“Reverse Birthday”
OK so tomorrow is my birthday
I’m going to start a new tradition
“birthday in reverse”
that’s right, I’m losing a year starting with this birthday
and continuing on till I’m about oh 5 and then
reversing again
it’s a new lease on life
me saying to myself that i am not moving towards that dark night, nay!
I am walking to the [...]
the sunny room & the fresh cut grass
it’s morning and dark in the house except
when i pass the closed door on the writing room
its bright sunlight shines thru
under the door and all around its edges
i open it and the sunlight fills everywhere
i smell the sweet fresh cut grass
the robins are hopscotch running across its ground for breakfast
the junior red northern cardinal is [...]
plant it and it will grow
7:41am 7/22/08 Westbrook
looking out my back window
into my backyard and the great salt water marshes beyond
i see what i have done
and what nature has done
they are both good
an everyday amazement
in the process of being
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My Beautiful Salt Marshes
my beautiful salt marshes
where hope springs eternal
each day you bring the spring
and tomorrow you will bring summer
your reed grasses, now growing tall and free
crowned with beige tufts for all to see
your deep blue water streams
swaying their way to the shore
your life abundant evermore
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