No Time

Getting on with day to day 

is merely a foot on the floor

 a cup of coffee, no worries 

about whether age matters. 

The joints may be creaky, 

the constant jabber on TV 

selling  pills and adult diapers 

is annoying and the calendar 

tells me where I slide on 

the continuum birth to death. 

I have little time for those details. 

That’s one of the rabbit holes 

too deep for me when

I have bills to pay and 

bread to bake; 

my family, working, living, 

going to school, having fun, 

is my joy and love ~ So,

I do have time for getting on 

with each day in front of me.

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”

~ Maya Angelou

Nicely Done!

Nicely done!

Said with a smile 

when a task is complete 

with ease and efficiency

but it is those tasks done 

with steady on until the end

that definitely deserve a smile

and those little two words:

Nicely done!

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”

~ Babe Ruth

(1895 ~ 1948)

Dream-scape

A walk into my dreams, 

holding my dream-self 

                        

    by the hand, 

we enter a land 

peopled by doves and dragons 

happy rainbows over 

               

              blackened clouds

to divine the bizarre and beautiful 

frightening mountains and flowered meadows

to wake in the morning 

to rumpled covers, 

a tearstained face or a crooked smile. 

Dreams fray like sunrise clouds

my dream-self fades into my pillow

and I am changed.

“I wake to sleep and take my waking slow.”

~ Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

(1908 ~ 1963)