A cool gentle breeze

may be all I desire;

I get hurricane warnings.

~

When the new normal

is hurricanes, a gentle

breeze seems too much to hope for.

I hope the gently

falling rain will wash away

the cares of the day.

~

Falling water

may wash pollen from the air,

but can not resolve all cares.

Traveling up north,

I find Cicadas galore,

risen from millions of holes!

~

Though their journey took

much longer than yours, they stayed

the course, arrived with a song.

I pick up a pen,

make a mark on the paper,

create a wordless poem.

~

Why bother with pens,

or paper for that matter,

since we write with electrons?

Sometimes it may seem

the world is conspiring

to keep you under its thumb.

~

Laughter can loosen

the world’s hold and refresh our

worrisome, world weary hearts.

In that time after

the sharp bite of blaming words,

let’s practice self care.

~

So that we may be

better able to curtail

our acerbic impulses.

Tonight two poets

collaborated to craft

an insurance document…

~

When there’s more reason

than rhyme, poets go into

a sullen decline.

Let’s not focus so

much on the weeds that we fail

to see the flowers.

~

What some may call weeds

are, in truth, simply flowers

which refuse to stay in beds.

How do you confront

paranoid conspiracies

in the unreasonable?

~

If you want to give

the impossible a try,

begin with understanding.

Three car accidents

in our family in one week!

Makes one wonder what is up.

~

Call it bad Karma

or kismet, fate, or bad luck,

it’s certainly worth a miss!

So grateful to have

your calm presence after my

scary encounter with spin.

~

Cultivating grace

in the maelstrom of chaos

is a means of survival.

Slim moony sliver

racing the Sun and Venus

into the western gloaming.

~

There is much action

in the evening sky if we‘d

only take the time to look.

After a hard day

the setting sun can provide

a much needed soft closing.

~

Soft evening breezes

that accompany sunset

ease hard working muscle aches.

Time for Adulting.

Come, my son, to IKEA.

Let us purchase you a dresser.

~.

It’s so amazing

to discover these basic

ways of maintaining order.

It is more common

to search than to allow what

we’re looking for to find us.

~

Seems most commonly

that things looking to find us

are not things we’re searching for.

The slow drizzling rain

at day’s end can not dampen

the day’s earlier pleasure.

~

It can’t interfere

with my evening’s planned pleasure

since it will take place indoors.

Hurry up and wait

seems to summarize my life!

Glad I don’t bore easily.

~

Not by design, but

a balance is struck without

you even trying.

Rain drops glisten on

Juniper berries as sun

begins to smile.

~

And after sunset,

moistened Juniper berries

refresh deer, fox, and rabbit.

Mood is directly

proportional to wellness.

This vaccine degrades them both.

~

A short term loss, but

a long term gain – surely worth

temporary discomfort.

In our culture we

tend to emphasize speed, but

slowing down is what we need.

~

There’s no need for speed.

Unless you’re in a hurry

to become a feast for worms.

Sometimes when we try

to protect somebody else,

we do them a disservice.

~

Discernment is key,

and that often means giving

yourself some time to reflect.

Toward day’s end, the light

of the sun played on the pond

and trees, bringing much delight.

~

Those playful sunbeams,

illuminating the depths,

turn caracoles with sunfish.

Though interested in

the scampering squirrel, my dog

found poop more to his liking.

~

Trying though he might,

he’s finding it challenging

to roll around in the squirrel.

Whatever spring brings,

it brings it with a vengeance

born of winter’s containment.

~

After being trapped

in Winter’s gray and white, Spring

leaps forth in great bursts of green.

Fretting and Fuming

does get us somewhere, but it’s

seldom where we want to go.

~

Those old Zen masters

seemed to have the right of it;

“Let go… or be dragged along.”

There is no good time,

twenty, fifty, or ninety,

to lose a beloved friend.

~

But there was a good

time to form great memories

together and that we did.

Let’s take advantage

of these warm, sun-lit Spring days

and soak ourselves in beauty.

~

Beauty provides warmth

and a glow all of its own

regardless of the weather.