Category Laughter
One Track Mind
Better get on board the train you’re taking, whether love or hate It is only a short moment till boarding is done and you’re too late On the same track, speeding away in order to escape those fools Half-way round the world you’ll meet head-on; them’s the rules If you switch the engine so you […]
Three-Letter Folk
We have absolutely no idea how our world will change Despite those who have wild hairs of how to rearrange Someone may push a button, start the last of our wars Perhaps we finally see the dream of having flying cars What of the three-letter agencies hidden in plain sight Who tell us they are […]
Life as We Know It
What do we mean when we say life as we know it? I wonder if there is anybody who really has a clue? Is it something we know, we have learned to forget? If we recall it, do you think it might alter our view? A long time ago just now, the void felt bored, […]
Haiku of Modern Life
Age and Beauty Age before beauty For wisdom trumps pulchritude Beauty, too, shall age Swish A train bell clanging Dopplering into silence Swish of traffic now Clear Ahead Train whistle warning To clear the tracks ahead now Crossing bar is down Blooms Blooms fade, passing time Stone fawn stares blindly upward Bright zinnia blooms
Carpe Hora
They know they are outnumbered ninety-nine to one We, the larger number, say that nothing can be done Is it something in the water, or perhaps in our food Whatever it proves to be, it must be something good Good, for them, at least, but not for all the rest of us And, I will […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Chapter Twelve Stavo stood staring in the mirror and decided there was nothing he could do to pass any better than he had before. Plus, Luus had already knocked once. The knocking grew louder and more persistent, and he wondered how long he’d stood there daydreaming. He smiled. He thought it almost looked genuine. He […]
Generational Dichotomy
At a performance I really did not want to attend Like we do with much in life, I chose to pretend I will enjoy young operatic voice in their prime Anyway, creative venues oft inspire me to rhyme Until lights dim, some scan email on their phones I read the program andfeel as old as […]
Random Thoughts on a Hot-Skillet Mind
Way late on a west-coast afternoon I think it a month or two past June Could I succeed despite many tries When time crawls, when time flies No matter what we choose, decide You deal with some you can’t abide Relatives and some you call friends You decide to enjoy it, or pretend News grows […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Chapter Nine Eni walked the corridors of Phoenix station, trying to determine just where she was in relation to where she wanted to be. The mid-level corridor crawled with off-duty station’s crews at shift’s end. Most just hurried home to their beds, but in places people strolled or clumped together in small drifts before the […]
Ask Only One Question
Give me now the cheerfulness and fearlessness of our youth Back when we knew they were our lives, embodied our truth Towels we used to make super hero capes with paper masks Innocence our strength to conquer all our Sisyphean tasks Heroes all, though one day as Indians, the next day cowboys Imagination’s fires lit, […]
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