HALF-MOON

Half-moon., Venus, lit blue sky


with Patricia Hughes


"Look!" you say, pointing:

I turn, delighted, seeing:

the Half-moon & Venus on a lit-blue sky

as we walk you to your apt. in wintry chill...


(07 DEC 13, V.V. Santa Clara CA)v.2

Venus, New Moon, VaporTrail

Venus, New Moon, Vapor-trail 

to Patricia Hughes 

As we walk back to your apartment
Venus, the new Moon, & a vapor-trail
against an intriguing blue night sky
bemuse us both; I doubt nothing.

(07 NOV 13, V. V. Santa Clara CA) V.1 

[Author] IS IN the Store!

Last night I dreamt that I walked into my local Barnes Noble bookstore just as the local bus pulled up displaying&announcing my name as its destination. 

Later...I thot of how B&N (who I worked for ~10 yrs in Wellesley & Boston MA) could turn that into an easy local-author PR program in which local authors would be highlighted the moment they stepped into the local store by a visible/audible display that announces "[Author Name] IS IN the store!" (Trip it off by zipcoded RFID.) Concept: Like us, authors buy books at their local B&N. (By pre-arrangement, of course.) Make their in-store presence easy for them & buzzy for locals who will remember & e-mail about it after...

UP TO UP TO

UP TO UP TO

Some people imagine that

Somebody drops a ladder

for everybody to climb up;

other people get to work

building a tower up,

both imagining an up

to up to. Imagine that!

(25 SEP 13, V V Santa Clara CA)v6

The OT-biblical dynamic images - a ladder descending, a tower ascending - assume a Heaven 'up there' but what if what-if is here & now? (i.e.) Jiddu Krishnamurti told us to learn to accept that It doesn't get any better than This. I'd rather a ground-level horizontal common-good, not an unnecessarily-vertical one.With a lot of unoccupied planet to fill; people being born every minute to fill it, wise-up, humans! This it IT! Make the most of it!

FALL

For every cuppa tea I sip
a tear should fall, 
disappearing into it.

(11 SEP 13. VV Santa Clara CA 95050)v2

JUSTA CUPPA

Lonely for company,

I crave a cuppa tea

to centa me; 
w/out it I'm sadly

ungrounded. Tea,

& your company

centa me. Dica me,

sitting beside me.

(10 SEP 13, V V Santa Clara CA)v5
No.1240 (2014) of www.poems-for-all.com
San Diego CA

~ Bill

neoAmeric@n tweet

neoAmeric@n tweet: fin@nce works for @ll, while the rich flee.. t@xlessly...

(Labor Day 2013)v3