Ninepatch OnLine Magazine

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,

[…]

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 […]

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,

[…]

Watching the fallout of

isolation,

grimness confined to

inside spaces,

people weary, looking for

change;

businesses closed,

restaurants empty,

masses out of work

the question begs

wondering,

where is the money

going to come from?

Whoever wanders streets

goes a lonely path,

en-masked.

Even the homeless are not

asking for money.

We lack touching,

[…]

Taking time to

Honor

All mothers whether

Birth or sacred –

Friend or aunt or

Foster mother

Whether near or

Far, whether

Gone –

Today a daughter

Or son’s

Spirit is celebrated

If only in remembrance,

And, too, a grandmother

And a mother,

Our minds can go

Back over years

Memories stay fixed,

Can […]