June 29, 2021

 COMING  HOME

Coming up the street,
coming home,
after a long day,
after a wrong day,
not every day –
but today – yes ....
"No, everything
went wrong, nothing
went right." I was cut
by a nasty comment,
not recognized,
not listened to,
not acknowledged,
just ignored once more,
once again. ,

needing a hug, a hello,
a "Welcome home!"
[Silence!]
"Thank you!"
“Now, just sit down for 15 minutes.”
“Hi Dad!”
“I had a bad day at school today.”
“Come here and tell me about it.”
[Voice from the kitchen:] 
“Supper will be ready in 20 minutes.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

June  29,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

 

Annie Dilliard

June  28, 2021

I  WISH

 
I wish and wish and wish ….
I want and want and want ….
But
without working on my wishes,
without working to get at my wantings ….
And then
I overdose on inner denyings ….
and weeks and months and years
flow under the bridge and down the river.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

June 28,  2021

Thought for the Day

 

“What does your conscience say? — ‘You should become the person you are’.”  

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

June  27,  2021

FINAL  EDITION

 

Does a poem differ

if I write it with a red pen –

instead of my regular blue ink

ball point pen?

 

How about:  does it differ

depending on what I had for supper

and the conversation we had

during it was a good one?

 

A poem has to come

from somewhere – something

on the lawn or on the kitchen table

or a surprise phone call.

  

Everything and everyone

are interconnected. Too often

I’m not connecting with the everyone.

Write poems!  You too God. You too!

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

June  27,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.” 

 

from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

 by Frank L. Baum

 June  26,  2021

REFLECTIONS 

Light off silver or gold ….
Image in a mirror ….
Something someone said keeps echoing within ….
Memories after experiences ….
Books written ….
Points to Ponder – Reader’s Digest ….
Thoughts in solitary confinement ….
Window seat – by yourself – on a long bus ride ….
Thoughts in church at a loved one’s funeral ….
Nursing home – after the visitors leave ….
Kicking oneself – after a divorce ….
Inside one's head in a barber’s chair ….
Some sermons ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021