Sonomabuzz

Author: Gerry

  • I missed an important poem in the update

    Standing watching the dawn of a new year
    holding out the hope something can calm my fear
    Walking stumbling into the misty morning
    Bringing memories forward watching for a warning
    Looking seeing dark clouds forming
    Do they bring rain or just foreboding
    Early dawn bringing a year and a day
    Trepidation cast in this new foray

  • for my sons

    Easter at the Tram 2003

    Here are some things I have learned over the years

    People who receive a kindness are often not gracious
    People who are extremely smart are often difficult to get along with
    People who are well-educated are not necessarily the best at what they do
    People who complain of a situation are often at the center of the situation both causing it and enduring it.
    People who are kind are willingly fooled
    People who are mean resent being fooled
    People who are fools can’t tell the difference
    People want the best for their kids
    People who endure grave illness are not weak even when their body is
    People who live a life of pain and great sorrow are open to recognizing great joy
    Great joy is seldom found while it be is being overlooked
    Great joy is behind our eyes
    Great joy is within our view
    Great joy is here and now
    Great joy is not coming
    Great joy is here
    The probability that your heart will be broken is very high
    Let your heart out anyway
    The probability that you will be disappointed by some parts of your life is certain
    Live your life anyway
    Any way you want

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  • Grief

    080308 Albee Creek Redwoods - God's summer home

    Grief lingers deep in the heart
    and massages the weary soul
    to have its way in most unexpected moments

    Grief comes to the mind whenever
    it chooses to again step forth
    because it has something to say to stir the depths

    Grieving has its own current
    It ebbs or it flows then waxes
    even in a stream of joy and contentment

    As the heart has its reasons
    which reasoning knows nothing of
    Grief washes over or undercuts the spirit

    Grief is a life companion
    once it has made an acquaintance
    but seldom with fond forgiven memories

    Only the cause of the grief
    Loving and laughter lost imbues
    the precious in heart and mind and soul forever

  • Flowers reach for sky blue joy

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    After all the rain
    Flowers reach for sky blue joy
    Desert bloom my love

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  • Pi Day @ Brew

    The numbers rolling all around my head
    As fractions of my life somehow will meld
    The whole number of my final being
    Some minuses, even some pluses, dread
    Always should add up to the parts once held
    To become the whole number of being
    If I could add up the emotions spread
    And find the portion my own logic quelled
    I could add to number of my being
    Perhaps for all the words that could be said
    there is a theorem which could be impelled
    To sum the whole number of my being
    Subtotals or fractions some have fled
    Irrational forces unparalleled
    That formed the whole number of my being

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  • Tears and willows

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    Tears and sadness
    Mixed with gratitude and gladness
    Of lives well lived
    Because we give to each other
    All that is in our hearts

    The trick
    Is to glide through the illusion
    That we understand
    And be
    In each glorious moment

    We can enhance the web of knowledge
    And experience the best of our time
    Making something good

    Tears yet gratitude
    For all we have been given
    In the lives we have shared

    Each of us who remains in this realm
    Honor in the depths
    The blessings we carry forward

    We do well to acknowledge what has passed
    But is not lost
    We deserve to be happy

    Tears and willows

    (170314 @Brew)
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  • Why do we hire poets so they can tell us the obvious?

    Change is a continuous part of life.
    The simple contains the profound.
    The profound is often simple.
    Sunlight and air belong to all.
    Hope and despair trade places regularly.
    Honoring the planet honors ourselves.
    Love is the solution, the answer, the problem, the everything.
    Not a bad poet
    Sharing when we know it
    The simple is profound
    we see it all around
    Hope emerges
    then it merges
    with air and light and sound

    #livepoetry #nothaiku

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/13/17

  • lost lottery tickets

    I just visited the mystery drawer of lost lottery tickets

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  • drink like a young lady

    You shouldn’t drink like a young lady
    but you think like a young lady
    and you sing like a young lady
    and you dance like a young lady
    as you move through time

    You shouldn’t think like a young lady
    because then you wink like a young lady
    and you’ll drink like a young lady
    and you’ll laugh
    as you move through time

    If you laughed like a young lady
    and you were a nice young lady
    and you danced like a young lady
    I would find you there
    and show I care
    for winks and drinks and time
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  • Awaiting the dawn

    Fall leaves

    Awaiting the dawn
    Leaves flutter and spin
    Light from the east a promise
    For this thing to begin again

    Travelling in the light
    Of tenuous connection
    To seeing the way bright or dark
    Opaque through a reflection

    Passing time passing days
    Hold on to these illusions
    That what we give and what we take
    Will lead to clear conclusions

    Wondering how the leaves can hold
    Until another dose of sun
    Withered yet secure until
    New buds in time begun
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    Wind and trees and wind
    This night sky be blowin’ thru
    House of green crashed down

    #haiku #livepoetry
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/07/17