A simple life

40 Below

By divine design 

we arrived Right on time… 

An open question, not definition

Added complexity? 

The conditional awareness

Masking the ignorance 

and tolerance to pain 

Trial and error, master of the game

Save the arrogance, infection… 

which tends to make those 

so driven to go down in flames 

If persistence were a gift, we score…

Not just with a battering ram

To smash the walls. 

We devote our better selves

A gift to recognize 

recurrent patterns

In the mix of things 

which betray our hopes, 

bring unnecessary p...

Fire starter

We started out runners and climbers

as we tried not to become food for predators 

who found us to be tender, juicy

weak and tasty treats

imagine a home not unlike the flintstones

people being ordinary people

let's cheat a bit, give them a voice

Honey buns What's for dinner?

words when they were imagined, 

born from the need to communicate 

ideas, emotional states, territory lines

state of mind, imaginary traits

ways to trap game to provide meat on the table

those successful where favored

rich meant you were encouraged

to bring to the community more!

clever man... or women got props

Good!

clever woman made th...

Unruled

The snakes are providing 

free apples for all the Eves 

who believe T daddy knows best

And for All the Steves

ICE is recuiting NOW! for

Special military operations

forces to support enforcement

of the cardinal rule

To protect and Swerve 

the balance of power 

back to 1952

So that everybody, 

knows their place

Now including 

a claim of outer space

of a his-storical recordance 

of replays of past centuries

crimes against mankind

Don't mind US stomping a few protesters 

and criminals... in a subliminal test

soon to become anyone who resists 

the 2025 constitution... 

perhaps the blueprint 

for anoth...

Work arounds

Bright,

clean perspective.

Fresh paint

to exercise the art of living,

forgiving myself

for the missed understandings

of off based plans

and lost opportunities

finding bank shots

and rebounds

once the realization hits

wasted time, energy

gets recycled

by each newfound ability

with the discovery

of ways to work around

ways blocked

other means found

breaking the blockade

running for goals

rendering former defeats

into fresh opportunities

C2

Twisted

A single snowflake 

of many

falls in its own 

silent space 

carried by cold 

driving downward

following a twisted path

riding gusts of cold wind

through the forest

as trees moan in chorus

relentlessly crying

making a haunting refrain

moonlight dawning

just in time...

to find a tiny snowflake

at an angle just right

it caught my eye

for no particular reason

but, it did

and so i noticed 

its plight

among millions 

upon millions of others

as if to signify in this brief 

moment of existence

falling into m...

Ash

The ever-falling stardust 

spins ...drifts, 

shimmies, shifts 

sparkling intermittently

reflecting background lights 

of distant stars

each dancing to its own beat

residual effects, moving on

acting upon seemingly random objects

in periodic shifts 

as gravimetric forces realign

Bending light towards a new dimension 

Arriving in a ripple of revolving space-time

As if, Your spirit climbing into mine

As the bubble envelopes us

we now move together

A warming glow lights our capsule

guided by will perhaps

A black hole opening near us

We swan dive into a dream state

flying high overlooking clo...

Traffic jam

honking horns

won't work this time

everybody knows what's up

no fast way out

scream and shout ...

all you want

it won't help

never did, 

never has, 

never will

jump up and down 

act the clown

nothing to do, but...

simmer down

slow your roll

change to a cool jazz station

let go of the moment

blow a kiss 

and let t go

C2 

The idea

The idea

Of flying through space

sounds cool

Till it occurs to you…

while you’re away

There may not be

a world

to come home to

In God We Trust.

Whose? What!

Let the archeologists debate

Leaving mankind to its fate’’’

Unless love conquers hate,

then we’re done

C2

Country politics

Politics as usual

politics and parlor tricks

Gerrymandered and grand standing

back and forth insults

constituents charged the dime

every time delivering a cut

to waiting special interest groups

feeding frenzy of madness, 

with budget cuts to the poor and needy

more pork for the greedy

subjective, objective

predispositions, stated case

relevance, common sense

personal opinions over facts

now devolved to slander 

outright lies and personal attacks

hold on! let's give every dog a bone

lets take this all in stride...

take a recess from this mess

get this good food on this table blessed

i want to engage ...

Beat your drum

Veterans drum circle feed uncommon truths 

sometimes differences of immaterial matters

built upon shades of experience

of individual inflection points, 

perspectives of views not making the news

expressions of common connections

which provide hidden gifts of lessons learned

smashing myths of bridges burned

as revelations carry characteristics of change

to people who never learned

each a point on the graph of potential

inputs to the equation which represnt invasion

judicial merit, incarceration, false humility

taxation of privledge, unchecked rage and hostility

from the underlying principle of freedom

each of us... are mirror images

and won't stop changing

who and what we ...