(((O)))

Giving with

Enthusiasm, with

No need for thanks,

Engenders further like

Response, and

On and on the ripples grow

Until the giving

Surrounds us all.

In honor of all generous souls here and gone.

How long is a moment?

Maybe its true duration depends

On one’s perturbation?

Junk drawer

Masses of

Items once

Scattered, now

Collected in an

Eclectic mix (not

Labeled) shine

Light on

An important matter, one

Not so

Easily fixed. Out it goes?

Or will I need it?

Unsure, I close the drawer

So I don’t see it.

Many thanks to T.G.

Yum!

Miam

Miam! C’est bon!

Open wide!

Megaphone open

Or pursed as though mum, this

Unambiguous aperture, perfect for

Thumbs, is a gateway for food; it

Holds lips, teeth, and tongue.

1001 or ...

Many melodic lines we see often

Include tone number three.

Where do words come from?

Enticing

The curious mind

Yearning for true sense, this

Mesmerizing

Opportunity to

Look into the past

Offers

Generous clarification AND

Yen-gratification.

With many thanks to Douglas Harper.

http://www.etymonline.com/

A first person pronoun

Mam, ammuk, mir, mihi, mi, and

Eme are all cognates, I see.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=me

Earth Day 2016

Earth is

Nature, is

Vital,

Is home. Today we

Reflect

On our 

Native

Mission to

Embrace this

Notion of respect, of

Taking care.

Morse’s mama

Mother uttered with panache, “I

Am sometimes called Dash-dash-dot-dash.”

Warm and sunny?

What do the satellites say today?

Easterly breezes with variable skies?

Arctic blasts with snow and ice?

Tornadic winds across the prairie?

Hurricanes, tremendously scary?

Every moment is something new.

Rainy days don’t make me blue.

Check it out!

Look

Over there!

Stretching the mind

Cut

Off for a time from the

Narrative

That is

Everyday life, we

Might feel our

Pulse,

Listen to our breath,

And sense

The universe that

Is in us all,

Vibrating in

Every cell.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=temple&allowed_in_frame=0

The flow of non-symmetrical order

Look inside yourself and see

It interacting with your qi.

It takes an ...

As if by some

Generous, ingenious

Genie mind,

Layer on layer

Of crazed energy

Mysteriously combines, then

Emerges, winding

Round into a ball

All the elements

The artist needs;

Indeed, success depends

On the unseen efforts of

Numerous friends.

Thanks, J.R.J.A. for today's word.

The sixth

Lilting along between sol and ti,

A is in good company.

Top spot?

Playing out

And running back, a

Lexical athlete moves

In circles; it

Needs no more letters and

Decidedly complete, its

Radar

Observes a symmetrical

Metrical tattarrattat. You have to agree that’s no

Easy feat.

More on flow

Keep breathing; your energy

In this world is needed.

Flow

Riparian land holds

In its hands the

Veins of Mother

Earth. A dearth of

Respect for this vitality will

Surely mean mankind’s finality. 

In essence

Knowing, honoring one’s vital spirit,

Ancient people had a special word for it.

Think!

Obsequious and

Blocked in rational mind, they

Seize on and

Espouse the

Supercilious

Speech of their man,

Escaping the responsibility

Democracy demands.

In nod to Mr. Burns

Just as dear as ever, my

Old friends are oh so clever!

Spring on Silver Lake

Hanging out

On Silver Lake they

Nibble, flap, and preen.

Keen to be with the

One they love best, they

Paddle, chase, and sound their

Horns as they careen

Overhead,

Now to

Yonder shore.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/canada_goose/sounds

Third person singular of ‘to be’

I am, you are, he/

She/it…

For Tina

Sexigenarian you’ll

Ever be, dear sister,

Vivacious; with

Effervescence you swing into the

Next dance, seizing

The chance.

You spin forward with no backward glance.

Intricate

It’s sometimes about

Not being out, but…

Optical allusion

Everywhere

You look you see

Evidence of

Susceptibility.

Idea identified

It goes back to ancient times and now

Denotes the instinctual mind.

Thanks, Hans Christian Andersen

Especially now we

Mere folks

Plainly see

Evidence of such

Real pomposity,

Of incredibly

Rank

Speciosity; the

Naked truth is this

Evil spawn again plays

Women as the pawn. These

Candidates

Ludicrously fail to

Own that they owe

This  

Half of the population

Equality, respect, not

Subjugation.

Happy April 1st

Jests, puns, quips,

One-liners,

Knee-slappers all

Evoke hearty laughter.