Monday, June 22, 2020

A 'GENTLE HESITANCE' OF SORTS



For some of us, our primary guardians
Simply walked into their after-life;
Stolen, when we were yet still young
Within the tongues of summer's whispers,
And thus we weep while memoirs sleep...

Tiny yellow petals at the lily's hub
Seem to nod perpetually to
The imperial preference of the
Enigmatic Summer Solstice;
And grubs nestled deep within
The smell of green grass
Pleasantly bob to the trills of
This mid-summer majesty.





Even then, soot from old memories
Curls in the warm, waning wind
Like fallow limbs in a bonfire...
We visit tombs and grave-sites,
Scatter ashes left behind in marble urns;
But never mind, what remains locked up
Can still be re-imagined to those
Who leap and laugh as they
Rush into amber-colored sunlight.






Sleep, not for long,
My friend;
Bare your soul to the
Quickening pulse of the
Raging river's rapid ear and
Confess to those, that count,
The finality of inevitability
And your tender hesitance

In finally letting go.



Poem written by L.P.-G.

June 2020

P.S. A belated Happy Birthday to C.P. [June 18th]

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

QUITE SIMPLY, JUST JUNE...



I count to six
And see this month
When earth explores
Its treasured core.

Spewing forth riches
Both deep and galore,
Gleaming assets surrender
Toward promise in store.



Poem by L.P.-G.



Thursday, May 14, 2020

WITH TWO SONS AS NEWLY-MINTED DOCTORS...

I CAN RE-IMAGINE 1986
ALL OVER AGAIN!!




CONGRATS TO BOTH OF MY SONS, RICHARD AND ROBB. YOU HAVE CHOSEN TOTALLY DIFFERENT FIELDS OF MEDICINE TO PURSUE (i.e., ER and Psych.) BUT EACH MATCHED VERY WELL TO YOUR INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITIES...               {Richard, we're on our way south to see you in a few days!!!}

XOXOX


Thursday, May 7, 2020

SURE, WE ALL HEAR WHAT THEY'RE SAYING!


Work harder!  
       Work smarter!               Work longer!
...and, last but not least, "Work more creatively" !!!



Yet, mental resilience is so very crucial...

The 5 essential ingredients, as identified by M. Seligman, are:

·    positivity
·    a healthy lifestyle
·    meaningful work
·    upbeat social interactions

·    having a higher order purpose


Thursday, April 9, 2020

CURB ALL APPLAUSE, if you will


NO HAIL TO THE HAIL!
                                                      -- poem by L.P.-G.




Good riddance

'Hale and hearty'
For what you
Brought to bay

You just pretended
'Lack of harm',
Yet HAIL
Arrived today!


Those tiny pebbles
Ran their course
While clustered in a bunch...


The words of Eliot's poem
Ring true; ... (that is),
April's a very
Cruel month !!