LET US SLEEP ON IT*

woe betide them that try

to se in stone what needs more time…

My turn table lost?*

without further cost?

Then I looked near bed time!

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I thought I’d lost my lead

To that tyrn table, but indeed…

A curve could be made

With large enough radius laid,

To satisfy the using of steam.

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A switch I’d previously cut in,

To one engine stall could run…

The other could Branch

From the turn table switch–

My space problem was overcome!

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Envisioning a massive water wheel,

Fed by a sluice pipe has appeal…

This motorized–

Already planned (what a surprise?),

For which the tourists would positively SQUEAL!

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And then, the bridge over a mill dam flood—

If I wanted, a covered bridge wouldn’t take TOO MUCH blood…!

Just for light tourist trains–

Steel reinforced all the same–

An occasional short freight could be good!

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I wish I could draw all this now,

All it took was time to see how…

Possibilities arise

by opening one’s eyes,Imagination plus a day’s-worth of wrinkled brow!

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–Jonathan Caswell

*NOTE–Refer back to the post..ECONOMIC CHOICES IN MINIATURE…posted yesterday~!

“WATER FAIRIES” RISE

Wet asphalt steaming,

Imaginative souls dreaming….

Water fairies

Seen in the leas,

Air warmer than the ground starts them streaming(

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–J.E.C.

QUIET NIGHT IN THE CASBAH

QUIET NIGHT IN THE CASBAH

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This casbah is so quiet,

Not enough people for a riot…

silence is loud

Without a crowd,

Maybe I can get back on my diet!

–

No entrancing women tonight,

No dervishes whirling in sight…

The occasional clink

Of a merchant I think,

counting his  revenues right.

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Another man will come along,

Blessed to hear morning songs…

Whilst I will sleep

In my bed so deep,

I’ll need a ladder at dawn!

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–Jonathan Caswell

MICROLAYOUT MOGUL

MICRO-LAYOUT MOGUL

 

We mini-model railroaders grieve for Carl Arendt,

In the case of mini-trains he was a knight-errant…

His blog exists*

With a few new twists,

In his shadow our loss is apparent!

 

–Jonathan Caswell

*MICRO/SMALL LAYOUTS FOR MODEL RAILROADS…at http://carendt.com/ or http://carendt.us/ being continued posthumously by a couple of his colleagues, and can be subscribed to!

 

POSSIBILITIES OF IMAGINATION

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POSSIBILITIES OF IMAGINATION

Imagine fields of flowing grain

And grasses wet with dew…

Or a pretty maiden fair

Waiting just for you.

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Trains and planes and space ships wild

Await your every wish…

In dreamland one cannot always control

The elephants or fish!

–

While away with idle thoughts,

Whenever one may try…

Perhaps in your daydreaming

An idea will happen by!

—Jonathan Caswell

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Scales: Beautiful, Balancing, Blind

Scales: Beautiful, Balancing, Blind.

via Scales: Beautiful, Balancing, Blind.

FAIRY-FOLK

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FAIRY-FOLK

Some people think fairy-folk

Are no more then country joke…

The citified

Are “open-eyed”

Or so they will have spoke.

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For most, video games,

Have replaced mythical names…

For natural things

Imagined with wings,

That mortals can scarcely explain.

–

A sense of wonder—is it gone?

As a boring life drones on…

What is left to suspect

When all is direct(ly)

Available then we move on?

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Kids grow up way too soon,

In love, in “knowledge”, in gloom…

Imagination is dulled

By facts quickly pulled,

With little interesting left to assume.

—Jonathan Caswell

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SNOW FAERIE

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SNOW FAERIE

 

 The woods are quiet,

Frost kisses the nose…

From deep within

A conviction grows,

That something or someone

Inhabits the woods…

Softly observing

But misunderstood,

The animals quietly do their own thing

We imagine the glow

Of a faerie ring.

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Not surprising, we man-poets,

Form our own view…

Of how faeries look

Ethereal too,

We paint them to look

Like our favorite lass…

Like if a lover

Had a looking glass,

Or some fancy of

A gentleman’s scheme…

Imagination

That is only a dream.

 

—Jonathan Caswell

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