When I’m sixty six, how will I be? Will I sit near ivy covered window knitting all day small little sunflowers on Christmas sweaters, shouting at the kids making a lot of noise? Or will I sit on the old oak bench, reading a red…

The rusty old piano sits there Years of disuse Centuries of neglect

Steady and quiet, only you can hear its call and recognize the tone, the cry, the cadence and timbre rising from within, wanting to be heard, fighting to not be ignored or pushed down. Sometimes it soothes, at times it warns, but it is always…

Maybe it wasn’t such a hot idea to bury free-flowing streams in culverts. Let’s restore them, one by one, above ground. We’ll plant their banks with certified riparian plant material. Low growers to line and stabilize their banks. Shrubbery behind the sedges and reeds, and…

Walking in the woods Fall colors sweater weather so beautiful I remember the way so well though it’s been over 20 years since I was last here. The memories are very strong today That’s where I used to camp and that’s where I would go…

Mannequin or Mannecan’t Is this what it looks like at the end When so many of those would’a , could’a, should’a moments Are left to wither away only to return as something brilliant Your dream, but with someone else chasing after it with nothing to…

Roe vs Wade was overturned today I walked into the break room and found my coffee pot gone. Elsewhere a teenager girl finds she’ll have to carry her father’s baby to term. We’re back to one hundred years ago. I walked next door to the…

Eternal love! Who can see? Who can accept? Who can realise? Amidst the forest, He is still sitting on the chair. In front , that Piano! The source of Eternal love. He was a singer He loved to play with Piano. He loved to play…

In one hundred years We’ll have flying cars While we live on Mars Explore the stars If Elon gets his act together. In one hundred years We’ll have equal rights Won’t that be a sight? Give the bigots such a fright! Or am I being…

In 100 Years, a pantoum   A hundred years from now Will be no different from today. Technology will be more advanced, But the people will be the same. “Will be no different from today? You must be joking,” people say. “But the people will…