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Everyday Poem #9
Posted on July 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
What if you already had every ingredient for happiness inside the pantry of yourself instead of endlessly seeking all of the world for the future that may never come? Would you need more compassion and less judgment? An extra cup of self-love and only a pinch of worry? Teaspoons of sunlight and laughter and fresh […]
Everyday Poem #8
Posted on July 17, 2021 Leave a Comment
Bricks get all the attention when we build foundations, but without mortar giving space for connection, expansion, settling, shifting even the most carefully constructed life crumbles in an instant without breath
Everyday Poem #7
Posted on July 15, 2021 Leave a Comment
7.15.21 Dear NJH, Happy heavenly birthday and thank you for teaching me that the value of a Saturday night was not in who asked you out (unless Dave the trucker, the one with the CB radio, was passing by on US36) but in how you spent it with yourself lathering up with Prell and rinsing […]
Everyday Poem #6
Posted on July 14, 2021 Leave a Comment
We are made of stars and stories, of ancestors’ dreams and Earth’s oxygen, of orange-yellow sunrises and rhythmic blue waves, of whispered caresses and shattering lessons, of forgotten lyrics and early-morning birdsong, all delicately woven into human form where hope and faith and trust and love are as much of our self as our strong […]
Everyday Poem #5
Posted on July 12, 2021 Leave a Comment
Who is it in you that wants to rest? Who has given more than they have received? Is it the adult or the child? The teacher or the student? The creative or the engineer? The loved or the lover? The doubter or the believer? Breathe in, breath out. Close your eyes and relax. Let that […]
Everyday Poem #4
Posted on July 11, 2021 Leave a Comment
Are your conditions for loving yourself equal to or lesser than your conditions for loving others? Or does your mind tell your heart you do not deserve love until you are smarter funnier richer prettier healed employed skinnier a better parent a better child less serious more serious acknowledged understood feel less have more less […]
Everyday Poem #3
Posted on July 10, 2021 1 Comment
Up at the 4 am hour, lost in negative thought I stroll the neighborhood to find the proverbial early bird getting the proverbial worm from beneath a pin oak. Watching the robin mercilessly yank and tug the fighting but otherwise shocked and defenseless worm from where he presumably slept (better than me) moments ago in […]
Everyday Poem #2
Posted on July 9, 2021 1 Comment
I eavesdrop on the deli manager tell an older gentleman where he went to high school It’s the teacher names not his graduation year that tells me he was, once upon a very long time ago, my student. . His class was my westside Dead Poet’s Society studying Shakespeare and Frost between whole-class bouts of […]
Everyday Poem #1
Posted on July 8, 2021 2 Comments
I sip hot coffee watching July sunrise and shimmer in waves from the potholed black pavement between me and one man walking a peaked rooftop snapping photos of sun-worn shingles and rusted chimney flashing while another man sleeping under a straggly bush no one has trimmed since the casino arrived on West Broad when one […]
Just Another Saturday Night
Posted on July 3, 2021 2 Comments
Everyday Poem #0 Looking for solace I can’t name I sit on my deck watching the person who will be my new neighbor in a year or three when he finishes his monstrosity of a house two hundred yards from my fence And six times the total square footage Nailgun fascia to his eaves The […]
