…tomorrow’s future, the sweet nows

…tomorrow’s future, the sweet nows

my final future

 

 

now then…

 

The unknowable future

   has been around for a long time,

it is,

it will be,

the mystery is what, not if.

 

I realize new truths.

I’m closer to my future

   than I used to be,

I’m closer to my final future.

I think more about tomorrow,

I think more about today.

 

Sweet futures can become sweet nows,

the nows I can know.

I can choose my next now,

I do not know tomorrow’s future,

I will live it in good time.

 

May 11, 2024

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tomorrow, shuffling, comes…my poem

tomorrow, shuffling, comes…my poem

the thin line of future…

 

 

another day

 

…the distant horizon moves closer,

it creeps, of course, or sidles,

there is no romp, nor dash,

one need not notice every day,

it is no rush to change the way

   we live enough in each bright hour

      to fill our time,

we may look up, forsooth,

and see the thin line of future

   shuffling nearer,

seeming clearer,

waiting for the clarion of tomorrow.

 

June 3, 2024

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Movie review: Same Time, Next Year

all-American adultery, oh yeah…

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“Ideas are like rabbits.”

“Ideas are like rabbits.”

…and good deeds, too…

 

 

“Ideas are like rabbits.

You get a couple and learn how to handle them,

and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

 

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (1902-1968)

American author: Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath

 

Pour another half glass of wine, and enjoy that Steinbeck quip again.
Pour another half glass of wine, and you start to think that he could have said

“Good deeds are like rabbits.”

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Dirty Dancing (1987) (movie review)

Oh baby, baby, baby…

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The Book of Days…part xxxxiii

The Book of Days…part xxxxiii

The Book of Days

 

The dawn’s early light can be pleasure enough for the whole day.

There are words enough to tell the story of “the temptation of day to come.”

It is my delight to write some of them for your delectation.

 

 

ciel rouge

 

A bacon sky,

some heightened reds,

a cloudy froth,

the day is nigh.

 

May 15, 2024

sometimes color is the main clue…

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Book review: Lafayette by Harlow Unger

He was a great man. Also rich and lucky.

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Feeling lucky? get ready for it

Feeling lucky? get ready for it

there’s no mystery…

 

 

Prepare yourself to get lucky.

That’s how you make luck happen.

 

You probably know that lots of people have already said this, in slightly different ways.

You probably know this is what you need to do.

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Is it news to you?

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“a tree knows its work”…“des arbres et vents” my poem

“a tree knows its work”…“des arbres et vents” my poem

talk trash to the wind

 

 

des arbres et vents

 

The trees do not seek the wind,

but they grow where it goes.

A tree knows its work:

a tree stands in rain

   and growth happens

      time after time,

and a tree stands in snow

   and holds it aloft

      for us to see,

and a tree welcomes critters

   who need a high place to live.

 

Every tree tempts the breezes

   and taunts the wind,

boughs do not break

   as they beckon all winds,

the limbs slide and sway

   and push the wind aside,

the trees eat the wind

   under sun and stars,

each tiny twig, each lazy leaf

   talks trash to the wily wind

      that knows about the detours

         in great worlds of open air,

but won’t give up the endless gift

   of giving the trees

      a reason to bend

         as they turn the wind

            into wrinkles that slump and hide,

among the unseen nests

   of the birds and squirrels.

 

May 23, 2024

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84, Charing Cross Road (book review)

Helene Hanff, on reading good books…

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