3 and a half years of Spanish
What do I remember?
Senyor Fernando Suarez
La Florida. My youth.

                La Mancha. Truth.

Seattle when I was young
Colors grey and green
Later I was a teacher
Reading Things Not Seen

Seattle is the water
Singing at night at Kells
Exoplanets for her daughters
We are the Witherells

                         Ole!

Reno. Big sky. Black smoke.

                     Up!

Struggle through the day
Grey sky in my soul
A little Johnny Cash
Springsteen rock 'n roll

Grey sky and some rain
Driving in the storm
Please, Life, protect my son
A place safe and warm

                  El futuro ...

Just the little poems
Walk the little way
A little gratitude
Gracias xie xie

       another day

America is the Land of Ignorance
See how they run
I listen to some music
Basketball with my son

American politics
Demagogue in the Night
I play a little basketball
Gatsby's green light

                 Well, Alright!

Will  I see Seattle again?
Will I ride the ferry boat?
My so-called life
Boring, but xie xie ni

Get my son to school
Harold Bloom a fool
Enact the golden rule
Peace for my 3

                       Si.

In gratitude for sunlight
In gratitude for rain
Sleep, grateful sleep
In this life of pain

Waiting but never finding
I ride the Downbound Train
Small steps, Small steps
Salamanca, Spain

                       Ole!

I'm ambiguous to myself
Puzzling proclivities
Susan Darlene Meek
Please, baby, please!

Get my son from school
Keep him moving ahead
Open, Openness
After I am dead

         Courage in the Dread

According to Friedrich Nietzsche

Ferry boats in Seattle
Water blue and green
Moonlight up above
Can you see what I mean?

Silent in Seattle
Singing too at Kells
My sons still so young
We are the Witherells

                   Ole!

I miss my mom
I miss my mom
Years go by
She's not here

Emptiness
Absence, Absence
Memories
Silence, Tears

This life wears me down
Depression and despair
A little dailiness
Highwater Everywhere

A little dailiness
Eating, drinking, sleep
Get my son to school
Promises to keep

                  Keep!

I resist American nationalism
I've known too many Americans
Sleep till noon again
Carolina blue

            Susan Meek not Sue

                      Seattle U.

                           tdw

My boring so- called life
But I do my level best
Pick up my son from school
Qualyxian the Quest

Rain all day today
Wash away my blues
Grey day Inner Harbor
Got my walkin' shoes

              Astrobiology!

Miss you in the afternoon
Rain came down came rain
Words are not enough
I just can't explain

Call me lost and lonely
I ride the Downbound Train
Can't get you out
Of my miserable brain

                     Hey Hey!

If Joe is 55
And his girlfriend is 21
How much money does Joe have?

I miss her 40 years later
But it is all illusion
Life goes on until it doesn't
Exoplanet sky

City of Ember
The Giver
Things Not Seen
Life of Pi

                  Aye.

My dad says it's gonna rain
I say let it be
Hey ** the wind and the rain
Hey ** xie xie ni

                         Si

I'm not a saint
I struggle and strive
Manic depression
But grateful alive

Time tick tocks
I slowly age
Moby ****
Turn the page

          Sigh ...

World peace is unlikely
Still I look ahead
I pray my boys are alright
After I am dead

A bowl of chili this morning
The sun rises in the East
Everybody gathers
For the mystic feast

Seattle in the rain
Kamakura snow
Springsteen in Louisville
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

A little Chicago snow
A little Seattle rain
Tokyo to Kyoto
I take the bullet train

Sor Juana's mystic flight
Life itself is pain
Sleep, grateful sleep
Dreams in my brain

                Awaken!

I don't wanna be an intellectual
But I do wanna write some poems
Do wanna see Seattle again
Do wah diddy do

                      Y Tu?

Struggle with myself
Falling, rising, falling
Patientia
Memories haunt my soul

Gratitude for fatherhood
Movies
Music
Stroll

                  Astrobiology!

Death comes for the theologian
And for me and you
Susan Darlene Meek
Pondicherry Zoo

1987
1492
Santiago, Spain
Me reading at Seattle U.

                      Adieux

I'm a troubled soul
Disability
Worried in the night
O Life! Protect my 3

No one important
I sense the cosmic sea
Un pequito Chicago snow
In Dublin meant to be

                    Quietly

Plurality and Ambiguity
           Chicago snow
               Yo espero

No one important
Live my lonely life
Take care of my son
Avoid strife with my wife

In my solitude
Memories form within
In my solitude
Always to begin

                     Ole!

There is no life after death
Is there life before?
2 gentlemen of Verona
1 ******* in Elsinore

Misty rain Seattle
Inner Harbor Baltimore
1987
4044

                         Or ....

Sunlight through the window
Sleeping is my son
Memories of Asia
Taipei 101

Taxi in the night
Apartment sweet and small
Took the London train
River Eden, Wetheral

                 Hey, Y'all!

Bring me to Seattle in summertime
I go a-questing the American Sublime
Moonlight, mountain - Skyline, sea
                  All my relations
                          Infinity!

I write because I ...
And I ...
So I ...

                   Ole!

I'll leave behind some poems
Pebbles in the sea
O Life! O Life! O Life!
Please protect my 3

            xie xie ni

Tonight I take the midnight train
Plato's Phaedo as it rains
Her hair hey hiyo! in my brain
Is my Quixotic Quest in vain?
Regardless I indeed remain ...

Rain today and cold
My mind is on the sea
San Francisco Zen
In Dublin meant to be

Thankful for my sons
Thankful. Xie xie ni.
Chicken and broccoli for lunch
And a little milk tea

                         Si

An American Pope from Chicago
What would Father Greeley think?
E.T. phone Rome
Someone call a shrink

I saw Chicago in snow
The Lake was midnight blue
Courage for my sons
Pondicherry Zoo

                      Sophia U.

Just the little poems
I walk the little way
Fearful of the future
Silent when I pray

No longer 17
Still I say xie xie
Rothko blue and green
Hidey hidey hidey hey!

Tokyo to Kyoto
     Miso soup
           Rain

At my best I resist
At my worst I fall down
A little Chicago snow
Dublin bus through town

Fatherhood is joy
Keep them safe and strong
Maybe GMU
Mr. Harry Wong

At my best I resist
Please keep me moving ahead
All these little poems
Soon I will be dead

                   Dread.

I like quiet libraries
Monasteries too
Susan Darlene Meek
Hair of black, eyes of blue

Kyoto to Tokyo
Stop in at Sophia U.
Life of Pi, my brother Ry
Pondicherry Zoo

                   3772

Too solitary to be important
            Too boring too
               fatherhood!

But at my best I resist!

Downtown Taipei
Taxi home at night
          xie xie

Troubling proclivities
Drifting toward death
Fatherhood. Protection.
Arthur Edens reversaleth

Grateful for dailiness
Eating. Sleeping. Breath ...
Susan Darlene Meek
Als Ick Kan - my best.

Took two years of Latin
But I wasn't very good
Rome on my honeymoon
And in my neighborhood

Sunlit Italy
Jackie Graziano
Mysterium Tremendum
Mr. Rudolf Otto

                    Vale!

The meaning is in the living
Lost, unsatisfied
Drifting toward death
Cannot be denied

But may I go down grateful
Fatherhood! I cried
Please, Life, protect my sons
Please let her know I tried

               George W. Lied