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Archives — 2010
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2010 — the good, the bad, the active and the
Flowers are fragrant metaphors —
Happy colors sing "Carpe diem!"
Wilting whispers "Memento mori."
TITLE: Seed in the wind
DATE: 2010 Apr 3
Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms
TITLE: Little thriving without roots
DATE: 2010 Mar 8
If winter wrote an autobiography, it would be mostly about the spring.
DATE: 2010 Jan 10
Fear is untrust of the process of life.
DATE: 2010 Apr 18
The last faded autumn leaflet hangs from a frozen branch, just a short fall from the tree to winter.
DATE: 2010 Aug 18
O' pumpkin pie, your time has come 'round again and I am autumnrifically happy!
TITLE: Flaky crust happiness
DATE: 2010 Oct 22
Time doesn't tick
it doesn't tock —
it flows relentless
it is we who chop
its water with our oars
DATE: 2010 Oct 26
Hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other.
DATE: 2010 Dec 30
The veil concealing truth gets windswept in the wee hours, revealing all to the silence of the night.
TITLE: Windblown
DATE: 2010 Jan 13
NOTES: revised
The bones of music are the universal rhythms within us all.
DATE: 2010 Jan 12
I've adjectived up my life so much I forgot how to be simple and plain and quiet.
TITLE: Verb life
DATE: 2010 Apr 8
when I fall into old age
let it be not a drunkenly
face-first tumble but rather
an autumn leaf gracefully
drifting from the tree —
or if we ascend into our
older years please let me
soar and not be flung
TITLE: Serenity & grace
DATE: 2010 Oct 29
NOTES: revised
Poetry is patchwork —
& only the best poets
can hide all the seams.
DATE: 2010 Jan 25
Aside from new babies, new mothers must be the most beautiful creatures on earth.
TITLE: Radiant joy
DATE: 2010 Jan 26
Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful to say, not if it's just spouting fear.
DATE: 2010 Apr 20
Worry is my worst enemy — an enemy I unleash upon myself.
DATE: 2010 Mar 9
Nature grows beautiful new life over old scars.
TITLE: Continuous
DATE: 2010 Apr 21
Life grows beautiful flowers over old scars.
TITLE: Aging gracefully
DATE: 2010 Apr 21
Every day, spread the magical stardust of thankfulness into your life.
DATE: 2010 May 31
Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world!
TITLE: Queen of self
DATE: 2010 Aug 1
Over time, the hurt doesn't hurt — only regret does.
TITLE: Missed
DATE: 2010 Sep 5
Clouds tie-dye the night.
DATE: 2010 Aug 29
Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birdsong and calmness, year's end and day's beginnings.
TITLE: Spectral harmonies
DATE: 2010 Oct 7
There are living days and there are writing days. But you can never have the writing without the living. And if you've got writer's block you'd better go have yourself a day of living to fix it, rather than beat on an idling brain.
DATE: 2010 Apr 25
A fasting belly frees the mind.
TITLE: Clear view
DATE: 2010 Apr 18
An overstuffed belly can speak only of food. A fasting belly speaks of wellness and clarity.
TITLE: To the fullest
DATE: 2010 Apr 18
NOTES: revised
The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.
TITLE: It's your mind
DATE: 2010 Apr 20
Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better.
DATE: 2010 Sep 20
Pumpkin — seedy sunshine in an autumn bowl.
DATE: 2010 Oct 9
one can only see clearly
if one is going slowly —
quick motion creates life-blur
DATE: 2010 Feb 28
NOTES: revised
Asymmetrical kisses,
the sexiest yearning —
one lip on nostalgia, the
other, love yet earning
DATE: 2010 Apr 19
Even if you can't solve your problems now, at least make peace with them. It may be the most important step you take toward solving them.
DATE: 2010 Jan 28
Appreciate comfort. Also appreciate those things that knock us off course enough to realize we should appreciate the comfort.
DATE: 2010 Feb 1
Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to take it a step beyond that.
DATE: 2010 Mar 29
The birds of hope are everywhere — listen to them sing.
DATE: 2010 May 23
I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.
TITLE: Morning balance
DATE: 2010 Feb 3
The clock is running and so am I but in opposite directions.
TITLE: Tailspin
DATE: 2010 May 23
CONTEMPORARY POETRY—
paying at the tollbooth with pretty words
then swimming naked under the bridge
DATE: 2010 Feb 3
Don't let your fears run off with your dreams.
TITLE: July 1st
DATE: 2010 Apr 21
the moon and plum tree
make flow'ry springtime shadows—
lovers of the night
TITLE: Moonlit plum tree
DATE: 2010 Mar 22
Some writers have beautiful poetry inside that explodes from the pen into prose. Others hold their inner prose until it implodes to poetry.
DATE: 2010 Jul 5
The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.
TITLE: Fallen angle
DATE: 2010 Aug 12
Healing is a rumor amongst cells. And good news spreads.
DATE: 2010 Aug 15
Without aligning your energies daily, life clogs.
TITLE: Qigong breath
DATE: 2010 May 27
The sins of others are filthy smelly dung; our own sins have the golden sparkle and aroma of a fine ale.
TITLE: Halo there hypocrisy
DATE: 2010 May 14
God is now serving scoops of orange and raspberry sherbet on the horizon. What a beautiful sunrise!
