Thursday, June 12, 2025

 Quiet and charming

Through the meadow runs the brook

As she through his life

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

 My beautiful bloom

How soon you are summer’s fruit 

Full swollen and sweet

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

 Winter light at noon

With teacups and currant jam

The cat on the sill


Monday, June 9, 2025

There are better ways

 To keep the lions away

Than hiding in fear

Sunday, June 8, 2025

 Each considered step

I am old for a reason

And see more slowly

Saturday, June 7, 2025

 A treetop refrain

Chirp chirp it repeats chirp chirp

 The merry towhee

Friday, June 6, 2025

 Years accumulate 

What I have learned from the earth

Death and renewal

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Loamy detritus

Fertile realm of flies and worms

Bountiful compost

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

 Something small happened

Something scarcely regarded 

But now I am changed

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Some have never known

 To live without the sirens

The balm of quiet


Monday, June 2, 2025

The faint flaxen sky
Becomes a scarlet brocade
Morning is adorned

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Headstone of rubble
Interred under hate’s disgrace
Unforgotten child

Saturday, May 31, 2025



 No bole can sustain

No limb can adjoin the sky

When roots have rotted

Friday, May 30, 2025

 The light grows apace

The days of May are larger

Summer crops give thanks


Thursday, May 29, 2025

 The elder couple

Dancing without the music

In the living room

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

 Old Gus with a beer

Just watchin’ the smoker smoke

This could take a while

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

 The pitch letter high

Then the batter’s flawless swing

He watches - then trots

Monday, May 26, 2025

Others far from me

Knew hate that I could ignore

Because I was not

Sunday, May 25, 2025

The ancient tallies

Scribed with reeds on clay tablets

Primal histories


Saturday, May 24, 2025

They do without then

 Animals have no stories

Other than what is

Friday, May 23, 2025

 You may have the clock

Said the peasant to the lord

But we have the time

Thursday, May 22, 2025

 



Another winter

Despite the season's ordeal

The osprey nest lasts

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

 If you meet Buddha

In your sleep or on the road

Ask no directions

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

 When you pull it out

Leave it with the roots dangling

 Still clutching the earth 


Monday, May 19, 2025

 I found an old man

Who wore his years like a robe

Proud and handsomely

Sunday, May 18, 2025

 



Suddenly it stopped

The patience of the horned toad

Hiding in plain sight

Saturday, May 17, 2025

 Sweet sufficiency 

No desire or rebuttal

Equable content



Friday, May 16, 2025

Youth lost to hunger

 In war everyone is old

Pity does not feed


Thursday, May 15, 2025

Dry musty pages

Yellow and curled by neglect

Poems longing for eyes

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

inside a good book

there are real people waiting

ready to meet you

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

 My most vivid life

No filter or distraction

Occurs while I sleep

Monday, May 12, 2025

 Careless wandering

Whatever way I travel

I’m close to somewhere

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Father tends the roast

Mother’s potato salad

It smells like Sunday

Saturday, May 10, 2025

 With nostrils aglow

My dog greets me at the door

She knows where I’ve been

Friday, May 9, 2025

 Bound by their nature

To food water and the sun

The birds are not free

Thursday, May 8, 2025

 Before the firestorm

The crow is an oracle

Heed its prophecy



Wednesday, May 7, 2025

To make problems worse

There’s too much man in mankind

And not enough kind

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

 It happens seldom

But Monday was Square Root Day

5-5-25

Monday, May 5, 2025

though my flesh is worn

let it not impair my soul

tomorrow is new

Sunday, May 4, 2025

The moment we met

 I would trade a tomorrow

For that day again

What welcome tender

From sullen soil of winter

The first sprouts of spring 


Saturday, May 3, 2025

i resist game trails 

ways of life across terrain

domain of four legs

Friday, May 2, 2025

 In these find comfort

The dog's cold nose - kids at play

A bird in the breeze

Thursday, May 1, 2025

 Dependable friends

Finches, robins, and sparrows

Return for summer

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

 An impatient crow

Reminds me with a complaint 

When will you feed me?

