Wasting Time
It's all there and needs doing-
the presentation slide deck, the calls
and emails, the car, the basement walls.
So much of life builds upon itself.
Do one task and create three more,
complete a job and there's a void
that we feel we need to fill,
some restless part of us that won't
be still, cannot be indefinite.
Even at the beach, I plan and
divide my time between sand sculptures,
and wading a bit, and searching for shells.
Even resting is on the agenda,
something to be completed, a box
in need of a check mark or X.
We've evolved so far, we fill
our lives with foolishness, we pace
the spaces where once we hunted food.
So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)
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Poem: January 21, 2026
Forecast Just suggest the possibility of snow on the horizon, and I become truly useless. The storm’s three days away and on a weekend, but ...
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Maintaining Some people won’t straighten their desks at the end of the day, but I do, most days, and I sweep the floor as well, ten to tw...
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Couple Bring me the sunset in a cup, warm golden, glowing slow on the bank of some old world river or the shore of an ocean. The two of us,...
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Commitment I get that my whiteness is in no way a burden, and I’ve no right to think it’s anything less than a boon that daily, in this time...
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