different strokes

Remember "The Swimmer"?
Life's journey by backyard,
dignity declining,
pool by pool.

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REM

penance
till judge-
ment day
till night

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fear of retribution
is a myth.
there is no penance.
no one cares.

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in dreams
we face
what reason
berates

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Ancient tales of forests
dark where Nature held
sway, nymphs & dryads
tending to her whims.

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Side-stroke thru summer
air, it's such a lark.
Dive in! I'll race you
to the park!

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The current graced my skin and
I watched it flow above me.
Sunlight refracted. I ache for the
voice of the river from six feet under.

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Summer fruit

Poisoned by the ivy
of academia, I lust
for the ripe fruits
of summer

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Blackberries full
and ripe along the
old railroad but
watch! The ivy glistens.

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making art
and listening
to the trees
whispering.

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Unlike Madam Palin
who, knowing pain,
bounded from office.

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Heavy Air

Feel the summer swelter
The golden rays do shimmer
It seems that in this humid air
I could be a swimmer

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the shimmer of the longer days,
the shortness of the night,
the artist in me always thrills
to golden summer light.

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Something is not right
I see no golden light
no shimmering sunny days
just rain and dreary haze.

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And then it turns
the pressing heat lifts
a breeze skims my cheek
and not noticing, I skip

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No Monolo Blonicks for her
rather rubbers to the chin,
She's found just the muck
she's most comfortable in.

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Sunbeams glisten off the pool
Lost in printed land
pages turn by summer's hand
bathing bodies cool

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Memories of sunbeams
dancing, children dash
past laughing, prismed
spray of water drops.

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Even as I drive from job
to job, I cross water &
see the summer glint off
wavelets; life is good.

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yellow old porch
you look lonely
maybe some day soon
you will get some catsup

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Fishing in the river
was rather chilly
without the mud-brown
rubber waders.

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heavy on my feet
till buoyant and cool
swim swam swum
renewal by pool

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dusty rain, uniquely fragrant,
in quarter-sized drops
meets dry earth, spurting upward
in joyous relief.



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brow-beaten petals
heavy with rain
bend down to root
for the ground game




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Signs of future less hard,
Past of fewer regrets,
Presence of more joy,
Time with those I love.

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