I'm Baaaaack!

Ack! What ever made me think I (or my life) was interesting enough to do a blog??? Big mistake! And, I've been away for so long I forgot my password, and how to get in here!

Haiku

Adventure over;
Prodigal child, head hung low,
I make my way back

Ok, I haven't written here in ages. Guilt. Lashings with wet noodles.
Now...out in the real world, the biggest thing happening in my life, I guess, is that Kate, my beautiful daughter, is in Mexico for the summer. She is learning that she still has a lot to learn about understanding the Spanish language, and is taking classes there for the next 9 weeks.
The other biggest thing is that Mike, my amazing son, graduated. From college. No, I'm not really that old. Yes, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. And...yes, he will be moving back home. At least for a little while.
So, here is a sonnet that has nothing to do with any of that :o)


Light and Shadow

The sun comes out and beams his smile at me
And I return his grin in Cheshire style
The light shines down on everything I see
Exposing every detail without guile
And while I know this lovely light to be
Beneficent, I am not in denial
The lovely silver moon’s what I prefer.
The softer sister who inhabits night
Who’s lesser light is striking, yet demure
She lets the shadows coexist with light,
Yet keeps her place among the stars secure.
Together light and shadow make the whole
Just like confused impulses of my soul.

November poems in May O.o

Well, it's a beautiful May day; warm, sunny. Things are starting to bloom. I have been digging in the garden, planting flowers. I used sun glasses and sunscreen. So, what am I inspired to write about?
This:

November Inside and Out

Because the skies are steely-cold and bare
I hunch my shoulders, hug myself, and sigh.
November's underside can bring despair
When muted greys form land and lake and sky.
The geese forsake this damp and dreary place
They're harbingers of darker times ahead.
In honking tatters, flapping out through space
As wistfully, I watch and lose my thread
Of thought. I drag my eyes back to the page
Where half-formed words and longings hide from me,
Not yet mature, but in a dormant stage
My mind, my words reflecting all I see.
This is the season to prepare the ground
So later buried treasures may be found

(Now with this one, I'm not quite happy with the phrase 'not yet mature' because if I am comparing my thoughts to things in November that doesn't fit. In November the natural world is decaying and dying, coming to the end of it's cycle rather than immature. So...that's something to think about. I'm pretty happy with the rest of it though, I even have a line break in the middle of the part about losing the thread of my thought.)

And here's another:

Untitled

Observe-
How lovely the leaves
As they die
Brilliant reds and yellows
Nature takes a lavish curtain call
But lest we forget,
The show is not for us,
Though by grace
We are allowed to watch
Anyway

Yup, that's a pretty good example of my logical thought process
(or lack thereof).

BP Traveling Show

So, it’s been so long since I wrote anything here that I forgot my password. As I jumped through the hoops to enable a new password (I have obviously done something wrong, as it has taken 47 minutes at this point) I have gone from impatience to anger to frustration to irony. Oh well.
Now, I don’t generally do political/current event commentary poems, but with the recent British Petroleum oil spill I make an exception. I have been through a string of emotions from surprise to impatience to anger to disbelief to anger to more disbelief. But I’ll spare you the ranting, and leave this little comparison that recently popped to mind.

BP Traveling Show

Do a little dance
Some fancy foot work
Tip your hat
Twirl around
Watch closely everyone…
Nothing up my sleeve –
Now you see it,
Now you don’t
And now for the old soft shoe,
As the band plays on…
Exit, stage right.

Shadows Fall

Um....I have been away from this so long I forgot my password! So, vacation, computer in the shop (for 12 DAYS!!!), um...the dog ate my homework.... Ok, so much for the litany of excuses. Anyway, here is a happy little piece (not really):

Shadows Fall

Shadows fall
Across my path,
Sharp spring winds
Remind me of winter's bite,
And the sky remains hidden
Behind grey clouds.
The threat is there
But I weep alone

Old Stuff

So, here it is mid-March, which is not to be confused with Middlemarch - a rather formidable read at least for me). So, I feel compelled to say Beware the Ides of March! But not compelled to say, or write, much else. For that reason I'm going to post a poem about March that I wrote a couple years ago and still like.


March teases us with glimpses of spring,
Toying with our affections;
One day all sunshine and smiles
The next, throwing a snowy snit.
Or she can be mysterious,
Shrouding herself in fog.
Buds and grasses green
At times, in spite of her.

We see the sins winter has hidden
Now laid bare before us:
November's leavings,
With the flotsam and jetsam
Of our own humanity
The first flies buzz, sun-drunk
Reminding us there are advantages
To the dead time.

The frozen ground softens;
A few brave Snowdrops
Shoulder their way through the ground.
Resurrection is hard work.

Secrets

I have been thinking about secrets lately. The good and the bad of them. And when does a secret change from some lovely, hidden gem into poison? For it seems they become radioactive... Now it brings to mind a foreign bit trapped deep under the skin, that causes infection. The area grows sore to the touch, full of puss. Then finally it bursts, and only after it has been thoroughly cleaned out and open to the air and sunlight, does healing begin.
But of course, there are lovely secrets too...precious little things that make us feel special or confident or loved. And then too, there is the fall-out after a secret has been told....
Well, here is a first little poem about secrets.

Secret Keeper

Secret keeper
Secret maker
Secret giver
Secret taker
Who do you tell your secrets to?
Do you drop a hint, leave a clue?
Is your silence golden?
Or are you beholdin’
to someone you’ve shared with
someone you’ve cared with
someone who’s helped to ease you mind
someone who's understanding and kind,
for what we all seem to want
is a true and trusted confidante
but I thought the keeper of your secret key
was a job you would entrust to me