Zephyr

If there were no wind what would it mean?

Every day would be calm but is that what we really want?

There would be no freezing winter wind in Chicago

but there would be no summer breeze to enjoy.

There would be no rag weed to fill our nostrils

but there would be no Monarch Butterflies riding the wind and flutter to our backyard.

There would be no tree being destroyed on a moonless night

but we would not be able to see a Palm tree dance in the moon light.

Thank goodness we have no choice for God has made it easy for us and 

said, “Let there be Wind.”

Time to Leaf

  

Fall is sneaking up on the end of summer and the leaves are looking exhausted even though they still have the color of summer running through their veins of green.

Each leaf seems to be heavier than a week ago and the branches don’t sway like they did the other day. 

Even though the branches don’t have the grace anymore, they still are able to hold onto the shaky, dejected leaves for an other day. 

As the Autumn color palette arrives they are able to transform into butterfly color pigments that are hidden inside

                     Finally the day has come and the leaves 

                  are ready for an autumnal display of color. 

SLEEPY BALLERINAS

   It is a still and comfortable 73 early August degrees. There is a gentle lullaby wind undulating through the sleepy ballerina like flowers on the slender, athletic branches of my miniature trees.

They seem to be getting ready to help the Disney like pinkish white flowers start a pirouette.

The sky has no blemishes but it looks as though there is a clear satin spayed over the blueish

heavens.

The sounds around me seem to be muffled, the jets that fly over head every once in a while seem to be more of a shush than a whoosh. The birds that are chirping sound more like a quiet good night rather than a morning roster tweet. 

All of this brings my life into a place that I don't visit enough. 

I know the flowers on the trees won't stay ballerinas for much longer and summer will soon take a well deserved curtain call.

Loss of Vision E C D G O 20

      2020 has come and almost gone and Christmas is here no matter what. I have a sleeping joyous feeling that needs to come alive but it is very hard time to let it out. Everything seems to be all left when I know it should be all right. I seem to be confused with what 2020 has given me but I hope its just something that happens when people forget how to live when they are out of sight. 

The masks that we have been given to protect our breath also have been pulled up to high and now some don’t see the true light. Hate of everything that doesn’t conform with your thoughts is what it is all about. 

The same people that don’t want God in our country still celebrate Christmas but no longer remember what Christmas is all about.

 Anger has taken the place of understanding and everyone thinks they are right. Individuals think they can camouflage their words behind a flowered mask but it does not stop the excrements that come out of their mouth. Nothing seems to be morally good anymore. Innocent  citizens of our country are being punished for the sins of someone else and the mea culpa’s are never enough.

Knocking down the statues

has become a video game

and has nothing to do with what is right.

You can never wipe out history, destruction is not the building block of the future, it only reaffirms your the past. I think we should all rethink what Christmas and life is all about and maybe we will have special                                                         Holiday and Country in our                                                         heart. 

Chirp Chirp Zzzz

 

Morning has come but the night is still asleep. My dreams are over and I lay here listening to the sounds that are magnified by the still of the night.

I hear a soft rumble of thunder that undulates through the air and a sleepy indecisive shower of rain begins to fall. If the birds are chirping I don't hear them at all.

 Their songs of the morning are being washed away by the muffling sound of the groggy rain, but as I continue to listen I hear a slight tweet in between the raindrops. 

The more I tune in and begin to count the chirps, the more they rock me back to sleep. 

Colors of Happiness

 

The smile of a new day is written across the Golden Sky and it filters unto the water then covers the palette that we all hold in our hearts.

A deep breath and a smile that almost touches my ears awakens the colors that are in my soul. They compliment the embroidered colors of the sky.  I have been saving these zesty shades of colors for a while.

Now, I have enough not only to see the light but also feel the colors of happiness that are in my life.

Taste of July

 It's a hot 2020 summer 7th of July day. It happens to be the same day in 1954 when my family and I arrived at my future US home. 

   My parents had been pushed around from the Ukraine to Germany,  DP's as they were known and finally ended up in France after the war. Now it was my turn to leave a country and find a new home. I felt no pain because I had just turned five and had no idea what was in my parents mind. 

   I don't remember too much but one thing sticks in my mind as we were boarding the train I saw my cousin of 9 with tears in his eyes and he began to cry but I on the other hand had no idea what all of this meant so all I could say to him was, "Please don't cry or we'll never see each other again".

 

  I don't remember leaving the station in Southern France it was like magically being transported and ending up on a Parisian toilet bowl that I had never seen before. Our home which were barracks used to imprison German officers during the war and now were used as homes for coal miner families, which my father was. Our four room home had a master bathroom with an elegant toilet with

sloping triangular concrete walls leading to a magical hole that made things disappear. It was made especially for squatters.The good thing was that it was not in the forest. I guess this is why I was so impressed with this kingly throne in Paris.

   A day and night in Pairs is all we had, on to Belgium is where we had to be. That's were our Sabrina Airline flight was going take off and take us directly to a place that I would call home. 

Nineteen hours latter our four propped Sabrina touched down in a land called New York. I don't remember any part of the flight but I do know it was not the end of the road.I didn't see the Statue of Liberty but I did follow her from the country I was born in and now I was going to leave her and board a train to Chicago to start a new life. 

I don't remember any sounds of clatter of the tracks but I do remember the crusty crackle of a freshly made sandwich filled with the best tasting ham I ever had. The taste and fragrance lasts to this day. LIFE has been special from the first bite on the train that July 7th and will last to all the July 7th to come.