April 30,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Yes God!  Yes God!  Yes, yes and always yes.”

 

Nicolas de Cusa

 April  29,  2021

      THE  RELATIVITY  OF  TIME 

 
Last week went too fast.
This week is going too slow.
Both have the same amount of hours.
 
Sometimes I’m in an ice age.
Sometimes I’m in a warm mist.

Sometimes I’m in total melt.
 
Spring …. summer…. fall …. winter ….
The melting of the ice, budding trees,
warm green grass, falling orange leaves.

Ordinary and extraordinary days,
Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries,
hello and goodbyes, Oh no! Oh yes! 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

April 29,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“A writer who keeps a personal diary uses it to record what he knows.  In his poems or stories he sets down what he doesn’t know.”

 Adam Zagajewski,

Another Beauty, 2000

 April 28,  2021

 

2:37 AM 

Woke up -
somewhere in the middle of nothing -
went to the bathroom -
woke up in the middle of the night -
noiseless, nothing -
night, darkness.

I’m alive,
now back to the space of sleep,
deep into the out of my control,
will I be awake in the morning?

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

April  28,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

“A poem’s every line conceals the sufferings of Cambodia and Auschwitz …. Every line also holds  a spring day’s joy.  Tragedy and joy collide n every line.”

Adam Zagajewski,

A Defense of Ardor, 2004

April  27,  2021UGHT

CAUGHT

Lost, caught, trapped, stuck,
not sure of what’s next.

Show me a small house
in this bloated forest.

Let there be a light in a window.
Let there be a fire place – lit.

Let there be a door that opens -
without any trouble.
 
Let there be food on a stove.
and a soft chair to sit on.

I need a warm bed for the night
and a long, long sleep - rest.

Tomorrow I can find my way out
of this mess – but not right now. 
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

April 27,  2021

 Thought for the Day

 

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?”

 

Albert Einstein