Do I have a start?

Now that’s a burning question

without a pressing answer.

~

You might be burned out

from listening to all Trump’s

starts and stops and non answers .

Are you listening?

Do you hear the trill of birds,

the sweet whisper of your breath?

~

As long as breathing

lacks the rattle of rhonchi

or crackle of rales; good!

Maintaining distance

while assisting someone’s move:

an exercise in folly!

~

 Necessity is

the mother of invention.

Folly paves the way.

Why are we given

answers to questions we don’t

ask and none to those we do?

~

One way to tell us

what they prefer us to think

is to give us those answers.

Days in close quarters,

surrounded by those we love,

is enough to drive us mad.

~

A little bit of

wine, whiskey, or beer can help

the togetherness go down.

When we’re buried in

have to’s and must do’s, we are

actually buried alive.

~

When one is buried

beneath an endless task list

it is hard to see the light.

That turtle – is he

any clearer about his

destination than are we?

~

He’s clear he’s lucky.

Wherever he is going

he can go and still stay home!

How can one distill

a lifetime’s experience

down to one meaningful page?

~

One sentence might do:

“I learned not to waste my time

frequenting distilleries.”

Writing poetry

can open the closed window

of my fearful mind.

~

Perhaps the closed mind

was to keep something hidden

from the blinding light of day?

Starting seeds indoors

lacks the smell of the soil

heated by the mid-day sun.

~

Soon the seeds will sprout

and in no time you’ll both be

sweating in the sun.

On April Fool’s Day

we honor the huge genius

whose initials are D.T.

~

Some fools are too huge,

at least within their own mind,

to be praised for just one day.

Why could this virus

not make some people turn mute?

That is one I’d gladly spread!

~

Would that those spreading

the virus of blame, shame and

misinformation went mute. 

“If you can’t be kind,

be quiet” If we took this

to heart, you’d hear a pin drop.

~

If a pin is dropped,

but no one’s there to hear it,

does it make a sound?

Must we all endure

some great terrible crisis

to learn what is important?

~

To focus on the

shortage of toilet paper

or not becomes the question.

In line, on line or

out of line, we are all still

strangely connected.

~

 People will connect

any way they can work out

being social animals.