by waiter | Dec 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
My daughter plays the flute in her fifth grade band and, this morning, they put on a holiday concert. Arriving early, I snagged a couple of seats near the front for snapping pictures and waited for my wife to join me. “How are you, Steve?” one of the mom’s...
by waiter | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Malignancies, car crashes Power’s decisions rash Politics, war, ideological clash Terror marring summer skies Buildings imploding, cutting short lives Death, loss, insanity, sundering ties Young men angered over trifles Seeking fame with rifles ...
by waiter | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
On morning kissed streets Mercuries fleet streak past As mothers perambulating, solidarity meet Whilst old men for whom the die’s cast Each other knowingly greet. The shopkeeper with wares Opening for the day As youth, hale and fair Blazing bright, much to say...
by waiter | Nov 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Huddled masses, yearning to be free Enslaved to needs of you and me Grow our crops, tend our fields Beneath hard men who refuse to yield. Packing impulsive desires Things they can’t afford to acquire Into mails, swift to ship As technocrats...
by waiter | Nov 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Baby ahead of me in line Eyes staring, beautiful they shine Fresh opened, trusting, kind Shimmering wisdoms new and divine. Not stained with adult guile Which sorrow’s sediment piles Ensouled only a short while She makes me...
by waiter | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Golden Mouthed, he was the one Singing about the Father, Spirit, & Son Chorusing Triune creeds Beseeching deliverance from affliction, wrath and need. Old words, on Sunday’s reverent intoned Under gold onioned domes Before workaday concerns,...
