How do we react

when asked the impossible

on an hourly basis?

~

When we find ourselves

in such places, they say we

 can fight, flee, or freeze.

We’ve traveled so far

together – I wonder where

we will wander next?

~

Whither we wander

we will wander in wonder;

a wonderful world awaits.

Some may take offense

at all things outside the norm

but does their shock make them right.

~

Culture is maintained

by the norm but advanced by

what lies beyond it.

What beckons you on

these colorful days of Fall –

anything at all?

~

Today, a feather,

flotsam from some passing goose

seized upon my attention.

What if we saw we

were a part of the natural

world and not apart from it?

~

As John Muir once said,

most people are ON the world,

fewer are IN it!

Asleep at the switch

as the Mondo Train goes by

unnoticed by these poets!

~

But we awakened

in time to try our hands at

a belated rhyme.

Which was more surprised,

the cow that jumped or the moon

that got jumped over?

~

Smart money is on

Dish and Spoon’s shocked surprise

as they slog through divorce court!

Is there anything

healing as a full night’s sleep;

or am I just dreaming still?

~

Full night’s sleep retunes

body, mind, and soul and lets

us, for a time, make music.

Why not pause and take

a look at how we fill our

days with empty things?

~

Perhaps emptiness

allows us to refill fresh.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Three crises in less

than twenty-four hours leaves

me speechless. Can you help out?

~

Words fail all of us

sometimes, but as a fellow

poet, I’ll lend some to you.