Dr. Thomas
   Mozart
    Barth

hot chocolate
dark blue sky
         solo

Dr. Thomas
Southern
   Charm

Silent nights
     traffic
       rain

Guadalupe green
        Dec. 12
         brown

sustained, lengthy chaos
            bitterness
                strife

Little hotel room
    Kierkegaard
         sunlight

Helsinki Cathedral
       Purple sky
             Aye

Stockholm to Helsinki
Karaoke on the boat
Just one afternoon
Cathedral in the sky

I would like to do something
Graceful
Helpful
Before my time to die

               Something Thai

Amateur means one who loves
That's what I wish to be
Best time I ever had
Beauty Baltic Sea

European history
Asian bullet trains
Daily life, not mystery
Poetry: good insane.

      Jane! Jane! Jane!

I'm always brought back to the silence
Kamakura snow
In Dublin meant to be
Wedding in Tokyo

Bought my son some Christmas presents
Gandalf the White
Magic the Gathering
I hope a little light

                  Mystic Flight

All my fears for my family
Worries, anxiety attacks
                hopes

The silence because I can't reach
Words are not enough
Jesus wasn't humble
Was he Chicago tough?

Her father is a priest
Episcopalian
St. Augustine
3710

Rain on the ocean
Train to Tokyo
Never see her again
Am I dying slow?

         Don't know.

The words are never enough
I reach out but do not reach
First time I kissed her
At night at the beach

Silent desperation
The sadness will last forever
Best time I ever had
When we were all together

                 Oceans!

Hard Zen
   silent
    wait

I like Rick Steves
I too like to travel
European mystery
Ever ancient, Ever new

              7372

Talk with my sons
       Protection
            Hope

The pain that living brings
             Distances

              Isolation

Tacos for lunch
Guadalupe green

        Romero

It didn't take
All those years

    silent hope

A whole slew of medicines
Aging is a *****
Grey day rain today
Ordinary blues

Christmas for my son
I hope he likes the presents
Keep him, keep him close
3772

             ever ancient, ever new
                            JMU

No one important
Forgotten forever
Sacramento Mark
Sacramento Heather

Als Ick Kan
Markson it's true
Reading alone
Seattle U.

         Blue

Hope, despite reality
Hope, despite my sins
Quietness. Endurance.
Always to begin

                Patientia

No deep mystery
Just daily life
Take my medicine
Sleep perchance to dream

Shakespeare in Staunton
Exit 222
I live alone
But I play for my team

                   El futuro ...

Got my son's Christmas present today
Outside driving rain
Never been to Heaven
Never been to Spain

Have been to Arizona
Have sung Purple Rain
Tokyo to Kyoto
Upon the bullet train

My son is growing older
Keep him in the game
Gandalf the White
Serves the secret flame

               Names!

No one on Earth will ever know
Plant 3 mustard seeds
Kamakura snow
A pal's last need a thing to heed

All the driving rain
One man to Overthrow!
I cannot explain
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

                    So ...

The rain reminds me of Dublin
Dublin and Monterrey
Misty Chinese mountains
Silent is the Way

San Francisco, California
Sky all foggy grey
If I were to see her
Don't know what I'd say

Just another broken heart
Dawn goes down to day
Exoplanets spin
Mother Mary May

                  hey hey

Rain again today
Grey day blues pour down
Memories of Ireland
When Love Comes to Town

Memories of California
My boys along the coast
Aging, relentlessly aging
A kind of holy ghost

The past just flies by
55 and alone
See my sons soon
Call on my cell phone

Florida has the flowers
New York City nights
Childhood in Ohio
My Mr. Spock kite

           Well, alright!

A lifelong love of movies
Also a love of books
My oldest now is 18
He drives, He works, He cooks

Embers and City of Ember
Star Trek. Galaxy Quest.
Some good thing to do
Before I take my rest

                        Yes.

All these little poems
My little life in rhyme
I tend toward earnestness
I hope you treat me kind

I'm no one important
Seattle summer is sublime
Spinning exoplanets
In Bangkok Buddhamind

                    Find.

I was in Japan for 2 weeks
Continually amazed
Tokyo to Kyoto
Arigato, Rieko. Much thanks.

