Yes memories are vibrant
Here and now patience must be strong and alive
Waiting to love you
Not a stand in
My one and only is the only one that will
Do.
Artificial Intelligence can’t generate or recreate it.
Want you
Count the moments
The minutes
The Seconds
The Hours
It is out of our control
When it is
I will love you again
And again

C@rainbowchaser2023

Hiked it without boots
Tore my heel and learned a life lesson
Own hiking shoes now
The almost December Bluebirds greeted me appreciating the quiet
Listening is a very important skill for a writer as well as observing
Frolicking squirrels decided to have an acrobatic performance
Rocky, Skippy, Peanut, Jif and Skye had a great time
Male and female but don"t get close enough to tell
They are all a little different
Keeping a safe distance but when that roasted peanut bag of shelled unsalted nut opens they seem to come around
Some play hide and seek and climb down from their trees when the human is clear
Watching from a distance it is clear what Henry David taught me and my students long ago
When I touched his desk that day at the museum and walked on Walden Pond
I was thrilled to be an educator and to have taught Walden
As a poet, he taught me more about Father Sky and Mother Nature and I am still learning with joy and respect

C@rainbowchaser 2023

Carlos,Mrs.Timetable,Joey and company.
Hiking Walden Pond .
Maybe we will soneday
Touching  Thoureau 's desk.
Marveling as his cabin is gently hugged by the Massachusetts sky
Henry David is listening in the wind and sky
I know because I was there and forever changed by the visit
c@rainbowchaser2020

Good Morning squirrels
Stay safe and happy today
Dear Sky, You have to rain but can it wait for me to finish today?
You soaked me through a few times already
Trusty umbrella and a bottle of iced diet green tea at the ready
My miles help animals and me with an app that measures my distances.
They help me get on with it by walking

C#rainbowchaser2023

Walking has become a healthy means to reframe and enjoy every day or start that way.
No music, no podcasts only nature's sounds and music
It's healthy.
It's calming.
For the last four years of battling diseases of those close to the heart and Dear Friends, pain, hurdles, and sorrow
It has become a great friend
It doesn't read my poetry
It doesn't promise to write book reviews that have yet to come to fruition
Walking for hope, and charitable causes and to see what the world can be
Walking for and with Hope

C@rainbowchaser2023

Looking up and ahead
Amazing what you can notice when you are not fixated on your cell phone or ipod.
Sky colors change and have nuance
The wind rearranges depth and scope of everything it touches
You can take your time and take it in or not
While
Walking

C@rainbowchaser2020

Friends are running a marathon in it today with raingear handy.
Ducks were racing and splashing without a care.
How waterproof are their feathers?
Others walk their dogs soe dogs wearing their fashionable raincoats and booties.
Many drive to their Saturday plans which are now indoors.
Hearing lyrics to every song about rain from film to rock to theater.
Left tunes home since umbrella and hood get in the way and impossible to get a clear signal.
Rain brings drop zones.
Walking in the the rain.

C@Rainbowchaser2023

He reminded me of my visit to Walden Pond and how I tore my heel because I didn't own hiking boots.
Since corrected.
I touched his desk in disbelief
My thoughts on the Civil Disobedience book and how I much prefer Walden
We stopped as the ducks sat on a log in the pond and waited until the Goose march ended with the geese taking flight
Thinking he is one of my muses and I am grateful
He lived long ago but never far away
Walking with Henry David
C@rainbowchaser2023

Walking with yesterday
It is company and silent
On rainy days and humid ones
Think about it
Digest it
Grateful for what was, what is, and what will be
Those who lived yesterday will be forgiven and still questioned in my heart for comments and stupidity
It won't be forgotten but needs to be filed under been there and Done that
Thanks for the memories but we won't be making them any longer
Walking with yesterday
Walking with yesterday
When I arrive home they are put away
and there they will stay

C@rainbowchaser2023

They won’t tell you
Their words are not shared
They carry on existing
Usually going unnoticed
Their differences eventually will see them through
Until they grasp the reins of life they won’t know
Somebody needs you to listen
Maybe a kind word or a smile
Maybe more than ever before
The Walking wounded are everywhere but invisible
Until their game faces fade away
My membership expired
Hallelujah

C@rainbowchaser2020

Walking is the best excercise especially when it clears your head, heart, and mind
One can focus and reflect quietly
Being caring,honest,kind,and sweet are assests
Given the current world,
One can be abused and used easily
Even by those they love
Being taken advantage of is hard to swallow and accept
Still recovering from that
So Nature and her children have befriended me
Walking write

Water and walking app accompany them
Destressing.
Quietly observing the community
Count the pets, their humans, trees, flowers ,and weekend warriors Serenity
While others go to their house of worships, down the shore, to the mountains or ready themselves for the weekly Sunday meal at at relative's or potluck at friends
Things one might not encounter driving by
Walking writers

C@rainbowchaser2021

No matter what it was
Or is it , that it reached you in ways you never expected.
It capttured your heart,soul,amd mind
Many likes between someday and today.
Enjoy your journey every moment and as much as possible,
Was it speaking to you?

