BE the ASH

A  L  O  H  A !

" Poetry 

    Is  Just   

the evidence  

                      of life.   

 If

 your life is

 burning well, 

poetry
 is just the 
ash "

 Leonard Cohen

'  ' 
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Have I just

made an

ASH

of myself?

Thanks for 
looking in!
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Sly Sky

A  L  O  H  A !                         

The sky looks

peaceful

until you understand

all that is going on.

It's an opera

up there !

" Therefore, 
whoever wishes for peace,
 let him prepare 
for war. "

Vegetius

" For once you have tasted flight
 you will walk the earth 
with your eyes turned
 skywards,
 for there you have been
 and there you will long
 to return. "

Leonardo da Vinci

"I dreamed I saw -

The bomber jet planes

Riding "Shot Gun"

in the Sky

Turning into

Butterflies

Above our nation. "

Joni Mitchell
Woodstock

" Simplicity 
is the ultimate 
sophistication. "

Leonardo da Vinci





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Missed

A  L  O  H  A !

" I enter the world 
called real
 as one enters 
a mist. "

Julien Green

" The mountain 

remains unmoved 

at seeming defeat

 by the mist. " 

 Rabindranath Tagore. 

" Sob, heavy world 

Sob as you spin, 

Mantled in mist

 Remote from the

 happy. "

W. H. Auden 

" Theories pass.

 The frog 

remains. "

Jean Rostand 



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In a Cat's Eye

A  L  O  H  A !

" In a cat's eyes,

ALL things

belong to

C A T s !"

English Proverb

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Hey Tough People

A  L  O  H  A !

Hey Tough People!

The One You Bully,

the Most

Is Your Own

Gentle  Self,

Who is Grieving.

I Know This

Because -

I was a Tough Person

Myself -

For Way Too Long

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What Awesome REALLY Means

" AWESOME "
 is an over-used term.  But THIS is
"Awesome"


I trust you will agree!

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Ear Worm

A L O H A !

 
You WANT to click on that arrow above.
Or DO you?

There is a sound

in my inner ear.

It's lingered there

since the 1960s.

As a musician,

a player of flutes,

I think it means something

that it echoes

down the hallways

of my brain and

being.

I hunted for the sound

in recent years.

Google searches,

Sixties radio promos.

Nada- Zilch-

Last Christmas

I heard a hint of it

on our local cable TV

system;

But I missed the 

credit!

You already knew that,

didn't you?

But this past year,

from November (!)

I glued myself

to the Holiday Music Channel.

I enjoy holiday music,

but this was MORE!

This was 

D E T E R  M I N A T I O N !

Then, a little bird,

a familiar note

(not 

what I was looking for

 but-)

Whispered a name:

" Bert Kaempfert "

Now my European

friends of a 

certain age :)

are smiling.

A little research

on You Tube

and Grooveshark

and the quarry

of a years-long

hunt

was mine!

That song you 

so cavalierly 

passed over at top,

" Swinging Safari "

is the Great

Motherload

E A R  W O R M !

Fascinating info LINK

I'v listened to it over,

and over.

Perhaps you will

also.

But one listen

and it will probably

infect your 

Mind's Ear.

So you've been

warned;

but it's a 

pleasurable infection.

And who knows?

You may begin

to play the flute

for sheer joy - 

bringing countless

hours,

decades of years

of pleasure,

transmitting

Ear Worms

to others!

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Bert Kaempfert 

(born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October 

1923 – 21 June 1980)