February 12, 2023

TITLE  OF  A  SONG

 

I wish I could write it –

a great singing song.

Don’t we all? Don’t we all?

It would have to have grab!

It would have to have notice –

sing along - ability. Sing along

with me. More like rain – less

than like snow. It would have

to have plenty of rhythm –

no potholes  - smooth, smooth –

easy on the wooden floors where

it is being sung  - every time it is

being sung – and obviously I’d

want many sing alongs with my

song. Hey it’s my song. Oops!

What was its title once again?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 February 12, 2023

Quote for the Day

"Though I have looked everywhere

I can  find nothing lowly

in the universe."

A. R. Ammons,  [1926-2001]

Still, [1972]

 February 11, 2023

HIS  DESK – HIS DRUM

 

His desk became a drum –

tapping it – tap tap – with

the tips of his fingers – but

what he really wanted was

to come up with a poem –

that does what a primitive

drum does – music, a beat,

getting the spirit in a reader

dancing – moving – wandering

and wondering - the new. Tap.

Type. To get that sound out from 

under your sleeping inner, inner self.

Tap, tap, tap and running with it.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

February 11, 2023

Quote for Today 

"Life is made up or marble and mud."

Nathaniel Hawthorne  [1804-1864]

The House of the Seven Gables [1851] Chapter 2

 February 10,  2023

WHAT'S  HAPPENING?

Every day has its moments – its twists and turns.

We give them times and moments – days and years -

so we can be able to label them when different things

happen  – not just for history – but for talking about our

lives. What’s happening?   When? When? When?

 

When I was 11 years old – my dad took me to Portland …..

Last year  - I think it was last year – it was in the summer –

I ran into Archie. I hadn’t seen him since our Coney Island days….

She dropped me – just like that – I didn’t see it coming – and

the hurt is still there – rubbing me like sandpaper for a year now….

 

I’ve been happy thinking about the time I got to Estonia ….

Always like a chocolate shake and a Big Mac ….

Thanks to Raymond Macintosh I learned how to play chess ….

Miss not reading the Washington Post every morning ….

Try to say the Rosary prayer every day ….

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 Feb 10, 2023

Quote for Today

"An old tale which every schoolboy knows."

William Whitehead [1715-1785]

The Roman Father,  prologue

 February 9. 2023

POST  CARDS

 

Post cards – like baseball bubble gum cards –

seem to have sticking around – long lasting value.

We find them in books and letter box collections.

The messages on the back don’t seem to have

the mystery of letters – especially relationship letters.

Letters can be glued closed and sealed. Post cards

can be read on the sneak. Then there is the picture

on the post card – often telling us where the sender

is visiting on a vacation: Rome, Vienna, Niagara Falls.

Life: words, pictures, trips.  Where have you been?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello