October 10,   2020

TWO  CUPS  OF  TEA

 

Two cups of tea are better  than one –
that is if you have 45 minutes to chat.
 
That is if you have time to figure out and
sort out with a friend what’s happening.
 
Rye bread with cold butter or raspberry jam
or Entenmanns or pound cake also works.
 
Listening, experience, but more listening
than experience is also a key to good tea.
 
Men do beer – or a cup of coffee, but
tea still is better.  Try it out for size.
 
Then one of you will say, “Gotta run!”
Thinking back – time will tell you. Tea works.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

October 10, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“There is a communion of more than wine or body when bread is broken and wine is drunk.”

 

 

M.F.K. Fisher,

The Gastronomical Me

 October  9, 2020

 

TOXIC – NON-TOXIC

 

Poems – can be – but they better not be:  toxic.
Gossip – often is - yes. Jealous and envious folks
trying to get over being dumped from relationships,
yes, toxic - when they find someone else to talk to.
But poetry no. No. No. No.  Avoid being  toxic – it
can slither into the bedroom or backyards of others.
Poetry should be uplifting – floating clouds –
floating soul stuff. Poetry is about being amazed
at a child’s crayon drawings or a Georgia O’Keeffe
or Van Gogh field of flowers or a stary, stary night  -
as the words and images of a poem sooth the soul
and breath fresh air into the whole house and all of us.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

October 9, 2020

 

Thought for Today

"I only go to Mass when somebody asks me,  but when I get in trouble, I call for a priest."  

Broderick Crawford

 

 October 8,  2020

LIMITED  EDITIONS

 

Poems  arrive not as steam engines in movies –
huffing and puffing – as they slide to a stop  -
on silver tracks - into the station of my mind.
No,  they fall from trees like autumn leaves,
red, orange, yellow – sometimes with black dots –
better spot them - better jot them down -
while they are still on the sidewalk
in front of my  house – before they crumble
and break apart or blow down the street
and get stuck in hedges or in the gutters of my roof.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 October 8, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

 “Deep experience is never peaceful.”

 

Henry James

 October  7, 2020

ROSARY

TWISTS AND TURNS

Life,
filled with mysteries,
experiences
like beads on a rosary,
like pearls on a necklace,
like drops of blood on the ground.

Life,
filled with announcements, 
visits, births, presentations, findings,
as well as sorrowful moments 
false accusations, beatings,
thorns, crosses to carry – then death.

Life,
filled with hopes
of resurrection and transfigurations,
the coming of the Spirit,
baptisms, weddings, and Masses
time to ponder all that Mary went through –
on the journey from Nazareth to  Calvary.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020