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

 Condemned to freedom

How long is this going to last

Can’t seem to shake it

Monday, April 28, 2025

Even in darkness

Everything was in hiding

She returns hungry

Sunday, April 27, 2025

 Can the inchworm know

As it crawls across damp April

It will fly in June


Friday, April 25, 2025

 When the time offered

He told his story again

Save differently

Thursday, April 24, 2025

An unbarred window

It reaches into the room

The night’s contrivance 

Wednesday, April 23, 2025


The damp potioned loins

Deeper than any desire

The elixir calls

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

 In fields of wild flowers

The lovers will have no markers

Shrouded in good earth


Monday, April 21, 2025

 alone among them

does he dare pursue a phrase

or humbly listen

Sunday, April 20, 2025

These old dusty shoes

Been dancin' in the backyard

To the fife and drums

Saturday, April 19, 2025

 To The Child

Something in me knows

That every breath you make

Is also my breath

Thursday, April 17, 2025

 His doubt blocked the sun

A leaden cloud of silence

Impenetrable

Wednesday, April 16, 2025


Maori Warrior

Generations of tattoos

The sea in his hair

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Below glaucous clouds

In the saddle of the hills

A slice of fair sky



Monday, April 14, 2025

We make so much noise

It’s nearly impossible 

To hear dragonflies

 Something in the soil

In the sweat - the river’s smell

That makes for the blues

Sunday, April 13, 2025

 Made of lifeless stone

There is sorrow in this wall

Bound by fear’s mortar


Saturday, April 12, 2025

 If there is no sin

What reason for redemption

Except for the blues

Friday, April 11, 2025

 The roadless prairie 

Without a thought of compass

Hand in hand we’ll go

Thursday, April 10, 2025

 When I am away

That world becomes resplendent

I see with new eyes


Wednesday, April 9, 2025

 Could I be a bird

I would not peck or scavenge

I would soar and sweep

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Sweet capricious spring

Surprise me at your pleasure 

Blythe effervescence 

Monday, April 7, 2025

 a familiar tale

but he doesn't know the end

shall he turn the page?

Sunday, April 6, 2025

what comes of people

a spontaneous order

without injunction

Saturday, April 5, 2025

sublime confusion

the moment after a dream

neither here nor there

Friday, April 4, 2025

in green unfurling 

a fern lives next to the pond

graceful frondescence

Thursday, April 3, 2025

on the passing of one beloved


 loyal and loving

she will forever mean friend

our hearts howl with blue

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

 the moment he knew

that his heart would rhyme with hers

no verse could compare

Tuesday, April 1, 2025


Her ears are eager

 She seems to know what I think

Her tail says it all 


Monday, March 31, 2025

 It will go away

When it has finished its work

The moral of pain

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Hoping for peaches
There are rumors in the bloom
Spotless spring morning

Saturday, March 29, 2025



First greeting of spring

Most completely indigo

The glad hyacinth 

Friday, March 28, 2025

 Most of what I’ve known 

Wasn’t thinking after all

Tuition of whims

 

 

Thursday, March 27, 2025

 Powered by the reef

The wave gathers its body

Then destroys itself

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

There is still much left

Of stories hardly begun

And of love unspent

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

the oppressors know 

the power of ignorance

make america dim

Monday, March 24, 2025

 The orange tree trembles

The temptation of fragrance

A feast for the bees

Sunday, March 23, 2025

 To reckon of me

I will share stories with you

Come sit by my side

Saturday, March 22, 2025

 The miles and the time

Form stories ever changing

The same neverless


Friday, March 21, 2025

 He has been unmoored

Carried by secret currents

No wind in his sail

Thursday, March 20, 2025

 Rich do what they want

Then the achingly sad part

Poor do what they must

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Still damp from the night

The poppies unfold slowly

Sunny reverence


Tuesday, March 18, 2025

 This contagious day

I am infected with spring

A plague of beauty


Monday, March 17, 2025

 Starlings doves and quail

Set asunder for cover

When the hawk soars by

Sunday, March 16, 2025

 Beyond the heartache

He lives alone by the sea

Tides for company


Saturday, March 15, 2025

 I must leave this road

And ramble the timbered hills

Where whippoorwills call

Friday, March 14, 2025

Quail drop from their roost

 The hummingbird resumes its bliss

All morning could be


Thursday, March 13, 2025


 Dappled in summer

Adaptable ptarmigan 

Snow pure in winter

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

           Rule of the rulers

Entertain them with awful

Thinking optional

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

 Impetuous spring

Unfurls a brilliant tribute

Winter rewarded

Monday, March 10, 2025

 a lad of talent

bearing with such cleverness 

the fair crown of youth

Sunday, March 9, 2025

 Then tulips up reach

Goblets of lustrous wonder

Filling with sunlight



Saturday, March 8, 2025

The fields are trampled

Handbills scatter in the wind

 After the circus 

Friday, March 7, 2025

 when all is springtime 

blessed ribbons from the sky

wonderful puddles


Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tireless artisans 

 Bees expect no gratitude 

Their work is their thanks



Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Heavens in a breath

The muchness of the moment

Oceans in a drop

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

 don't be complainin'

