Winners and Losers
By BR Chitwood
In each of us are desires,
For each of us aspires…
To each of us, confusion,
For each of us, delusion…
Dreams come unbidden,
Some stark and hidden…
Truth can bring mockery
To daily-labored drudgery.
We pray for aid to Deities,
Or toss the die nervously…
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–BR Chitwood– 6/29/22
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Love and Weather
By BR Chitwood
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Weather tomorrow: Blue Skies, soft
breezes and Sunshine!
Turn off spigot to troubling thoughts!
Believe in your dreams and attack the day!
Keep the smile in place – someone is nearby…
Love taps tenderly on your shoulder, and kisses your cheek…
A song plays loudly on a passing auto:
More dreams pass with a zephyr.
The Western sky spreads its beautiful
Panorama of colors…
There is no place on Earth that you would rather be.
Car horns honk blessings to the couple on a tree-lined mall
As they continue their lovers’ walk to their brighter future!
Hearts and Souls unite for this special day of Happiness!
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BR Chitwood – June 15 2020
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Love and Weather
By BR Chitwood
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Weather tomorrow: Blue Skies, soft
breezes and Sunshine!
Turn off spigot to troubling thoughts!
Believe in your dreams and attack the day!
Keep the smile in place – someone is nearby…
Love taps tenderly on your shoulder, and kisses your cheek…
A song plays loudly on a passing auto:
More dreams pass with a zephyr.
The Western sky spreads its beautiful
Panorama of colors…
There is no place on Earth that you would rather be.
Car horns honk blessings to the couple on a tree-lined mall
As they continue their lovers’ walk to their brighter future!
Hearts and Souls unite for this special day of Happiness!
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BR Chitwood – June 15 2020
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My 20 books in most genres with synopses, book cover pics, over 500 blog posts, Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry are on my WordPress Website…
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Or: https://www.brchitwood.com
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Two Books Based on Truth
By BR Chitwood
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Two True Crimes!
One solved! One still a mystery!
“Mama’s Madness” was solved some years ago by some excellent police work in Northern California…
This ‘Mama’ was from the loins of Satan, evil in word and deed, the punishments of her daughters were manic and difficult to believe, recorded not here but stark and vivid in the book. This ‘Mama’ murdered two of her three daughters and an ex-husband, robbed and invented tortuous punishments so ugly and vile to mention here – but, there between the pages of the book, the reader will find them. This is a well-written book with many 5-Star Amazon ratings…you don’t want to miss this one!
This one was solved: mother sentenced to a California prison…probably out by now…
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“Stranger Abduction” is very close to the Author’s heart because this crime was committed prior to my move to some ranchland in SE Arizona… My new neighbors told me as much as they could know about this mother and daughter disappearance, to wit:
It is a summer Sunday afternoon in rural Cochise Country, AZ near Sunizona, AZ, and a large happy family has just finished Sunday lunch. It is decided that Mom and her pert little 14-year-old daughter will walk three miles to their country store for ice cream and cigarettes for Dad. It is a walk often taken by members of the family – a sister lives along the Hwy. 181 route, affording them the opportunity to stop and visit.
Mother and daughter reach the country store, chat gaily with the owners and other shoppers, then leave for their return walk home, happily smearing ice cream on each other’s faces and kicking gravel along the road… a cheerful Mom and Daughter enjoying their Sunday.
Mom and daughter never make it home on that sunny Sunday in 1983!
They were never heard from again.
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The sad aftermath of this true case is a family tragedy!
This novel explores the possibilities of what might have happened on that Sunday afternoon so many years ago. As an author in residence some six miles from Route 181 where two people were abducted, having talked to so many of the neighbors, I had to write about this case… It became a ‘must do assignment’ for me, and, I suggest for other writers as well.
PLEASE! If anyone has any information about this ‘Cold Case’, please contact the Sheriff’s Office in Bisbee, Arizona. PLEASE!
