Melissa from Mom With a Blog is our dVerse host right now. She is immersing us in Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues, trusting it will inspire our muse. Here’s my melancholy effort. Please don’t counsel me, I’m trying to sit within the skin of another!
He came to spring captives free
That young rabbi from Galilee
But maybe I prefer these bars
Within them, I can nurse old scars
Yet still peer up to the stars.
Somewhere, a train whistle moans
Its echo vibrates through my bones
Mournful, ‘cos though freedom is its way
Safe routines keep us prisoners at bay
So it passes by, while we choose to stay.
(c) Dennis Ryle, January, 2026
Wondering Pilgrim 