Category Laughter
Full Circle or Geriatric Lament
When wee small and wheeled about This was the only way I could get out Now I’m past four score years and ten And it’s the only way I can get out again
So They Post
Everything you are about to hear or read is true Whether the stories are about me or about you How should we tell these stories so they are real And, not some huckster’s wild and fanciful spiel I believe we must always trust ourselves, our gut I think most folk are happy where they are, […]
Take Your Chances
So you pays your money and you takes your chance That is something I have been told, though not read Along the way you may learn the steps to the dance Hope you will master them, before you end up dead Many cute descriptions, we use to describe our lives A dance, a ride, a […]
Large and Small
Whenever I’m in the massive complex city I always feel like I’m only itty bitty Yet, when into the vast countryside I charge My lungs expand and I feel large
In the Breeze
Colony collapse disorder This happens with bees It’s not the eye of Mordor As we vanish in a breeze Prevailing wind are strong As it blows a mighty storm Hey, what could go wrong? Isn’t this just today’s norm?
Sight From Sound
A piercing flute; yellow bird darts above the falls Falling water, low notes drop, drip, splash, plop Cool blue pool reflects a cloudless sky, empties Flute glissandos dance along piano-chord rocks Faster now, volume, power grow as birds chirp As this river of music blusters, pushes, cascades Slides into green darkness of overhanging trees Into […]
Because
As I lay slumbering, snoring aloud Far from lumbering, boring crowd Dreamed I was a hound fleet of foot Then, I’m a hedgehog playing a flute My dream turned scary; I was a man No escape, no matter how fast I ran Then I became the spirit of this Earth Felt ill-used and thin, despite […]
Choice
Who chose which blues to paint the ocean? Are there so many because it’s always in motion?
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