Emerson
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It was a year ago today
I said goodbye to you
Dear cat
I just didn’t know what to say
Somehow I think you knew
Smart cat
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Your spunky presence filled the room
And filled my heart as well
Unique
The fifteen years ended too soon
So hard to say farewell
Tears streak
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(A Memento Poem)
Happiness Is
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Happiness is a sunny beach
Far from the summer’s white hot reach
Happiness is a muddy trail
With only boulders for guardrail
Tell me what’s wrong with gray skies
Nature’s all lovely in my eyes
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Happiness is a rainy day
Liquid music tapping away
Happiness is the thundersnow
Ominous green skies all aglow
What’s wrong with an obscured sunrise
Nature’s all lovely in my eyes
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Happiness is limbs dark and stark
Admiring the subtle bark
Happy is getting to explore
With the loving man I adore
Luckily I’ve come to realize
Nature’s all lovely in our eyes.
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Where water meets rock
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Resting beside rocks and water thought digesting
Digesting today’s news, aching muscles resting
Peace comes to me where the cold creek waters release
Release all stresses into the burbling peace
Seeking calm but getting a perspective tweaking
Tweaking expectations, transformation seeking
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(A Mirrored Sestet)
Hearts-A-Burstin’
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Vulnerable core suddenly exposed
Simply amazing how little it takes
When your heart breaks is it the sad that leaves?
Does the happy spill out when your heart breaks?
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Does bursting with happiness feel the same
As breaking with sorrow when the heart grieves?
Does the happy spill out when your heart breaks?
When your heart breaks is it the sad that leaves?
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Just how can a person know the difference
Between happy pains and the anguished aches?
When your heart breaks is it the sad that leaves?
Does the happy spill out when your heart breaks?
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(A Mirrored Refrain)
Samara
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Colossal samara sculpture spinning
The gentle breeze provoking giant seed
Around the garden at a ghostly speed
The bronze patinaed green and weathered well
Enormous silent, it has me grinning
The towering art, not aunaturel
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Now where did I park that car?
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Hope I find my car
This big concrete maze
Swallowed it
Cell phone of no use here
I may never find it
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Hope I find my car
I’ll be here for days
Wandering
Pressing lock a lot
Listening closely
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Hope I find my car
Retracing my ways
Filled with hope
Hearing my horn honk
Following the sound
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(A Cardinal Stanza)
Salvia elegens
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Pineapple sage, sweet scented mint – November blooms, glad to know it
Tropical plant, ruby red hint – soft light green leaves, had to sow it
Container bound, oh so fragrant – hummingbird bait, rad to show it
Matter of time, frost will kill it – yearly planted, mad to grow it.
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Modern Convenience
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The seat heat spoils me, no grief – modern convenience, I’m spoiled
Cold days and long days, a relief – on to a warm place, I’ve toiled
Not just for winter, a stress thief – great for long road trips, stress foiled
My Required option, even brief – I’ll always have it, I’m loyal.
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Anemone japonica
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White Japanese Anemone blooms
When the days grow shorter
While lighting up garden rooms
Wonderful during the season’s third quarter
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How lovely are these flowers
Happiness on a stem
Hanging on into colder hours
Heroic late season gem
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Only people who dare traverse
Onto garden paths in fall
Open their eyes and are immersed
Oddly in the beauty of it all
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Nearing the end of the season
Nifty leaves change their hues
No they’re not the only reason
Needed to get out and enjoy the view.
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( A Trolaan Poem)
Wild for Salmon
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Wild salmon is from the great cold pacific
The fisherpeople there are quite prolific
Know what I make of it will be terrific.
Dolloped with shallots tomatoes lemon squeeze
And fresh herbs from my garden grown with great ease
This recipe seems it will be sure to please
This filet is so large I can make six meals
With good fats and nutrients, it’s food that heals
Healthy sustainable food has great appeal.
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(A Muzdawidj Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 