George Benson - 20 / 20 vision

if i knew back then
what i know now
if i understood the what when
why or how
now it's clear to me
what i should have done
but hindsight is
20/20/ vision

30 years ago
the prospect of aging
was not even a speck
on the horizon

today
reality kicked in
time zoomed up
in a turbo charged
hot rod
screeched to a halt
in a  cloud of road dust
and said
greetings
"you are now officially old"

what?

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Haiku Horizons

left it far too late
will just have to ice skate with
maxim in my dreams

Ode To A Settlers Cottage

you have been standing
on your sturdy little stumps
for well over a hundred years

how many voices over time
are locked in these walls
i wonder

how did you
survive the cruel heat
cooking on a fuel stove
bathing in a tin tub
praying for rain
most of the time

i lie here
with a million midges
poised outside the mosquito net
intent on eating me alive

listening to the strange creaks
and soft rustles and cries of the night life outside
the wind blows across the plains
in all its wild beauty
the skies open
the angels empty their cutlery drawer
on to the roof

i smile
you must have too

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Happy New Year

goodbye to the sadness
of the old year
welcome with hope
the possibilities in the new

may all my readers
enjoy good health
peace love and prosperity
in 2017

Just Because I'm Happy

heat wave
spritely hautbois
counter tenors
cold beers
screeching cockies
laughing kookaburras
the distant howl of the dogs
purcell full blast
sound the trumpet
a splendid juxtapostion
past the black stump
out back of beyond
a delightful delirious  rendition
of wonderful insanity
inspiring a poem
just because i'm happy

Bush Christmas

my lungs thank me
clean air at last
a starlit sky
and silence
it has been too long

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[OFFICIAL VIDEO] God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Pentatonix

christmas carols
tidings of comfort and joy
good will to all men

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