if you don't like potatoes

don't dig in my yard

Monday, March 3, 2025

 Dry desperation

The roots are the last to die

And first to repay

Sunday, March 2, 2025

 The faithful black dog

Spends the morning on the porch 

Waiting for the truck 


Saturday, March 1, 2025

Morning with a  breeze

Sun shinin’ in the back door

The cat’s out to hunt


Friday, February 28, 2025

 Alfred E Neuman

Distilled a sea of twaddle

To “What, me worry?”

Thursday, February 27, 2025

 Forgotten letters

Brittle but unabated

Wait in the attic


Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The last time I checked 

I'm still lookin' like myself

Spare consolation

 All are made of one

The greatest common factor

No life is trifling


Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Your laws and libel

 Who do you think you’re fooling 

Reckonings will come 

Monday, February 24, 2025

Like Ouroboros 

 Absurdity of vengeance 

Will consume itself

Sunday, February 23, 2025

The swollen orange buds 

What sound unloosed when they burst?

Only the bees know

Saturday, February 22, 2025

 Breaking the quiet 

A buck through the underbrush

His nostrils steaming

Friday, February 21, 2025

 have the roots lost hope?

when the tortoise emerges 

will it know the world?

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Patiently crocheted 

A tablecloth stained with love

By generations 


Wednesday, February 19, 2025

 This morning feels fine

Peaceful as a sleeping dog

Soaking in sunlight

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

 The widow entreats

Come under my veil with me

Know how cold my heart

Monday, February 17, 2025

Sacrificial fruit

Briefly ripened  - soon withered

Will render the seeds


Sunday, February 16, 2025

 A stirring surmise

Made dim in the daylight

Burning while I sleep



Saturday, February 15, 2025

By intuition 

Nature is truth - as it is

Gods in the smallest


Friday, February 14, 2025

 Lyrics in water

Composed by what lies beneath

The hindered flow sings

Thursday, February 13, 2025

 One who lives with poise

Whose lot flows with the current

Loos’d of all desire

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

There shall be no thrones

No nobles or attendants 

Bread for everyone

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Ponder this mankind 

 What if hope is a woman

Would that explain it

Monday, February 10, 2025

 The increase of night 

A cold carriage approaches

Its footman beckons

Sunday, February 9, 2025

 The length of my life 

Is not as important as

The length of my health 

Saturday, February 8, 2025

True without a proof

 There are stars we’ll never see

Heavens past heavens

Friday, February 7, 2025

 Before in darkness

Only the sun and a fire 

Could foretell shadows

Thursday, February 6, 2025

The swirling patterns

A sable cloud of starlings

Random or given?



Wednesday, February 5, 2025

 Vainly deluded

Humanity’s whole extent

Is barely a blink 

is this our someday?

 to be plodding sequiturs?

shadows that follow?

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

 An indigo night

Moonless waves fall gracefully

Edged with gauzy foam

Monday, February 3, 2025

 Trapped in the chapel

Thrashing against the stained glass 

A desperate dove

Sunday, February 2, 2025

 When we were savage

Perfectly unenlightened

Before there was why

Saturday, February 1, 2025

In the pathless woods 

The ravenous elk bugles

"Come for me!" he calls


Friday, January 31, 2025

 A barnacled hull 

I trim my sheets to the squall

Wild gusts of my life!



Thursday, January 30, 2025

Let’s go cross country

Until we come to the cliffs

Where the condors soar


Wednesday, January 29, 2025

 It’s too late to die 

(where is my generation)

Before I get old


Tuesday, January 28, 2025

 If I had my way

After all is said and done 

I’d leave ‘em laughing

Monday, January 27, 2025

 honorable lives

that they may serve as water

to quench and quicken 


Sunday, January 26, 2025

 While innocence hopes

Ambition forgives cruelty

Somewhere there is war

Saturday, January 25, 2025

 The man to the boy

What was the best thing today?

