Day: December 22, 2021

Beauty given to sinful souls
No questions asked
Respect expected
Graciousness and consideration
This is real time
We are not in dreamland
We pray for the persecuted
And the impoverished 
We have free reign and luxury
We worry about petty things
We need to refocus
Amen

Steve Haarman

Eight o’clock on a late fall morning

Everything is still outside

Totally calm

Snow covers the ground

The inland sea appears motionless

Under gray-white clouds

Light is just light,

   nothing arousing

There will be gloom today

    in many lives

Have things to do and cannot linger

There will be no basking in melancholy

I make no hard plans,

    things will just flow

I feed the birds, then shower

Throw in a load of laundry

Drive to town for physical therapy

Go to the post office,

   pick up the weekly paper

Donate to shop with a cop

Come home, put clothes in the dryer

Make up the bed, drink a glass of water

Sit and write a poem,

   then work on Christmas cards

Wash a few dishes and straighten the kitchen

Fold the clothes, take an hour nap

Wake up. 

See a pileated woodpecker

   go to work on a tree

Think about nature’s mysteries

The light, brighter earlier,

   now turns to gray

Looking back, it’s been a very good day

Stanski

December 22