Cheers
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A toast to Conservatory beers
Hot house, cold beers – cheers!
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Month: June 2018
June 27
Summer Afternoon Lake Paddle
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On the water
Tranquility
Going with the flow
Exploring nooks
Reflections, reflecting, making waves, floating, gliding, moving silently
Paddle dips, left side, right side
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June 26
Meditation
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Hiking is my meditation
Moving feet
Steady mind
Patterns in footfalls and birdsongs
Pause
Breathe in
Tiny flowers
Breathe out
Expansive Views
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(A Byte Poem)
June 25
Art at the Tire Shop
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I found art in the local tire store
While waiting for four new wheels and rear brakes
I have to wait, what more can I ask for?
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What’s hidden inside is a mystery
It’s original form is history
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Now a focal piece and a chair no more
Was the start of this a small mistake?
Or has the creator done this before?
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You can find art in the strangest places
Beyond museums and display spaces
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What artwork do I miss as I explore
Gathering groceries, addressing toothaches
Adding some excitement to what may bore
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I need to live with my eyes open wide
Just never knowing where beauty does hide
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Art is a lump covered in labels galore
At flea markets and on grocery store cakes
Or the dark doodles on a bathroom door
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The art you see is in your state of mind
To what you call art others may be blind
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It is of you reader I do implore
Remember in art there is no mistake
A happy accident someone will adore
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Art is more than purchases from the store
It’s stickers and stencils and meter breaks
It’s more than home furnishing decor
It can be a chair at the tire store.
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June 24
Sun Rays Two Ways One Day
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Sunbeams
crepuscular, golden
shining, radiating, awe-inspiring
illusion, perspective, physics, droplets
refracting, projecting, reflecting
multicolored, spectacle
Rainbow
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(A Diamonte Poem)
June 23
Mid-life Career Change
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I’d like to drive a race car
Earn a living driving fast
Drive fast today and I might
Pay speeding tickets
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I’ve always had a lead foot
Here’s a way to make money
Making a living and I
Don’t have to slow down
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The environmentalist
In me knows this is a waste
But my inner speed demon
Wants to race a car
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(A few Dodoitsu Poems)
June 22
The Longest Day
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With desire to view
The shortest night’s debut
We’re on the lake at twilight
From the seats of our boats
Time flying as we float
Sky shifts from washed-out to bright
A rainbow sans the arc
Daylight morphs into dark
We paddle into the night
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(A Balassi Stanza)
June 21
First Day of Summer
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Under an umbrella of sunshine, white clover flowers rise above their own heart-shaped foliage amidst a green mat of linear leaves. They shudder in the warm gentle breeze, stopping only momentarily before vibrating again.
Bees visit flowers
Buzzing to bring life before
Mower buzzes through
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(A Haibun Poem)
June 20
The View at the Top
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I hike the rain slicked trail, gazing from ground to wood
Afraid to trip on rocks, afraid to miss the good
Torn between what I want to do and what I should
Looking ahead and looking back to where I stood.
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I don’t do this enough, so I need frequent breaks
To pee behind a tree, to ease my lungs from ache
Slowly I ascend the steep, resting when calves quake
Reaching the summit, I know this was no mistake.
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(An Awit Poem)
June 19
Good Morning
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Dark room
Quiet
Alarm
Rolling over
Wake up kisses
Percolation
Kettle whistle
Spoons clink
Screen door creaks
Warm sips
Cool air
Bird song
Quiet conversation
Day brightens
See you later kisses
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(An Aubade Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 