Hour Eleven How many grains of sand on a beach? How many minds can one teach? How many atoms make up this land? How often should each soul lend a hand? How many leaves fall in the autumn? How many have been beaten down by…

Hour 11 9/2/2023   “Walking…”   Used to run upwards of 8 miles a day overall left the Corps – promised never again kept it too!   This year has been rough – way more than I knew… hospital stays for doing what a doc…

Hour Ten Kyrielle form Will you still say you love me when the fall of age when it begins and when my waist is out of place upon my features will you trace The outline of my eyes that look like jeweled sunflowers pressed in…

Hour 10 9/2/2023   Yeah is THAT time!   “3’rd Wednesday Of The Month…”   Is it?  It IS!  cool, took long enough this month – 21 flipping days …sigh.   Gather lists …checked weekly flyers today electronically clipped any coupons of possible use (though…

Hour Nine Dansa form Think Twice before you burn the bridge or one must learn to swim in a stalemate none can win unless the slights one acknowledge for a new start to begin before you burn the bridge. Think Twice before you burn the…

What is love What. Is. Love. What happens when baby hurts me? Baby hurts me Baby. Hurts. Me. That’s not love. It’s never love to hurt your love. Dating doesn’t answer me Live is not a tragedy Is love romance? Is love just chance? We…

Swallow tails Don’t need their tails They just use them to Escape the birds Oh shoot this is almost late. I’ll do it properly later

Hour Eight The devil nestles underneath car door handles flooding lungs and invading the bloodstream of society. The drivers fein placation with promises of Pleasure Island. Nostrils extend in deeply croaking breaths heavy-handed and grappling protests are caught in the throat as a scurry of…

Hour 8 9/2/2023   “Olde Towne…”   Whispers shared and visions of wonders… walls and spaces adorned, all aglimmer with sight’s worth view. Windows leak dreams made real and pause-you-in-your-tracks favors of times hauntingly past.   Themes of could’ves, would’ves, mights, and even wannabes –…

Hour 7 9/2/2023   “A Study Of Self…”   Academia has changed the meanings and syllable count for the forms of Senryu, Haiku, and Tanka.  They are still elegant and meaningful …just not quite what would be expected by “purists” of old (nor the new…