I like miso soup
Cucumber sushi rolls
Teriyaki salmon
No need to send in the tanks

                      transience

Hard Zen
Just sitting. Just sitting.
Thanks to Coach Katz
Timothy and the Cay

Silent nights
San Francisco
Una hora
Californ I A

If time is like an ocean
All moments come and go
Now we seek the shoreline
Now we go below

At the surface shines the sunlight
Where flying fish do leap
While on the volcanic seafloor
Lurk creatures of the Deep

We meet memories in tidal moonlight
With them we swim until the day
But the Cambrian Explosion
Who can truly say?

Arthur Schopenhauer
A philosopher resigned
Did point out a truth
With his pessimistic mind

He described the act of reading
Amidst his perpetual pain
As the practice of true thinking
With another person's brain

I find he is correct
In this mystic point of view
For when I read a book
I become the author too

Exoplanets spin
Maybe cosmic Seas
Wisely venture forth, dear reader
You are my identity.

I was in Poland just a few days
My son was sick in Ireland
Thankful for the doctors
Thankful for my boy

Beautiful Irish nurse
We read Harry Potter when I got back
I'm tired. Exoplanets.
Wendy wished me abundant joy

                         Yo! Oy!

A lot o little poems
Quiet along the Way
Got to see my son
Got to see my son today

Chicken kabob with rice
Basketball to play
Nap in the afternoon
Sleep my fears away

           But they stay.

Try to get hold
Fall. Fall again.
Joan of Arc was bold
France be my friend

Stories all foretold
Politics Portends
Silences of old
Silence never ends

I keep growing old
San Francisco Zen
Winter growing cold
Christmastime. Muy Bien.

I'm not a saint
Sometimes I wish I was
But I'm not
Worry for my wife
And my brother Scott

            Worry. A lot.

I like Bob Dylan's music
Seen him 7 times live
Time tick tocks
Struggle to survive

Saw him once in DC
Took two of my sons
Early Roman Kings
Please give up your guns

           have some fun

I would like to be a shaman
But I'm just bipolar
Please protect my family
Save me, sacred art

55 and falling
The world is growing colder
Small steps, small steps
Another day to start

Susan Darlene Meek
Well, I finally told her
Just a fantasy
Always so far apart

Up in the night
Pack upon my shoulder
Exoplanets spin
Just to play my part

In gratitude for my dad
Keeps me forward moving
Time tick tocks
Movin' down the line

           feeling lonely.
               doin' fine.

Spaghetti for dinner tonight
Marinara sauce
Dylan is a genius
Springsteen is the Boss

        help when I'm lost

I've got some good qualities
Got some bad qualities too
Sinful proclivities
Pondicherry Zoo

I like medieval France
Horton Hears a Who
40 shades of green
Carolina blue

               Y Tu?

I miss Seattle at times
Miss my former life
Worry for my sons
Worry for my wife

All things pass away
The beauty and the terror
Gracias xie xie
I pray my life is not an error

                   fairer

one day, one step forward
protection for my sons
memories, better times
Taipei 101

                 fun!

The Abbey of Citeaux
Deep in medieval France
His name was Lancelot
But friends just called him Lance

I have been to monasteries
Quiet, on my own
Honeymoon in Paris
Honeymoon in Rome

Women are the ....
And the .... It's so true.
Susan Darlene Meek
Susan Meek not Sue

                  JMU

San Francisco Zen Center
Only for one hour
She broke my loving heart
And gave me Hope for the Flowers

San Francisco Zen Center
Everything passes away
Young sons sung
My sons: callooh! callay!

                xie xie

Everything passes away
Nothing at all can last
Frightened of the future
Haunted by the past

The bells that still can ring
Grateful for my sons
In the time that's left
Un pequito fun.

Ice and cold and snow
E I E I O
I wander to and fro
Struggling

Yoko yo yo yo yo
I'm no Romeo
Stanley and Zero
Teaching

No one will ever know
One man come and go
One man to Overthrow!
Seeking

So cold outside today
Come the bleak December
The day she said goodbye
Yes, I still remember

My life goes flying by
55, falling fast
The Buddhists are clearly right
Nothing at all can last

           The Cosmos: Vast.