Author Archives: Ronald E. Shields
A Bluegrass Interlude With Robert Earl Keen
The Cat, the Blue Door
Read this amazing poem…it will improve your day.
Hard Times
Blues music is about more than “Oh Lord my baby done me wrong.” Piano work by Lightnin’ Hopkins really drives this …
I Can’t Wait…
American Roots Meets American Blues
This brand of Blues music isn’t produced much anymore. I believe since Elvis Presley this genre of music was sucked …
There is always a reason to have hope in your fellow humans…
Dealin’ With the Devil
Spinning Through the Seasons
In September, October, November the dark pushes back the light In December, January, February, there is thinning light, thickening ice. …
Constancy by Joseph Brodsky : The Poetry Foundation
Here’s a poem that is difficult to decipher but might be worth the effort. Many poems seem to make no …
Poetry on the run 