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tenbrunsel2
Apr 4, 20211 min read
THEY’S GHOSTS IN MY WOODS!
Holy Ghost! They’s ghosts in my woods, They seem stealthy and quiet, They’re watching me though, As I go, Invisibly white. They seem to...
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tenbrunsel2
Apr 1, 20213 min read
LOST IN THE WOODS
*photo by Troy Carr Lost in the woods, Alone, Quiet, Life fading, Stillness Invisible, Darkening, Strange and, Elusive, But for fleeting...
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tenbrunsel2
Mar 27, 20213 min read
NEEM OIL
All you Casual Gardeners - Let’s get a jump on garden pests this year. You’ve started your seedlings indoors or have scouted out your...
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tenbrunsel2
Mar 23, 20211 min read
TESSER
I’ve tessered here. I’ve tessered there. I’ve tessered almost everywhere. I’ve tessered in. I’ve tessered out. I’ve tessered here and...
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tenbrunsel2
Mar 20, 20211 min read
SPRING
Spring is as fresh as apple pie, Flowers and blossoms renew, See babbling brook, Birds in the sky, Daisies all new morning dewed. The...
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tenbrunsel2
Mar 16, 20211 min read
BREAK UP
Sadly, Heart-broken, I lay in my bed, Quietly, Alone, Late-night, Grieving. I am sad And yet, Somehow glad, Maby it wasn’t, Meant to be....
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tenbrunsel2
Mar 6, 20212 min read
THE AIR WARRIOR’S PRAYER
CONGRATULATIONS! Colonel Brian Tenbrunsel upon your retirement from the United States Air Force. There is no better calling than to serve...
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tenbrunsel2
Mar 2, 20211 min read
SHE WRITES WITH ME
I sit and write my memoirs atop this ancient mountain; a brook babbles below. A boy leaps headlong into a leaf pile outside my window....
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tenbrunsel2
Feb 27, 20211 min read
MOON
So open every window, Throw open every door, Let the moonlight shower, Blessings, Blessings evermore. I am the moon remember, Full bright...
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tenbrunsel2
Feb 23, 20211 min read
ALABAMA WINTER
When out on the crest, Of the field hill I spied, As far as my eyes could see, The pure white glow, Of Alabama snow, filled my heart with...
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tenbrunsel2
Feb 20, 20211 min read
TO LANE GRANITE
What faces? What Demons? What Green Man have you captured in your granite clutches, Oh Rock? What have you seen lo all these million...
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tenbrunsel2
Feb 16, 20211 min read
THE TUNNEL
Into the tunnel, Unknown, willfully I go, Willy Nilly, Caution to the wind; A double yellow leads me. Hell-bent on, Decente’ What lies...
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tenbrunsel2
Feb 12, 20212 min read
STRANDED
Halfway between here and there - nowhere Darkness snow blinding at a dizzy pace I push forth in contradiction (unreality) Brown’s Lane -...
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tenbrunsel2
Feb 9, 20212 min read
WAKE UP WINTER!
Awaken old man Winter! Yes we are eating our stored and frozen and canned delights from our garden last summer. Straw and mulched leaves...
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tenbrunsel2
Feb 2, 20211 min read
WINTER INTO SPRING
A lone red bird looks at me; Perched shivering, In a hemlock tree. I look at him, Both wondering, When the snow will end, And will Spring...
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tenbrunsel2
Jan 29, 20211 min read
A NUTTY STORY
A lone squirrel was looking for his nuts... A lone hawk was looking for the squirrel’s nuts too. At the blink of an eye, The bird swooped...
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tenbrunsel2
Jan 26, 20218 min read
HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Critique
I picked up the book by J D Vance at the suggestion of a friend. I was writing a chapter of my memoirs, “The Silent Minority,” based on a...
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tenbrunsel2
Jan 23, 20211 min read
THAT RIBBON OF HIGHWAY
As I went walking today, That ribbon of highway, I came across, Where Annie, Annie the donkey lay. I saw above me, endless Appalachians,...
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tenbrunsel2
Jan 12, 20213 min read
TWILIGHT MORNING
One morning just passed my Winter, I shuffled to the kitchen to fix me some “umm” tasty Chi Tea, just like any other morning. A bright...
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