Friday, August 04, 2023

The scents of grandkids

No 1 Christian Clive
A first grandson in family!

No.2 Rosendo Mateu
a redhead sired son

Crepuscule Ardent no 3
a Valkyrie worthy woman

No 4 Apres L'amour 
grandson grandly hello

Chanel no 5
a sure smell of woman

Lucky No 6 came along
modern male scent


Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The ears have it ---not

Ear test old lady
yes you have got 
a hearing loss -
moderate to medium

Yes, you can get
hearing aids - fancy
3000 tp 5000 dollars
yeah absolutely not

So another possibility
with a company for all
made an appointment 
much better priced

The lady doc was fab
did everything she could
but the apparati were
too loud too screechy

one ear canal bent
has a strange config
alas not fit hearing aid
mayhap a trumpet?


Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Into the air

A dead friend's memorial service folder
looks at me -daring to remember
a less complicated time
of friendship and a love of youth
of writing every day long hand
without any fear of saying the wrong note
except of course - no to marriage
We stayed in touch and I met him
again just before he died -
a treasure found on a Tuesday morning
a memory 
a bubble
into the air


Wednesday, May 03, 2023

spring haiku

Windy weary splots
on the window's tainted glass
deer eating a bud 

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Retired tired

A life of work
a work of life
seeking advice
advice in seeking

Ah the chiasmus
of life and work
writing about it
a retiree retires

work life is over
overly sad - not
just tired even ired
what I could've

But didn't - alas
the eyes over 
the dot are sprinkles
with attrition 

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Education and learning

Education and learning
a chasm of viewpoint
one from up - down
one from down -up
can they ever match?

One is offering a view
one is taking that point
and changing it around
a generational shift
happens whether or not

Building blocks offered
Legos taken and clipped
the globe turns and churns
the humanity tries to cope
it is all economics

 

Saturday, March 04, 2023

Dr. E- Major

Music evidently was your  soul
every note was a person 
you touched
Fly phenomenally on Bragi's
wings helped by Apollo
and scaled to an E-major
your time was limited but
your influence eternal
in the sense that an individual
you reached - their genes
will sound with chords
of what you generously 
with humoresque sang 


Friday, March 03, 2023

Predicting disaster

root fingers grab the soil
fingers spread widely
mostly to one side

root rots after years
poking the asphalt
one day alas


Saturday, February 25, 2023

Burning coals

Must I still have yearnings
for sex and being held tightly
and live this sexless existence?

Boiling with anger and dismay
just for the lack of infinite grasp
of partner's soulless assumption

that his needs or lack there of
is somehow okay and therefore
I should accept and close off

my body's hot and simple desire
on a cold afternoon in winter
wishing it summer somewhere else



Thursday, February 23, 2023

Chatbot

Never will I rhyme again
due to chat - and but
It is too close to 
what we poets contrive to say
and yet - up against 
the machines we created
the mind must be stronger

- otherwise humanity will 
lose its face - in truth
we already lost 
but I still refuse to concede
bringing hope to the streets!

Friday, February 03, 2023

Mixed up

 A trip to a valley
somewhere I have been before
pleasant views - sunny dispositions

Alas I know not
where I wandered in a daze
disastrous mellifluous - darkness

Just due to dreams
never fulfilled - shot down 
I did not find my nightmare

Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Return to a setting

Return to "normalcy" 
lacking cranberry
on a trip 
Return to a nightmare
peeing every 30 minutes
on a journey
Return to idiocy
having forgotten
on a voyage
Return to reproach
not foreseeing
my passage


Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Feeble brain

Combattive preventative initiative 
trying hard to eliminate muss
from brain's overload of visual fog
bombarded with ads and fads
no rest for a searching soul
scared of losing marbles and more
but daily give up on modernity's
names and music and artsy fartsy
not retaining any novelty's name
the temporal lobe answers to its name
temporarily out to lunch -
hopefully a good and fun one
with a glass half full - the other part
should be subdued vehemently




Sunday, December 11, 2022

Eleanor revisited

Humbled again by lack of knowledge 
By the vastness of the universe
Personal or objective
Forgetting myself and my idea
Of leaving behind something 
Tangible or transcendental 
Children and a poet’s stab
How can my humble ideas
Be compared to a mountain ?
The only one one must
Compare to is oneself 
On better days or younger 
The rest is futile 
But one could aspire
And be inspired.

On reading Eleanor
By David Michaelis


Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Un moment de la follie

Les fleurs du mal - les fleurons du bon
moi une cavale -je crains le ton
du monde entier -avec des épines
de l'églantier - liberté clandestine
sans qu'on le sache - ah - la vache.



Monday, November 28, 2022

Les poids

Les poids du monde entier
parlent du chagrin eternel
de la condition humaine
et les miens sont superflus
mais pour moi - cela ne va pas
que je gagne du poids 
chaque fois je suis ici
C'était lourd cet  automne
et on n'a pas encore fini
- l'hiver viendra -
sans que je puisse rien faire
de tourner mes pensées
envers le nouvel an 
l'espoir léger et coloré. 


