a burst of speed
a little space opens
window wide enough
for a billion stars
birds fly away
I close my eyes
listen to music
in my mind
I feel young again
a girl on the run
a shepherd, violinist
age is a state of mind.
note: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
link: http://youtu.be/KMKTaLaYBB8
I’m a seed
depends where it falls
tendril shoots toward the sun
a vast field
for a random seed
or accidental fruit
joining photosynthesis
connect to what life is
simple and profound
like “two o-musubi
neatly side by side
inside my lunchbox”
o, what I can be.
note: O-nigiri also known as o-musubi-or rice ball, is a Japanese food made from white rice formed into triangular or oval shapes and often wrapped in nori (seaweed).
photo and translation from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
– John Henry Newman
“Adventure in an unadventurous” day
“but can you fall in love with everything,”
can you love bees, spheres, and inhabitable planets?
You draw to yourself spaces in the universe
color them with life,
stir them with feelings
like a desert that blooms
and withdraws with the season
and you have worries
like the dot on your face
you share with Jupiter
“and if planets can sigh
that’s what Jupiter will do.”
Don’t be jealous.
Welwitschia is found
in only one place on earth
“the only surviving plant in its genus
the last in its family, the last in its order”
all have vanished
it’s mirabilis, Welwitschia mirabilis,
Nambian desert, the Namib Naukluft, in Africa
that’s I want to tell you.
note: I read all these stories in NPR:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/05/22/258313057/jupiter-s-dot-and-mine-why-life-is-unfair
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/05/21/314225165/so-what-if-its-ugly-it-just-keeps-on-going
photo: artist/photographer Rachel Sussman
My prayers and homage to the troops, past and present, we honor today.
watching the finishers:
what does it take
to complete a 50-mile run?
will power or willingness
dominance or acceptance
brilliance or humility
one step at a time.
Not a large crowd.
“Only the foolish and the dead alone
never change their opinions…
heavy clouds, impolite winds…”
some words are hard to translate,
so much meaning, feelings can hide
Can you cover church steeples with gold?
What happened to your umbrella?
note: I have a constant problem. I can’t write without reading.
http://en.chessbase.com/post/iasi-a-romanian-chess-city
note: I’m a fan of Curious George. I like to play chess. The big one is Costa Rica. The small one is Belize.
White to move.
Why chess?
http://www.juditpolgar.com/en/node/176
Butterflies and bees drink crocodile tears
a scientific curiosity
true to the last letter
an important element, salt
they need for survival
range of knowledge and experience
I lacked
but this is not that lustrous one.
Can you feel your future?
Can you measure it
with reason and opportunities?
Sometimes life comes swiftly
or enormously slow
like an atomic decay of 800 years.
“A meteor fell through space
into earth’s atmosphere
didn’t stop falling”
breaking through a roof
into the kitchen where
a mother was cooking dinner.
Every moment is impermanent
every moment a surprise
Do you think California Chrome
will add the Belmont
for the third jewel?
“…
I do nothing. I give You
nothing. Yet You hold me
minute by minute
from falling.
…”
note: Psalm Fragments (Schnittke String Trio), The Stream & the Sapphire by Denise Levertov
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