Thomas W. Case

redzone wrote a new post

• 11 months ago

Kilimanjaro Rises

Poetry

September 29, 2025

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Kilimanjaro Rises Kilimanjaro rises to meet the moon as elephants roam the Serengeti below. It was here I last saw your smile so many winters ago. I saw ages travel, snow melting in miles feeding fertile valleys with wild, white Marigolds. Sister elephants told stories of the lion’s hunt and...

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- RomaJ
  11 months ago
  
  I like how the poem weaves together memory, myth, and landscape -using Kilimanjaro and the elephants as both witnesses and carriers of history, loss, and hope. I feel the weight of longing for someone gone, but also a sense of resilience, as if the mountain and the rain hold the promise of renewal and freedom.
  - redzone
    11 months ago
    
    Thank you RomaJ, you always leave insightful comment and reviews. I appreciate how you see and read this poem.
FlatDaddy and Sam Dickens are now friends

• 11 months ago

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redzone and Thomas W. Case are now friends

• 11 months ago

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FlatDaddy wrote a new post

• 11 months ago

Big Brothers

Audio & Video, Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

September 28, 2025

2

© 2015Big BrothersBy FlatDaddyWe rarely saw each other growing up --Different fathers, you see, though my mother had divorced them both.Not having much, mom couldn't raise us all.I stayed with her.They stayed at our grandparents. Mama Mae, Papa Jim She, a big, smiley...

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- Sam Dickens
  11 months ago
  
  Here we see your tender side. Your family being scattered and fragmented is something I can relate to. Fine work, my friend.
  - FlatDaddy
    11 months ago
    
    Thanks, Sam. I was wondering when I would run into you. I’m not surprised it’s here. Take it while you can get it, though. I’m afraid there’s not a lot of tenderness I can share. I have some mayhem, but I try to keep that under wraps. I’ll let it out to play sometimes, though.
FlatDaddy wrote a new post

• 11 months ago

Girl (with marmalade bees)

Erotica, Poetry, Romance

September 28, 2025

2

© 1990 Girl (with marmalade bees)By FlatDaddyShe delivers the shivers, ...

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- Sam Dickens
  6 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Well, that was different! Although the AI voice does a decent job, it doesn’t measure up to the real Flatdaddy extraordinaire. I swear you belong in 1950’s and early 60’s Greenwich village.
  - FlatDaddy
    6 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Well, if I had done that, I’d be dead now, Sam, Thanks a lot, old buddy! 🙂
    But damn it, it sure would have been worth it! Can you imagine how it would have felt performing with those guys? I became friends with Vince Balestri, who toured a one man show as Kerouac across the US for many years. He did the show here at Chicago House (now defunct) in the Austin 6th street entertainment district. I handled his PR, created posters and stuff for the show, etc. It was continuously sold out and was held over twice. He then played Kerouac in a movie called, I think, “Beat Angel,” to excellent reviews. Copies are hard to find — and I don’t have one. But he was a terrific guy and really lived the part.
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