A little goodbye party for the Nance family -- why does everyone keep moving away???
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Tiny Twinges
I felt a tiny twinge --
to give a friend,
who was feeling down,
some flowers. An
easy enough charge
with the flashy
tiger lilies
screaming for attention
over in the corner,
the clematis curling
seductively round the
garden gate,
the fluffy zinnias
beckoning
with their toothy,
multi-hued smiles.
However,
I stayed inside,
quieting the
karmic jabs with
flimsy excuses,
leaving the friend
to sit alone
and the floral fete
to be enjoyed
solely by the
bees.
to give a friend,
who was feeling down,
some flowers. An
easy enough charge
with the flashy
tiger lilies
screaming for attention
over in the corner,
the clematis curling
seductively round the
garden gate,
the fluffy zinnias
beckoning
with their toothy,
multi-hued smiles.
However,
I stayed inside,
quieting the
karmic jabs with
flimsy excuses,
leaving the friend
to sit alone
and the floral fete
to be enjoyed
solely by the
bees.
Monday, July 25, 2016
Summer Storm
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
So Civilized
Can I tell the tale of
humankind?
My story is a biased
one, just one
individual in the
collective mind.
A chimp will not eat a grape unless
all the chimps have a grape.
History is pocked --
great craters of
devastation, terror,
and
Enlightenment!
minuets, sonnets
(clubs, spears)
The Pieta, a perfect rose
(rifles, drones)
survival of the fittest
(maddest, meanest)
We are so
so civilized
compared to
the chimpanzee.
humankind?
My story is a biased
one, just one
individual in the
collective mind.
A chimp will not eat a grape unless
all the chimps have a grape.
History is pocked --
great craters of
devastation, terror,
and
Enlightenment!
minuets, sonnets
(clubs, spears)
The Pieta, a perfect rose
(rifles, drones)
survival of the fittest
(maddest, meanest)
We are so
so civilized
compared to
the chimpanzee.
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Still Spinning
In other lifetimes,
it took years
to crisscross
this glorious globe,
but as the distance
diminished, knowledge
expanded and
we know (we KNOW)
that all of us want
the same things:
peace, safety,
love...
This Earth,
so buried in
grief and confusion,
is somehow,
somehow,
still spinning.
Still producing
fresh green cucumbers
and fireflies
that dart in and out
of the hydrangeas.
Little girls still
selling lemonade
on Sunday afternoons.
How can it all be so
exquisite? So beautiful?
How can it all be so
(crushingly) sad?
it took years
to crisscross
this glorious globe,
but as the distance
diminished, knowledge
expanded and
we know (we KNOW)
that all of us want
the same things:
peace, safety,
love...
This Earth,
so buried in
grief and confusion,
is somehow,
somehow,
still spinning.
Still producing
fresh green cucumbers
and fireflies
that dart in and out
of the hydrangeas.
Little girls still
selling lemonade
on Sunday afternoons.
How can it all be so
exquisite? So beautiful?
How can it all be so
(crushingly) sad?
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