June 3, 2012
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I'm too Damn Lazy
I am too damn lazy today. I am going to do only things that I have done before. I will rewash the cars, recut the grass, ask that my favorite argyle socks be included in the weekly laundry rewashing. I may, if I really feel lazy, reclean the garage and recycle a few items at the local landfill. The way I understand it, when that landfill turns into landfull, they plan on reusing the area for other things. I would like to think that I contributed to that.
So, being lazy, I am just going to repost a couple poems I wrote about a year ago that I would like to reread.
Saturday June 4, 2011
Beware the robin's look
The chirp and stare of protecting life
Perched not far away
Demanding attention onto a dying branch.
How far can be flown to gather,
leaving blue eggs to cool
and to tempt the curious.
Does she know what has been nested
or is she as curious as we,
wondering what life has wrought.DSS
Wednesday May 18, 2011
We have wandered among the green fields,
on the open prairie and in the foot hills.
On the roads, we've worked with the tired and the weary.
For days we've worked for Saturday's pay
and for the quenching of our thirst.
Under the summer sun with orange flags and hot oil
our purpose is directed.
Each wet steaming mile under foot is our goal.
To slowly provide a smooth ride
for the cool and the fast.
Look into the eyes of the sunburned.
Stare into the dark glasses of the sun blinded
as you wait and then slowly pass.
Long are our days
Long are our roads
Follow our tracks as we spend our day.DSS
May 5, 2011
Watching the rain, I recede from the day
And I have paused
Outdoor plans will wait
Other things will be done today
Simple tasks that have waited for this morning
Human things thought unimportant while skies are clear
A day that words may be read and written
A time for pacing and patience
Listening for the wind
And watching round ripples on shallow pools.DSS
Comments (13)
Lazy days were made for beer my friend.
Just a thought, say hi to Marsh for me.
Thank you very much for the comment Sir! Marsh says Hi! back at ya! Not a bottle of beer insight, i'm afraid.
Love the first about the robin and the curiosity of all creatures because I do believe we are curious by nature and design.
Ahhhh, it must be summer - again! Love these. The second, especially reminds me of my chldhood in the country where they would oil the roads every summer and spread sand across the wet surface. Poor worms all tar coated would line the edges (I always walked barefoot in those days). It inspired my first attempt at poetry in high school: Remain forever barefoot roads, noon hot roads in the summer sun; the tar ten-toe imprintable, name writably soft.
It was several stanzas long, but this is all I can remember of it - and, of course, the rest is long gone...but, here is a robin poem for you, because I like yours so much (did I say thanks for sharing these? They are not reruns for some of us)
Phantom Limbs
When they cut
down the apple tree,
the wide sky
suddenly
appeared much too close - sunlight
jitterbugging in
the roses -
without the ease of
dappled green,
shadow shy
fingers, mid-morning grasped bright
handsful of pansies
and forget-
me-nots, the garden
transformed in
its embrace.
Only the displaced robin
and I worried and
complained of
those missing branches,
wondering
where we'd sit
to sing, where will we swing our
summer freckled legs?
East Barre, Vermont
7/11/06
There is a robin's nest under the eaves of the garage - thankfully toward the river side where no one goes, but I can see it from my bathroom window, and spend long minutes watching momma feeding her chicks.Hope you are having a great weekend.
@murisopsis - I think you are right, they have to be curious. It can't all be instinct.
@SandraErickson - Thank you for sharing your robin poem too! The absence of one branch can change the whole yard!
We too had hot tar and sand roads, I know exactly what ten-toe imprintable is and how "noon-hot" they can be to the bare feet!! ouch! ouch! hot!hot!
Glad you enjoyed them Sandra and thanks for the rec!
Hey there, lazy man! lol
I would stop to cast a stone.....'cept I was too lazy to go to my opera today.....and I had a TICKET!! lol
In my defense, I had just seen one on Thursday and had been out just last night, so was not feeling the urgent inclination to be entertained so much as rested....ie, I was lazy. =)
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