Walking around Vak-Kil
Your advice and words remind us that the purpose of life is to experience it
Taste it
Enjoy it
Savor it all
When FDR was still living and after
The walls echo of the great and small you entertained there
Many photos and feeling as if your spirit is there even now and forever more
You were almost President for you filled the role at a time it was not accepted
Wonder what advice you would have for Vice President Harris today?
As we left your gravesite at Hyde Park, you left an impact
Eleanor.

All of the books written about you and those you authored still amaze a person who lives in a different time and place

Thanks,Eleanor

C@rainbowchaser2024

Absorb
Listen
Take it in
Let it digest and marinate
Be a  Sponge

C@rainbowchaser2024

You should learn something daily
No matter your degrees and education
You don’t know it all and probably never will
As we evolve and move forward
We learn from history but we don’t live there and perhaps should not
Dwell on what was and what might have been
Let it go
No matter how you learn just don’t stop
Age brings wisdom but not all the answers
What is fake are those that are one-sided and set in their ways
You should believe as you wish but judging others based on that ia another story
An old one
Open your mind
Read
Experience things you never gave a second thought to delving into
Give Social Media and AI a rest
You will hopefully be surprised and learning for the next step

C@rainbowchaser2024

Writing
The Gift
Is it Divine?
Are we Inclined?
To Polish,
To perfect
To search and to craft
To listen.
In places some ignore
Unwilling to understand
The imperfect and perfect
Way to say it
Clearly
Delicately
Respectively
Loudly
Proudly
Sharing it with readers and writers
Looking for other ways to go
This is good for now
Stay tuned
Stay tuned
As I share my friends with you
They never let me down and neither will any of you

C@rainbowchaser2024

No matter what
No matter when
It would be you all over again
Stepping low and high
So many multitudes of reasons why

Hellos and Goodbyes
Surprises and the Unexpected
Climbing mountains
Falling into Valleys
Silence that echoes
Music that holds you and lets you go
Doing it all over again
It would only be you
There is nobody else in the Universe that wlll do

C@rainbowchaser2024

You dream and wish this was real
You have the power for yourself
Don't power others
There are moments and places for all
It is about timing meter,rhythm,and rhyme
It is for them to seek and find out
You can be there and maybe reach out
Maybe just listen carefully
It is now not yesterday
Long ago but not far away

C@rainbowchaser2024

After yesterday, not sure of anything any longer
The exception is my duty as a citizen
Like yours
It us up to you but I know what needs to happen and to whom
Let's be done with him and move on greatly
Dump the felon before he rids us of our freedoms

C @rainbowchaser2024

Little girl looked amazed and grateful as a stranger gave her a toy dog from a crane arcade machine at Casino Pier in Seaside Heights New Jersey.
Her wheelchair bound grandmother was speechless and her face lit up like Santa’s gifts left under a Christmas tree,
Be a do gooder but remember sometimes a smile is enough
Remember not to get used
Put that behind you
Make things better so all benefit
Look into your heart and mind
It’s not always about you
It’s not too much to ask

C@rainbowchaser2024

It was what it was
Is what it is
Revisit but let it go and don’t live in the past
History is a teacher that we must learn from
Now and tomorrow need to be explored and enjoyed
We must agree to disagree and enjoy every moment
We can’t return or exchange how we live
Live it up while you can
No matter how you interpret that
While you are here
With great joy
With great kindness

C@rainbowchaser2024

Morning hugs
That is how we start the day
Wouldn’t have it any other the way
Sometimes lingers way past noon
Others sing another tune
Dreaming in your arms
Knowing all your charms
Morning hugs
Morning hugs
Morning hugs

C@rainbowchaser2024

Walked
Cried
Watched Blue Jays
Wished adult nephews and Brother in-law what I wish I could say to you
Hope you know
Feel awful and empty today because all the love and spoiling is in a cemetery
I love and miss you Daddy.
Hope you know that
Your daughters, sons inlaw,grandchlldre
n and great grandchildren who you never met wstch over them
Say Hi to Mom

C@rainbowchaser2024

Many Countries
Many locations
Many different people
People with hopes and dreams just like yours
Some are different which is amazing
Cliches
Emotions
Impulse
Together and separately
Leave us unhinged and incomplete
Together in unison
One can only imagine what we can achieve and accomplish
How far can we go?
What we can become and what we are
History ad Yesterday are complete we can look back and move ahead
Forward not back
Today and Tomorrow could be wonderful
Smaller world then
you think
What do you think?