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By BR Chitwood
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BRC
Life, Love, and Longings
A Poem by BR Chitwood
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Short, Tall, Lanky, All Sizes, All Colors,
Males, Females, Cats, Dogs, ‘Beasts of Prey’,
Gays, Straights, Old and Young, All Creatures,
Popes and paupers, have precise engineering
Which allow them to satisfy their needs For Love,
For Hate, For Expression – with different styles and Languages, of course.
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There are many Specialists who make it their
Life’s work to journey through knowledge fields
To enlighten our minds with new information…
We are landing on the Moon, entering deeper into
Outer Space, Exploring Mars and other planets
With newer technology, giving the US public new
And promising information…
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Here on Earth, we live with raw street violence,
Robberies, Murder, wanton terrorism in our cities,
And ‘Politics’ has turned a different scary shade of
Yellow, without sensible leadership, Marxist drivel
Occupying many college campuses…it cannot be
This writer alone seeing our country going to hell
in that ‘proverbial hand-basket’!
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I am not the smartest ‘ape’ in this jungle but I need this moment to express my concern for our United States of America… In short, we need, badly need, new leadership to restore border law enforcement, to rid our political representatives from receiving big money from ‘K Street operatives. We need a person who cannot be bought…
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BR Chitwood – June 8, 2022
For the Love of my Country!
My 20 books in many genres, over 500 blog posts, short stories, flash fiction, and Poetry, all at:
Hope you don’t mind my saying so: ‘There are some great novels I’ve built around ‘unsolved cases’ as well as Romance, Mystery, Suspense, Sci-Fi, History, and other genres…
Hope you have an opportunity to read my books, blog posts, F/F, and Poetry.
BRC
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So Much Mayhem and Mud!
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BR Chitwood
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Papers print the news!
Television shoots the live images!
A senile president can only play ‘Yesterday’!
Can it be that so many of our public Servers are ‘brain dead’?
It is all unfolding before our eyes!
Daily!
Hourly!
Innocents are killed!
The world quakes in disgust!
Where is Superman?
The Militia?
The total outrage!
Can we be this weak in protecting our people?
When the hell is enough, ENOUGH?
We are throwing money away like drunken fools!
Rampant are the fools we trust!
Where is the End?
The last body laid to rest?
Where is the wrath of God?
The tune plays on and on!
Someone must care!
Troops must be everywhere!
Until!
Until the madness is gone!
Until babies can be born again!
Until the reason for living is viable again!
Until gross selfishness suffocates from its labor!
Until the world can awaken to new days!
To brightness and peace!
To merciful giving and love!
It must come!
Doom awaits in the shadows!
Be rid of malice and brutal behavior!
Now, dammit!
Not in a few weeks or months!
Now, dammit!
No more bullshit!
Now, dammit!
Rid us of hypocrisy in Government!
Give us our inalienable rights?
Now, dammit!
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BR Chitwood – May (NOW), 2022
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Who Do You Think You Are?
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BR Chitwood
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“Who do you think you are?”
“What? Who is speaking?”
“You are, Weirdo! You’re talking to yourself.”
“Hmm! Strange! That’s never happened before…”
“Sure, it has, almost daily, in fact.”
“Whoa! Who the hell are you…and, where are you?”
“In your brain, Idiot!”
“Which side?”
“Which side? Which side? What a dumb-ass question… your frontal lobe.”
“Oh, My God! I’m going nuts!”
“Going? You been working on this for some time, dip-shit!”
“Hey, keep it clean!”
“You’re doing the talking, dip-shit!”
“So, I’m going crazy! The ‘Frontal Lobe’ of my brain is talking to me…so, you eavesdrop on everything I think or say. Is that your function? There’s a ‘left’ and a ‘right’ lobe, right? So, what’s your job ‘Lobe-Meister’?”
“Why did I get stuck in your brain? You are a dummy…but, okay, I’m a functionary part of your brain: the ‘left side’ of the lobe controls the right commands; the ‘right side’ controls the left… You’ve never done this before! Why, now? This chat business”?
