“The Approach” For the Sunday Whirl Wordle, 662

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the pink clouds,
Clouds above
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The Approach

The edges of my wishes wrap around my mind
over expectations of another kind
curling over “To Do” lists, jerking at their edges,
causing piled paper work to fall off bookshelf ledges,
breathing life into that void—that gap left in the middle
of all those daily tiresome tasks to leave some room to fiddle.
To look at curling banks of clouds that sail across a sky
so vast that I can’t count them, so I don’t even try.

Everything in life need not be a tiresome task.
Every day presents a time when I take time to bask
for at least a moment, or ten or twenty more,
in other natural treasures that lie outside my door.
Life seems to be speeding by, rushing toward its brink—
once stretched out before me, but soon over in a blink.
Ever conscious of those acts that I will leave behind me,
I wonder what life choices in the end will have defined me.

 

For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 662 the words are: jerk void breath gap vast blinked curling sky wish wrap edge ever

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

18 thoughts on ““The Approach” For the Sunday Whirl Wordle, 662”

  5. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

    I like your poem and the accompanying photos, even if I have a “thing” about progress mucking up our earth. I hate “cell phone towers” and the many things that we just accept as part of the landscape, But the love of nature and our efforts to improve on it is a better anamnesis than an ugly tower sticking up in the air or power and phone lines on each side of a beautiful road hiding the natural beauty surrounding us. I have a “thing” about progress mucking up our earth. You will note in that one photo of your beautiful place where I removed the wires, leaving only the natural beauty of your place and those things you did to improve it.

    The sad thing is that with modern technology these things are no longer necessary and it is only greed and big business that continue to destroy our earth.

    There, thanks for the beauty of your poetry for reminding me of the good and the bad we face, Right now I have high lines and phone lines, strung down my winding country road, As the road curves the lines cross from one side to the other, and when they pass over the beautiful live oaks, great whacks are taken out of the trees for the wires to pass.

    Now there is a new fiber optic service being installed. Fiber optics can take the place of thousands of communications. It will replace those thick multi-filament cables hanging in great dips through the trees, cables which when they become overloaded have been updated by just adding another thick cable to the total.

     Fiber optic cables are actually small and can be placed underground, but what do we see~?  Two things, a new set of poles running down our road on the opposite side of the other wires, zigzagging to the opposite side in those curves.

    Some day I hope they will replace the telephone and TV cable but for now they have just doubled the eyesore.  The electric wires run like spider webs often doubling where good engineering could have made for less encroachment. That was not enough, a new taller communication tower has just been installed where three shorter ones already existed on top of one of our beautiful Texas Hills. I am happy to have the service but satellites give us better communication.

    It is my desire to leave nothing behind that does not enhance the surroundings, my home is designed to fit into nature, I plant mostly things that fit the scene and add to it rather than trying to hide or destroy it, Posterity may not remember my name or how this place came to be, but it will be enjoyed until some damn fool bulldozes it to build a Costco or a “Sippy Lue Wine Place” with tacky one-room B & B cabins.

    I think that I will have another cup of hot coffee and dream of the days when life was less a “modern convenience” and nature was enjoyed as much as a soap opera on TV, instead of turning it into a tourist trap.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Feeing a bit grouchy today, Sam??? ;o). Actually, I know what you mean about the wires. You have never ever seen unsightly tangles like the ones overhead in Mexico. I’ll snap you some photos for you . Mean me.

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      1. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

        Thanks for the offer of a photo of those wires, I went to a lot of trouble of removing them with Photo Shop in front of your home. Must have gotten up on the wrong foot this morning, Loved the poem, even if it also brought the negative side of me Ms Judy~! In England the phone likes are even worse, the spider web out of a single pole into several directions to the various houses.

        Still very hot here and I am not moving very fast, That makes me mean~!

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  6. Marsha's avatarMarsha

    I’m always impressed by the depth of your thinking, Judy. We do have a few free moments every day. Most of mine I spend vegging over a jigsaw puzzle, the TV, or a book. That’s bound to leave an impressive legacy someday! 🙂

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