It is not Monet’s*,
But it’s ours. We’re building it peaceful, under God.
OR
It’s not Giverny,
It is not Monet’s*,
But it’s ours. We’re building it peaceful, under God.
OR
It’s not Giverny,
I’m mad at others/
because I’m angry with me.
I’ll repent, improve.
When you dye to look
KPop cool, but your black hair
looks toupee old fool.
OR
When you think it would
be fun to look like K-pop
but looks like toupee.
Backstory: A friend posted a meme about how there was going to be division in the Nation in the next few months. She suggested, instead of fighting and being snarky and mean, that we should “Create Beautiful Content.”
So I wrote this:
Covered in sin? Hope
you can do more than just sit
and wallow in it.
Never go to a chill
rest’raunt and get takeout
when you’re in a rush.
It’s a new joy when
you can sit in the woods and
enjoy bugs on you.
I grab her now like
she once grabbed me. There is no
result I can see.
Backstory: As I prepared for my 50th High School Reunion (including registering on-line on the high school’s reunion site), a woman I barely knew and I started writing about past intentions, bell bottoms, and memories. One evening, I wrote several haiku based on life reflections… and thinking about wearing hip-hugger bell bottom’d jeans to the reunion.
Wearing bell bottoms
removes our blues, if we let
them make us groovy.
Put out intentions
for what you want, what you need,
what is right. They’ll come.
I fear to again
wear hip hugger jeans, for my
hips have long vanished.
[giggle].
I arise in a
zone, long ago forgotten,
searching with new eyes.
After long summer
walks in woods and fields, did great
writers nod off? Nap?
The book Brain Rules says adult afternoon naps are beneficial.