HAPPENSTANCE

 

HAPPENSTANCE

his shoes were tight

her mood was just not right

their first solution was to have a fight

it was by chance that it turned into a night

and the timing was right

so arrived what well-wishers called a delight

Periods of stage freight

turned into a modest limelight

and later, during life's twilight

this and other rhymes would I write

ACC

March 26, 2021

 

PURSUIT OF hAPPINESS

 

Rolling along

A dung beetle or more politely a scarab befitting an ancient Egyptian is the cleverest creature not upset by self doubt or by suggestions of other directions a stoic neither a pessimist nor an optimist a true social scientist only focused on its subject

ACC March 19, 2021

WHO IS WHO

A Life with Unused Pages  

A notebook found

fifty five years old

Attempts at learning

German, French, marketing, economy

even Russian and Greek tragedy

also personal identity

and family mystery

only duplicate Bridge scores 

and poetry of youthful shores

are all that stand out

among the cornucopia of doubt

a measly lot

a foundation that is but a slot

for the narrator's existential plot

ACC

March 19

Photographs to be added

SURVIVAL

 SURVIVAL

A  cantankerous jalopy

lease fully paid

maintained somewhat carelessly

dear, nevertheless

venturing the roads and highways 

when weather and dare permits 

if either is perceived as perceived

a few shakes and shudders

a wheezing or whistle at times

cranky gears

not geared to be cranky

no catalyzer for discharges,

but passing domestic tests

of gasses and noises

heard in the distance by fading

and decorous hearing

When sitting behind the wheel or the windscreen

seems too much

knowing there is a bed

soon to be reached by byways

to be rewarded by cool sheets

to change location and be

upset by memories of other drives 

and waves and hopes and cares

getting confronted with masked, blank, mismatched faces 

in faded places 

among crowds of drawn or copied 

intermittent phases

The jalopy runs on regular

with many miles on worn down tyres

leaving disappearing threads

and oil absorbed shocks 

used to feeling full regalia of shocks

the whole kept afloat

by uncaring attendants 

leaning under the hood 

rushed through a magnetic funnel

surmising mysteries

of archaic parts, 

covered by detritus of roads cruised 

and dusty thoughts and will and joy of life

FIrst Draft

ACC

February 20, 2021

END OF ENRICHMENT

 

There is more to learn 

to notice

to puzzle

and unravel

Threads wrapped around a bubble

hugely molecular

hallowly diverticular

and as you can tell

all very solar

While the night approaches

your night approaches 

avoiding all obstacles

guards and wards 

tagging insidiously

a section of the thread

your thread.

A lesson for the wise

to tell that the puzzle

is not yours alone

and the thread 

a serpent many coloured

biting the  tail of another

never devouring 

lovingly, 

mistakenly

solving the errant bubble 

but not the puzzle

February 10, 2021

not edited

Letter Accumulation

I have collected Words with meaning

 words of many letters

 in dictionaries

 or in fictionaries

 How will they survive

 in this chaotic hive

when they are no longer alive

 If I have departed

 with my collection unfeted

and their creator disregarded

 ACC Dec.31.20

ALTITUDE AND MAGNITUDE OF HUMAN EXPECTATIONS

Expectations are like senses; of touch, smell, sight, sound and taste. They are the sauces and spices of both fleeting and enduring thoughts. An event, an acquisition. a behavior, a sentence, a gesture a movement of the eyes or hands can be disregarded, misregarded or unrecognized when they were meant to respond to a perceived expectation. Similarly, no word, sign or action may be produced in response to an expectation that has come and gone in time and space unrecognized, un-categorized and deemed unworthy of notice like many a person produces and meets during a meet or a give-and-take of sorts. When life is life and you are you, you do not formulate logical expectations, consequences, results of ideas, values, thoughts, beliefs, cultural identities that are unforgivenly based on assumptions, sand mines and watery holes dependent on meteorological. geological, divinely behavioral phenomena. You do not need to. They occur by themselves independent of you. Your task is to make the best of the cards dealt to you, alone and/or in partnership with your cosmos.