When time is on vacation

by Kevin T McEneaney There are times when we need a vacation: to loll soft in bed or favorite chair, to do nothing but listen to raindrops patter on roof,…

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Aerial delights

by Kevin T McEneaney Ancient Egyptians worshiped many birds; tombs were often decorated with birds. Known for aerial acrobatic flights, the pied kingfisher can hover in place for a long…

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Possibilities

by Kevin T McEneaney It’s possible to live for a hundred years, although only few people manage that.   A bowhead whale can live two hundred years, while a zebra finch…

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Meditation on rain

by Kevin T McEneaney I enjoy sleeping when it rains. The sound of raindrops pelting a window gently transports me to the land of sleep where dreams are swathed in…

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Brainiac meditation

by Kevin T McEneaney How often do you observe how your brain works at different times of the day or night? Your brain is something of a mystery and it…

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Too hot to think…

by Kevin T McEneaney When it gets hotter than hot in the shade, and even the leaves are drooping, crying for a drop of water from the heavens as the…

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Fame at a discount

by Kevin T McEneaney AI will compose poetry for you. Download the app, and you are a poet. The app covers all forms of poetry and will compose a hundred…

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That scent…

by Kevin T McEneaney Suddenly, a drenching summer downpour flooding the rolling sward of grass and weeds, gutters pouring fiercely, spattering ground, the sky a frothing boil, blanket gray. *…

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Climb 

by Bill Keller I can't call this a climb,  this gradual ascent  up the gravel path into morning sun.  To lay the railroad tracks,  men dug and blasted hills, hauled…

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We should all hold hands

by Kevin T McEneaney In Havana, Castro censored John Lennon, banning the Fab Four in 1964. Cubans defiantly smuggled in tapes of the smash hit “I Want to Hold Your…

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