C@rainbowchaser 2024

Grew up avoiding “I can’t”
My father told me never to say or believe this contraction
Despite and in spite of hiccups and wrong turns
What one puts into matters is as much as what one gets out of the effort
There are situations and outcomes
Does one gamble?
Does one give up?
Choices and Options
The words “I can’t” just don’t compute or connect
You must keep trying to make things happen
There is no room for excuses or “I can’t” in anyone’s life
No room for it

C@rainbowchaser2024

Set yourself free
Like a balloon let go of and soaring
Like a kite with a long-lost tail seeking an adventure
You can get closer to yourself and free so much
You find what you need and get a surprise
Be free of what was.
Learn from it and move forward
Be grateful for it
Embrace what is and what will be with joy and anticipation
An open heart will help too
Set yourself free
Free

C@rainbowchaser2024

Amazing Mother
Thoughtful Niece
Great Daughter
Kind and Supportive Sister
Loving Aunt
She makes her statements professionally
Her narratives and stories are beyond par toward excellence
She is engaging.
Beyond Awesome that is why I names her this way when she was a baby.
Happy Birthday
For My Awesome

c@rainbowchaser2024

Following Your Dreams Doesn't Mean You Can't Follow Another Path
You Can Listen
Take It In
Decide Knowing How Long to Keep On and how as well as when to Let Go
Create New Paradigms
Make Heroism Happen
Strive For Achievement
You Never Thought You Would Attain
Keep Reading and Climbing
Miamsma?
It's Not Vague
Beyond Reproach
Damage To Truth
Too Many Broken Souls
Who Dont Understand Laws, Regulations, And Rules
Need to be Followed And Respected
When They Can Be Adapted and Reexamined
For Change Takes Time
And Effort
Rules Can Be Bent and Broken Fior The Good

C@rainbowchaser2024

Thanks for caring
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for listening
Mistakes are lessons to be learned
Some take longer than others
Some linger past the point of no return
Time and relationships are precious
Some are short-lived, others last a lifetime
Your heart shouldn’t hurt because of me
Heartache and Heartbreak hold different places in our lives
Save your heart
Clear your mind
Been there and done that
Your heart shouldn’t hurt because of me

C@rainbowchaser 2024

Some rules are made to be bent and broken
Adapted, if you will
Some truths are never spoken
Even when you get it right
What some hold true and powerful
Finds a way out of the door
Never returning again
If you hold it dear, Keep it close to nurture it
If you need to set it free do so
Let the excuses go and never return
If they come back in another form
Landing gently

C@Rainbowchaser2024

If I could fix all this stuff that makes you Negative Nancy or Nathan
I would
Not only is it not my job.
I just decided to give you all the room you need so you can ease down the road at your own pace.
Friendship isn't over, it is on hold.
My life requires Positivity and Kindness.
That is how my life works.
So let's Forget the Band-Aids.
See you when you calm down and move forward!

C@rainbowchaser2024

Vacations
Restaurants
Museums
Performing Arts
Attending Live Concerts
Things you appreciate and look forward to
Hugs that last hours
Walking in the park in the rain or sunshine
An additional dessert
Singing out loud at the top of your lungs
Enjoying those that matter the most
It's These and Others
It's The Little Things that are the big moments
That Matters the Most
That Matters the Most

C@rainbowchaser2024

Happy Passover to those that celebrate!

