I'm a troubled soul
Never long at ease
Please, baby, please

             Courage!

I can feel death bearing down
My time ticks away
If she were here tomorrow
Don't know what I'd say

Please happiness for my sons
Happiness, please - xie xie
I can feel death bearing down
Dawn goes down to day

                silently I pray

Maybe best to forget mortality
Enjoy the day. Let it be.
Cycling by the Baltic Sea
Stockholm summer so sweetly

                     Tak, Nida, Tak

patience. hope. dailiness.

calm enough. calm enough.
we get through one day more
slowly, slowly, slowly
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

keep them right on track
not the either/or
keep them close enough
2034

Guadalupe green
I place Things Not Seen
Time tick tocks
Can you see what I mean?

Once I taught the tweens
Julius Caesar scenes
Fondly little Reno
Someone tell the Dean

Why did I like Vienna so much?
Was it just the beautiful snow?
I'm gonna die and disappear
No one will ever know

Bookshops in Vienna
Hot chocolate for my tongue
Mozart in concert
Young sons sung

European history
I keep turning pages
Ancient things, wedding rings
The charming Middle Ages

                       Sages

All my rustling emotions
One night of peace
3 tragedies and a satyr play
The mind of ancient Greece

Chinese food today
Got a photo of my niece
Every breath you take
Sting and the Police

Only in death
Do all troubles cease
Bruce Springsteen fans:
May your tribe increase.

.....American Despair.....
Highwater Everywhere
               Sinking

This life is isolation
All I have is words
Albert Camus, JMU
I Encounter the Absurd

                 Heard?

Tokyo to Kyoto
  train station
        Rieko!

Said Robert Louis Stevenson

I write to you, dear reader,
Before I am long gone
3 dear deer
1 dear fawn

European history
Paris, Vienna, Rome
Angkor Wat mystery
Very far from home

I hope I rest in peace
Ashes to the sea
I rode the Dublin bus
Man said meant to be

San Francisco Zen
Sitting silently
Susan Darlene Meek
Moroccan mint tea

               xie xie ni

Rick Steves in Slovenia
I've never ever been
But I've been to Tel Aviv
3710

And I've been to Baltimore
Like Edgar Allen Poe
If you invite me to Istanbul
Yes, I'd surely go

                         Yo!

But maybe it's ok
To disappear forever
Let the ages roll
No nay never never

             Heather!

Do I wanna be rembered?
Yes, I think I do
Once I was a teacher
Fondly GMU

I walk the little way
Horton Hears a Who
My Irish eyes are green
But I'm Carolina blue

                 y Tu?

I've been to 18 countries
Hundreds more to go
Paris in the sun
Vienna in the snow

             y yo.

I was in Poland once
Just for a few days
Warsaw Saw War
This life is like a Maze

Eliade in Chicago
In Staunton Shakespeare plays
Florida has the sunlight
Can you feel the rays?

San Francisco Zen Center
Just sitting. Just sitting.
South from Seattle
East to DC

Copenhagen sunlight
One summer in Stockholm
London Christmas Eve
Dublin meant to be

                        Si.

It all fades away
Nothing lasts forever
Sacramento Mark
Sacramento Heather

California Coast
Tidal pools in Monterrey
My boys still so young
California si

                  xie xie

I like getting new books
Like the time I got the Giver
Me and Ry and the boys
Springsteen sings the River

I'm tired and I'm lonely
Try to break on through
David Markson in New York City
Rothko green and blue

Movies are companions
I sleep alone tonight
Mexican food for lunch
Sor Juana's mystic flight

                      Alright!

No one important
Will I die alone?
Woke up from a dream
Threw a Rolling Stone

My boys in school today
Tomorrow we do the drive
55 and falling
But grateful to be alive

Lonely as the rain
Kamakura snow
3710?
No way to ever know

                  So ...

I can't quite forget Vienna
3 days in beautiful snow
St. Stephansdom above
Me solo below

Embers by Sandor Marai
Inhuman desire
Off in distant Asia
We gaze into the Fire

                George W. Liar

Shakespeare in Reno
I taught Julius Caesar
Brutus is deluded
I am Cinna the Poet!

Reno's big blue sky
We saw a rodeo
Sledding in the snow
Wonder where I'll die?

                 Falling
                (But I try)

I hope I can die well
Though I don't know what that means
Picasso's Guernica
Rothko blue and green

Bipolar is my burden
I read Things Not Seen
Chicago to Seattle
The Hobbit for the tweens.

The poetry of place
The mystery of race
The beauty of her face
Aliens in space?

                  Chase.

Just a couple months in Dublin
Man said meant to be
One summer in Stockholm
Beauty Baltic Sea

It all fades away
Please, Life, protect my 3
Silent is the Way
Xie xie. Xie xie ni.

Mom: Columbus. Sacramento. Toledo.

                        I miss you!

Yo soy un isolato
But I try to reach out
Boredinary, Maryland
Ice. Snow. Cold.

Star Trek
Galaxy Quest
Jedi Knights
Go bold.

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

It had to be poetry
A little rhythm and rhyme
55 and falling
Some other time

I was once in San Francisco
Sit a little Zen
Time is the Cross
Ah! What might have been

                    Susan!

Camus. JMU. 'tis true.

I drift, I drift toward death
Call my darling sons
Quiet in the night
When the Day is Done

Oh so serious
Pero un pequito fun
Memories of Taiwan
Taipei 101

             Moonlight. Sun!

Cautious. Frightened. Serious.
Preparing for the night
Things fall apart
Things don't work out right

Thankful for good movies
Arrival. Lost in Translation.
Stranger Than Fiction.
Quiet meditation

Just a few poems
Before my time to go
Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snow

                       Yo!

Not very well socially
Too geeky shy
55 and falling
Still afraid to die

I like City of Ember
I like Life of Pi
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Lai la Lai! Lai la Lai!

According to David Bowie.

I'm gonna leave thousands of poems behind
Will anyone ever read them?
I hope you treat me kind
The future is Outer Space
  
                     Go boldly.

                           Chase.

Oxford twilight, dreaming spires
Ancient things, friends and fires
Gandalf the White still suspires

Mysticism is a kind of madness
Though some of it is fine
In Vienna St. Stephansdom
In Bangkok Buddhamind

Susan is so gentle
I hope you treat me kind
Snow falling on cedars
Bodies are entwined

                           Find.

I am not a scholar
But I've read some scholarly books
I like Dr. Cohen
Don't like David Brooks

Tel Aviv was blue
Jerusalem was brown
Dublin for a couple months
When Love Comes to Town

I hope I rest in peace
Please courage at the end
The silence is eternal
Silence be my friend

                  Ole!

the transience of everything
                  Chicago
                     snow

Reno in the snow
Sledding with my boys
Fondly Sage Ridge School
A little basketball

Awake in the night
The poetry of place
Aliens in space?
River Eden, Wetheral

Mexican food for lunch
Two tacos, sparkling water
Prayers for Susan Meek
Silence is the call

                        Amen.

anxiety spikes
     courage
    endurance

unwelcome thoughts
           patience
               wait

I've got an atheist in me
And a monk too
Hair handed monk
Susan Meek not Sue

I'd like to write a poem
That one could say did flew
Trappist 1 again
Carolina blue

                     3772

It's true we're doomed
But how to go down graceful?
In my solitude
Grateful for my friend

Some good thing to do
Something Thai, Something true
Carolina blue
Before the bitter end

                          Nitnoy