Pleased to be of service, Ma'am. I am happy that others have found their way here and are inspired.

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Fresh warm blueberry pie

Smells and tastes of grandma's kitchen

Purple tongues and sticky, wide smiles

Let me relive new old memories

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Waking grumpy and too early

Scowl eyes, down mouth look out from the mirror

How ugly and unfriendly, makeup no use

With absence of Happy to soften, illuminate

**

Stomping out to retrieve the paper

Morning sun greets crabby face with promises of warm

Spring breeze blows the edges of my mouth upward

Smiles and lighter step take the news back in

*

Baby to child to teen to adult

I swear you were just in my arms yesterday

The first to fly is always the hardest

Paving the way for siblings' smooth flights

1

spitting images side by side,

one smile, one not,

standing in nun-like frocks

with white washed wall behind them

2 2

on the road to recovery

gritty gravel crunches under foot

like fresh kettle crisps,

accentuating each step

3 3 3

on sultry walks in the dark

during summer's closing hours

we unwittingly crossed paths,

silent silhouettes unseen

4 4 4 4

the post man

who isn't

doesn't

ring twice

High Health Hour, noon flat -
luncheon lecture: Mom holds forth on fat,
moving onto sugar, too, at fault,
her worst remarks reserved for evil salt.
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Conference time, our boss spins
his wordy web. The logic-net of
Spider Sam clouds our minds to think
our losses are in our own self-interest.
~~

The adulterer shrinks from the light,
his thin facade a quivering cover
sure to fall at any time, exposing
his deceitful life to her eventual eyes
~~

Power, channel, click - what's up?
lame jokes, a song & dance, lousy singing here,
self-important gloom & doom, a silly movie there;
put another dollar in the monkey's cup.

Gray clouds round, bellies full of pregnant rain

Spring blooms await their showers

Cleansing sky, freshening air

I stand arms wide, indulging in the deluge

))))

Freshly turned earth, mounded

Small hillock in the park

Digging dog rabid with desire

Never to catch the gopher architect

)))

Absorbed inward, brain dump, me time

Just Mother Nature and me, step after glorious step

Brown raptor, beautiful, rises startled from her hunt

Amazed into reality, thankful for the moment

))

Peaceful calming of heart and spirit

46 years spent searching for this

Found at last, actually here all along

Irony realized but not really important

Digging dog rabid with desire
Never to catch the gopher architect

Ooh, I like that. What a great word picture!

A

sand snake slides sideways

over windblown dune ridges,

invisible trails

left behind

B

nicotine stained fingers

clutched their last Lucky Strike

under the flickering green

neon sign for Murphy's Irish

C

the blind match girl sings,

walking on cobblestone streets

into the darkness

of eternal light

D

crazy daisy chains

of existence

given in friendship,

taken with love

"D" is cool: "crazy daisy chains."