To Breathe and Bloom

Give it some space

The impulse

The longing

The wish or the dream

Give it some space

To breathe

To become real

To feel it bloom

Give it some space

The impulse

The longing

The wish or the dream.

“Create the space and a bigger life happens.”

~ Alysia Reiner, actress

Salad

Sweet cherry tomatoes
crinkly romaine lettuce
orange crisp carrot

Topped with black olives
and a side of boiled eggs

Our world is a salad
we try to erase ~ but
don’t take my salad away.

Such an odd counterpoint
from kitchen to society.

“The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note

has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.”

~ Glenn Gould, concert pianist

When I Sit Down to Write

When I sit down to write 

it is seldom in the same place. 

Each time of day has 

it’s own nook. 

As long as there is 

pen and paper, 

or, as in this missive, 

my laptop, my fingers poised, 

I am ready to write. 

When I sit down to write, 

my thoughts are jumbled 

or there may be a spot 

on the wall that reminds me 

of some bit of philosophy, 

or maybe a blank white page 

~ silent and patient.

So I doodle, 

or read 

a bit of poetry, 

a novel 

or whatever is near at hand

Along the way, 

some fanciful thought 

floats across the page

when I sit down to write.

“Your intuition knows what to write so get out of the way.”

~ Ray Bradbury