Lesson Learned
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Children challenged me
Surprised me by making me
Revisit my assumptions
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Why was I thinking
Everything would not return,
Pocketed or left misplaced?
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(A Sedoka Poem)
In the Kitchen
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I love to cook from scratch
Each new recipe is a chance to learn
For me there really is no match
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Can’t wait to get it down the hatch
My calories I earn
I love to cook from scratch
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Making cookies batch after batch
Trying not to burn
For me there really is no match
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Lowering mixer top, locking the latch
For homemade food I yearn
I love to cook from scratch
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To a good recipe I will attach
And continue to return
For me there really is no match
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Homemade food they will snatch
From processed, it’s easy to discern
I love to cook from scratch
For me there really is no match
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(A Villanelle Poem)
Aesculus
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Leaves are crinkled, wrinkled, wrapped up tight
Their unfurling is a sight
Watching with delight
All is right
Grow
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Round clustered buds open to pure white
Panicles rise to new heights
Watching with delight
All is right
Show
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Have better things to do I might
But I could stay here all night
Watching with delight
All is right
Know
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( A Triquint Poem)
Necessity
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Yoga is so gentle
Deceiving
The body, challenging the mind
Much of it is mental
Believing
In the strength and calm to find
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Holding poses for days
Centering
Shoulders with hips, brain with the heart
Gently resisting sways
Entering
A place where fitness melds with art
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Muscles, mind, and spirit
Strengthening
Quiet peace overtakes unrest
Learning not to fear it
Lengthening
Spine, being kind, opening chest.
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(A Tri-Fall Poem)
April Tulip
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The day April showers bring May flowers
What do those showers do for the April blooms?
Whether gentle or hard, minutes or hours
They create blossoms to brighten the gloom
Bringing in the new season with perfume.
Colorful flowers bedazzled with drops
Rather than slicker it’s a rain costume
Embellished with jewels from bottom to top.
So it seems that these spring thundershowers
Accessorize but don’t over power.
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(A Decuain Poem)
First Warm Weekend
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Sitting by the fire gazing at the stars
A gap in the forest affords us the view
Tent in the clearing will sleep just us two.
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For tonight this bit of nature is ours
Sitting by the fire gazing at the stars
A gap in the forest affords us the view
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Sitting by the fire, warms as wood chars
Special moments like this are far too few
Spending time this way is what we should do
Sitting by the fire gazing at the stars
A gap in the forest affords us the view
Tent in the clearing will sleep just us two.
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(An English Madrigal Poem)
Abandoned Infrastructure
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Old infrastructure crumbles
Bold paint adorns gray walls
Cold air moves as voices rumble
Untold artists, after dark, leave scrawls.
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Adaptive reuse provides fun
Active legs will be aching next day
Live in the moment before there are none
Forgive freely and make time to play.
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(A Lento Poem)
Bloodroot
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Breaking ground early spring
Before many others
Boldly emerging white
Brightening dormant ground
Buds rise through folded leaves
Bloom balanced atop stem
Becoming full with sun.
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(A Pleiades Poem)
Pasque Flower
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Soft purple flowers detract
From the gloomy gray
Of a spring yet to arrive
To push cold away.
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Perhaps the reason
For this bright floral drama
Is to fool seasons.
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(A Seguidilla Poem)
The Four Seasons
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Orion stands up in the sky
Silently unique snowflakes fly
Woodstove full and warmly glowing
With each moment days are growing, lips and skin dry
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Up in the sky Leo now sits
New jeweltone flowers are sunlit
Songbirds are back to raise their young
Cleansing raindrops to dance among, warming a bit.
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Scorpio rises up at night
Flowers everywhere glowing bright
Arm sleeves rolled up over shoulders
Lone bonfire ember smolders, cool sheets just right
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Pegasus marks the shorter days
Trees put on colorful displays
Through fallen leaves hiking boots crunch
Birds and butterflies by the bunch migrate away.
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(A Florette Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 