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 May 2017 Stan Patty
nivek
In the desert you can afford to be happy
happiness comes in the stark beauty of life.
So much is overlooked by the business of
living, much more discovered in simplicity.
 May 2017 Stan Patty
Terry Jordan
It’s not that big a surprise
How much I adore Amsterdam
Like immigrants long ago
So welcomed here just as I am
In the historic Lloyd Hotel
To witness a wedding so swell
I’m glad I’m here in Amsterdam

Canals and bikes aplenty
Whizzing past on every street
The Keukenhof gardens amazed
VanGogh’s Museum made me weep
I’m glad I’m here in Amsterdam

We walked for miles & took the train
Our flight home I made not a peep
It must have been that Space Cake
We ate it and went right to sleep
A fond farewell to Amsterdam
Just returned on a 10-hour flight from Amsterdam to Miami, after witnessing a magical wedding of my niece Karen & Fabian, her now Dutch husband, who shared their vows on a boat ride to the Skinny Bridge where they kissed to seal their love. The' Space Cake' made the plane ride back less painful!
 May 2017 Stan Patty
nivek
there are as many ways as there are persons, unique
Sunlight and raindrops
upon
new green leaves.
Pale pink blossoms.
Wave in the breeze.
Birds sing sweetly
in the trees.
Tulips and daffodils,
so colourful and bright.
Drink in.
The sun's
warm light.
This...
is beauty.
This...
is peace.
This...
is
the moment.
Bitterness pours into
The mind, akin to
sulfuric acid in dark ink

****** chemicals
Blossoming to clouds
in the vessel
Of consciousness

Becoming phantoms, ghosts
All manner of nightmare
Haunts, parasitic, they proliferate

Be aware, they live
in your nighttime anger

The kind you sleep on

To sleep, perchance to

*DREAM
Don't let the sun go down on your anger. I had a bad experience at a family
Get-together which I allowed
To eat at me. That turned to
Depression and bad dreams

I'm better now thank God
He always helps me through!

Please have patience  with me
I'm reading again, but slowly!
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