Kurt James, Author at The Creative Exiles

ROCKY MOUNTAIN RECKONING – By Kurt James

August 9, 2017September 16, 2024 Kurt James 3263 Views 7 Comments Colorado, kurt james, kurt james author, old west, rocky mountain reckoning, westerns

“Rocky Mountain Reckoning” is the first book in my Rocky Mountain series. Available on Amazon in print or download. Lucas

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My Brother – Tribute and Poem

August 8, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 7565 Views 14 Comments brother, Brother love, brothers, childhood memories, death of a sibling, siblings

My brother Craig passed away on August 7th, 2017 It is difficult to write about my brother Craig – because

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Broken Dreams

August 5, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 8062 Views 13 Comments broken dreams, life goals, life quest, why we dream

Broken Dreams -From that first moment in time that we can form our own thoughts – we start to dream

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“Tree Whisper” – Natures Melody

July 30, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 5193 Views 11 Comments Colorado, mountain songs, NATURE MELODY, Rocky Mountains, the wind, TREE WHISPER

Being a child of Colorado and growing into a man of nature, there is nothing more pleasing and comforting than

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I Walk Alone

July 14, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 3387 Views 14 Comments death, death/life, full life, life, living, Loneliness

I Walk Alone Once we are born the only other inevitability is that sometime, somewhere we will slide into death.

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Dirt Clod Wars

June 17, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 4955 Views 10 Comments childhood memories, childhood wonder, cousins, dirt clod wars, growing up, Western Kansas

Do you remember – back before technology? Our childhoods were different than those of the kids today. We didn’t have

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Moon Whisper

June 1, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 4077 Views 10 Comments childhood fears, childhood memories, growing up, moon, Moon Whisper

Moon Whisper – is nothing new. Man has always been fascinated by the ancient moon down through the ages, but

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Woman in Black

May 28, 2017December 12, 2017 Kurt James 3948 Views 12 Comments Colorado, Colorado. Ghost Town, ghost, haunted, mining ttown, tombstone

Woman in Black – is a ghost story told with poetry. Some of us never question the existence of ghosts

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The Last Dance

May 20, 2017August 19, 2018 Kurt James 3525 Views 14 Comments dance floor, everlasting love, Last Dance, love everlasting, one and only, soul mates

Growing old is not an option – it is a fact of life. How wonderful it would be to

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Thinking of you on Mothers Day

May 14, 2017May 12, 2018 Kurt James 3476 Views 6 Comments alzheimers, dementia, kurt james, kurt james author, memories, Mom, Mothers Day

Thinking of you on Mothers Day – Life usually brings us beauty and harmony in numbers – the more the better.

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Blame It On Willie And Waylon

April 14, 2017April 7, 2018 Kurt James 6320 Views 7 Comments country music, outlaw country, Waylon Jennings, Willie and Waylon, Willie Nelson

Outlaw Country … Willie and Waylon – Each and every one of us has a musical soundtrack just like a

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Fathers Kiss

April 7, 2017February 17, 2020 Kurt James 2746 Views 12 Comments Daughter, divorce, father, hurtful memories

Fathers Kiss – was written many years ago after my wife and I had gone through a divorce. From

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She Reminded Me

April 4, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 3450 Views 12 Comments distant love, memories, reminded, tough love, tumultuous relationship

She Reminded me – Affairs of the heart, I have decided are a very unpredictable force. Some time ago

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Ghost Train

April 1, 2017June 19, 2018 Kurt James 6685 Views 14 Comments Ghost train, Haunting, Rocky Mountains, rollins pass, skeleton key

Ghost train – Living my life in and around the Rocky Mountains all my life I have learned even in

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Ghost Of Jim Cameron

March 18, 2017May 23, 2020 Kurt James 2512 Views 6 Comments Central City, Colorado, ghost, Ghost Tale, Jim Cameron, Rocky Mountains

Ghost of Jim Cameron – In 1977 and being a child of the Rocky Mountains, my friends and I would

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Ghost Tale – Lady In Green

March 12, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 2948 Views 6 Comments Fort Laramie, ghost, ghost tales, lady in green, Wyoming

Ghost Tale – If one wanted to see the “Lady in Green” you would have to head to the eastern

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The Photograph

March 11, 2017January 13, 2018 Kurt James 3326 Views 13 Comments Affairs of the heart, Falling in Love, Gypsy Magic, love, Photograph

The Photograph – Affairs of the heart can begin in the most innocent ways. We can all look back in

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Rose Colored Glasses

March 4, 2017May 18, 2020 Kurt James 10216 Views 15 Comments CIRCLE OF LIFE, Colorado Storyteller, dreams, kurt james, ROSE COLORED GLASSES

We all have done it – at some times in our lives. We choose to believe what is not necessarily

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Our Last Night

February 24, 2017June 10, 2018 Kurt James 3161 Views 8 Comments Colorado, first love, Last Night, memories, Wyoming, Young Love

Our Last Night … There was this girl – I would never forget and it all began in the summer

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Letter And Poem To My Grand Daughter

February 19, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 3249 Views 10 Comments First grandchild, Grand Daughter, grandpa, love, love at first sight

My Grand Daughter, Even though you are just hours old and learning a new system called life on the outside.

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My Dog – Tom Tom

February 11, 2017May 13, 2018 Kurt James 3966 Views 10 Comments alcoholism, childhood demons, growing up, life's memories, My Dog

My dog Tom Tom – Growing up for everyone has its peaks and valleys, tough times, and good times. For

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Shadows

February 4, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 2217 Views 8 Comments apparitions, fear, phantasms, shadows, the night

When I was young there was never anything I looked more forward to than camping in the high wilderness of

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Creek Of My Summers

January 28, 2017December 12, 2017 Kurt James 3190 Views 10 Comments bear creek, Best Friends, Colorado, creek, Summers, tubing, wading, youth

Creek of my summers – was named Bear Creek and it was roughly three blocks from my childhood home in