Right now is, Father

Friday, January 24, 2025

panoply of clouds

a mystic combination

of water and air

Thursday, January 23, 2025

 i offer this thread

a frayed end of silken thoughts

pull and i'm unstitched

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

 Billboards are blaring

With faces of the lawyers 

Land of grievances

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

 


When it all had worth

They expected the rag man

His bundles in tow

Monday, January 20, 2025

 The old county road

A dog chased the rusty truck

Both faded with dust



Sunday, January 19, 2025

 The First


They followed the tracks

Mammoths on the horizon

To un-peopled lands


Saturday, January 18, 2025

 When you have questions 

But don’t need to have answers

Come see about me


Friday, January 17, 2025

 Singin' in the car

Don’t care what time I get there

I love this next song

Thursday, January 16, 2025

 A gray brittle twig

Depleted - almost hopeless

Too far from the roots

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The message she wrote

Has never faded away

What's done is not done

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Without a good-bye

 She got off near Santa Fe

Dissolved into dawn

Monday, January 13, 2025


A faint morning moon

She wrote something on his palm

And pressed it to hers

Sunday, January 12, 2025

 When he asked her name

She placed her hand on his lips

Listen for the moon

Saturday, January 11, 2025

 The train turned a bend

Her head fell to his shoulder

They dreamed without sleep


Friday, January 10, 2025

 They talked in darkness

Without ending a story

Or starting the next

Thursday, January 9, 2025

 As the night rolled on

She said that love and passion 

Do not need to rhyme

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

 She told of the South

Of hands bleeding from the fields

Of faith and aching

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

 Her dark eyes spoke out

A daring invitation

You can come closer

Monday, January 6, 2025

 Though they'd never met

Her look said that she knew him

Before we they born


Sunday, January 5, 2025

 When he noticed her 

 She was immersed in the land

Her eyes rimmed with tears

Saturday, January 4, 2025

This haiku and the twelve that follow comprise an accidental story of sorts.


He lost his ticket

Not sure where the train headed

Just feeling the ride

Friday, January 3, 2025

 Ironically

It's hard to spot a leopard

Or even see one

Thursday, January 2, 2025

 My Dad used to say

I feel more like I do now

Than a while ago

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

 2025

This is how the year begins

With doubt and a sigh

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 Though still and pallid

Winter's no infirmity

Spring will blush again


Monday, December 30, 2024

I can remember

(this happened before i died)

The slow forgetting

Sunday, December 29, 2024

 With sun they start work

There’s no finer certainty

The bees of July




When he is missing

What matters and gives him peace

Someplace warm to sleep

Saturday, December 28, 2024


 Too long without rain

The desert lives on remains

Nothing  dares to breathe

Friday, December 27, 2024

The recondite cat

Being charming but aloof

Comes comfortably

Thursday, December 26, 2024

 My father taught me

Of responsibility

My mother - to fly

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

 Make evergreen wreaths

Adorn them with love and cheer

Decorate this day!


Tuesday, December 24, 2024

 Children everywhere

Put your excitement abed

Dream of tomorrow

Monday, December 23, 2024

 I am suns and moons

The seasons each to other

Cylces in circuits

Sunday, December 22, 2024

The favorite trail

Is now longer and steeper

My bootsoles wear thin

Saturday, December 21, 2024

 Surf assaults the shore

A lighthouse burns through the fog

Helmsmen sail on faith


Friday, December 20, 2024

why not consider?

content instead of happy?

which a better peace?

