view2022/9/11 #poetry
When you can get a good rhythm going as you trot down the stairs, it really can be quite enjoyable. I hope I don't miss that sort of pleasure too often from being focused on other things. It can be so easy to let the whole world go just a bit out of focus as you rush from this to that, thinking mostly about that and not enough about this.
Focusing on focusing on the right things doesn't work out too well most of the time. The art is about learning to only focus when necessary and be loose when it isn't.
Highly related to some of the best advice ever:
Don't try too hard.
view2022/9/10 #poetry
How ironic it is that when I do work on something that I needed to do
and I work really hard and see it all the way through
spending practically the whole day too
I get no satisfaction
view2022/9/9 #poetry
Me and this virus
along with all the other tiny symbiotes
and various taggers along
are in it together
we all got to get on
whatever is making me sick
is hard to differentiate from the rest of me
I'm all this and more
so what is the remedy?
can it serve us as a group?
as an individual?
does being sick move your life in specific ways
does it change your decisions?
can we find our path
better with this instability?
view2022/9/8 #poetry
What cries louder
the belly or the skin
do I want food
or a shelter to be in
Having both, as you know
is the choice most would make
but when you have to decide
which one would you take
Depends on the climate
your health and the weather
if the outdoors is pleasant
a meal might be better
If there's hail and snow
and you recently ate
you might be more likely
to choose to hibernate
If you find your decisions
have this deep of consequence
you won't need any advice
you won't be on the fence
view2022/9/7 #poetry
Sometimes you have to dream
of something totally new
If what you've been doing isn't working anymore
it might be good for you
Expectations can get broken
there's only so long you can hold on
a big shift can be in order
to find yourself a new dawn
view2022/9/6 #poetry
Orange sun
dropping low
how it makes
the world seem warm
a short and welcome
time to engage
with the world
as a part of it
view2022/9/5 #poetry
Oh, how nice it would be to be organized
to have everything in its place
I would know where to get things when needed
and have better use of my space
If only it was as easy
as keeping things put away
if all the spots were preordained
for where everything needed to stay
It's really simple to keep
a habit once it has been made
but getting from one to another
is harder than tough I'm afraid
I'll follow a good example
they're out there I do know
I only need persistence
and my skill will slowly grow
view2022/9/4 #poetry
'What a perfect day he said'
with his truncated grin
'we're alive and that's what counts'
I wasn't buying in
I hadn't had the best time
during the week before
some pleasantries from a stranger
wouldn't warm my core
I smiled and conceded
there was only so much time
before the light turned green and
he would leave me far behind
I appreciate his effort
to share his jolly air
often that is all someone needs
to feel just a little care
I'm not in such a snit
that that will work on me
I'd rather just be with it
for an hour or two or three
view2022/9/3 #poetry
I want people to look at me
Give me attention
Give me money
Watch my channel
subscribe subscribe
If you aren't doing that
you shouldn't be alive
Tell your friends
make them watch me too
make sure to like
it's the right thing to do
comment and quote
because, you know
people won't like you
unless you reference my show
Stay in touch!
Just don't expect me to respond
what I'm trying to establish
is a one way bond
view2022/9/2 #poetry
I would like to help
but you're just an idea
a story of something far away
I don't have the means to change it
I'm not the writer of your play
The written account
of the struggle you face
could be fiction
and it might be true
it may have happened long ago
or it could still be a present issue
if you are or aren't
a character in a book
bears not on what I may actually change
all I have is this written account
assistance is not within my power to arrange