TITLE: Sweet dawn
DATE: 2010 Aug 20
WRITING.— A week-long business meeting with a single word. Being on a committee with a thick dictionary, thesaurus, red pen, and cup of strong coffee. Arguing with an obstinate piece of punctuation. Bleary-eyed inkstorms at 3am, answering the call of duty whenever inspiration strikes.
TITLE: Blotting paper
DATE: 2010 Jan 24
Ink surrounds me all the time
On my bed sheets, recorded in rhyme
Quills 'ever scribbling in my head
Sometimes damnit I forget what they said.
Ink has settled into my fingerprints
But to keep the words I fear to rinse...
TITLE: Ink well
DATE: 2010 Mar 6
Hope is that lone bloom in the desert when you can see nothing else but sand.
DATE: 2010 Jun 5
On the map of faith, you are here — always right here — because you have to be
DATE: 2010 Oct 17
Writing helps keep me sane — or at least a pen's length from insane.
DATE: 2010 Jul 28
So much to know in this world but sticking to basics is knowing the most of all.
DATE: 2010 Jun 24
Life has left its prints all over me.
TITLE: Thirty seven sins
DATE: 2010 Nov 18
make your poem make sense
in the most beautifully nonsensical way
and use every one of your senses
to write with utterly uncommon sense
as in childhood you used to play
TITLE: How to write a poem
DATE: 2010 Dec 4
The old year cracks under the burdensome weight of twelve heavy months, and the next year emerges fresh and anew from its shell.
DATE: 2010 Dec 27
Passion is purpose—
Success is proof.
DATE: 2010 Dec 29
Action is taking the first step. Action is climbing the hill. Action combined with desire, harmonious intent, and undoubting yesfulness is invincible. Hallelujah!
DATE: 2010 Nov 8
Beautiful rainbows and life water
come from a dark rain cloud —
What gifts can you bring the world
even in your times of darkness?
DATE: 2010 Aug 8
Wine: the corkscrew of poetry.
DATE: 2010 Jul 20
I pull myself out from dreams and the night
through dawn's glowing entrance to morning
TITLE: Out of bed and into morning
DATE: 2010 Apr 2
TITLE: The stars & the heart: a bedtime story
DATE: 2010 May 31
It's all in the mind and a bit in the heart but it goes in the body and that's where all the trouble comes in.
DATE: 2010 Jun 26
Get up off that couch and get active! (talking to myself but if you need to listen too,
SOURCE: tweet
DATE: 2010 Sep 20
Sometimes healing is about not journaling — about living and forgetting that you even have a journal.
TITLE: The healing journal
DATE: 2010 Oct 13
A beautiful chilly autumn evening, signaling the time of year to start
TITLE: tweet
DATE: 2010 Oct 21
Many things make life worth living but near the top of my list is the glow of autumn sunlight.
DATE: 2010 Aug 29
wisp, puff, swirl, glow, shine
float, shade, grow, gray, darken
break, open, release, rain, drench
wander, lighten, disperse, fade
TITLE: End scene
DATE: 2010 Mar 13
Worry chokes off our air supply of living joy.
DATE: 2010 May 25
Be glad for little frustrations. These give you things to be grateful for.
DATE: 2010 Oct 4
When soul breaks, meditation mends.
DATE: 2010 May 26
Life can get very stressful very fast. That's when we know we need to take it slow.
DATE: 2010 Mar 3
Sipping a cup of hot tea is like a mental bubble bath.
DATE: 2010 Apr 18
The simple pleasures are all I need.
DATE: 2010 May 25
Wine makes the world not mine
—Ergo, easier to take,
Disassociate—
I don't always know how to deal
when it feels all mine
warring emotions entwine
Life is ever split betwixt
Lack of control—the mirthful angel
and lack of control—the nettled devil
When it's all too much to take,
Fresh battles, or in-statu-quo—
Breathe in, breathe out, let it go
TITLE: Give & partake
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2010 Dec 31
My inner child took over today. And I feel good. And I am tired.
DATE: 2010 Apr 2
I want to live happy. And when the time comes, I want to die happy.
DATE: 2010 Sep 16
Homemade sourdough french toast and hot cocoa for dinner! Followed by jumping on the bed and sheet forts. Mondays don't have to be all bad
DATE: 2010 Aug 23
If you open your eyes and
it's suddenly all there in front of you —
so clear,
you may wonder
where has it been all along?
Have I been living inside a Paul Simon song
for much too long
and my eyes distorted my soul
or did my soul poetize the vision
and I couldn't see the plain truth
without the benefit of not looking?
TITLE: Cleared up
DATE: 2010 Apr 21
TITLE: Shaken, not sunk
DATE: 2010 Apr 27
NOTES: revised
Time is an old firmly rooted tree; we are the breeze rustling its leaves.
TITLE: Poems That Make No Sense
DATE: 2010 Oct 26
There ought to be a way to combine "autumn" and "morning" into one word — the combination of the two is special enough to be its own entity.
DATE: 2010 Oct 16
The more we're dragged down by stress and society, the more we look low. Try a glass of wine with dinner or unconditional happiness or a long tight hug, and you may find you can and do look upward — to where the blank spaces are, which aren't really so empty. We just don't usually look there.
TITLE: Up!
DATE: 2010 Mar 29
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