Thursday, November 17, 2022

Le chagrin comptable

Mon lecteur est mort il y a quelques jours
pas des mots de circonscription possibles
seulement le chagrin le lenteur la perte
Mais surtout le temps soulage mes pensées
violentes et tristes

Mon ami est parti il y a un mois
et meme si c'était un don du bonheur
intellectuellement  avec de degradation
de son corps etc - mes sentiments
ne sont raisonnables





Sunday, October 30, 2022

Day of the dead

In a few days it is the day of the dead
a need for celebrating vigorously now
because everyone shall join the crowd

Revelling in earnest boldly toasting
to those lost -  memories of the past
with smiles, sadness, and recognition

With an honest hope one day someone 
somewhere will send a sunny salute   
retaining a tad of our own life's span





Monday, October 17, 2022

Ton tapis oriental

Ta longue vie, mon cher ami Torsten,
était un tapis oriental avec des gribouillis
des detours interessants-  des morphemes
des couleurs rougeâtres - lapis-lazulis

Du Danemark à travers la Norvège  
De l'Afrique aux pays du Moyen-Orient
tous étaient pour IA et toi un synthèse
vos désirs - vos espoirs étaient encombrants
 
Parce que ta vie de ta retraite avec Ia
fut une rêve  lointaine mais vivante
et l'idée de trouver en France vous mena
à un village occitan et énergisant

Cazouls vous accueille avec des bras ouverts
avec ses associations et leurs humains
c'était presque comme une grenouillière
vous vous en baignaient comme des concubins

La maison vous donnait un cadre pacifique
avec son jardin et la piscine paradisiaque
un lieu embrassant d'un couleur fauviste
je risque dire le mot: aphrodisiaque!

Les associations auxquelles tu appartenais
étaient si nombreuses et tu les as portées
non seulement ton enthousiasme passionné
mais aussi ton savoir-faire de sincérité

Le president de maintes federations locales
de la musique, des arts, et aussi de Rotary
avec un joli coeur tout à fait méridional
ton temps donné sans compter économie

Pour savoir plus de la vie d'ici - l'oenologie
t'intéressait avec les dégustateurs cherchant
à boire du vin de pays - avec méthodologie
en dansant les vielles quadrilles concertant

Les treilles cazoulines et des autres bals
tu étais aussi present avec le corps: Fnaca
têtu - t'as  trouvé le temps pour les cabales 
tu n'as jamais rien fait, mon frère, nada 

Après la mort d'Ia ton beau-frère et sa bande
t'avaient emmené à une excursion de Stevenson
et tu as commencé ton perle colorée et grande
pour calmer ton deuil et affronter sa dimension

Tu étais fier des tes enfants et leurs petits
tes liens en Norvège étaient fort et vivants
souvent en été tu montais à ton pays depuis
ton enfance et tes fondements énergisants

Ton plus  grand cadeau est ta bonté, ton amour
pour l'autre que tu rencontrais n'importe où
dans le cadre de moyen-âge et les troubadours
tu les écoutais même s'ils étaient des loup-garous

Avec ton linceul des couleurs fantastiques et vifs
tes amis voulaient bien t'envelopper gracieusement
en te remerciant pour nous avoir embrassé  - pardi
et moi -Torsten -mon  ami du coeur - joyeusement

 


   
 

t

Wednesday, October 05, 2022

My outer-worldly friend - invite me once more

Whenever I returned from my happy place
to this outpost of the universe
you invited me for more than 35 years
to eat and chat and into your embrace
and I expected you to do this year too

Our mutual longing for the "other world"
even though our families in the beginning
were here - we  felt like outsiders -
we shared our experiences  before kids
what we did when we were young

Our communal love for art, books, music,
discussions, life - you had your share 
of sorrows - I had mine - how could we not
after all this time - some would say 
a lifetime - or  just a half  of one

Your pride in your family and your kids
are unmatched - their accomplishments
you shared with joy in your eyes - united
you and your husband - you adored him
but you probably had fights too

You became an Ulpan teacher over here 
your group lasted for more than 2 decades
you taught kids to go to their bar/bat mitzvah
your curiosity of your ancestral religion
intrigued me and I learned from you

We as women in the American diaspora
you from Israel and me from Denmark
wanting always to flee this odd place
even though our lives were easy - yet
I wish you were still welcoming me

At your dinner table with Danish decor
and your lovely cooking - Mediterranean
first a drink with your hors d'oeuvres 
then surely a soup created in your kitchen
a fish and a light dessert - lovingly planned

At the end of the evening at the coffee
debates flew wild - mostly between me 
and your hubby while mine and you
watched our sparring matches -  
words of female wisdom  you prompted

Oh my outer-worldly-friend - Mali
of course I reciprocated because that's
what Europeans do - not Americans
maybe that's why we felt a closeness
I wish you could invite me again
  
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