Fizzy

Instantaneously transported

From the glum now and here

Through the magic of drinking

An ice-cold beer...

Hello January

New Year’s Day spent

In solitude

Quiet, somnolent 

Smell The Flowers

Be aware of your happiness,

Lest it fall through the cracks,

Don’t miss the fleeting chances,

To sit down, smile, and relax...

横須賀うみかぜ公園

Perched up above

Seahawk and crow

Looking for targets

Among the picnics below

Average Days

Things sometimes don’t get better

But instead  just stay the same

Nothing lost in the process

Not much need to complain...

The Opening

Gaze across Tokyo Bay

At the rising Sun

Cold clean breeze

A New Year begun

Rocket

If there just was a way

To launch up from here,

Into a pure, unfettered,

Atmosphere,

Above and away

From the hurt

Of our lives down

Here on the dirt...

Elton John - Rocket Man (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Our Condition

Humankind 

Morally cursed by

Blind leading the blind

Truth lost in a mist

Yet happy to be

Fat and hedonist

Agriculture's Curse

Jomon hunter-gatherer lives

Were hard, but simple, nice,

The problems came later,

When they started planting rice...

Unsure

It had to be seen,

To be believed,

But what did it mean...

Provisional

High hopes for a new year,

As a bad year ends,

Will things get better?

Well that all depends...

Unavoidable

Pre-dawn minutes, peaceful 

Dark and still,

Don’t want to wake,

But I know it will...

Alien Sky

Strange oval clouds look like

Flying saucers, UFOs,

Shaped by the magic

Way the winter wind blows...

Creativity

Ideas intertwine, epiphany, fusion,

To produce something precious,

Out of beautiful confusion...

After The Longest Night

Solstice morning, gloomy chill,

Dry empty city street,

Crow pecking at roadkill...

Election Year

It started out as a 

Political debate,

But the losers

Decided to litigate,

Adversarial democracy 

Descended into hate,

Leaving no choice but

To insult, equivocate...

Misfire

The attempt at humor he used,

Was somewhat ironic-sardonic,

But she was not even slightly amused...

冬至の日暮れ

Solstice shortened light,

Dims in the cold arrival,

Of the year’s longest night...

D.C. December 2020

New day for the sleepwalkers

Of the leaderless Deep State,

Q-Anon’d and hacked, frayed

Hubris oblivious to their fate,

Talking heads continue to talk,

Politicos walk the cynical walk...

生き甲斐

Ironic that the work

Of trying to survive,

Somehow defines

One’s being alive,

Joy interspersed 

With bruises, aches,

Obstacles each day,

But you do what it takes...

Getting Over

A refusal to accept

That she is gone,

No point in lingering,

Just move on...

おはようございます

Early morning housewife

Wake-up energetic 

Rooms come to life...

For A While

It gradually 

Occurred to me,

That happiness only

Happens, momentarily...

Variation

Hard to explain 

How joy and sadness

Wax and wane...

Mirror Image

TikTok, Facebook,

Instagram,

Is this really

Who I am...?

Defeated Denial

The loser, despite the shame

No matter what the cost,

Won’t leave the arena,

Won’t admit that he lost...

Retail Apocalypse

Leaves from unattended plants fall,

In the courtyard of the dying mall,

Customers, once many, are gone,

Shopping on their phones with Amazon...