Sunday School
 
Bake bread
and share
 
Make songs
and poems
 
Make pictures
 
Read.
Write.
 
Double the recipe.
Thank your food.
 
Walk the graveled
paths of eternity
and water.

 
SINGING ALL THE WAY
 
 
Big Rock Pond by the
derelict orchard,
You look great!
 
Winter storm carvings on
the banks, tumbling rock-
plowed stream channel,
drying now.
I love what you've done
with the place.
 
Singing all the way!
 
A turkey feather from afar,
 
tadpoles,
 
a slip,
a squawk.
 
The dying beggings of a
rusting piece of steel.

A duck laughs.

 
LAST NIGHT
 
Last night
drunk on wine
like Li Po
the full moon
a helium balloon
Christmas in June.
 

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Creek Haiku #1

 
Muddy from the rains
Green aura of the orchard
The waters of March
 
Creek Haiku #2
 
flit from branch to branch
this I am able to do
the fledgling ravens
 
Thatched Cottage Haiku #1
 
blackberry blossom
tapping my kitchen window
red dragonfly day
 
Naked Yoga Haiku
 
1. inviting the breath
tuesday in the morning mist
that’s the thing to do
                (10/22/02)
                
2. bare breasted angel
saluting the divine heart
spiraling upward
 
3. tea kettle morning
rain the night before friday
creek bed is still dry
 
4. throw the leg right up
and the other will follow
inversion technique
 
5. weekend full of rain
raindrops journey down the hill
the river arrives
 
6. to the typewriter!
poems, too, take discipline
the ol’ one, two, three.
 
7. rooted as a tree
celestial reach of hands
balance in between
 
8. water flowing now
learning to love the dark time
and the gifts it brings
 
9. healing tree spirit
I will try not to need you
while you are sleeping
 
10. object of beauty
village of the dragonflies
now we will have tea
 
11. morning cloud breezes
tree wavers but does not fall
willow roots clutch sand
 
12. newly minted coins
nightly flung across the sky
the river of stars
 
13. naked and chilly
yoga in the afternoon
busy at nothing
 
14. idleness corrupts
even the most sincere hope
to the showers, you
 
15. nineteen thirty-three
claudette colbert takes a bath
asses milk to here
 
16. the many ways we
resemble the creator
with our creations
 
17. someday when we hear
the singing green medicines
we roll in clover
 
18. buddy holly day
(neglected flesh is punished)
did not fade away
                (2/4/03)
 
19. great river of stars
do we travel within you
or watch from afar?
 
20. leaden skies above
make yesterday’s daffodils
brighter even still
 
21. in vitro headstand
the rosy tunnel of dawn
sliding into life
 
22. lefty and righty
the vicissitudes of the gods
both must be mastered
 
23. iron a fresh shirt
everyday I sing the blues
key of e minor
 
24. bread dough rising
gurgling on the stove top
my own black bean soup
 
25. don’t rush through all this
holding aloft the planet
it’s got to be done
 
26. wobbly dawn entrée
matchstick wrists bearing the weight
hands don’t fail me now
 
27. old dog, older tricks
body flushed with lively blood
books, covers, judgements
 
 28. carry weight along
time the mysterious thief
chief baggage handler
                (5/17/03)
 

Bruce's Top Ten Favorite Beatles Songs, 3/26/03
 
1. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
2. Because
3. And Your Bird Can Sing
4. Across the Universe
5. Hello Goodbye
6. Can’t Buy Me Love
7. I Feel Fine
8. Mother Nature’s Son
9. One After 909
10. Getting Better All The Time

Bob Rixon picks Top Ten,  6/03

1. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
2. Rain
3. And Your Bird Can Sing
4. Strawberry Fields
5. I  Don't Want To  Spoil the Party
6.  Back in the U.S.S.R.
7. I Feel Fine
8. You Won't See Me
9. Got to Get You Into My Life
10. For the Benefit of Mister Kite
Honorable Mention: She's So Heavy
disqualified:  Cold Turkey