Category: daily life
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Patience
bright flashing songbird cajoles the sun to hurry I smile and say, be patient it will come in its own good time 4-29-23
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Retired
He sat in his front yard, retired Waved at every car that drove by, because Some he knew, some he thought he knew, Some he wanted to know Some he knew he didn’t know, but It made him laugh to think They went to work and tried All day to remember how they knew him…
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Mary Catherine
Mary Catherine walks her neighbor’s foster dog in the park and she smiles as it drags her along behind. Mary Catherine stops at the bench where I am sitting, because the dog wants petted by every stranger he sees. Mary Catherine says she often sees me sitting in our side yard as she drives by…
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haiku for an expansive life
four directions faced? four elements of matter? refuse to be boxed 2-19-23
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Sometimes
Sometimes you rush off a quick email and wish you had waited Sometimes you let it sit all day and wish you had waited longer Often times it’s just insecurity and eternity is too short 1-25-23
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Do
Something in me always says I don’t have time to read the READERS WRITE section of Sun magazine so I pass over it. It must be some childhood trigger which causes me to do this so I continue to do this every month. It’s a habit and I don’t care. _____ When I get to…
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Through trees
through trees on the far side of the park you see a white house, just a bedroom window you wonder is this a spare room, or is someone sleeping there 1-2-23
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a bus poem no one will publish
faces of warped wood oak, walnut and pine deductibles are too high held in place with bent nails life in the fast lane on a slow moving bus 12-31-22
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It’s always somewhere else
on the cold dreary day before winter solstice you daydream hot summer days and wonder why your shadow doesn’t cool your feet where two of you meet 12-20-22
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Caught between
heron stalks shallow water in the middle mallards glide in circles I am caught between blaring church music and a lone basketball player droning songs only he can hear on headphones 12-11-22
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