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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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