Friday, July 4, 2025

How Things Go


 I wrote words
No one could read
Made them into stories
No one believed 
Put them in a book
Everyone wanted to burn
But then we all fell off the Earth
When it failed to turn

Sometimes that's how things go

I painted pictures
no one really understood
a real smart person said
the problem is they are way too good
Most people really want to know
if they are supposed to see a duck
But what you have here
is somewhere between wow and yuck

 And that can be how things go

Sometimes you make stuff
And people keep asking why
And you say well, I had an idea
So I thought I would try
Try as you might
Most just don't understand
They should just stop asking questions 
And lend you a hand

And this too is how things go

Shall I go...
on?




Image above is a photo of a painting of mine that was then layered with multiple filters in a computer photo program.  it has no title at this posting. 
Maybe, "How Things Go"






Tuesday, July 1, 2025

I Can't Be The Only One


 Do you see the lines between us?
 I can't be the only one.
When I pass you by,
Do you feel the pull?
On the line,
Do you have a grip on it?
Or
Are you unaware?
That's Okay!
I see the lines.
No!
I feel the lines.
The lines between us,
 Connecting us.
You have to want to see them,
Feel them.
Yes!
It's a little scary.
I know! 
It means you are never alone.
The lines connect you,
To everyone and everything.
Welcome to the Universe!


Saturday, June 28, 2025

It Holds Me Up


 Everyday
I walk
I Feel
The Earth
Under my feet
Pushing Back 
It holds me up
Gives me a place to stand
Tell me 
You feel it too!


Monday, June 23, 2025

walking


                      "Red Walks Into the Dark"                    


A walk
Awake
Direction to take
Decisions I make
Lives at stake
Rules I break
My mistake
I could be lost

A walk
A need
Choose the speed
Don't want to lead
A book I read
I fall I bleed
Scatter the seed
There is a cost

A walk
Go far
Leave the car
You know who you are
Take the guitar
Hot was the tar
That will leave a scar
All meaning tossed



The image above is a photo of paint on paper and then the images are created by smearing the photo in a computer program.





Wednesday, June 11, 2025

It is all made up

"Without a Reason"


 Letting go of I
is not turning off me
It is a change of perception
Another way to see

Letting go of the distance
Between you and I
Awakening to connection
Gone is the constant my

Letting go the judgement
The placing of the blame
For we are one true Nature
All beings of a common name

Letting go the need
To define all moments in time
Allows us one true now
To make this simple rhyme.                 

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Bend


Bend
Bend down to touch
To make a closer observation
To make connection
To grow in relationship
With everything

Bend
Change your approach
To make things work
Let go of your need
To maintain control
of everything

Bend
It is a chance you take
True you might break
Hold on to love
Give yourself away
In everything



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Somehow I lost half of a
year of posting.
Oh well!
Starting again to try.





Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Pictures in Trees


 I believe that the natural world has a consciousness.

Sometimes it says hello!

And then sometimes I take it farther.

This is an image created on my phone.


Looking out the

window I snapped

this picture.

Thought I saw

a face,

so I drew a face below.




My camera has all

these filters,

so I added some to my

picture. The image at

the top is what I got.

I think my phone 

has a

consciousness.


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