Royal Wedding

In the old Westminster Abbey
(from 1050 and finished 500 years later)
a glorious wedding took place
reminding the world's romantics
of another ill-fated couple
- the escapists felt redeemed.

(An aside, you wonder what
the groom's father felt, if anything).

The trees Eight 20-foot high trees,
six English Field Maple and two Hornbeam
adorned the vast space - ecologically sound.

The world stopped for a day
to dream away from wars, famines,
fights for freedom to hope
for better future to come
a young couple symbolizing
a union of well-suited individuals.

The fanfare, the hoopla
it was all for the world
to enjoy - what more could
we commoners want except
"to eat - ahem - the cake".

Poetry readings

I write poetry
I read poetry
a l o n e
I do not attend
poetry readings
a m i d s t
a crowd
simply because
I do not relate
to recitings.

I cannot hear
the words properly
unless read by
a well-modulated
actor male or female.
Therefore, today
I left a place
in which I should
have been - but
as I get older
and more rebellious
I do less shoulds.

This is the irony.

Choice of act

Sometimes you need
to know to just be
quietly at your named spot
and walk away when
non-acting is important.
At other times you need
to know to just be
vividly with flailing arms
and be right there when
that act is important.
The conundrum is for
anybody to select
that right choice
when your kids need what!
It can be so difficult!

The I-dears!

Interesting interludes
involve individuals
in intermittent incertitudes
of inquisitive - investigative
interchanges of informations,
interspersed with indulgences
of irony and imitations
only to be improved
by ingenious interjections!

Games

We played a game last night
an edition of Trivia whatever
it is remarkable how much
and how little we know
We think we remember
and then sometimes we do not
the trivia we fill our brains with
shall be gone when we go
so as a bleep on the firmament
were five people trying to recall
this and that - what does it matter?
Yes, it does, because we spent
an eve in good company.

Going back

Going back to old places
can be joyful or painful
this dualism is there.
Do you look to remember
good times or difficult eras
of your own personal sphere?
If you are a romantic
then you go back no matter what
if you are a realist
you probably go back because
you forgot the place
if you are a pessimist
you torture yourself a lot.
Going back is all in the view, right?

Springy haiku

Hello Spring - jumping
out vigorously at me
you will stay, won't you?

Unbiased Opinionator

I love words
urban dictionary's
supplies unlimited
But I regret
for that matter
that I am not
as young as ever
because of the
ever evolving
evolution of
the English language.
Yes, I know we
are losing spoken
brogues and glottogonic
roots every day
but we are gaining
millions of new terms
bigoted - mostly
from Tweets, the Net.
That is why I
I declare that
with the NYT
I am an unbiased
opinionator
where language
is concerned.
Play and praise
stay and decay.

Over and over and over again

A strange interlude
in an airport -
a young kid of barely 20
was describing how
in Pittsburgh of all places
she got picked up
by a photographer
jump starting her career.
She was in awe of
his positions - his house
his manners in which
she got accustomed.
From the gossip on the Net
it does now tell me
the more sordid details
of the affair.
She regrets it....
Alas, when the world is
gone - then humans will learn.

Mensendieck

A system for women
designed by a woman
a long while ago
an American
in Europe - where
she designed her
posture system -
my mother taught
me about this
I have had a course
in this eons ago
and yet - I think
I need it again.

To Bess Mensendieck
and To Pat for reminding me.

What Democracy?

200 years for a run
of an idea is a lifetime plus
in Greece it lasted
only about 20 years
then 2000 years later
the idea was revisited
and now ?

Cook's dilemma

Invitees - I duly reflect
How to cook the lamb - a roast?
The cook's dilemma is a fake
conundrum - a sad boast.
Should I it baste and bake
or cut it to pieces sizzling
for the life sacrificed
diced, sliced and spiced?
The quandary: a give and take:
all omnivores are Quislings!
Thank the beast - give it due respect.

(Poet not too happy about the
cooking - of this poem)

And so it goes!

The man fizzles out
thereby just providing
no sex to his spouse
thinking that his presence
is more than enough!

Lady of the house finds
a willing Peter Pan
who dips too readily
into other females too.

Fine - if the lady does not
fall for her youthful lover.

The fait accompli discovered
and the hubby angry and hurt.

The female - resentfully sad
misses her lover - and
fights for her right to anger
cause her needs like Nora's
were not met - and so it goes.

Ein dunkler April

Was ist mit meiner Seele?
Das Regen hat mir genommen
im Brust und wird mir kwetschen.
Leider ist es Fruhling
aber ein dunkler April.

Phallological Museum

A phallus can be great plaything
both for the owner and its borrower.
The prick is powerful and sweet,
but at times turns angry - agitated.
Then it taunts - it commands - rapes.
In Iceland - with whales and other
animals' penises - in formaldehyde
the museum includes a human penis!

Would the next treasure house be
a vulva vault to exhibit the deed
of cut out labia, clitoris, vagina
to the world - circumcision of women,
mutilation of the young females only
to be used for pleasure of the males?
Somehow this worries a waning Voelva!

Dedication

Tenor Juan Flores's feat
on this Saturday past
defined work dedication,
he aided with the birth
of his son and 35 minutes
after stood on the stage
for the world to enjoy
a funny operatic romp.
The only words are:
Bravo Divo Diego!

Rainbow room

Red - our love
deeply satisfying - gloriously humorous
Orange - our life
together in harmonious balance - sometimes
Yellow - our equinox
a daffodil in bloom every year
Green - our hope
for a full life - aging with dignity
Blue - our sea
of where we bubble up and down
Indigo - our satedness
fun fixing fabulous food
Violet - our differences
vive them and not others
Together a rainbow with room for growth.

A Conference

I attended a professional conference
and my impressions of it are raw
most presenters embraced their importance
but their topics were my draw.
One only read from his PowerPoint
the keynote was too early - too much
the only talk that stood out and was good
were two guys linking poverty - a touch -
of reality into my cocooned day.
A sad comment on issues of health
reforms and Congress inability to grasp
that poverty in-utero condemns cells
to limitations in body and soul forever
depriving them of growth and nurture -
so anyone with an understanding hearth
would get that paucity is brain torture.

Lunch haiku

Late lunch at the lake
a lull in cold weather
sunny warm mealtime.

Paris me manque

Il y avait longtemps
un age immense
perdu dans les nuages
ou je me promenais
chaque jour a Paris
mon voyage en bus
me montrait a vif
tous les monuments.
Ma vie diurnale
et les secondes noctunes
etait comme une peinture
impressioniste - surrealiste.
J'en reve encore
pas - de ma jeunesse perdue
mais de revisiter
la folie et la vivacite.

Comparisons?

New dishwasher and new refrigerator
not due to rebuilding the interior
but simply one had sprung a leak
one left powder - on the whole - antiques
two tools performed not to their best!
Not so with living people or pets.
Some of us even get better with age
like wine, whiskey in barrels or ale.
Compare a kitchen gizmo with a soul?
In a home - the cook has a big role,
so deprive the chef of his/her gadget
a storm in the hearth will you beget.
Therefore, peace in the home depends
upon sex, food, laughter - the end.

Thoughts upon getting a new refrigerator and dishwasher

A fool's fool

Today again is April 1st
and silly things appears
the family's dog morn trip
in fast and funny figures
described by the walker
look out the window -
nothing materializes
so ancient a tradition
often banned by the church.
Being sad and thrown down
you often need laughter
to bring foolish release
although satire and bitterness
bites terribly - cum bullying.
Joyful bantering without hurt
should be about on this day.
Alas, the weather has decided
this year to take a day off.
So the elephant in the yard
is nothing but gray.