Going and moving forward
Too many delays and waiting again and again
The reasons matter and more importantly so does precious time
Not to be wasted on the trivial
So many experiences to embrace
Sometimes those you want to share them with won’t make the time
Some don’t want to share it
Hopeful

C@rainbowchaser2024

It yearns for a melody
Always seeking new and more insight words to express from the heart and mind
Too many tears fall some for the right and others for the wrong reasons
So observing quietly and then listening more attentively than ever before
My Soul reopened

C@rainbowchaser2024

Disinformation
Misinformation
Facts
Truth
A robin was gathering twigs for a nest being built under a bush near the Guggenheim museum
The Park was filled with visitors, Television and Movie crews, and the Zoo delighting everybody
I wondered who noticed besides yours truly
As I worked yesterday, children were walking to school or visiting the exhibits as the Digital Media curriculum was written with our colleagues
Adults need to learn from children who want to learn and ask questions before they formulate an answer
Let's hope there will be a Year of the Human Being

C@rainbowchaser2024

4.8 shaking and rocking on the East Coast of the United States
Some blamed the former US President
Others Mother Nature
Others claim the Supreme being is angry with us
What will they say about the Solar Eclipse?

C@rainbowchaser2024

She was lovely and lonely
Her copper-red belly stood out on a gray rainy day with patches of blue
She seemed to be listening to other birds' chirps and squirrel noises
She hopped on just taking everything in
Lovely company
Hello Robin

C@rainbowchaser2024

To my Friends and Fellow Poets!

Maddy

When the talking stops
When the words do nothing
Just put them on the back burner
Be there when called upon
For the time being, let them deal
Let their Drama Go

C@rainbowchaser2024

It will be set free
Shaken from the cobwebs of yesterday
Headed for a brighter tomorrow
Take a step and breathe for today
Maybe this time

C@rainbowchaser2024

Baby Gray Dove was searching for food and gave up.
Spread her wings and flew way up high
How I wished I could have joined her
It's damp and about to shower for hours
The Oldies about the Rain fill my head as I continue walking
There will be a rainbow at some point with our Father saying Hi from way up above
Another Rain song

C#rainbowchaser2024

It's raining.
It's pouring.
The ark might have to get here.
There's a pigeon furiously flapping her wings on someone's roof.
Maybe a signal or cry for help?
After a few minutes of struggle, another bird joins her.
Flies up and calms her down.
They fly away and the drama ends on a very rainy day

C@rainbowchaser2024

No matter what it was
Or is it , that it reached you in ways you never expected.
It capttured your heart,soul,amd mind
Many likes between someday and today.
Enjoy your journey every moment and as much as possible,
Was it speaking to you?

C@rainbowchaser2024

Are priorities set in stone?
Are they malleable?
Are there three sides to facts and truth?
Are beliefs sacred or have they lost their meaning on desert or sacred air?
Can we learn from yesterday?
Undersfand and accept today.
Be ready for tomorrow.
Enabling is awful.
Supporting any enabler is unacceptable no matter their station in life
The impact on your life is beyond measure
Hstory continues to teach us
Common sense is still alive and well
Remain educated and never stop learning
While you are at it, pick up a book,magazine,or newspaper
Go to the library
It remains to be seen

C@rainbowchaser2024

Not a  political message
Find a place in your heart and soul to do good
Listen
Smile
Contribute funds or time
Quit complaining
If you have been down on tbe floor
Get up as best you can
The Naysayer doomsday folks stay clear
Not a Pollyanna
Not Mickey Mouse
Remain Positive

C@rainbowchaser2024

Used to walk in Harmony
Melody has changed
Lyrics have a far different meaning
The chorus means what it used to but somehow you forgot the words that you sang at the top of your lungs
Still friends but the Music has changed
It is sad but moving forward time has gone away
You are lost in a shuffle where we had yesterday
Not sure ahout today or tomorrow
You are here and there
Yet far away
The Music has changed not the memories
The Journey continues but not sure  of us because the Music has changed as the friendshilp is stuck in another time and place


C@rainbowchaser2024

High school graduations
College graduations
Vacations
Holidays
Magical moments
Sons in-law
Weddings and giving your daughters away
Anniversaries
Grandchildren
Great grandchildren
My books being published
Spoiling you
Hope you are proud of all of us
You and Mom are watching over us
Darling Daddy gone too soon and loved beyond neasure

C@rainbowchaser2024

She will be loyal
She will always be true
She will always be loving and kind
That smile of hers that melts your heart
Even when you know her a short while she stays with you
Joy and kindness personified
She will be greeted at the Rainbowbridge by a handsone Golden Retriever naned Skippy
I can hear him calling her name
Tori  accompanies him and watches over us
We love her forever and always