C@rainbowchaser2024

You are peacefully napping
Wondering if your dreams are pleasant
Where will you wander and travel ?
Revisiting the past
In touch with the memory of those you have lost
So when those blue eyes open
Quietly, I will await you.
Sleep well baby

C@rainbowchaser 2023

Soul mates and best friends living our adventures
Some routine and some pristine
Others wonderful surprises that others might take for granted
There is nothing I would not do for you to help you or make your days more pleasant
That goes for how you treat me
You gave me your heart and name decades ago
We are very different
We agree to disagree
The respect and joy shared is the greatest gift
So the next time you want to utter those two words, remember We are long past Thank you

C@rainbowchaser2020

We share a surname
We share a life
We bid fond farewells to many but keep them in our hearts
We have a love others may never know
You gave me your heart
You gave me a diamond
We travel and continue more journeys and adventures
We have been patient but it will come around again
You show me love that others wish for and may never encounter
We welcomed new faces and family
We are way Beyond Thank you
And yet, you Thanked me for breakfast earlier today

C@rainbowchaser2024

The Summer Muse is calling
Other writers will understand but each genre has different requirements
You fashion and select words that tell a story uniquely as well and as creatively as possible
You hear the words in your head and then run to a keyboard or a pen
Metaphors and similes dance in your mind as you try to create new ones that are fresh with meaning
Poets know that the Muses have chosen them and that and so much more is what a poet knows

C@rainbowchaser2023

Respect
Lifetime friendships torn to shreds
Making people's lives not only difficult but beyond comprehension
The day by day simple joys vanish
The meglomaniac doesn't know any better
We do
That is the difference
It is 2025 not 1940

Nobody to read
Nobody to listen
Will my books sell?
Who am I?
What good is it to be a writer?
Sometimes the words don't come
They don't work
How dare I call myself a writer?
What good is it?
Wait and see

WHat happened to me?
you didn't let yourself go
Situationsnd people got in the way
Not selfish and selfless
You need to know the difference
What happened to me?
You learn if you don't take care of yourself than you are useless to those who need you and the world

C@rainbowchaser 2023

He somehow knew
You were the one
World's largest Christmas tree and chestnuts
Talking after graduate school til one am
Work beckoned later that day but he listened
His blue eyes always do
The beautiful Teddy Bear in the big box that told you more than you could imagine
The key to the future and he is still with you
Dealt with a parent that never wanted him in your life
And Yet
What he did for love

C@rainbowchaser2021

Stop and really listen
Dont think and just absorb
Take it in
Shut your mind offf,can you do that?
Close Alexa and your technology toys
We feed on knowing
We are poised to try and understand and accept
We deal with mixed messages and incomplete answers
Let's not state the obvious
Though even that changes moment to moment
What I am sure of is that stopping the world and getting off from tine to time -works
Walden pond is a gift and HDT taught us that
Luckily,I visited there and walked there.
Wherever you are,you gave a Walden to enjoy,do so
We have to continue learning in this topsy turvy world

C@rainbowchaser2020

Older
Not old
Positive
Refusing to allow politics and ignorance to rule or dictate my life
Goodness and Kindness guide my light and life
Nothing Mickey Mouse or Pollyanna about it or me
So no matter what you say and believe
No matter what you choose to do
Somehow I will find a way to come shining through
Because that is who I am and what I need to do
What I need to do

Winner take all?
How about playing the game?
Sadistic stupidity
Utter joy
Pain and pleasure
Happiness personified
Thunderstorms and bombs
Long walks on beaches never ending
Yesterday is over
It was what it was
Today just enjoy every moment without toxicity and ignorance
If you get tomorrow try reading a book
Stop tuning out
You might just get to the truth with all sides of the story

C@rainbowchaser2021

The Glad company is indebted to you because you throw it all away
Anything five minutes ago isn't in your radar
Quantity seems to matter more than quality
If it ain't broke don't fix
Money should be spent not saved
If you have earned it then tbe decision is yours to make
While we are it do what you please in your house
Not a real estate broker staging an event for a hopeful sale
Leave us alone with what's new with you?
You are welcome to visit but hit self edit button before you arrive

C@rainbowchaser2022

Do you leave well enough alone?
Dont fix what is not broken.
Accept what is and not quest for what could be improved and made better
Is complacency the answer?
We go back to basics when Technology lets us down or isnt working
Have we forgotten yesterday when tomorrow isnt a given
Have we not apprecisted today?
Its wealth and gifts.
Do we know where we are going to or towards?

