Category Archive:poetry

It was a helluva year
Full of teen misery and angst
Full of the wonder of young love
Full of you

It was a helluva year
Full of social unrest
Full of heartache and sorrow
Full of news

It was a helluva year
Like the many gone before
Like the many yet to come
Like none we’ve ever seen

They say if you remember
The years
You didn’t live through them

I remember . . .

The year JFK died

The year Martin died

The year RFK died

The years of racial unrest

The day we met
The day we parted – came together again
The day we married – became parents

The day my mother died

In the year 2525 was a song
Full of dark sadness
No joy

I choose joy

I choose love

I choose the year
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The Trifecta Challenge this week is to writer 33-333 words using the word YEAR in its third definition:
3 : a calendar year specified usually by a number

Changed my meds again
Getting old’s not for sissies
Timeless angst for all
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Some of my bloodwork came back a bit out of kilter so the doc upped one of my meds. I’m feeling the results of that today – nothing to do but to work through it. 🙂

And to remember that getting old is not for sissies – bucking up now.

written for Lou’s Haiku Friday. Do go on over and check out his and others’ pieces.


Sign said
I said what are you thinking?
Silly high school kids!

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Why, yes, I DO live in a state of denial. Local high school has this on their sign and I am not quite ready for the “s” word to start happening. I somehow missed summer and already the chill (downright cold) is in the air. Sigh. For Haiku Friday with Lou.

btw – I pre-wrote this post for Lou’s Friday Haiku . . . then hubbymoose and I went out for the evening . . . and guess what it did??? Yes, indeedy. Of course, it being October and all, it has since melted and I have slid happily back into my favorite state. I may have to come back and edit this again . . . we shall see. Sigh.


Eagle bold and proud
Surveying all from lofty high
Token of freedom


Spotted this bald eagle atop a boat’s mast while returning home from ladies retreat in Homer last Sunday. Perfect for Friday Haiku with Lou.


Busy week soon done
Retreat coming into view
Alaska calls me

It’s Haiku Friday with Lou.