Capsules of time…

no beginning or end

 

The view from without,

the view from within

 

Defining the space,

transporting the hours

 

Moment by moment

—again and again

 

(Haverford College: October, 2020)

 

Sued three times…

your wrath indicts

Prostate, throat,

and kidney cites

 

Each time you threatened:

“This is the end”

I wasn’t ready,

mistried again

 

I kept my counsel

and shut you out

The jury hung

to scream and shout

 

Your will or mine,

it’s zero sum

I still live on

—three verdicts shunned

 

(In Tribute: October, 2020)

Are we doomed to be unhappy,

or does it involve a choice

Do our feelings link externally,

giving outside forces voice

Do we choose the pain and misery,

as they cross our beaten path

Can they exist if our wills resist

—muted and outcast

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)

Either I’m right

and you’re wrong

Or you’re right

and I’m wrong

Or we’re both wrong

—but we both can’t be right

 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: October, 2020)

 

Doubt is a troublesome occupation

—certainty merely absurd

 

(Radnor Pennsylvania: October, 2020)

The Veil of Perception,

what lies beyond

 

Our senses and memory,

all time put upon

 

Lying within

or lying without

 

Inherent by nature,

shadowed by doubt

 

Primary function,

will scholars proclaim

 

But second to that

—our reasonings change

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: October, 2020)

 

Happy is he

who is content with the least

Whose hunger is sated

in famine he feasts

 

Happy is he

who begins at the end

And ends at the beginning

—his fortune to bend

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)

My last attempt

to circle the square

anger takes the throne

 

Isolated

no longer to share

servitude alone

 

Wandering unsure

things left unsaid

words to disappear

 

Into the dark

deserted forlorn

heightening my fear

 

The ladder broken

every rung

unable now to climb

 

Direction gone

a beggar’s song

—with nothing left to find

 

(Valley Forge Pennsylvania: October, 2020)

Given facts 

and reasoned truth…

 

Can’t marry each other

without changing their suit

 

Some things our intellect

tries to explain

 

Can you turn off a light

that turns back on again

 

The reasoning sands

and factual concrete

 

From thin ice to thick,
what’s now indiscreet

 

Decisions and choices

are still made the same

 

But to rent or to own

—real estate of this game

 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: October, 2020)

Can you talk about good

without acknowledging evil

 

Could they ever

exist on their own

 

Can you go somewhere

without leaving someplace else

 

The answer

fairly shown

 

Simplistic by nature,

linguistic in form

 

Contrast

rules the day

 

Allowing for one
by embracing the other

 

Truth to each

conveys

 

(Wayne Pennsylvania: October, 2020)