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  • The Last Monarch…Photo

    A year ago today I took what would be my last photograph of a monarch butterfly in my backyard. For 12 consecutive years I could count on seeing a monarch in October flittering around cosmos, lantana, or English ivy. But this year no monarchs showed up, including in other nearby areas where I typically saw […]

    67steffen

    October 14, 2022
    #butterflies
    #the last monarch
  • Fall Lament

    Leave me alone leaves Let me be Too many of you Only one of me.

    67steffen

    October 11, 2022
    Poetry
    #leaf raking
  • Soft Edges

    Upon wakening I avoid THE NEWS On my way with three dogs To the backyard Where they pee And I inhale fresh air While saying that silent prayer Where I am truthfully thankful For each moment given me. The day could end here But for the shelling in Ukraine, The nonstop blah-blah of politics, The rise […]

    67steffen

    October 7, 2022
    Introspection, Poetry
    #global chaos
  • The Battle With Words

    Every day words emerge Their tiny fingers gripping The screen’s edges, Eyes blinking, no doubt From too much time in darkness. They arrive en masse, Waiting further instructions From me, I presume, But we have yet to decide What is to be controlled By whom. Am I an empty vessel Adrift on the Nile, Passing […]

    67steffen

    October 1, 2022
    #memory, Poetry
    #writer’s block
  • The Fog of Life

    The Fog of Life thickens as I age. Answers, reasons, connections, increasingly out of sight, But If I sat down, stopped my thoughts, concentrated, I assuredly would uncover something of value. The effort required is the last remaining mystery of life, A puzzle of the mind That defies solving Because it doesn’t get done Even […]

    67steffen

    September 30, 2022
    Poetry
    #aging mistakes
  • Nightmare Forum

    We were standing around in our togas Pontificating When the sun burst through the skies And my thoughts fought off other thoughts In this deadly drone of blah blah Where no one listens or sees Those hallowed walls caving in With all the etched warnings Turning into concrete dust That will hover over our demise.

    67steffen

    September 28, 2022
    Poetry
    #end of world
  • Drought and Wind Danger

    An Italian Stone Pine tree in a Sacramento public park lost a large branch this week, falling directly on a walking path when no one was around. Climate change has accelerated tree death in California’s ” City of Trees.” The new normal is avoiding tree areas when it is windy.

    67steffen

    September 25, 2022
    climate change, trees
    #fallen branch
  • The Memory Museum Closes

    Breaking News: The memory museum is closed on Mondays And to eliminate confusion every day is now Monday But a new exhibition is planned soon To accommodate the thirst for the past And to quell the uproar over How we’d like to see things On CNN and Fox News. Meanwhile the debate over Mondays Will […]

    67steffen

    September 24, 2022
    news, Poetry
    #manipulation
  • Party Talk

    In a crowded room I asked her to tell me about herself. Got the first edition off the shelf, Pages and pages from her Dark Ages. I had a story to share But she said she had to use the facilities, So I was left alone With her dark nights And shards of glass. She […]

    67steffen

    September 22, 2022
    Poetry
    #rejection
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