C@Rainbowchaser2020

Religion and Politics are not being analyzed or discussed here
Truth, honesty, gratitude and common sense are
The difference between right and wrong
Good versus evil
Evil spelled backwards spells live
Living good and well is the prescription
You fill that and stop being selfish
You can go back in time but you live for today
Hoping you get a tomorrow
What it is and what it could be
A debate on social media or MSNBC
How about being a caring and thoughtful Human being?
Twenty years post Nine eleven haven't we learned yet?

C@rainbowchaser2021

People and Places
Friends old and new
Some waiting to meet in person
Shooting the breeze and connecting
Face to face
Person to person
Concentrate on what pleases you and those around you
Let go of what and who wastes your time
Learned the hard way that loss changes more than time and place
Memories only hold on to yesterday
Still cherish them
What matters most is now and tomorrow
Remember today

C@rainbowchaser2023

Patience
Kindness
Love
Care
Being true to yourself
Turning a deaf ear even when it hurts
Turning your sensitivity into something remarkable
Until this day it still teaches
I should know, I taught for thirty year and still learning

C@rainbowchasr2023

The rain comes down as if the Ark was calling
The silence and emptiness is the most deafening
Even with Social Media and Face time
We are always dealing with lessons to learn
Obstacles that are determined to get in our way
We will rise
No matter what State you call home
It is about shining through
What's it all about?
A patience you never knew you had and how to use it

C@rainbowchaser2020

It's not about you
It's about what you do
So until you find it
Or it finds you
Get a clue
It's not about you
It's about what you do

C@rainbowchaser2021

It inspires
It desires
Makes you fly
Makes you dive and drive
It is passion and a desire that consumes and loves you
Face it,you love it too
Always accompanies your journey
Even now and now will change too
You do it your way though others might now see it or understand
It is not about them or for them
This time it is okay to be selfless
Selfish has nothing to do with it
Whatever you are searching for once it finds you
Accompany it and go for it
Never let It go because you don’t really know
What speaks to your heart ?

C@rainbiwchaser2020

It was a beautiful day with lots of puppies and dogs frolicking around as their human watched them with water and treats if needed and wanted.
That night I dreamt of one dog asking his human Can I take you to the human park and put a leash on you?

C@rainbowchaser2023

Embrace and enjoy today
Yesterday is part of
your memories
Not every wrong has its remedy
Sometimes you just cant fathom things or people
Is it worth the effort?
You cant always let go,give in,or forgive
Easier said than done
The choices are yours of course but by never saying never
What was and what might yet be
The door to your life remains ajar
for the success or failure of the future

c@rainbowchaser2019

Sometimes it is what's in the heart and not what is before them coming in and out of focus
If they see and not look
Optimism not **** eyed clear and true
Refocus and find a different viewpoint
Be true to yourself
Kindness and concern take center stage
Aggravation and pain are redirected to a focal point new to you and others
The world and how one sees becomes a question of what could be and what should be versus what is
What these eyes have seen is not a reboot
It is original and everlasting
Outside looking in and inside looking out
What are you looking at?

C@rainbowchaser2023

Those incredibly azure blue eyes hidden under your specs
The tall body that is sure and solid
You never look down on people though they look up to you
The laughter from your jokes or the magic of your smile
Your touch style ignites a passion that will tke a life time to describe
I am up to that challenge
Electricity and lightning to begin with
What was it
What it is and always has been
Love you Madly
What was it
My best friend, life partner and love of my life
They will never have a number high enough to describe it and when they do they
Will need another
What was it?
What it is, you and me
Me and you

C@rainbowchaser2021

Pit fresh cherries
Bake from scratch when it is not too hot
Stay home on a Saturday night when you would rather be out
Cry in the shower not to upset them
Take walks to make the disappointment lessen
Do what ever it takes and more
Calmly, sanely, and passionately
Turn down invitations because your love needs to heal
They need time you must give
What you do for love
What you must and all you can

