you have your voice box-
I have mine

no two voices the same
someone may imitate
someone else

but God knows yours
as God knows mine.

Is a drug,
Like all drug addiction ,
You have to come out of your comfort zone.
10/1/2024

Accept and move, with a steadfast stride,

In the valley of the Apricotted Sunrise
The black mountains with their jagged cliffs
Rise up each day to block it - and fail totally.
No mountain can hold back the dawn.

Seeping across the Eastern sky
Like an oncoming ocean tide
What was black and cobalt blue
Finally gives up the fight
And turns the color of a peach.
A delicious Arizona morning.
        ljm

'plain nuts' and in the public eye
yet wants to be taken seriously
so many public officials and wannabees.

been through carnal swathes
popped out the other side;
chastened all the way to chaste.