my garden

So today I planted my first plant at my new place.  Its a Helichrysum petiolare "limelight" aka Licorice plant.  It a beautiful shrub that has multiple medicinal purposes, but mostly for the purpose of respiration.  It also can be used as a pain reliever and as a bug repellent. It is drought tolerant, as well.  So if I am not around and my roommates don't want to take care of the yard, they don't have to.  I think this is going to be a theme for my garden.

To celebrate my new job

I made Ghiradelli chocolate chip, walnut and raisin cookies.  They were good. MMmmm! 

There is a recipe on the back of the Ghiradelli semi sweet baking chocolate chip bag, but I added the raisins.  I also didn't use all of the butter and sugar.  Instead I added Orange juice.  delicious treats mmmm!

(This is meant to be spoken, not read)

The moon that looked below, upon me, has seen the sun not yet

but this heart i wear around me has felt a tear of sweat

it trickles from a brow and soaks a pillow case

do to you that has me aroused

and cause this heart to race

a beat as fast as song

from the angels in the night sky

while i feel your touch along

and grasp for air in my mouth, so dry

now robins take angels' ends and sings of sonnet new

she sings the morning hymn

and calls us two to choir

as we leave a little grin on a sheet that has perspired

and the moon that looked below upon me has seen the sun not yet

but this heart I wear around me is soaked from tears of sweat.

MOMA cafeteria at 11:57

The asians use forks

but the black men use chopsticks

Cultures attempting to connect to cultures?

No language barrier broken

would allow them to sit together.

In the hustle and bustle of the lunchroom madness,

I see more Mark Rothko,

than Pablo Picasso.

Tagged

These bricks were once graced with words

Dancers like Russian ballerinas

but the colors have now faded away

The colors so bright and so bold

are mere memories of the past

There were hands, which caressed the cement, the mortar

Creating beauty

and art

But someone didn't agree

someone had to hide

someone had to flee

the reds, oranges, and yellows

golds, and greens

No more purple, no more white

Everything went black

then blue

When we heard

I thought they were going to cut off your fingers

instead

they pulled out your heart

we all cried the day they painted over it.

Haikus

I

She said write a haiku

I thought hmm...

How do I do that?

II

Writing a haiku

It seems so simple

Like pulling out a tooth.

III

I need another haiku

I lay my head on my pillow

and fall asleep

Youngstown ohio

Seeking the sunlight,

the trees mask

forming rays of golden goddesses

they drip drop dance

down

little vials of golden sun juice

red

orange

yellow

green

pink

and brown

leaves

carpet the moisten earth.

As I walk through the golden goddesses

they drip drop dance down upon

me

in the palm of my hand

blessing me

inviting me

adopting me

On this gray Formica

barren sky-lined city day

they sunlight I sought found me.