Saturday, December 17, 2022

A Peaceful End...




 ... to a crazy year.

It hailed three times, two tornadoes, and one month straight of 100+ degrees weather during a drought that brought an onslaught of aphids and their sticky excrement. No rain to wash that syrupy poop off my camper, car, and door steps where it got tracked indoors in spite of hosing things down. Then came the stink bugs to feast on the aphids. They invaded all the campers here in this campground like something from an Alfred Hitchcock movie. They were followed by the Asian Beetle that shouldn't even be on this side of the planet. After a two month long Bugaggedon, my camper was splattered with little yellow stains (from the Asian Beetles) and smelled like a sweaty metal working shop (the stink bugs). I'm not sure who won. I'm still finding their carcasses everywhere. 

For the first time in my 3 years of being a full-time RV-er, I was not a happy camper. But, I'm over it now, and these pic show why. They were all taken walking distance from my camper door.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Tangled Zen

 


Tangled behind a trained conscience

That’s holding firm

Good Bye forms cryptic blotches

On a journal page

An intuitive process for what can never

Be read or heard

As I make a conscious effort to deny

My treacherous heart


Zen - a state of calm attentiveness in which one’s actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Overlapping chapters

 


Organize. Sort. No time. Just wing it. Gotta keep going... Where's life going? Organize. Sort. No time. Just wing it. Gotta keep going... Where's life going? It never fits neatly into chapters. 

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Outsider


 Today, being the outsider is a good thing.

Monday, October 10, 2022

Today


Today
The Radio reminded me of how lonely I am
So, I opted for road noise instead
I Prayed
To fight fervent feelings for only a man
Who paved a highway inside my head

Caught in
A daydream as my car carelessly swerves
Peaceful pastures speed by unseen
Forgotten
Destination on winding, hilly curves
Frivolous burning of gasoline

Today
I'm thankful for a serene swim in the clouds
Cool, clean reflections of past mistakes
I've Prayed
Repeatedly through anxiety shrouds
Emotions exposed in glass lakes

Forgotten
Conversations meant to manipulate
Road noise that's easily dismissed
Caught in
A wave of guilt that only dissipates
When his perception starts to drift

Today
I can see him more clearly than before
But the Radio plays the same
I Pray
For a peaceful new road forevermore
A clean swim to erase the shame

 

Sunday, October 9, 2022

Wishes

 


Bird song
Wishes flying high
In between notes
Separate you and I

Flawed thinking
Five years are gone
Wishes that echo
An impossible song

Empty wishes, empty heart
They're voiceless, vain, and trite
Remember when you said
Things would all work out?
Wish you could've been right

Sunset song
Wishes collide
A beautiful friendship
Washed away with the tide

Flawed thinking
Devoid of sound
Lamenting wishes
 Fall to the ground

Empty wishes, empty heart
They're voiceless, vain, and trite
Remember when you said
Things would all work out?
Wish you could've been right