today I turn 61

so much I loved...gone...


and yet as my days shorten

my life lengthens


tomorrow I'll still be

just starting my 62nd year


but really the time and place

could be any time...any place....





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exhausted...yes...


but not so exhausted

I cannot appreciate


surviving....





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don't dwell on troubles

or overly celebrate triumphs


they are as a whisper

in a hurricane....





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pride falls

becoming

the humility that arises


unless your mind is so clouded

you can't tell up from down

or whether there's a difference

without a confusion...a lack of sense


to which to be relative...

or to tell which is blessing and which is curse....





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a new hole

in the ice


I emerge

shivering


so nearly dead

I didn't know


if it was the Light

or mere daylight


up into which I plunged





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PONDERING THE CHANNEL

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NIGHT PROMENADE #2

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