cotton soft brilliant white floating puffballs in an azure sky cherub faces laughing playing tugging at my soul the little boy smiles dragon wings swoosh and we escape flying free across a land of dreams so much more than partly cloudy tio stib You might also enjoy: Lines; Control Freaking
I want to help them give advice make them think I’m smart and nice but then I hear a wiser man listen first to understand I want to brag shout what I’ve done make them want to cheer me on but then that wiser man again listen first to understand no, I don’t always heed the rule neediness makes me play the fool but in the quiet of evening light I look back and know what’s right listen first to understand and I will be a loving man tio stib You might also enjoy: “If” by Rudyard Kipling; Life Journey Poems and Prose
I don’t see it in the clear blue sky romping gaily on my way no hints, no thoughts, no memories just a perfect day but then a shadow passes by and suddenly I give a sigh and darkness sweeps across my soul and loneliness exacts its toll tio stib You might also enjoy: Life Journey Poems & Prose; My Dementia Diary
they are human mockingbirds instead of songs, they mimic words nothing pretty, nothing nice nothing new the same old vice always males who want attention spouting nastiness I cannot mention they yell and scream they cry and shout when things go south they sulk and pout let’s make a rule that changes things and tell the pols they all must sing no talk like feathered songsters on my walks tio stib
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she never questioned never paused simply poured her endless love into my life now she sits without her mind and I give back tio stib You might also enjoy: My Dementia Diary; Symphony vs. Stanza
Ego is upset today I wouldn’t let him out to play sometimes he thinks he is the king and disagrees with everything he worships his own point of view scoffs at ideas that are new at his worst he’s quite the boor and then I shove him out the door now locked away inside my mind I hope he will become more kind tio stib You might also enjoy: High on Gratitude; Control Freaking
walking through a cloud of grey the beginning of a quiet day I felt a tickle on my face a soft caress, a moment’s grace and smiled as I was gently kissed by the tender morning mist tio stib You might also enjoy: A Child’s Smile, If
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when my back aches there’s a pill to ease the pain when I start sneezing there’s a pill for allergies but when I’m trapped in urban loneliness when my soul cries out for wildness for freedom screams to be lost in Nature’s oneness back in the immensity of desert silence standing in awe on a mountaintop dancing with waves crashing on a wild beach then I need a wilderness pill a medicine that smells of campfires that tastes of Springtime meadow flowers that reverberates with coyotes howling at the rising moon but my heart knows this easy out can’t begin to feed the hunger it’s time to get out get away time to be on the loose again tio stib You might also enjoy: Sorely Needing Wilderness; Which Mountain to Climb
the grocery clerk who bags my things the coffee man who sometimes sings postman, gardener, neighbors too stopping by with how are you? all the lovely people who lift me on my way their nods, their smiles, their greetings that brighten up each day and as I lay my head to rest my heart full, I must confess my simple life is richly blessed tio stib You might also enjoy: Over the Rainbow; Because Once, I Was Loved by You
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