HOW A POEM COMES

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ARRIVAL

in the coffeeshop

in the middle

of a conversation

a poem quickens

comes alive

comes tapping

at the blue door

of creation

open me

hear me

touch me

it whispers

one

shy

word

at

a

time

I've been waiting

so long for you...

BLUE MOON

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snow moon

lighting

earth and sea

ice locked

summer

sleeps...



WINTER GARDEN

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8 degrees below zero this morning...then came this haiku...

winter garden blooming

on north window pane

summer memories

AND ONE SPOT OF YELLOW

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I have a cup of green tea in the green swan mug and a green candle burns before me.  The green cedars are scrabbling against the windows as the wind whips them furiously this morning.  Mozart plays softly in the background and I write at the old, cat-scratched, cherry table from the 1950's that I bought on Jefferson Street seven years ago.  And here is the yellow rose that you brought me...

PEACE

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Moonrise over North Bay...
just because some images need no words...

HOW TO BE PHOTOGENIC

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An old poem, but a true one...

HOW TO BE PHOTOGENIC

Be two years old again
every plump, rounded cell
perfect
in your pink, plump
perfect body.

Sixteen is good--
floating through
a dewy meadow at dawn
flowers tucked
in your long, streaming hair.

Or simply be so old
you don't give a damn
every scarred, knobby surface
of you aching
to tell its story.

FLOWERS FOR THOUGHT

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This year I'm NOT making resolutions to be broken, instead just savoring some ideas, thoughts, quotes that might be meaningful and/or helpful to me...maybe to you as well:

"Resist doing things that have no meaning for life."

~  Pablo Casals

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

~  Zora Neale Hurston

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:  they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

~  Margaret Young