June Poem and Photo

WAVES   How perfect are the ocean waves curling piece by piece in continuum lucent green to frothy white   How imperfect are the ocean waves tumbling in soapy chaos over themselves racing one to one in playful abandonment to the waiting shore   Never disturbed by the...

April Poem and Photo

BLENDED ART     When music and art blend there is a lifting of the soul to heights unsurpassed   the eyes are the portals to the mind the ears are the portals to the heart bringing an explosion of feeling   together one’s whole self is transported to a state of bliss...

March Poem and Photo

HELPING   There is little I can do a small quiet person in a great universe to help with the inequities of life   but I can help a tree a tiny soft green tree starting life   I can cut away the briars I can discourage encroaching growth I can trim over-hanging...

February Poem and Photo

ANTIQUITIES   Antiquities inspire us to imagine worlds in the past with folks like us   toiling on a mountainside pausing to wipe sweat from the brow to absorb the grandeur of the mountains   pausing for a hunk of bread or a chunk of cheese   not considering the world...

January Poem and Photo

IN DEFENSE OF SEASONS   The thought of warm sunny days year long is alluring   but what would I do when I wake one day tiring of summer sun beating on my head I’m dreaming of cool crisp mornings of colored leaves swirling chrysanthemums waving their feather heads  ...

December Poem and Photo

THIS CHRISTMAS   One Christmastime many years ago a child was born a present the beginning of a family   the beginning of many years of laughter of song nights of celebration and togetherness   Christine is gone now but she is with us always in spirit...