 My faith comes to this

I will tend to my garden

And it will tend me

Thursday, December 19, 2024

 A dog to itself

Making humans feel better

Is tail-heavy work


Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Devout and time-worn

The oak tree preaches wisdom 

Doves stop to worship


 

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

 Pausing to relax

On the enduring passage

Water forms a pond

Monday, December 16, 2024

 I’m a scavenger

Searching through thoughts left behind

Gathering potsherds

Sunday, December 15, 2024

 Dactylonomy

Certainly comes in handy

When writing haiku

Saturday, December 14, 2024

 The river's water

Is anonymous again

As it joins the sea


Friday, December 13, 2024

 Privilege  of dogs

To sleep wherever they want

I am envious



Thursday, December 12, 2024

 She can barely breathe

The tears tremble down her face

This is how love costs


Wednesday, December 11, 2024

 i accept this now

to sit quietly alone

and hear myself breathe

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

 Freedom for women

Suppressed throughout the ages

By the church and state 

Monday, December 9, 2024

 He was up all night

Not believing in the dawn

While fear fed on him

Sunday, December 8, 2024

yielding but steadfast 
a tree is a trusted friend
without doubt or guile


Friday, December 6, 2024

 These tracks are southbound

They run to Mississippi

Where blues plays all night

Thursday, December 5, 2024

To my excitement

Erumpent gladiolas

Send up their first spears

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

 What time is it now?

A question once never asked

Before there was next



Tuesday, December 3, 2024

 Appreciate life

Even pond scum has purpose

There is blue in green




Monday, December 2, 2024

 When stories dissolve

When there's no truth or fiction

What will bind us then 

Sunday, December 1, 2024

 Invisible wall

Without a door or window
Can words penetrate?

Saturday, November 30, 2024

 Like roots in a tree

There is more of you and I 

Than what can be seen

Friday, November 29, 2024

This our family

Of humor, talent, and grace

 Self-emptying love

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Kindness for others

May this be our thanksgiving

Nothing more or less

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Neglected  bouquet

Rose petals fall from the vase

Sere but still fragrant




Tuesday, November 26, 2024

 Careful as you step

There is more than one reason

That they’re called flip flops

Monday, November 25, 2024

 Shoulder their worries

They are young and will repay

It is worth the weight

Sunday, November 24, 2024

 A point of order

Who said this guy named Robert

Gets to make the rules?

Saturday, November 23, 2024

 Can they remember?

Entwined - tumid and gleaming

The fierce smell of love? 

Friday, November 22, 2024

 


With no up or down

We all live on island earth

Afloat together

Thursday, November 21, 2024

 Of someone's nature

That which speaks eloquently

Where they find beauty


Wednesday, November 20, 2024

 To sleep - I must sleep

These dreams derange the darkness

If I could just sleep 

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

 When I am hiking

I feel closer to the earth

Peaceful humility


Monday, November 18, 2024

 Let us be advised

If you can’t be wise - be kind

Others will give thanks

Sunday, November 17, 2024

 With no place in mind

Daydreaming amid the pines

Wondering nothing

Saturday, November 16, 2024

In the remainder

Let me ramble like the wolf

Following a scent

Friday, November 15, 2024

 Which is more dreadful

Fear of something or nothing

The known or unknown

Thursday, November 14, 2024

 Elixir of thanks

Even offered for the least 

Is balm for the heart

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

 It pleases my soul

To put my hand on your back

And know you’re near me

Tuesday, November 12, 2024


Sometimes in the wild

I enjoy hearing one thing

Faintly my footsteps





Monday, November 11, 2024

 There’s more to be found

Elder folk should still explore

Always being born


Sunday, November 10, 2024

 Foretelling the storm

The wind's sure sililoquy

Speaks where no one hears

Saturday, November 9, 2024

 An old dusty dog

As dependable as tides 

Waits for his next meal 

Friday, November 8, 2024

It must be dauntless

When art becomes civilized

It turns to culture


Thursday, November 7, 2024

Woman of color

Prices, immigrants, and wars

They fall for the fraud


Wednesday, November 6, 2024

 The grace of the whale

Northbound from Baja's warm gulf

A calf by her side

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

 If we are so great

Why can’t the popular vote

Elect the POTUS?

Monday, November 4, 2024

They know of water

 And the approach of winter

Plants have agency


Sunday, November 3, 2024

Walk in the woodlands

There are tidings in the trees

Messages of sap

Saturday, November 2, 2024

The burden of fear

 Worry feels better than naught

When faced with unknown 

Friday, November 1, 2024

 The will-o-the-wisp

Rises in gold - sets in blood

Shroud of ghostly light

Thursday, October 31, 2024

 He wandered away

As though he was attracted

To some dark allure


Wednesday, October 30, 2024

 Faint calliope

There's a trail of dust out west 

The circus draws near

Tuesday, October 29, 2024



A dim unswept room

Moths raise their dusty flutter

Webs wait in corners

Monday, October 28, 2024



Grateful ofrenda

A constellation of heirs

Glows with devotion

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Play mariachis!

