Aaltoe’s Blog

Active chimes
shafts of sun
punctuating time
fresh winds
occasional soft patter of rain
on my cloth canopy,
a gift of simultaneity.

Release from the restive state
of previous days
imagination freed from fetters
invited to explore.

A patchwork of branches
Framing a turbulent sky
Clouds, bits of blue.
A restive state
embodyies entrapped energy,
alternative directions swirl
restrain impulses to move
sharpen the edge of anxiety
blur purpose
cloud self reflection.

Is the path ahead
found from from within
by ingenuity
or just from exhaustion,
or is it found from without
by some lucky glance
up an opportune alley?
Wherever found the rush of energy
may overwhelm judgment.

Would that caution could temper release,
could open horizons
as well as destinations
could employ the restive energies
in productive ways
that would open new and beautiful paths
on which one could sometimes walk slowly
and savor their beauty.

May Day
Celebration
trees budding
announcing life
embodying energy and hope
forcefully, innocently, without reservation.
So hard to reconcile
with vaccine resistance
rupturing the right to vote
deliberate disinformation.

The beauty of the day calls for
Celebration
the magic of the wind blown chimes
the persistent bird songs
the cloud muted heat of the sun
interfere with negativity
undermine pessimism
frustrate disappointment.
An optimistic aura
holds its own
against the negativity
conjured from within
or imagined from without.

The beauty of the day calls for
Celebration.
for forgiveness and forgetting,
for love and remembering
those who have mattered
and those who might have mattered.