We can see only what is inside: all is projection.
Retirement
Retirement: eating out at the budgeteria.
Marriage
Marriage is not 50-50; it’s 100-100. And your 100 should not depend on whether she’s giving hers.
Beauty
Beauty does not exist apart from us. It is a reality we project. People, places and things are beautiful because we say they are. And that changes too.
The Path to Esteem
Humility is the path to esteem (and it is not the destination).
Fat Moon
I usually don’t write poems that rhyme; however, this one insisted. In fact, it demanded the use of only one rhyming phoneme: ‘ -oon’, as in ‘moon’. Feisty little thing, wanting to be heard.
Fat Moon
Fat moon in barrel,
Red leaf on moon;
Raindrops on branches,
World in a swoon.
Logs on the fire,
Radio plays a tune;
Grey hair at my temples:
Too soon, too soon.
Tempus Fugit…Tempus aeternus
Everything is temporary (think long term)…