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Farmersville Tales

Farmersville Tales

March 6, 2023 by philcline in / /

Farmersville Tales Introduction I grew up in Farmersville.  This series of essays, largely memories and impressions of my youth, span, roughly, the years 1950 to 1965 a period during which I, and Farmersville (finally incorporated in 1960) came of age. These are my stories.  And the stories of a special people.  My people.  Many were migrants who moved west […]

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Ordered Time

Ordered Time

March 4, 2019 by philcline in / / /

Ordered time They tried to order Time dawn to dusk, Futile spreadsheets of manageable units, Denying its nature to slow, to speed  To pause, to fly with thoughts, dreams,  Friends met, enemies loathed, With pain and agony and anxiety,  With pleasure, gaiety, With visions, prophecies, with  Feckless Fraud found out. Ordered like railway ties Clacking […]

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Poetry in the Public Square

Poetry in the Public Square

January 18, 2019 by philcline in / / / / /

Is poetry a public or private thing? One’s love of country could be deliciously stirred by the magic of poetry: “This happy breed of men, this little world,  This precious stone set in the silver sea,  …………. This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England . . .” Historically western poetry concerned itself with […]

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