Category Love
Read All Over
Black and white and red A cat bats a pipe cleaner Young, old, shapes, colors Food and drink, laughter Thought, winding up and Winding down, voices Rising over, falling under Art, barely-heard music, Community and creation City views, sculpture, time Reminders of travel, place Eiffel Tower Lego, distance Interactions of youth similar And different […]
Jonas Jonathon Barnstable-Bailey
Jonas Jonathon Barnstable-Bailey does not like mincemeat pies If he could he’d tell you all of the many wherefores and the whys Yet when Granny makes them small, they have a strong attraction He will pick them up and lick the top no matter what the reaction He will quickly lick all the powdered […]
Thoughts About Love
Love: You know you are in love when you’d rather be driven crazy by the person you’re with than be sane with anyone else. Love is always hopeful, kind, generous, aware, supportive, accepting, nurturing and able to withstand blows without breaking. Love can be implied or suggested, but never truly defined by what it is […]
The Giftie Gie Us
How then cannot we see our own true selves The poet’s answer realized in our social media Where we act half fools, do naught by halves Constantly connected, from Twitter to Expedia Do we ever look in this mirror that we created Join we this grand communion, or voyeurs only And judging others foibles […]
Love to Spare
In this time of rejoicing greatly Pomp and circumstance stately We see that the days grow longer Power of sun and hope stronger Sing, praise Earth of subtle virtue Air, sea,wind, rain, seasons, dirt, too Despite your beliefs, what you know Here’s time to let old hurts, hates, go A new sun year’s begun, next […]
Hope
Pause a moment, on this most momentous eve Though it is not everyone’s special high holy day And try to practice what we all profess to believe Since what we do often contrary to what we say If you believe a god, God, created all, everyone Why then believe your group better than the rest […]
Taking Flight
It is so late at night, it has become very early morning Still, here I lie, brain roiled in riot, with unclean hands Creating, too long awake, intent, so I should be snoring Time it is, past, I seized my uncharted, unnamed lands Until a nascent solution lives, I shall not cringe nor beg […]
Useful Things ~ Dipping my Pen into my Stream of Thought
Useful Things Dipping My Pen into my Stream of Thought Originally written as a continuous piece, broken up to aid readability Looking at a wooden coffee stirrer At a free seasonal holiday concert In a public library with paper cups Coffee, brownies, cider and cookies My how times they have changed Since I was born, […]
This, Too, Shall Pass
What distinguishes, creates demarcation between living and life? Can they be divided or shared, like pieces of pie cut with a knife? Or only the viscera of being alive, breathing and eating and shit Simply work, chores, needful daily obligations; that cannot be it In relationships you always hear such a lot of talk of […]
Redefining War and Peace
War, armies, death, destruction, terror, horror and fear fill our news and our days. These are all very real and frightening, but I believe war deserves a broader definition, as does peace. War is not simply armed troops shooting at each other and all the specific and collateral damage from the way we wage war […]
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