Monthly Archives: December 2011

Two chairs matched,  married trashed teak treasures waiting to be graced Two chairs Honey!  look what I found! my beauty, my wife she smiles Two chairs in nestling proximity to smiling blooms witnesses to laughter,  joy,  tears Two chairs jauntily askew,  quietly … Continue reading →

I peer through my window Thrown back in time Currier & Ives New York Carriages and snow High hats, prancing black steeds Holiday magic, silvered,  blue Wrapping hearts In red flannel Crowning our thoughts With tiaras of diamond frost Abide … Continue reading →

Midnight, and the clock’s patient face watches my weary pace saving alarm for dawn The hour of One in the dark Time giving morning a spark to open a door or slam it shut to think a plan – only … Continue reading →

You are the sun-dappled tree path I am the joyful walk Blush bougainvillea spilling from above petaled, bee-loved gifted, through a gentle breeze I hear notes unheard on the lute never sounded by birdsong you are my soul’s troubadour The … Continue reading →

Facile to be clever   emulate a Parker, mimic a Benchley But where are the words   that light up the dark? To entertain, to amuse   is that the shallow goal? Cleverness, plentiful gush like    Texas oil and fists of … Continue reading →

Oh, but she’s so sincere!    Sincere…a shifting shadowy word      over-used, lost in meaning         like Nice and Cute A sincere person?   free of deceit, falseness, pretense     even the Olympians were guility of insincerity        and why is Diogenes … Continue reading →

This time it’s a rather large box   with very shiny black paper    Black? A fat lipstick red ribbon    tied the usual way    with a perfect bow It begs to be unwrapped     she doesn’t see a card … Continue reading →

Too much to drink   she drops the tumbler   shattered shards   crystal dreams    Silly sailing paper umbrella     thinks it shelters glass and puddle She sees through      gin-soaked memory banks Cabbage patch doll, lava lamp      one in the attic      … Continue reading →