Today my one year old granddaughter
stood outside
looking outward
blue sky green trees
pointing upward
contemplating
“tee”
pointing again
“tee”
wide eyes
finger pointing
“tee”
and I know
she is saying
tree
“tree” I say
“tree”
“tee”
Month: March 2024
Goin to the Beach
What is your favorite type of weather?
Goin’ to the beach weather
cold and windy I bundle up
with layers under my down vest
wool cap on my head
mittens
and when it’s hot
I strip down
bare legs
get feet wet
lay in the sand
goin’ to the beach weather
in all kinds of weather
From Washington to Florida
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?
So many ways to go
from Washington to Florida
driving and camping
Interstates 10 or 20
Cochise Stronghold to San Antonio
or on the Freedom Trail
40 and 70
standing on the corner in Winslow Arizona
see the Grand Canyon
or smell the bourbon in Kentucky
80 or 90
side trip to Yellowstone
Black Hills and the Badlands
or through Wyoming and Nebraska
pronghorn sheep and flatland
América the Beautiful
van life
Barbie Movie
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?
I watched it with my husband
I watched it with my friends
I watched it with my daughter
I watched it until the end
I watched it when it was streaming
now I’m watching it again
So glad that Barbie got at least one Oscar.
I thought she had a chance at adapted screenplay and best supporting actor or production design. What other actor could have played Ken besides Ryan Gosling? I so wanted him to win.
Travel Plans
Where would you go on a shopping spree?
I’d pack my bag and go to the airport
take a ride on Air Portugal
(the stewards are very handsome)
and when I land in Lisbon
I’d get me a car
to drive to the Algarve
straight to Benagil Beach
(the lifeguards are very handsome)
where I’d buy me a house
and stay for awhile
that’s why I practice my Portuguese
He Asked Why
Por que otra vez la Primavera ofrece sus vestidos verdes? Pablo Neruda
He asks why
after winter time
stripped bare again
this precocious Spring
pregnancy which offers
even adorns more of her
abundant frock made green
natures perfect dresses
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dVerse prompt to take a Neruda question with a choice of free verse echoing in English of my own translation of Neruda’s question. Ignore the poem in Portuguese—- cannot figure out how to delete it
dVerse prompt to take a Neruda question with a choice of free verse echoing in English of my own translation of Neruda’s question.
Death by Axe
Time travel me back
to that great lecture hall
where Professor Knox
(fresh out of Germany)
stood at the pulpit of knowledge
(I still have the notes)
taught of the Russian revolutions
(I studied Trotsky)
Trotsky exiled many times
teamed with Lenin
foe to Stalin
murdered with an ice axe
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dVerse prompt on being “young and green” so remembering some college days
Waking from a Dream
I wake from slumber
lids heavy
eyes blurred
close them again
come back joyous dream
tell me another poem
fill my void with words
written in the mind’s eye
careless remembrance
is all that remains
bring it back
let me put it together again
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille and use the word slumber
Leaping
hoping he’ll say yes
I ask my husband again
will you marry me
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2024 Leap Year haiku
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