Category Love
Nap Time
When we think about life, our future, we want to succeed To be popular, powerful, rich, comely, to live a life of ease Some live solely for an afterlife, or in daily fear of disease How many of us ever choose to contemplate our legacies You know all the phrases; you read them in the […]
Life Lessons
A fireplace in a solid home, wooden mantle and surround Fluting, details in the wood and built-in shelves either side Mementoes from this life, ancestors, previous generations History contained memories, feeling felt within sentiment Meanings, we understand, more important than money Have more significance than any goods real or imagined Yet, one day these memories […]
Precious Cargo
We never dreamed their intelligence could increase so dramatically, so rapidly. Now, I’m frightened and cold, deep underground, where I hide my boys. Still babies, really. Claude, thirteen months, Alex, just past twenty-three months, I swear. If only Stephen had not been killed, we could have devised a plan. The kinetic strikes destroyed Detroit’s Phillips […]
Flower Power
Stucco walls and Spanish tile roofs Backed by tall, tree-crowned hills Set off by gnarly oaks, blossoms, wisteria Sing myriad tulips, rejoicing daffodils Heady fragrance; dizzy, spinning, is it this Perhaps, or perhaps it’s too much sun From which I reel, causes my confusion Everywhere, people, groups, myriad, unique Such a wide, amazing mix of […]
Intent Ion
Minuscule beyond imagining Cation meets anion Sudden explosion Screaming outward All directions, growing Spinning, spiraling into A being vast Beyond comprehension Thirteen point eight billion Years alive, expanding Encompassing life Teaching, learning Amazing, baffling Inexorable Examining from within Delving diligently Piecing together A totality puzzle No sample image Unrecognizable wreckage Ruins or futures Concepts, thoughts, […]
Acknowledge the Day
Three cheers, I say, to my very good day A day which I may well pay for tomorrow Which is already a few minutes underway Think it’s all right on tomorrow to borrow I have written and painted and shopped Worked on a project to faux knotty pine Lunchtime, I even sat down and stopped […]
What Can Be Done
What can be done When two become One minus one And zero the sum Is less than nothing Painfully derived from More than something A complex problem You love both One related, one not You’re loathe To be on the spot Yet the story heard Is only half Of two endeared Incomplete math Yes, you’ve […]
Blue Screen Cafes
What do expect, from texts Just the usual suspects How would that be With life the fee Head down Smile or frown Attention, intention locked In a little box, a pox Yet only letters in a row Like any word we don’t know Shorthand, perhaps But often slaps Is there reason to listen Moments to […]
Cart Before the Horse
If we made our lives wide open to reading, music, art How would we choose, decide where we should start Never relished classical, like in the Saturday cartoons Hate rock, jazz, yet to elevator Muzak you hum tunes Presentation may be wrong; nothing works every age Not just times around the sun; how each fills […]
Love
You have always given me more than mere love Laughter and music, and the occasional shove You have helped me to grow, relearn how to cry You have helped me to sometimes not ask why You have been so loyal and steadfast; my rock You were forged in love, the only key to my lock […]
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