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Our Great Room:
A clinic for immunizations.
Waiting for fifteen minutes
After a pin prick on my
Upper arm –
Nothing to be alarmed
About.
I am better able
To smile –
To think future!
I have high hopes
The news will change,
COVID graphs turn down –
Oh! Ahead the world
Will celebrate […]
Just a few hours
Away—
Wondering if the
Ball will drop,
Whether people
Will kiss when
The clock strikes
The midnight hour.
I never wait up,
And have no one
To kiss,
Tsk, Tsk,
My limbs react
Slowly,
Some days I am
Truly a mess—
I think of people
With no one near,
Or […]
Like shifting winds,
As if a hurricane
Hits you,
You always know HARD TIMES will
Pass,
Those fleeting thoughts,
Those temporary fears,
Those contradictions,
You can almost feel,
The turning of one
Position,
To another,
The way it happens,
Is a smile, a word said,
A compliment not expected,
Taking a good look at […]
Should you happenTo come by,Any evening or earlyDay, the temperatures,Just right,You can see the leavesPreparing for departure.The porch is whereYou might findAny one of us (Mae-Mae, Whoever and me),Reading while reclining,On a yoga mat stretching,(Not me, by the way)Where one can listenTo birds –Most notably squawking,Crows –Mae-Mae stretched whereShe can feel the sun,Me watching, […]
Mother nature needs time – Uninterrupted,And lots of it.
Simon Stargazer III (Oct.’20) adds, “On further consideration, I find that Mother Nature is extremely efficient. Every time I turn or look around, I see evidence that she has been quietly working to encroach on the progress of civilization. I’ll have to keep a watchful […]
I play “lane switch”
With a big long-haul truck,
With a “No Manners” driver.
I try to squeeze in his lane,
He lurches ahead leaving me
“No room” in between,
The road narrowed for road-
Work- ahead,
What to do?
I have all the qualifications
For senior-slow driver,
Sticking always to the right lane,
[…]
Never think you are
Permanent
Where you are –
Life is a staircase on
Which you can fall,
But get up again,
Go on,
To the next
And to the next phase of Life.
I see once again
New horizons,
New visions looking […]
While a smile may be contagious,Complimenting one can be precious!
Simon Stargazer III (Aug.’20) adds, “That boda-cious smile on “Pat” is courtesy of my wife. The caricature was done on one of our weekend visits to Gatlinburg summers ago. I might add that while a smile is beautiful, a discussion about it could be […]
Chicago 2002
Five fifteen A.M.
Perfect happy, open-the-door rush. Pink sky, moist and dewey air today as I stepped out, soon to witness a girl getting stalked as I waited for the bus to never- neverland.
First saw in distance, a girl in pink skirt with pack down the sidewalk. Then comes truck with […]
Never think you are
Permanent
Where you are.
Life is a staircase on
Which you can fall,
But get up again,
Go on,
To the next
And to the next phase of
Life. I see once again
New horizons,
New visions looking out
Another window where
New flowers grow.
I tell myself, “Stand ready,
[…]
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