Elusive Art

Scalloped sandy cove
tucked inside rocky coast

copied many times
by different artists' eyes

with ever-changing aspects
not captured yet on canvas. 

Pensive Thoughts

Artificial intelligence
ready and waiting
to bleach out our brains.

No more page-seeking needed
just vestigial monument
to bygone dictionary days.

Trees, like people, come and go
briefly noted, soon forgotten
importance in their presence.

Sole worship of money
missing existence's point
when enough's enough.

Unforgiving parents
without any exceptions
Mother Nature and Father Time. 

Happy Thoughts

Button-bursting pride galore
for our Jonah and Sylvie
as newly hatched graduates.

Luscious, juice-dripping peaches
with southern, June greetings
to New England-distant kin.

Veritable bird spa spot
with all our backyard beauties
bathing in turn companionably.

Grape jelly and orange slices
sugary, grocery store fare
loved by more than orioles.

Taste of rich chocolate
with pinch of peppermint
deifying this moment.

Miracle Elixir

Miracle elixir
by any measure

evaporating
condensing

liquefying
dissolving

diffusing
suffusing

solidifying
sublimating

freezing
melting

wellspring of life
and life's preserver.

Epiphany in Five Parts

Bonanza reveals
of cascading wonder
in the twentieth century

atomic strucure
relativities
quantum mechanics
DNA helixes
and plate tectonics

elegant theories
undisputed proofs
new organizing rules
from submicroscopic
to space/time expanse

how privileged are we
ordinary mortals
to receive these genius gifts.