Category: Art
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New Year’s Eve For 2025
Happy New Year’s Eve For 2025 Hope everyone is enjoying their New Year’s celebration! Along with celebrating tonight, it’s also time for those so inclined to consider, and make a list of those things they’ve resolved to change, intensify, or eliminate in their lives… Then see just how long the resolve lasts, one week or…
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Surprise
Dreamt I woke from a dream I was dreaming… Surprise roused from my napdreamt Midnight the catwas sitting on my lap but no just a black ditty bagwith painted yelloweyes blinking in surprise –LE – 12/8/24
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Memoir Memory – Romanticism Mom’s Legacy
Another old one from a year and a half ago… A Mother’s Legacy mother brought up hersons to be romanticsyes daughters too allhoping for the ONE theTRUE soulmate who makesall things right they all told themselvesthey were good at heartthe soulmate would seethat from the startmend the skepticalthe broken hearts since all relationshipsend and some…
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Reading the Morning Sky
Reading the Morning Sky A perfect ellipsis of cloudsDot, dot, dot …On a blank blue skyA meteorological signInferring something left outOr more to comeBut unsaid Will cloud calligraphyNear the end of timePaint an exclamation point !Or a large PERIOD . ? Reading the morning skyOver the Santa CatalinasTo see what it may prophesy –LE –…
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Good Intentions
Good Intentions Pavers on Hell’s roadSo they sayGood intentionsAnd righteous dismay Not bad, nor evil per seJust subjective likeWould’a, should’a, could’aWith no there, there Kinetic energy, coiled But no place to goNo physical releaseJust greased potential Most actions are reactivePlanned and controlled onesSeldom grantedIntention vastly overrated –LE – 12/3/24
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Life, A Spell Cast In Colors
The Colors Spell of Life emotions color thewhole-cloth of our livesis love white, pink, perhapsblood-red… loveone degree north of hate is avarice the greenof envy or does greenindicate a love of natureall fauna yet anotherdegree of love anger may be crimsonor perhaps ultravioletrage just low energysegments of the colorspectrum woven in so we sing the…
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A Quest For Magicians
I’m in the mood for a little fantasy today … so tired of our everyday drone of ‘reality’… —LE Magician’s Quest wish upon a star forthe din of wolves frolickingfor lost mysteries and dragons with cold steel held captiveby even colder magic, tied tothe crimson mists of ravensong with the blazing backdropof the unquenchable sunwith…
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Pivotal Judo Match – A Memoir Memory
Judo Match When I was preparing for my Sandan test,had to compete in a rank tournament togain more points for my advancement. This was my first match, and I needed to win.My opponent was my rank, but younger,fast and agile; he mounted the tatami with confidence We took our starting marks and bowed.The ref said…
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Early Youth
Early Youth – A Distant Memory When very youngGot lost and coldSpanked for runningOut in the roadEscaped fromRope-tied pantsBy taking them off Lived by the radioThe Shadow KnowsSciFi movies andThen TV black and whiteThen came color 78’s became 45’s and 33’s,Went from HiFi to StereoThen 8 track and cassetteThen MP3’s Dog houseAn early get-a-wayBasement sanctuarySkipping…