When we met you gave
Me a bouquet of red flags
The most perfect gift
June 18, 2021
Tag: Perspective
October 25
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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October 24
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)
September 26
Fearful Cocoon of Ego
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Monarch butterfly floats
Flower to flower, over trees
Around leafy branches, between grass blades.
With feet on solid earth I watch afraid
I will never know gliding on the breeze.
But what if I devote
Time spent fearing to a mindful crusade
Each heartache a flower, I see
The plight as antidote.
In lieu of fear promote
Discomforts as a force esprit
All feelings as weightless escapade.
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A Bragi Poem inspired by Pema Chodron’s following words from The Places that Scare You:
“Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.”
July 29
Intricacies
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The beauty of lichens up close
As lovely as a coral reef
Tightly bound and crust-like – crustose
Diversity beyond belief
Pebble-like, clustered – squamulose
No need for SCUBA and debrief
The beauty of lichens up close
As lovely as a coral reef
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Flat sheets and leaf-like – foliose
Closely explored in disbelief
Free-standing, branching – fruticose
A terra-firma reef motif
The beauty of lichens up close
As lovely as a coral reef
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June 29
Learning a New Language
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While you’re planting a plant
Have you stopped to ponder
That this plant can’t wander?
What we can do it can’t
Thought its roots run rampant
It will not live yonder.
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Why did you plant me here
Among these thugs and brutes
Where soil’s bad for my roots
Branches eaten by deer
Blooms hidden by those near
Oh why can’t I uproot?
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What do plants have to say
About our garden display?
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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 9
Positivity is the buzz word
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The mosquito is annoying
And there is no doubt about it
Perhaps we can live without it
With my patience they are toying
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Masters of camping destruction
The mosquito is annoying
Being out I’m not enjoying
To avoid I need instruction
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Surprisingly they do some good
Repellent I am deploying
The mosquito is annoying
Helping frogs into adulthood
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I’ll think twice before destroying
Assisting with pollination
Now I say with hesitation
The mosquito is annoying
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(A Viator Poem)
April 29
Reflection
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On our recent adventure we took pictures of each other.
Home, we shared them telling what we love about one another.
Each of us focused on our features we liked least during the view
The things we can mention we love about ourselves are few
The quirky details we love about the other are untold,
We believe the other an amazing site to behold.
But looking in the mirror we see a face wrinkled and old
If only we could look through the loving eyes of the other
And see what the other can see with kindness and love anew.
When we love ourselves as we love the other, love becomes bold.
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(A CinqTroisDecaLa Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 