Under the Blanket

stay cozy under the blanket ~ 

  normal feels good 

    but not strong. 

don’t have to surrender 

  to belief. 

That would take energy ~ 

feeling ‘not 25 anymore’. 

a distressing thought. 

at both ages ~ lying down, 

  feet up feels the same. 

No worries about being tired, 

  being out of balance,
    being afraid of our own mortality. 

With every age and stage of life 

~ being in the world changes. 

How anyone adjusts 

to these minute changes ~

one of life’s great mysteries. 

But adjust we do with 

the same wants and needs - 

balance shifting from wants to needs. 

But oh, how do we still

 ‘want’ the bright shiny things.

“I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity 

when I conspire to forget my mortality.”

~ Sam Keen, author

This Little Muse

A fragment of thought 

fluttered into the light, 

lit on my finger,

rested long enough 

to pen this little muse. 

Fluttering away into 

the cool night air, 

I could only wish it well.

“Words are but pictures of our thoughts”

~ John Dryden, poet

(1631 ~ 1700)

Beneath the Snow

 

like yesterday’s promises

  a light skiff of snow

lay gently on fallen leaves.

“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.”

~ Bernadette Devlin, politician

Into the Outside

To take out pencil and notebook, I must put my head down to the page. 

To grasp the songs of the birds, 

  to witness children at play, 

    to marvel at the calm elegance of pelicans ~ I must. 

I could stand still

 breathe in those scenes ~ 

   and I do. 

Marvelling at the vast nature

  that surrounds me lending 

    beauty to my day 

~ even if just for a moment. 

When I want to capture in words 

  each lovely scene,

   create story around them, 

I must put my head down 

  while my pencil scribes in my notebook.

“..take out lovely pencil and notebook to find a few touching, kissing words.”

~ Mary Oliver,  Poem: A Morning Walk

Author’s note: inspired by Mary Oliver’s poem: Poem: A Morning Walk

A Simple Screwdriver

I like fixing things. 

Not toasters or 

anything electrical 

but getting out a screwdriver 

or wrench excites me! 

Always a good solid feeling 

when my independent streak 

has been nurtured by 

a simple screwdriver. 

There’s cleaning to be done 

if work is to be effective for 

more than a couple of hours. 

Like my vacuum cleaner ~

If layered dust is not cleaned away, 

it just will not work good enough. 

So with my simple screwdriver,

old rags and q-tips - the job gets done.

“I like fixing things.”

~ Richard E. Grant, actor

Short and Sweet

Short and sweet

So much to eat!!

We laughed a lot

We talked more

Heavy is my head

It’s time for bed!

“Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.”

~ William Shakespeare

More than 'Thank You'

So many things 

 to be grateful for in this life. 

the list is long, 

  longer than this page, 

    longer than any book

with each passing year, 

  each day is more precious. 

no need to wait til Thanksgiving Day 

  to feel them, 

    to voice them 

to be kind to that youngster 

 who didn’t know that gratitude 

   was anything more than saying 

            ‘thank you’.

“What if, today, we were grateful for everything?”

~ Charlie Brown