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'The season's same old news.' Well, I've changed house in recent seasons so much is new to me here. I notice even the thistles differ. And the breezes don't have salt in them from the ocean, too far away. Where the savage sun has killed lawn, a wonderful array of tiny flowers has grown, complete with visiting buzzing bees to threaten my barefeet. We've had rain here for two days straight! It's January - my mind keeps trying to adjust to this strange weather. And now a howling wind ... Yes, the news is equally as bad, just as the same moon shines on all the same world. I feel our 'ignorance' protects them. They are an obscene minority and should be eliminated by our majority. Easy to say, perhaps. But I am rambling. It is great that your poem has me thinking, Max! Andrew On 14 January 2015 at 14:21, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ahhhhhhhhh Very appealing, Max. Surely you do not mean YOU. > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Not the News > > > > What delights me in old age? > > anything? Lately it's been the sky > > above the lake, any time of day > > or night; on the lake those birds - > > tiny in perspective fishing - > > these flying wide curving this way. > > Antidotes for the evening news. > > > > Town birds familiar from every > > town I've been in - sparrows, > > pigeons. 'Don't feed the birds'? - > > hard not to, even those crows > > massing pecking on lawns, > > glossy quarrelsome superb. > > Newsworthy? not in the least. > > > > > > Mushrooms after rain, mosses > > revived for winter, herbs, shrubs, > > cauliflowers gone to seed, > > kale in pots outdoing flowers. > > First daffodils, stirring of crocuses. > > The season's same old news. > > > > Delight? the sight of children, > > women, even a few men - > > faces, graces, sometimes voices; > > places and spaces - for example: > > this avenue in perspective, > > this corner space with benches. > > > > Sad and bad though all the news is, > > here our ignorance protects us. > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ 'Undercover of Lightness' http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html 'Shikibu Shuffle' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html