Category Archives: Wisdom



Jennifer’s Collection

Jennifer confided: “My mother asked
‘What do you collect?’” Everyone collects,
It seems—a necessary human task
Illuminating artful intellect.
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Posted in Conformity, Vanity, Who Knows?, Wisdom

Carpé Diem

Down at the paddle tennis courts, I ask
Agéd friends “Do you guys ever have fun?”
“Absolutely!” Sometimes a simple cask
Of beer will do the trick, an iced spiced bun
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Posted in Aging, Pain, Wisdom

History

In olden times
The agile sword
Won fields,
And thrones, and wealth.
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Posted in Affluence, Greed, Politics, Poverty, Taxes, War, Wisdom

Reality

“Love” (“Lust” really) and “Death,” we’re often told,
Infuse the bulk of all poetic art.
I’ve loved a lot while tumbling toward the cold
Dark consequence of Death’s sharp toxic dart.
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Posted in Aging, Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom

Insomnia

When I consider how my nights are spent,
That time when ev’ry itch and pinch and ache
Emerge from day’s locked caves—freed to torment
This agéd remnant—force dry bones awake,
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Posted in Inspiration, Pain, Wisdom

Life: The Extended Sonnet

Poetry attempts portrayal; it paints—
In ordered forms—our terror, loves, our dreams.
Its synaesthetic mode swirls sense, acquaints
Our sight, sound, touch, smell, taste with textured whims.
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Posted in Illusion, Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom