Friday, October 31, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
without a doubt
You know me inside out
Sure of my feelings for you
Know without a doubt
With no need for these words
And I have the same certainty
Knowing your feelings for me
Steady constant enduring
As our lives evolve together
Direct and true in what you say
Deception is not in your vocabulary
Making for honest open communication
Essential to our trust
As the years and decades pass
Circumstances change
Challenges present themselves
And we adjust and adapt as we can
What remains the same is our bond
Happy we have each other
Always approaching things together
Making everything better
Friday, October 24, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
October trees
When the human skeleton displays appear
Arms outstretched as if alive
October trees show off their reds and yellows
Drawing back in their precious green
Dead leaves falling nipped by cold
Drifting off like early snow
Leaving the trees stripped bare
Revealing their skeletal structure
The human skeletons are dead of course
And most certainly do not come back to life
And never were alive to be precise
Being outsize plastic replicas
But the trees can and will do it
After standing naked and exposed all winter
Enduring the freezing cold
That would be the death of me
I could do without these skeleton displays
Larger than life as big as dinosaurs
As if to presage human extinction
But the trees in silhouette are whispering
I was here before you were born
I will be here after you are gone
Continuing to grow year after year
In my almost imperceptible way
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
teacher of teachers
I hear you getting up getting ready
For your first day back to school again
Remembering so many other first days
Precious moments for a parent
The girl who became the teen and the college student
Then the young woman herself a teacher
And now this thirty three year old heading off
Into your next work experience
Going to teach the teachers
How to make use of technology
What they need to know as teachers
In a rapidly changing world
I stay in bed quietly listening
Picturing you in the clothes you picked out
Letting you focus on your day ahead
But when you are about to leave I get up
Then I take my chance
For one last departure image
Catching another first day photo
Of my capable confident daughter
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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