C@rainbowchaser2024

Regal swans in the pond
One almost regal washing her feathers
She was incredibly stunning and careful
Birds chirping,singing and flying
Peaceful and lovely but you wonder what the world would be like  if we all co-existed just as Mother Nature's children

C@rainbowchaser2024

Too sensitive.
Stop crying
You didnt help
You yelled and were embarassed
Turned to writing
It is a gift not a medical issue or psychological problem
All you could do was ignore me and  it
Tell me about it

C@rainbowchaser2024

We articulate the world
Words can flow like wine and effervese like excellent champagne
Words can trickle down like rain after a downpour
Where did intelligence and common sense go?
In a workd with wonder and idiocy simultaneously battling
Watch for dullness now again and then again
We are the words and ideas  that hopefilly bring better timesand celebration
Words

C@rainbowchaser2024

Words come to call any time of day or night
Try to remember to record them or write them down
You polish  and perfect
Searching for a different more original way to say it or write
Do I dare call myself a Poet?
Like tbe greats,unknown,and up and coming
Just because I write Poetry

@rainbowchaser2024

There is no band aid
No secret potion
The words do little for you
You are angry with the world
You can no longer use me as a punching bag
Filling my mind and heart with your pain
Stepping back and when you are ready I will be there
That is up to you
Wish there was more to do than to wish you the very best
That us all for now
Your Debby downer stuff is more than getting old
You need a professional to help you sort it out
Whatever it is

C@rainbowchaser2024

She is amazing and engaging
Wish my camera and lenses were always available
Hkw do sone ignore it?
It is'beyond heart and comprehension
Things concern them
Shopping obsessed
Can a butterfly or interest sonebody instead of Obtaining more stuff?
I am with Nature.

C@rainbowchaser2024

Instinct
Art
Prose
Observation
A craft which you perfect
You are a Poet
Look a little harder
Feel a little stronger
You are a Writer
Welcone to my world

C@rainbowchaser2024

Don't think that what works for you works for everybody
Not so
Cbange is inevitable but as an old sing tells us
You make your own kind  of music
Even if nobody else sings along
Enjoy what you like
Have a lovely life
Your life isn't a prescription for everybody
So next time you talk about your life like a Del Webb commercial
It isn't for everybody


C@rainbowchaser2024

Hugs that last hours on end
Whispers and laughter in tbe wee hours
Enjoying memories and making new ones
Grateful for where we have been and where we may be going
We cherish now and every moment
Whispers and laughter only we share and understand
The Magic continues .....
How lucky can you get

C@rainbowchaser2024

Gray clouds playing shades of gray games
Then a small patch of light blue sky
Sun slowly coming out while skies grayer for a quick sunshower
Blue Jay flying up to a adjacent tree
While a squirrel scurried up his favorite place for a snack and snooze
Patch of blue kept returning to remind us that the rain and thunder will end.
Sunnier days will befriend us again

C@rainbowchaser2024

Walk it
Run it
Drive it
Quickly
Speedily
Dreamily
See it with different eyes
Embrace what you remember
Open your heart and mind for what may come your way
Down that road again
Down that road again
Dont take me down that road again
I know where I am going and where I have been
Just wanted you to let me in
Hoped to follow a  different bend
Don't take me down tbat road again

(Song lyrics?)

C@rainbowchaser2024

Tired of being awakened by what used to be
Past hasn't always been  a friend
Still trying to learn how to put it way behind me
Hopefully moving forward
Stand tall and enlighten the world
When your mind awakens your heart and soul in the wee hours of the morning
The two steps back and one  step forward isnt a recipe for everybody
Changing the game and making a difference
Illuminate every moment
Now and forever
Play a more positive and active role for a reflective you

C@rainbowchaser2024

Plain Jane
Echoes softly
Not a princess or a Barbie wanna be
Maybe that is you not me
This Ugly Duckling became a nice swan
When a pair of  bespectacled blue eyes looks at me
How could anybody call my poet an Ugly Duckling?

C@rainbowchaser2024