“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
― Heraclitus
A grandeur of illusion
a miracle of sorts
trailblazing your dreams
and circling and creating
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March 13, 2020
Journey- A Question
March 7, 2020
FAR AWAY – BUT ALWAYS BONDED
February 22, 2020
A “Best Advice To A New Incoming College Freshman” Limerick
My Alma Mater recently asked it’s alum what would be the best advice they could give an incoming freshman student. Of course, they were asking for real, serious and valuable advice. I had some of that for them – EMBRACE THE ADVENTURE. College will be a big part of the story of your life. Make it a story that you love to tell.
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February 3, 2020
Distorted Passage
I swim in
streams and rivers
instead of on land,
looking up
through ripples
seeing mere refractions
of unknowns
filtered through milky moonlight.
Down small creeks,
under
branches splitting
the sky,
dark firs waving in
the breeze like monks
chanting,
and oaks bragging of age;
rocks and crags,
shifting, rippling,
dropping dappled shards of
sunlight on
crystal, chuckling waters.
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January 28, 2020
LETTING GO
January 7, 2020
Primitive
By Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on talk, elegant and
honest, rational. But you and I are
savages. You come in with a bag,
hold it out to me in silence.
I know Moo Shu Pork when I smell it
and understand the message: I have
pleased you greatly last night. We sit
quietly, side by side, to eat
the long pancakes dangling and spilling,
fragrant sauce dripping out,
and glance at each other askance, wordless,
the corners of our eyes clear as spear points
laid along the sill to show
a friend sits with a friend here.
January 3, 2020
Finding Home
I can’t go home, because
home has not stopped
moving yet.
But I do know that
this moment is real;
I know how your lips feel,
I know the heat and
weight of you
In the dark,
or pressed against me
at a dock, oblivious
of jealous eyes,
saying a goodbye,
wordlessly telling
me what feels right.
I know loneliness
melts
in the heat of the
grace of you.
Stay with me a while, dancer.
Let’s walk on the beach,
and look in the sands for courage,
and sit at dawn,
watching the day come up like thunder.
December 25, 2019
A JOYFUL CELEBRATION
By Charles Robert Lindholm
A
Christmas Party,
A Joyful Celebration
Shared With Friends And
Family
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December 25, 2019
THE GIFT OF YOUR TIME
December 25, 2019
CHRISTMAS HAIKU: CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY – 2019 REPRISE
December 25, 2019
HAIKU: JUST ONE WISH – 2019 REPRISE
By Charles Robert Lindholm
If I Were Granted
Just One Wish, I’d Wish For You
And That’s What I Did
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December 25, 2019
HAIKU: A CHRISTMAS SLEEP IN – REPRISE – 2019
December 25, 2019
CHRISTMAS HAIKU: A CHRISTMAS TREE’S GIFT – REPRISE – 2019
By Charles Robert Lindholm
A Pine Tree’s Sweet Smell
With Lights And Decorations
Is It’s Christmas Gift
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December 25, 2019
CHRISTMAS WISHES AND MEMORIES
December 10, 2019
ANOTHER FOOL’S LIES
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Fools
Will Believe
Another Fool’s Lies
Instead Of Searching for
Truth
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December 7, 2019
DAY OF INFAMY
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Pearl
Harbor Memories
Day Of Infamy
Forever Etched Upon Our
Hearts
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December 2, 2019
BLACK FRIDAY CRAZY
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Black
Friday Sales
Are Absolutely Crazy
With People Dying To
Shop
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November 28, 2019
I’M THANKFUL FOR YOU!
November 1, 2019
DOES PARTISAN EQUAL STUPID?
October 28, 2019
A REINCARNATION OF JUDAS
October 26, 2019
SEEKING REVENGE
October 18, 2019
NO ONE WILL WONDER
October 17, 2019
WHY DOES TIME FLY?
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Time
Runs Slowly
‘Til The Workweek’s Done
But Like A Shooting Star
Once You’re Having Fun
The Seconds
Tick By,
One By One
Measured All The Same
So Why Does Work Time
Feel So Slow
Yet Fly On By
When You’re
Having Fun
I’d Really
Like To Know
Wouldn’t You?
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October 16, 2019
NEPOTISM, SELF-DEALING AND LAWLESSNESS
By Charles Robert Lindholm
White
House Nepotism,
Self-Dealing And Lawlessness
Allowed For Believers And
Swampmeisters
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October 15, 2019
LESS SAFE
By Charles Robert Lindholm
America’s
Less Safe
Because Benedict Donald’s
Syrian Decision Risks ISIS
Resurgence
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October 10, 2019
BENEDICT DONALD
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Benedict
Donald Has
Betrayed And Abandoned
Kurds To War With
Turkey (And Russia)
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October 9, 2019
