form thats new to me

A diamond’s hard faceCan by mere dust be obscured,Its true reflectionsDimmed, as a heart burdenedBy powdery motes of doubt.(ifn ye wonta make a comment, ye gut to click on 'link' below.)

pomes of buddy don: Reserved for Use

Reserved for UseHow can it be that we are so confusedAs not to know what’s torture or what’s not?The very methods Torquemada usedRepulsed us – can it be that we forgot?The process then was called the Water Cure –A staple of the Spanish Inquisition –That it was torture we are pretty sureSince history has stated its position.The Chinese Water Torture was a name–Whoever coined it knew nothing of

pomes of buddy don: As Simple as Sleep

As Simple as SleepIf you thirst to death, water to drinkIs better than the richest home on earth –And if your hunger brings you to the brinkOf dying, then a meal fills you with mirth.If you need to relieve your bowels or bladderNot even joys of sex can feel so good –If you cannot breathe, air becomes the matterThat trumps all pleasure: this is understood.And if you have been sick for days on

mizry of buddy don: tham thar migraines ... back!

i aint had a migraine to speak of fer nigh onto a year, but this weekend i gut caught nappin. i been takin my depakote reglar lack, but i had let it git down to whar i woodnt take 750 mgs everday, mayhap only 500, witch that wuz the furst perscripshun i had. innywho, last week i had one of the hardest ever, teachin ten classes over 5 days n then a volunteer eevent on saturdy ... follerd by that

pitchers tuck by buddy don: beeyootifull weekend

we had us purrfeck wether this weekend, witch it spent the hole time wurkin (by my own choice). on saturdy as i wuz walkin over to a volunteer event way up on the upper east side, i walked thru central park n tuck a cuple pitchers ...(ifn ye wonta make a comment, ye gut to click on 'link' below.)

pitchers tuck by buddy don: a lil nite life on 42nd st

yesterdy evenin as part of a knowledge management effort i am pushin along, we had us a teambildin eevent at the espnzone, witch ifn ye aint never been thar, tiz a lot of fun, speshly them games they gut. they give our bunch sum food n sum cards good fer a hour of unlimited play. i tuck sum pitchers of the folks i wurk with, but theys privutt.corse on the way home i couldnt resist gittin a few of

pitchers tuck by buddy don: them critters

one of the questchuns posed by a reader wuz whuther we had lost inny of the critters that live in the tank, witch thats the 155-gallon aquarium we have in our livin room. purty much all them critters cum thru ok. nary a fish wuz missin, meanin all four of them catfish wuz still prowlin the bottom, witch they all gut names: felix the catfish (11.5 years in the tank), fritz (7 years in the tank),

pitchers tuck by buddy don: sum frum ireland i fergut about yesterdy

i wuz wunderin why i dint have as minny pitchers up on the smugmug gallery whar im a'keepin all them ireland pitchers, so i gut to lookin round on my portabull hard drive n found a slew of em i had dun missd. tiz amazin how hard tiz to git thru over 1,500 of em!so heres sum frum a lil boat trip down the river shannon that wuz tuck the day after the weddin. fer one thang, twuz a bit of a sprize to

pitchers tuck by buddy don: lastuns frum ireland fer now

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: the ladys vue

one of the purtiest of all them vues on that thar ring of kerry is the ladys view. we gut out of the car n tuck sum pitchers, witch miz bd wont hardly take a pitcher ifn i kin ...thay wuz feller op thar a'pickin on a banjo in a way i aint never seen nobidy do ere then, witch he wuz a'usin a sangle pick n no three-fanger roll ...point is, thays magick most everwhar ye turn in ireland ...(ifn ye

pitchers tuck by miz bd: whilst i wuz a'drivin on the rong side of the rode

i caint hardly tell ye how purty that thar ring of kerry is, but lucky a nuff fer yew, miz bd wuz takin sum pitchers out the car winnder.them rodes wuz verr narr ... lack as not thay wood be a rang of tress over em, witch that made em seem even more narr ...in whenever it gut to rainin, twood turn dark in em, witch ye kin see the sun wuz still a'shinin!it tuck so much concentrayshun to keep on

pitchers tuck by buddy don: a lil killarney n that thar ring of kerry

furst heres a lil killarney, witch ye kin see how parts of it kindly reeminds ye of gatlinburg ... n they even have fudge fer sale!one of the magickull moments of the trip happend whenever we seen a beach as we wuz a'drivin round that ring of kerry. we stopped n miz bd had her a lil irish whiskey, witch i couldnt have nun fer the hole trip on a counta i wuz takin that antibiotick that i jes