In Boering

The Brown Bear bears down

Teddy bear snug

Offering a bear hug

Walking bare-footed

Attaining his bearing In the woods

Is more than he could bear

Bear with me!

I can hardly bear it!

I swear it

This bareness in prose?

Summon the forbearance!

Barely?

Overbearers’ must forbear!

Positing as the bearer of gifts of ursine opine?

Twill lead to readers hibernation from thine poetic station ruin!

This brutish troubadour bard’s

Bewilderment of bruins!

Ursidae and Ursus wild animal acclimation!

Enduring yet bearable rhythmic shrine

Guardrails must be maintained

The fluidity of living is to blame

There is no rest in the Reaper’s game

Pop!

Goes the weasel!

Production can be lethal

At once the peril point crossed

Whispers of goodbye torment

As do the hope of retrieval

The past is now yet a blur!

Injury and ruin will mark the future

Proper fortifications to protect

Humanity’s safety

Are a necessary feature

Money alas!

Can make a most dangerous creature

Safety must not be solely a preacher

Construction Safety
Ain’t no maybe?

Each man or woman
Must go home

To their humble abode

To do battle
Another day of the fluid dangerous work

Progressing againsr peril is steeped into the soul

Pre- planning

Identifying safety risks

Organization

Clear walkways

Housekeeping

Covered exposed rebar

Communicating

Proper equipment

Ladders

Staircase

Scaffold

Hoists

Work platforms

Elevator Platforms

Material Platforms

Fire extinguishers

Hot work permit

Fireguard

Stand-Pipe

Heavy Machinery

Excavators

Bobcats

Forklifts

Cranes

Derricks

Knuckle-booms

Pump-Booms

Lulls

Man-lifts

Signal/radio communication

Airhorns

Tag-lines

Flaggers

Guardrail systems

Control Access Zones

Horizontal Netting

Vertical netting

Dust Masks

Air Respirators

Vaccuums

Tool Box Talks

Pre-Task Safety paperwork

Safety Logs

Barriers

Permits

License holders

Certifications

Engineers

Following design drawings

Building Inspectors

And heightened awareness

Carries more securely

The heavy load

Why do you follow elastically?

Sprightly slithering alongside me

Sunny days an appearance forms

A particular life force

Representing the present moment!

Expressing to the boulevard my feelings!

Shadow!

What manner of pleasure

Pain?

Pathway

Poetry!

Spirit of the elders?

Entwined in me

Do you beseech?

Awareness!

Practically dancing in the streets!

Willest thou reveal intrinsically

Shape-shifting celestial portrait

Endearingly designed to see

Thine ministry

Each day

Sunny or gray

The benevolent farmer makes his way

To my chicken coop

The daily vittles!

My hunger to allay

The Universe does not change!

Fixed and immutable

The comfortable constant array

The night skies flicker

As the stars dancing up in space!

Grace doth falleth upon this homestead place!

Whoosh!

The fine-tipped blade

Introduced

Pray tell!

What hath happened!

My head!

From my body

The farmer hath erased!

What has Mother Nature deduced?

Incan gentleman from the lands of Peru

Patient

Kind

Enjoyed a laugh

And authoritative too

Proud patriarch of the Castillo-Luna clan

Father

Teacher

Gentle

Strong sincere man

South American Indian style good-looking person!

Husband

Grandfather

Regal well-mannered

Love for Mamita and Family

Steady determined!

We are grateful for your dedicated leadership

It has carried us through many a tempest

Under your guidance

As Father Mother Son Daughter Niece Nephew

We are grateful that all apprenticed

Now we say goodbye

Holding true to your lasting legacy

Papito Juan we shalt keep you alive within us

In the vast confines

Of our most beloved memories

Gracias to Jesus all the Saints and Atahualpa

For gifting us our time spent

Signing off – Avansa!

Salsero Pelligroso a Salsero Seguro

The picture in my mind is claro and puro!

As the curtain closes on our earthly dance steps

The Heavens await the return of our next show!

Together again within your calm and thoughtful presence

– In loving memory of a good friend – Papito Juan aka “Salsero Seguro”

From “Salsero Pelligroso” Donald Reith

Training is gaining the wisdom

To Force Faster

Mind Body Vision

With tricks learned from Bozy

In the ring the pugilist becomes quite cozy

The boxer/ puncher can decipher the instantaneous decision

Secure in the pugiistic dance

One stands an infinite chance

To become the Teacher Supreme

The best in his/her weight class division

Perseverance follows The Dream!

One well-placed shot!

Can blow it all to smithereens!

Stay true to the mission!

• An acknowledgement of the great fighter – Jaron “Boots” Ennis
• And his trainer Father- “Bozy” Ennis

Ah! A time spent in happiness and good health!

Alas the mind is still stealth

Steadfastly mining the new plan

To the ongoing Comeback grand!

Health and good times

Is wealth it is opined

Resigned currently to repeat on a loop to her/ himself

Yet the mind

Perseveres!

Always positing towards the future healing

Separate from the occasional kneeling

All pain and sorrow begone!

Apathy and Immobility are a duo

That render the Shepherd all alone

Clamoring for the day One can repose

Healed and harmonizing

On those trying days once felt so torturously

Till the will

Leads to the healing path

To a new blessed dawn!

Time has spaciously spawned

Distress and pain!

Alas fiery devil!

Mine thoughts no longer headed by a constant ailment swivel

Be gone!

What is the totality

Why the morality

When and Where

The time and place

Inquiring staples of ordered duality

How never kowtows!

For it seeks common-sense practicality

Who usually ensues

To fit a person to a reality

Questions can be open for leaving doubt

Probing to find things out

Leading to exact a reaction

Loaded set-up for trickery and often redaction

Funnel starts broad then gets to the point

Recall and Process works on memory and opinion

Rhetorical seeks to grandstand over all dominion

Or own the joint!

Questions can be asked

By the very bold

And the meek

Answers cannot be found

Without the interrogative words that we speak

People ready inquiries

Literally!

Liberally!

Each and every day of the week

Look

And lo and behold!

Ye may find what you seek

Darkness envelops

Space renders its defines

Docile at the command

Of Nature’s shadowy cloaked sentinel

The gloaming umbra drifts

Commanding the atmosphere

Gloom!

Penetrates the senses

Alerts the defenses!

Beware!

The sun has taken its daily flight

Cut to the quick!

Danger raises its ugly face

To those unfortunate souls

Who cannot briskly summon the light!