Ideas & Thoughts

We were sitting around a table yakking over beerWhen Jim said accidents happen, that’s why we’re here You mean our car stalled in front of this bar?So we didn’t have to end up driving much too far? No dummy, he sneered, what I said was profoundWe’re pretty much just what mother nature found Ah, he’s…

The Bard was no devotee of growing oldA plethora of deprecating verse he told Suggesting that as one’s muscle disappearsOne is less impressive too between the ears The walking pace of late may be a little slowAs though I’m not sure I really want to go The aged body seems to want to droopA quality…

If you often are nearly overcome by anxiety about The future of your nation and your own familyand maybe even you, yourself as I frequently am,you might seek help with that, as I did, And perhaps you will be reminded that our planetis just a speck within a speck (and on and on) andthat our human…

Is there a system for using our life, a kind of life courseI use the term using because life’s a limited resource We have it for a while, not long enough we thinkAnd then it’s gone forever like a finger snap or blink Some parents lay out blueprints for their girls and boysHow well are…

All those years in BuffaloAll those winters in the snow Sold that house and headed westSettling where the weather’s best I woke up and saw no sun todayDon’t worry friend, it’s just May gray Aha, May will end and the sun will bloomNot yet me friend first comes June gloom Any way the May-June marine…

My grandad was a frequent source of embarrassment to meDue mainly to his preoccupation with science and philosophy When he lived with mom and me I had trouble in my schoolWhen he called the school principal a lousy dumb-ass fool And he nearly got the whole family run out of our townWhen he referred to…

                        It’s Not the Poem Sometimes poems come from I don’t know where or whyPerhaps descending from some benevolent poet in the sky On one day as my old brain was feeling very flat I thought I might get help from AI’s Chat So I asked my recently acquired AI mateTo write a poem on Alexander the…

Charles Darwin’s seminal concepts concerning animal evolution Proposed the idea of species variation for the solution Over eons a species gradually changes its form in some way With a sort of trial and error to sort out the versions that pay So that hawks with better vision were better able To get their prey below…

Late Thoughts What’s done is fun the leader piped as he or she rode pastSo hang your hat upon the tree and dance out here at last What’s this signify I wondered thinking fast and slowWhat did those phrases mean to me, I just didn’t know Life move upside down sometimes and old can seem…