Category Archives: Friendship

Reminds Me

Contemplating meaning…

   Reminds Me

Dinner with old friends
Reminds me of life’s meaning
Schedules have to bend

   -gl-

Contemplating the meaning of life…

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Always Planned

Contemplating absence…

A friend of mine wrote…

   Five Seven Five

Damn! My head won’t stop
Thinkin’ ’bout five seven five
Will it ever stop?

   -Fred Jones-

Pulling me out of my preoccupation and the doldrums…

Now again inspired…

I wrote…

   Always Planned

Sabbaticals not
Always planned sometimes they just
Find me all caught up

   -gl-

Contemplating being gone too long…

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In the Distance

Contemplating clarity…

   In the Distance

Tower of Babel
Looms in the distance above
All that we may tell

   -gl-

Contemplating understanding, or rather the mis…

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Playing Some Card

Contemplating heart and technology…

   Playing Some Card

Against all hazards
Genius seems to lose his way
Then playing some card

None would have dreamed and
Then put his own life at risk
He fights ’cause he can

He is Iron Man

Contemplating impulse and duty…

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Relaxed Facing

Contemplating the grand struggle…

   Relaxed Facing

Who but an old god
Could be so relaxed facing
Evil that has trod

Upon all peoples
It found then ventured beyond
Thor needs no steeples

   -gl-

Contemplating an unlikely human hero…

Wait a minute.   They’re probably all pretty unlikely…

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Monster Hears

Contemplating rage and worth…

   Monster Hears

In an instant he
Can go big, mean, and green
Cause always angry

The strongest wills clash
But the monster hears the words
His orders, “Hulk smash”

   -gl-

One of my first favorites…

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Irish Village

Contemplating fun…

   Irish Village

Come see us at our best
Irish Village this weekend
At the Minn Ren Fest

   -gl-

Will be there talking history & poetry, signing books, and wearing the kilt…

     Minnesota Renaissance Festival

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Bitter Sweet

Contemplating life…

   Bitter Sweet

Family gathers round
Circle of life bitter sweet
New connections found

   -gl-

Contemplating endings and beginnings…

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