Cry the song of love’s lament

 What a joyful pain



Saturday, October 26, 2024

Friday, October 25, 2024

A cheerful drifter

Spins a hurdy gurdy tune

Children twirl with glee

Thursday, October 24, 2024

There is a fable 

The raven who ate the sun

Calls but cannot sing

 Cold fog on the lake

The ospreys have quit their nest

Geese are on the wing


Wednesday, October 23, 2024

 When I am joyful

And quiet and satisfied 

I stop making sense


Tuesday, October 22, 2024

 The storyteller

Waits in her candle-lit tent

Your life for a dime

Monday, October 21, 2024

 Ghosts of volcanoes

Haunt Coconino's plateau

Does lava still lurk?

Sunday, October 20, 2024

 When written at last

My story will fill the page

No room for margins

Saturday, October 19, 2024

 Autumn is paisley 

Layers of twisting patterns

Colors intertwined 


Friday, October 18, 2024

 The moon longs for light 

Like a suitor suspended

Fain to glow again

Thursday, October 17, 2024

 What sore secret broods

What revenant visits her

That she wakes weeping

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

 Once in the springtime

The remontant dianthus

Gives again in fall

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

 my autumnal friends

changing lives - stories falling

expecting winter

Monday, October 14, 2024

Clement October

 A good day for a tootle

With nothing in mind

Sunday, October 13, 2024

 Something beyond us

Where the compass will not point

Without reference



Saturday, October 12, 2024

 reliably kind

when the days increase with warm

spring forgives winter

Friday, October 11, 2024

 Encouraged by the rain

The Ponderosas respire

A vanilla balm


Thursday, October 10, 2024

 I am primitive

A glad and natural beast

More ape than angel

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

 We are taking more

Than the earth has to render

Nature's depletion

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

 In spite of ourselves

There’s fortune on the table 

We just have to choose

Monday, October 7, 2024

 Before he looked out

He knew the snow had fallen

First of the winter


 

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Deprived of the sun

Leaves beautifully dying

Latent hues revealed

Saturday, October 5, 2024

 Winter is sabbath 

Time for rest and reflection

Covenant renewed


Friday, October 4, 2024

 I would have few doubts

About what I think I know

Were it not for dreams

Thursday, October 3, 2024

 Prints of beginning

Early thoughts of a young man

Letters to myself

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

 The charm of autumn

Never is a conclusion 

As bright and graceful


Tuesday, October 1, 2024

may there never be 

something lost for what you need

enough for enough



Monday, September 30, 2024

 Pulled weeds this morning

My fingers still smell like dirt

It’s been a good day

Sunday, September 29, 2024

 O the refeshment!

A blue jay in the puddle

Flitter - flutter - splash!

Saturday, September 28, 2024

 Neither when nor was

Every time that I wake up

It is still today

Friday, September 27, 2024

No delight compares

Surrounded by sensation

A dog in the woods

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Listen carefully

Can you hear beyond the words?

The most is unsaid

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

 There's much to be gained

From an aimless meander

Each stride adventure


Monday, September 23, 2024

Just the hawk and I

Drifting in the equinox

Warming air lifts us 



Sunday, September 22, 2024

 what his eyes revealed

never so secret again

love changed forever

Saturday, September 21, 2024

 Fully propounded

The moon hangs like a question

A bright cloudless night

Friday, September 20, 2024

There should be a group

Where they share stories of loss 

Socks Without Partners

Thursday, September 19, 2024

 Cleaned out the garage

Found letters from my young loves

Some still make me cry

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

 He would be a fool

To not know that he's a fool

Certainly likewise

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

 The way that you think

Bears more import than the what

But less than you feel


Monday, September 16, 2024


Suspended in dawn

 Ghost of a summer's flower

Gauzy perfection



Sunday, September 15, 2024

 here's the gist of it

i've lived with me long enough

 to know i'll be fine

Saturday, September 14, 2024

 Heavens to Betsy!

My mother used to exclaim

I still don't get it

Friday, September 13, 2024

 Donald and JD

Stay away from dogs and cats

They can smell a fraud

Thursday, September 12, 2024

 In the dry lake bed

The elk assemble to graze

Before heading south