“’Never done this before’? Hey, Lobe-Meister, this is as new for me as it is for you. It’s not like I requested this meeting…”
“Okay, okay, something is up, and I have to check it out. Are you hurting anywhere?”
“There is a light quaking sound… No pain. Otherwise, I’m sitting here thinking I’m crazy!”
“Don’t take that off the table as a possibility, because I’ve never had this happen before… I will do my ‘due diligence’ and get back to you. For now, go to bed and sleep for hours.”
“Before you go, what’s the difference between the ‘mind’ and the ‘brain’?”
“Huge subject, pardner… The mind can influence the brain, have a ‘mental force’ – check out ‘Neuro Plasticity and The Power of Mental Force’.”
“That’s it? You are leaving me with that? One last thing: Am I going to be hearing from you on a frequent timeline? Do I have a ‘say’ in the matter? If not, please, don’t come at me when I’m making love or out on a date…”
“Sorry, I cannot make any promises…maybe your thought processes will be enough! Bye.”
“Meant to tell you this earlier: your voice sounds really prissy-like…does God include you with every birth?”
“No comment! I said, ‘Good-bye’!”
“Hmmm!”
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BR Chitwood – May 25, 2022
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Our Scarred World
BR Chitwood
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Somewhere along the scarred and diverse political line there has got to come a civil and practical union of minds…minds that can see the distinction between schoolyard bullies, those who have been fed political slop of bias and wrong-working policies from one side of the spectrum from parents who argue parts of political problems without the Bona fides to succeed…and, of course, minds that can see more logical and compatible policies that help an entire nation – not, just those labeled with ‘blue’ alone, but those that can work for the ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’.
I’m approaching that part of life where my living parameters are flashing with great neon awareness, where my political will and logic are weak and meager – not that they ever were so forceful in altering anyone’s assumptions on the blackboards of the two major forces who vie for our votes. I have never been this concerned about our nation as I am in the present. I see forces at work that could literally push our sacred ‘Life, Liberty, and Freedom’, our ‘Constitution of the United States’, our ‘Bill of Rights’, ‘Unity of Races’, all for which our proud men and women died for in our wars.
It seems to me all people – Blacks, Whites, Asians, et al – are now firmly part of our great United States of America…a splendid quilt, if you will of all among us.
So, why, ‘riots’? Why, rampant thievery and murder that does not invest its energies in the evening time, but during the day, visible to all who are watching. Yet, our fragmented police District Attorneys appear to be bought off by big money people – we have heard some of their names.
It must be admitted here, as I write this post, that I well-know nothing written here can or will never alter the issues of which I write. It is for me a simple attempt at renouncing the vile perpetraters of crime, malice, and evil doers who have no respect for our country or the people who honestly try to get our system in working order.
In these past couple of years I have seen our country’s borders come to ruin with millions of peoples from all over the world coming into the United States, along with purveyors of killer-drugs for sale, the Cartels making millions of dollars in smuggling and drugs in the process.
The man we call President, his Vice-President, and all of his cabinet picks are without equals in their government posts – words like ‘evil’, dumb, and unworthy come to mind…
There has never been a doubt in my mind that this current president was fraudulently elected, that he is eminently senile and puts our great country in peril…not to mention the son of this president who has committed crimes in his sexual pursuits and his use of our government as his benefactor.
Those who are reading this, YOU are correct! I should not be writing these words…although truthful and the ‘great washed’ among us know my words ring true…
So, I thank those who might read this post for their indulgence…after all, I’m only writing of things you already know.
I love this country and want the very best in leadership for its future, for me, my family, and all the families of the United States of America.
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BR Chitwood – May 18, 2022
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BRC
So, Now What?
BR Chitwood
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Another move!
