Welcome to "Heron Tracks"
A Sampling of Rhyming Poetry and Other Keyboard
Scribbles
"When I was younger, I used to think I was
pretty smart.
Now that I'm older, I'm smart enough to know that
I'm not as smart as I used to be."
Bob Stampe … 2007
Some work, some prose,
some metered rhyme, some serious, some not
Some thoughts that
needed to be saved, ... before they were forgot.
The links
are doors, so come on in, and
hang around a while.
Some of this will make
you think, but much will make you smile.
Poems …(Humorous) … Poems… (A Little More Serious) … Short Stories
When I
first started writing out my rhyming metered prose.
The
stuff I had no choice but pen, my psyche predisposed.
I
showed a few folk what I'd done, and some, they called it cute,
while
others, self said poets, they were quick to style refute.
It
seems that poems now must be expression in free verse.
I've
tried it. I don't get it. It just goes from bad to worse.
So
I'll keep writing metric rhymes, despite their reprimand.
I feel
the need to do my thing, this written slight of hand.