When heat demands escape by any means The beach would seem a perfect place to turn, Where ocean breezes cool the space between The savage sun and water; to discern If such a trip is wise takes too much time, And, moment seized, we brave the crowds and sand To find not only are conditions … Continue reading September 7: Fortune Favors
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September 6: Tycho Brahe’s Pet Moose
The beauty of the internet is this: All things connected via hyperlinks. That simple queries stand at the abyss Of boundless knowledge and unplanned high jinx. Perform a search on Henry Purcell's life, And one may find the name of his librettist, Who translated a poem that was rife With medicine and gave a name … Continue reading September 6: Tycho Brahe’s Pet Moose
September 5: Sonnet for Prepared Poet
Why in heaven's name don't people read? A fugue is a more complicated game. Art goes within and I don't see the need- It was a pleasure and now just the same. Do you live or do you insist on words? Consider this non-dualistically: I accepted the major and minor thirds; This is pleasing momentarily. … Continue reading September 5: Sonnet for Prepared Poet
September 4: Counted Sweetest
The football season kickoff was tonight, Which spelled the end of those fantastic days In which I wore the golden crown outright, My badge of victory. How fortune plays Desire! I, who had finished in last place So many times before, should then succeed- The joker suddenly became the ace, And found herself reluctant to … Continue reading September 4: Counted Sweetest
September 3: No Thanks?
A fad of gratitude has spread throughout My social media, and challenged all Who read those thanks to do the same. I doubt That every thanker has the wherewithal To name three things they're thankful for each day For thirty days. I'm loath to loathe the thought Of people taking time to think and say … Continue reading September 3: No Thanks?
September 2: Periodicity
It is an unaccountable relief To realize your feelings of ennui, Which you had first attributed to grief, Comes from a cause more elementary. Death anniversaries must needs recur, But while they may engender melancholy, With passing time they cause less of a stir, So blaming them for fretfulness is folly. To pinpoint the determinant … Continue reading September 2: Periodicity
September 1st: Tensile Strength
As burdens that begin as bearable Then painfully dig into tender flesh, So stress can go from fine to terrible When in the cycle one becomes enmeshed- As picayune regrets become hot shame, Unfinished projects build up, unsurmounted. Inconsequential failures focus blame, And with perverse precision they're recounted. Resistance comes through suitable distraction, By stimulation … Continue reading September 1st: Tensile Strength
August 31: Creative Process
Step one: think. Step two: write ideas down. Step three: outline. Analysis: step four. Step five, get feedback. Step six: shop around For comments. Seven: ask for more. And eight: publish or perish or submit. That's it. That's really all you have to do Unless it's deemed your efforts are unfit, Necessitating scrupulous review. But … Continue reading August 31: Creative Process
August 30: Two-Ton Golden Retriever
Though Ogden Nash called you a homely beast And intimated you're preposterous I do not find you either in the least, You perfect, ponderous, single-horned rhinocerous. So fond of praise and petting you endure With your prehensile upper lip, high fives By which sweet turnip slices you procure, Though they are not essential to survive. … Continue reading August 30: Two-Ton Golden Retriever
August 29: Something Like a Star
The beauty of a star is best admired Through distillation of the atmosphere, So purest light may grateful eyes inspire When it in darkened firmament appears. Though from a distance it may seem perfection A star might crush you with its gravity, Starve you in shadow with its pale reflection, Or burn you with its … Continue reading August 29: Something Like a Star
Libby Weber 