no doubt i am NOT a learned/well-educated bright/intellectual NOR a great communicator (but i do try) ………………………. nevertheless, life for me (in the moment) is a play between … o what we personally (& of course collectively) know to be SOCIO-ecologically right or wrong o “natural” desires of the selfish flesh & mind, heart, and […]
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a ti Pablo
(In one of our regular Creekside Poets gatherings, i.e., on Earth Day! … upon prompting from our leader, the amazing Sylvia Manning, I wrote a little “impromptu”-poem about Earth Day being an extra special day for me. April 22nd is both Earth Day and the birthday of my deceased brother Lawrence “Larry” Martin, or as […]
“Kindness” from the Perspective of My Second Language … and Thoughts Therefrom
Kindness! What word would my mind generally grab For this notion in Portuguese? Probably simpatia! And what does Google list? First … bondade. Then … gentileza … amabilidade … benevolência … afabilidade … atenção. … And grandeza de alma. ……………………….. Now, considering these Portuguese words for kindness, Am I, deep down inside and on the whole, […]
Jimmy … and M.L. King. Jr.’s “Urgency of Now”*. (Jimmy Was a President Who Worked at Not “Being Too Late”*)
(“[Jimmy Carter] was one of the few Presidents who really was an advocate for the Black community out of a pureness of heart,” said the Rev. Bernice King.) I voted for Republican President Gerald Ford because Jack Anderson a protégé of Drew Pearson said Ford was the more experienced of two good men. Democrat Jimmy […]
spiritual uncertainty
spiritual uncertainty? i suppose i will have doubts about it all until i pass but then … i am certain that for MY life it will not matter (well … in this moment of twenty-twenty four, … the eight billion, … and consumption–for sectors, of well over 300,000 kilocalories per capita per day of this […]
will the cosmos miss us?
this assignment was easy peasy (yeah riiight!) ………………. do i sleep well every night? of course i do! i’m insignificant. who cares. we simply shouldn’t worry about it … about anything sweetly dream on and on and on pablo ………………. do i sleep well EVERY night? hell no! gotta get up at five and milk […]
a little sticky tricky tritina (that is, in texas!) for a wonderful friend (sylvia)
“Do NOT say gay!!!” certainly!?! all of you hunters can shoot all of the birds! isto e, as long as i have control and draw the line ………………………….. i am in line!!! i am perfectly normal and very overtly gay and i am certain there is nothing better that those exotically erotically dancing, prancing birds […]
less is more
less is more ……………. (i certainly do fully realize that the devil is in the details and there is much more to the story and you do not have to believe but it is Truth it is good science which involves the most basic of science … physics … the second law of thermodynamics) …………….. […]
1. Lovely Lady Beetle Larvae & 2. Changing Eaarth … to a Neo-Earth of Quality Life for More
Two “poems” for Poetry Night at the Seguin Public Library, Thursday, 6:00 pm, April 18th, 2024 Lovely Lady Beetle Larvae by Owen Schaefer & grandpa paul bain martin ……………. lady beetle larvae are falling freely from the old oak tree (down on smiling grandson owen and a very happy me) what fantastic lady beetles they […]