C@Rainbowchaser2021

Who loves you
and who you love
The difference between like and love
The Golden Circle of Family and Friends that love unconditionally and surround you
Those that have been there, done, that, and always will
They will repeat that if need be or need not.
Keep your heart open for new friends around the corner or around the world
What you know for sure
Is pure
C@rainbowchaser2023

Did the words matter?
The message was confused because it never was transmitted
Was it worth the effort?
Save it for another
Did it matter anyway?
Venting elsewhere might be good for the future
Was it worth the price you will pay?
What you say
Say it to yourself
Tell it to the wind
Where does it end and begin
What you say
C@rainbiwchaser2020

It is a Hebrew proverb.
Things go up and down
You ride high and low
Your appreciation and joy cant be taken for granted
If your knowledge increases and lessons are learned
When low tide surrounds you take what you can from it
and apply it for those rainy and stormy days
Given the current world,think of today
Cartwheels and walks in tbe sunshine admiring Nature are other ways to turn
The next time your wheels are spinning just think about this
You never know when the wheel stops and starts for you

C@rainbowchaser2020

It's a Yiddish proverb
Things and people go up and down
You ride high and then low
Sometimes you coast
Your appreciation and joy should never be taken for granted
Take what you can from low tide
Learn from it
Apply that knowledge towards stormy and rainy days
Jump and do cartwheels find other ways to turn
Walk and dance
The next time your wheels are spinning just think about this
You never know when the wheel stops and starts for you
Don't go with the flow
Go with your heart and what you know
You will learn much more when you accept the Wheel

C@rainbowchaser 2023

It keeps you awake
It makes you feel awkward
You know what it is
Won't admit it
Refuse to deal with it
Causes appointments set and then postponed
Excuses turned into prescriptions for maladies of your own design
When it feels wrong
Go inside yourself and trust your heart
Speak up or reach out so you can be heard
Sonebody will listen and care

C@Rainbowchaser 2019

It's not about them.
It is about you
You can care and share
Be loving and considerate
This time it is not a stranger or a friend
Not a friend of a friend
The ball was tossed to you
You have to play
Before you know the rules of the game
There is a flow and feeling
A control about the cards dealt to you
You are not gambling your life and meaning for what is at stake
You don't go through this alone but when those closest to you feel a million miles away because what you are doing is all too real
You stay the course
You stay positive and win with patience and great but quiet determination
When it is all too real
Live genuinely and when it is all too great.

C@rainbowchaser2023

Not for lack of words
Not for lack of ideas and fresh takes
The Muse is around when he or she wants to be
I think there are two in my life
When I touched Henry David's desk at Walden
It was an epiphany and yet I wished he could speak with me
That is what happens when the words stay with the muse at least this one

C@rainbowchaser2023

Something doesn"t resonate
Just doesn't ring true
You can't find paper or a pen
When it visits at strange times at ungodly hours of the night
Dare you say it or write it down
Yet,it lingers
Wont"t let you go
Try creating a new metaphor or simile
You want to remember yesterday but it just isn't anymore
It is a memory you cherish but look at in photo albums
Close them and visit every now and then
Like friendships that used to be closer but have changed too
Some will never come again
Every now and then
When the words won't come

This is not a decade poem
Age sometimes has wisdom but some are older souls though their birth certificates don't jive
It is only a number, folks
This is not about being correct
Learn when to say F off
F you
The most important one I F Ed up and I apologize
When to use a Four letter word
Some have beauty and others lessons
Some thorns and others nightmares

C@rainbowchaser2021

You really made love to and with someone?
Not just ***
Passion and music
No rushing
Nothing stopping you or getting in the way
The last time you held hands walking
Sometimes that look that lasts a little longer
When was the last time?
C@rainbowchaser2022

When  you come full circle
Revolving doors can be painful
Watch for sharp corners that might deter you
That includes people and places too
Others lurk where you least expect them
Shut the doors behind you for those who stayed awhile but their time is up
The no longer play a role in your life
Be grateful they were there at all
Take that deep breath.
You earned it.
It took a lot out of you to reach this intersection and plateau
You crossed it
But know that you did but don't revel in it for too long
It served its purpose and  down the road it will be a private smile that only you will recognize
Just remember this when you come full circle
You now know what matters the most so take care of yourself
Those that will always be there for you are in reach even when you
are out of touch
Just look over your shoulder
As well as into your heart
When you come full circle

C@rainbowchaser2022