Thursday, November 29, 2012

A Different Story

A Different Story 
(there and back again
and there again)

If it isn't
     one thing 
It's another 
     And then 
Another one 
     after that 

This must be 
     The Way 
It's supposed 
     to be- 
Because 
     it is... 

So I need 
     to quit 
whining about it 
"stay calm 
     and carry on"

This must have been 
     What He meant 
     When He said 
"Don't kick 
     against the pricks"

Bills come like 
     water 
Through the door 

Water falls 
     as rain- 
The latest bill 
     has to do 
     with keeping 
the water, the rain, 
     on the outside 
and not 
     the In...

-Even Hobbit holes 
     require maintenance 
     I suppose
Where is my Sam Gamgee 
When he's needed 
(cannot wait! until that movie 
gets here)

It takes a village 
     and a government 
To make 
     a really good 
     movie 
-With Elves-
(The good Elves 
     don't come cheap)

after all the
Plumbing Work 
and the 
Major Debt... 
---the kitchen sink stops up!
(excellent excuse to go out 
     to lunch)


This would not happen 
if Elves or Gandalf 
were 
involved

Magic wands 
     and Elfin ways 
must have 
     built in 
"magic plumber"
settings and sayings- 

Magic incantations 
     for drain opening 
and bill paying 
and dealing 
     with "muggles"...

-even if 
     that's 
     a different 
     story ... 

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Obnoxious ads

Obnoxious ads
on my blog
how could they?

some skinny young woman
in short pants

the millions
I was going to get
are about
     $1.38...

We do live in a
     Capitalist Society
-after all-
-more and more apparent
    to me-

"the quickest path
     to prosperity"...
But for whom?

I muse...
It was supposed
     to be me...
(in my dreams)

inflation
     keeps inflating
I'm getting old enough
     to say...

 I remember when gasoline
      cost .25$$$$ cents!!!!
(there is no cent sign
     on my machine!)

but - as you gasp -
that quarter
was made
out of Silver... !!!

What's the lesson here-
Is it time to start collecting
dried food and gold?
But then, what happens
     if-
"they discover lots more
     Gold"???

I was
a skinny young woman
once

If I'd only known then...
What I think I know now...




    

Friday, November 16, 2012

The BEE / The Mayans and Me

The BEE
Being on the outside
     of the car window
and NOT
     the inside

Brings a sense
     of Great Gratitude
     spontaneously arising-
     from me

As I watch
     said Bee
     flying blissfully away
over the hoods
     of the cars
     stopped at the
     stop light

I contemplate
     what the
alternative scenario
     would have been-

The level of tension
     the level
     of fear
of instantaneous
     decision making
in traffic-

the light turning
     green
The Bee
     buzzing
     around
     me

maybe landing
maybe stinging
     maybe getting
     between my
          collar
          and me
that has happened
     -previously-

-ah relief
-ah gratitude

a chance encounter
with one of
     God's
     Stinging Creatures

Ending well
     on May Day

Hopefully
     a happy omen
a fortunate
     portent
for "collapsing colonies"
     and
Mayan Prophesies...

*     *     *

The Mayans,
and me...
What if they just
     ran out of rock?

That circle
     of stone
     was only
     so big

No way to glue
     on more
or add
     an addendum
     a post script
     a p.s.

Maybe
     the world will not end!
Maybe
     we will be safe
because there's only
     so much
Anyone
     can fit on
Any
     one rock

even the pyramids
     The pointy things-
     Have only so much-
only
     so many corridors
Just
     so many walls
to put
     graffiti on

Even the greatest
     Pharaoh
     must
come to the end-
     and
no amount of
     golden chariots
or
     opium!
will give
the mummy back
that
     youthful glow









5/1/12












































































alternative  

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

writing

i remember fondly
the days...
(I date myself)

writing was done
on the backs of things
-envelopes
-scraps of paper
-etc.

now
-as I spend hours
puzzling out
how to tell the computer
what I want it to do
(it laughs)
I have a sandwich
and go back again
-for another go round
-another- which button
     do I push now?
I'm just about done
-just about
to go back to pencil and paper
fireplaces and gardens

my garden suffers
as I write this
I tell the plants
I will water them
tomorrow
-they do not laugh-

I see this as a challenge
-for an old lady
-thank god it's not a
---terribly important thing---!
only poetry
and ramblings
and trying to figure out
-life-

computers
are not alive

yet
















 

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

captive caroling/general petraeus

                                                


Oh God 
     November 13 
The first Christmas Carol 
Is heard Blasting over 
     the sound system 
     at my favorite  
     latte shop

In A Shell Sits Deo---
  
I had forgotten 
how much I hate 
     "enforced caroling"
     "captive caroling"

love the songs 
but they are ruined by 
     electronics 

Blasted at us for 
2 and 1/2 months!

It's time to revise
     my life...  
It's time to begin
     staying out of stores
     and coffee houses 

I would pass a law 
    if I could 
that only 
acoustic instruments 
may ever 
be used 
Ever
     in singing these songs 
     of our Lord and Lady 

unplug everyone 
through the season 
     only Yule logs 
     and reindeer 
allowed!

no ear buds 
     in ears 
No i pod, pad
     anything---

Love notes 
     could be notes 
     then 
Hand written 
     by hand 
General Petraeus
     could then have 
     burned the evidence 
     of his great love 

I was in love once 
and I know 
about 
moving heaven 
     and earth 
to be with 
     the beloved 

much better 
     to be in love 
     with God 
 no emails 
needed then
     only the heart 
sending messages 
     to the eternal friend 

no CIA way 
to intercept 
that 

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

national election...Hope-ee-um!

ah - the national election
has come
     and gone
 
we can all breathe
a sigh
of relief
 
and trust
that the powers that be
-will be
 
and all the experts
that have all the degrees
will now do their jobs
and take care of you
and me
 
they will make things right
-stop their bickering.
stop their fight, 
and fix it-
 
after all-
this is what we pay
     them for
for this- they get
the really
BIG BUCKS
 
for this
they went to school
for this
they ran for election
     to fix things
     to run things
     to make things right
 
so now I am relieved
that I don't have to worry
that I can relax
     and leave it to them
peace will prevail
     on earth
no one will starve
everyone will be happy
     now
 
now that the winners
     have won
-there are things to  be
      done-
 
we can relax
we are in good
     hands
 
(I believe it's called
     Hope-ee-um!)   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Wednesday, October 17, 2012

2 views from the UK

2 views
from the UK
!!!
wow
Just think about it
Great Grandfather
wrote in the giant, old
     family bible
"Leaving Liverpool today"

-mother's side,
     very English

and then, of course,
there's Dr. Who

talk about
full circle
(circles being - very zen)
now
that the internet
is here
for us to
play with
and-
I can watch
the BBC news . . .

Grandfather had an Orange Grove
in Orange County, California
-if you can believe-
I remember visiting
wondering why my mother
kept saying
look at the orange trees
look at the orange trees
as we drove through
     miles and miles of them
One day
     there will be no more
     orange trees here
She would say

I could not believe
that anyone
would cut down
so many trees
ever-
anywhere-

Trees were good for climbing on
and good for shade
and orange trees had
     oranges on them
and -- grew like weeds

why would they ever be
     replaced-
with ----city!!

WHAT
were they thinking?

i still
don't
know