Eudaimonia

~ The birds all fall into accolades, on the mornings of Central Virginia. ~ Colorful chorals that can escalade –      pro forma,      concerti,      eudaimonia.  ~ On and on, no stoppage of song, way long after morning’s forgotten. ~ All in all, a sound, a melodious funk; as it rises […] Continue reading

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The Safe Distance Silence

A silence abounds when we make our rounds, for my two dogs and I on our walks.  ~ There are houses with spouses, with singles, and what-not’s. They don’t wave, they won’t smile, much less will they  talk.  ~ This silence astounds on these daily done rounds, it’s the sound of a safe distance silence. […] Continue reading

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Humming Bird

~ A Humming Bird! She hovers here!     then darts     in jet-like fashion. Fast and fleet     a soundless streak. I wonder, where     she keeps her bastion? This Humming Bird’s     in search of flower, red with nectar sweet! She stands time still, what seems an hour,   […] Continue reading

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Let Us Not Become Confucius

The dog stood in line in a vet’s tiny office, just waiting for inoculation. She was waiting her turn, behind all the others, where the one in the back always suffers. And after some wait, she just couldn’t take anymore, so the door she turned to and gaited. Patience, a virtue, but not so in […] Continue reading

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Episodes

The puppy of Hooville pees where he must! Two Robins are fighting for the same bush. A man walks his Bulldog, taking it home; Where there, the dog buries a well hidden bone. A lady of genteel living alone, Lives off a trust of well hidden fortune. She hires the young lad to work in […] Continue reading

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The Lady Llorona

~ The Lady Llorona Passes near here – Beware! My Dear Son, The Crocodile Tears! Take “No!” As your answer. Y Tenga Cuidado! Si como se dice – “Watch out for the Lady.” I’ll give you a tale, It’s high-time you knew The Modern Medea, Dark Angel of Hell. I’ve waited to now, But Now’s […] Continue reading

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The Land of Enchantment

~ Once bitten, thence smitten, it’s said, but not written, in the Land of Enchantment, of New Mexico. From Tesuque, a Pueblo, to Mescalero, White Sands, which stands near Alamogordo: The Sunshine State – ‘til as of late; the Land of Enchantment, called New Mexico. Four Corners are calling, the Pecos is sprawling, and the […] Continue reading

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Wildfire

~ A high school reunion where people trade names and stories of glories, enamors, and days of spent youth, by mistruth – The past is all changed. “But, Mary was hot! Is Mary the same?” I play fool’s dominion and give away not, that Mary and I were close in close ways; but, I went […] Continue reading

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The Head of the Monarch

~ Awake! At three o’clock in the morning, I’m trying to get my nights and days straight. There’s six hours difference twixt Paris and Corning; A night-light shines on a watch still not set. This low dose of no doze helps to forget; one hour of regress won’t help it a bit: Today will be […] Continue reading

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This!

Might well be The last song We sing, From now, Unto Winter, And on Into Spring. No one Can tell me What the morrow Will bring; This much Of learning, I’ve learned If nothing. No one Can foresee What tomorrow May mean. No such Comprehending, Or so thus May seem. What comes Here, and after, […] Continue reading

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An Image Also Has Words

~ A squirrel lie unfurled, from end-to-end curled,   near a corner, on the sidewalk, by the street.   My dog stops to smell, but she cannot tell   what chance there befell her, she greets.   The small gray squirrel now gone to the world,   in soul, but body it keeps.   One […] Continue reading

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The Quickening

…. first comes the quickening no longer there an ancient excitement long disappeared ~ day in    day out so many the year forgotten    the wonder that’s flushed from aware ~ too soon it goes lost at the cost of career the myth    of excitement as middle age nears ~ daylight delightment a […] Continue reading

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One More Myth

…. Pass away, Pass away – Into Oblivion. So much for us And a Great Macho Nation. ~ Two boys of eighteen, one some months older, so close in their ages they could have been brothers, but for the customs of a great nation (still great – not late; like those, which came prior.) They […] Continue reading

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that something of nothing

so funny is memory of something not there snippets of moments vignettes of what were the murmur of voices no one will hear to recollect faces none now can wear of those who once were and no longer here so funny the memory of places somewhere of that which once was now no longer there […] Continue reading

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