Tag Archives: 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
Outside Straight
Who named our potentates in charge to date There’ll be others, after we fill our final crate Will it ever matter who we put atop that slate Held to the grindstone their egos won’t ablate We allow them to keep us in a confused state Rush here, there, back again, as if we are late […]
My Friend
Begin at the beginning or just before Do you have any idea where that might be? Bring light into all the dark places Will you open your heart to light the world? Moonlight and starlight are the same Will you breathe deeply, without restraint? The beginning of all, everything starts at the end Will you […]
One Step
I walked to a park in a neighborhood I was familiar to me, but not my own. The world had impinged upon me, darkened my mood and I had allowed it to do so. Watching a local sports team I loosely follow, I began feeling defeated. Not only were they losing, but also playing poorly. […]
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, […]
Vision
Viewing life through my own glass Either magnifying or reducing lens My inner prism, no form, no mass Lighting my inner prison to cleanse Other views or other ethics learned May inform process, but not control Inner truth never hidden or spurned This lens my vision to expose, extol You may not understand my vision […]
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 […]
Pandora’s Shadow
I A shadow box. I convinced myself that’s what she said Far past exhausted, neither wanted to talk nor to listen You know that’s not what I said. Please, use your head I just cannot understand, like you’re explaining fission You know what I said and you know just what I meant I said quite […]
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
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