Taxman

Taxes due today

Unaffordable living

Pay now or later 

 

Sixty

Tomorrow I turn sixty

Sixty years of memories

Haunted now by ghosts

Those gone all too soon

Superior mourns angrily

Washed in aqua colored waves

Capped with stark white foam

Under steel blue skys

Each wave like a movie

Memories of sixty years past

Crashing upon the shore

Key of C Mindfulness

 

Hearing jumbled words

Aloof all alone in thought

Constant tinnitus

Trying mindfulness outdoor meditation

Fleeting active presence

Mind wandering 

Concentrating on sounds

Chickadee singing her song

Chick a dee dee dee

Wind whispering through the pines

Waves 

Gently 

Lapping upon rocky shores

Crinkling cellophane being pulled from a cigar

Ping

Zippo lighter opens

A flickering soft flame

Crackling cigar tobacco igniting

Retrohale 

Three smoke rings in the wind

Rhythmic outboard motor putting 

Fishermen trolling by

Raven croaking high above

Huginn and Muninn

Messaging thoughts of memories

Outdoor sounds 

Locked deep within mind

Sounds now muted with aged ears

Diminished hearing fading away

Muted jumbled sounds

Remembering sounds by

Visual presence

Are outdoor sounds real

Or just memories

Memories of sound

Alone 

In silent thought

Deep in silent mindful presence 

Silence shattered by

Ringing

Constant Ringing

Tinnitus ringing

In the Key of C

Tax Pirates

 Nine billion stolen

Minnesota Tax fraud scheme

Walz the tax pirate

Stuntz Bay boathouses

 Rusty boathouses

Stuntz Bay Lake Vermilion

Historic relics

Bikini Shape

 

Aurora Ribbon

Aurora ribbon

Pulsing green and pink neon

Combing the heavens

Chainsaw Sisters Saloon

 Wilderness oasis

Canoe country refreshments

Past forest echos

Noisy World

Social media

Manufactured division

Noisy world gone mad

Corporate media generating fear

Government cults generating division 

the powers that be

waging war for control

rage baiting controlled ideological thought

virtue signaling 

us vs them

are we truly masters of our own minds

or are our minds controlled by our masters

Marooned in this noisy irrational world

Delicate Baubles

Fragile glass baubles

Colorful delicate orbs

A gently packed pipe 

Rossi 8673

 

Rossi eight six seven three

Notte Rubino Antico

Daycare implements

Briarwood Daycare

 Wife running errands

Home alone retired old man

Briarwood daycare

eReader Adventures

Old Tom Bombadil
New electronic reading
English or Burley

It’s been well over 40 years since I’ve read Tolkien.  My ratty paperback copies stuffed in my back pocket to read on the bus to school. The paperbacks are long gone, subjected to abuse between readings.  I think it’s time to rediscover Tolkien on this old Kindle eReader; easier to hold and read with arthritis.  While reading, Earl Grey or Oolong tea?  Or bourbon or rye, English blend or Burley blend?

 

Need for Selah

Metro living chaos, noise, congestion

Urban warfare corruption and greed

Together in collective loneliness 

     Alone

Instant gratification in fast paced idolatry

Distractions

Plague of anxiety and depression

Homogenous glass and concrete dystopia

Political angst, control and fraud

Two opposing political cults

     Buying devotion

Congregations of feeble mindedness 

Propaganda arguments and hate

Quiet reflection and contemplation are

     Lost and gone

Unnecessary collective

     Escape 

Selah Moments

     Psalms

A place of peace 

Away from the urban jungle

A walk through the woods

A sitting rock upon the shore

Remove all harried toil and futile busyness

     Balance and reflection

Return inner peace back to God

Guardian angels guiding light

Protecting our journey

Heaven’s starlight shining from above

Waning moon and wandering planets

Infinitely small

     Alone

     Yet tranquil

Covered by a blanket of peace

God’s heavenly mysteries partially revealed

Calming our heart and soul

A chance to breathe

     Rebreathe again

Morning Smoke

 

Early morning mist

Walleyes over island reef

Exhausted Rooster

Koi Pond

Koi fish indoor pond

Warm humid sanctuary

Outdoor snowy squalls

 

Tropical Conservatory

 Damp tropical warmth

Wintry Conservatory

Foggy spectacles

Driveway Snowscape

 Clearing driveway snowscape

The dance of the snowblowers

Smokey Old Joe Krantz

Aurora

Vibrant night colors

Aurora Borealis

Live Technicolor

 

October Sunset

 October sunset

Lake Vermilion sun glow

Soon snowflakes will fall

Autumn Glory

 Glory of autumn

Bright colors during blue hour

Cigar ash in lap

Orion

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Orion shines bright

Hunting across the heavens

Swatting mosquitos

Code Inspector

 I caught my chipmunk buddy napping.  While enjoying a cigar and bourbon on the deck, he’d sit on my shoe and enjoy the day.  Like me, he seems to prefer La Gloria Cubana Serie S Maduros.

He’d also scurry around our tools and feet as we rebuild the deck.  Probably a supervisor making sure we build his deck right.  Gosh, I hope he’s not the code inspector! 

Entertaining little buggers.

Pink Orb

 The perfect pink orb

Zinnias in the sunshine

Bee stinging elbow

Watermelon Slice

 Forest floor small world

Home of beetles and mushrooms

Watermelon slices

Old notebook

 Old pocket notebook

Jottings and thought scribblings

Coffee stained writing block

Soggy Rooster Sunrise

 Five thirty sunrise

A break between thunderstorms

Soggy rooster crows

Coffee Buddy

 Damp chill morning air

Relaxing morning siesta

My coffee buddy

Sun Sinks Away

The sun sinks away

Ending to a glorious day

Fishermen head home

 

Little Cedar Tree

 Little cedar tree

Standing strong against west wind

Loon calls across lake

Yeti of Bourbon

 

Yeti of bourbon

La Gloria Cubana happy hour

Traeger smoke in wind

Fishing Opener

 Fishing Opener

Walleye flotilla on reefs

Rainbow of good luck

Linda’s Blue Bayou

 Harvest moon glow

Fishing boats marina bound

Linda’s Blue Bayou

Charlie Brown’s Kite

Spring sky kite flying

Baby shark doo doo da doo

Charlie Brown’s lost kite

 

Every Grocery Cart

My grocery cart

Squeaky wobbly front wheel

Clean up aisle seven

Every shopping cart 

In this grocery store

            Wheels that wobble

               Wheels that squeak

An olive jar

High up on the shelf

       Met it’s match

               With Newton’s gravity