Sold our beautiful South Mountain Retreat – could not turn down the price…yeah, I know, money is not everything! Couple it, however, with home prices ‘through the roof’, a body getting older and less functional with each passing day plus a handsome payoff and a temporary move-in with our good and wise daughter, my wife doing all the work (I know, I know! I’m worthless!) and me sitting sprawled on my ‘lift chair’ already typing this short post… A lovely couple, Blake and Claudia along with their beautiful Lab, Sami, are the new owners – Blake, a Clinical Psychologist and, Claudia, a Registered Nurse – beautiful people from the far west.
Aging of course comes with strange catalysts, like, a sudden fall or short memory recall…just laying the foundation like it is, the result of a couple of falls, some aches and pains. I can still walk and get around, have family who cater to my needs – and, wow, I use this to the greatest ‘poor me’ extent possible. Actually, the place I feel still secure within myself, still viable in my writing, is when I open this laptop gadget and start my pecking.
You can take this to the bank: I shall know when my words become too mundane and without any solid penmanship…maybe this short post will give one pause as to the viability of my writing…,
That is when I will ‘rock you’ with a scintillating short story, flash fiction, and/or poetry. Writing has been such a strong force for so many years, it would be sacrilege not to obey its enticements.
So, no earth-shattering piece here, just some facts of my aging life for my small cadre of readers and writers.
My wife did all the work, so why am I so damned tired?
Just saying!
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BR Chitwood – May 9, 2022
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Always With Love
BR Chitwood
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It is difficult to imagine where I would be in this life without the woman in the picture above, my wife, assuming my existence in this life at this point in time.
Sure, it is just another sentimental prosing of a hopeless ‘Romantic’, but this lady, Julie Anne, is all the trumpeting I’m doing here, and, more. She has been with me through the writing of twenty books in different genres, hundreds of blog posts, short stories, and flash fiction, reading it all, offering helpful comments along with her praise…in the meantime, preparing our meals, caring for our pets, and still managing to be a mother to our many children.
My immersion in the writing brings at times outbursts and childish behavior…she simply smiles gently and wanders off to tackle other chores.
Now, near the final years of aging, I still do some writing. Julie Anne does a lot with her genealogy efforts, communicating with people from all over the globe…Genealogy fascinates her, and her glee in finding new people who belong to her ‘tree’.
Julie has written about the pets we have owned through the years – “Animal Crackers in My Bed” (the book is on Amazon).
She has also compiled a history book – “The World After World War 1” (a ‘Tome’, really) of letters written by her grandmother and two sisters of her grandmother. One of the sisters serving overseas in the Red Cross during ‘World War One’. The letters brilliantly depict the history of the time – 1918-1921…also on Amazon. (A copy of one of the letters, written by James Thurber to the Red Cross sister, was acquired by Ohio State University for their historic documents of major importance.
Julie is a unique and beautiful lady, and, for some forty years, she has been there to help and encourage me in my writing, to love me, and a mom of the highest order… I am a most lucky man…
BRC
Tired – But Still in the Fight
BR Chitwood
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The softness, sweetness settles within me
On this still, slumberous, summer day…
The sky above is clear and convenient
To my aging heart and soul of wandering.
The big windows out of which I peer
Display the birds, quails and rabbits in
Their daily missions for food and play,
Forever watchful as the coyotes are fast
Afoot, canny, can spring from the idle
Brush, Ironwood, and Palo Verde Trees.
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Here, in the comfort of A/C and luxury,
My mind ponders the plurality of messages
My outside view might reveal through
This tired heart and soul that have borne
Witness to so much my Gracious God
Has so generously shared along my way…
The joy of love and family, the search
For fame and glory that has shown in
Quantities never as large as one might hope,
Never the prominence foolish pride allowed.
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So, it seems this beauty outside my windows
Is occasionally followed by rain and wind…
Perhaps, more in hope and longing, nay, in
Truth and Faithful days and nights of dark
And wistful thoughts, witnessed by the moon
And brilliant stars outside another window…
After prayer, a truth emerges, vague, tingling,
And, suddenly, my bedroom wall to the East,
An amorphous cloud slowly passes, my eyes
Widen: an image of Jesus gently smiling…
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