Monkey Business

Just look into the eyes of a monkey and tell me you don’t see yourself (or someone you know). Their expressions, their use of their hands and fingers. They are amazingly similar to our own behaviors.
They take care of their young, respect their elders, protect what rightfully belongs to them…again, just like we do.
I do [...]

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Reservations

The frost has hit and taken hold
Outside the air is biting cold
The cat now spends his days beside the fire
The dry logs crackle as they burn
The days grow short and I in turn
Confront my own desire to retire.

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Old Farts

Three old farts
Sit idly by
Waiting and wishing
For pie in the sky
One  hiding his head
In a moment of dread
As three old farts
In the wind pass him by.

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Great Escape

She’s found a place where she can hide
And when she’s scared she crawls inside
In there she can escape reality
She goes there often on her own
To think or cry or be alone
Where no one can malign her misery.
She tried to hide within the room
But seekers flocked to fix her gloom
They’d find her under table, desk or [...]

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Transition

Crickets hum a solemn hymn
Weakening with each day
Frost now slowly creeping in
Transforming green to gray
Soon the mighty wind will howl
And fragile hearts will stray
A blinding white, one fateful night
As winter has its way.

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Generation Gap

I tried to tell Mama
I voted Obama
she shuddered
to think such a thought.
To the old, change is trauma
but I’m proud to say, Mama
I don’t practice some things
I was taught.

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Connections

I’d like to link to a message from Bob Hazelton of Average Poet. His poem “Legacy” was written for his Mom who died tragically in a fire last week. Even in his moments of grief he has left a most valuable message for the rest of us. Bob is a fellow poet, a staff [...]

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