For today...

Mysteries, Yes

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous 
to be understood.

How grass can be nourishing 
 in the mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
 in alliegance with gravity
   while we ourselves dream of rising. 
How two hands touch and bonds will
 never be broken.
How people come, from the delight or the
 scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those
  who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company, always, with those who say 
   "Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
   and bow their heads.

Mary Oliver 
from her book Evidence

Ever make a Haiku?

Wow, making a Haiku is hard especially when limited in syllables.

Yeah that has the syllables but makes about as perfect sense as most Haikus ever written.

I actually sat down and tried to make one up.

First I tried an automated generator form on the internet and the result said "Not safe content". I'm not sure why words like winter, cold, wind, white, and snow could be construed as adult content so I did this the old fashioned way.

Paper and pencil with coffee and curse words. Basically, I couldn't think of anything clever. I looked up Haikus on winter and nothing fit either. So I was left to create something myself.

Snow Drifts

Now I need to think of one regarding trees. I don't know why I decided to go to the world of poetry and Haikus at 5 in the morning, but I did. 

I guess it is a good brain exercise after the past two days of events.

One more just so I won't bore anyone.

Apple Tree

I'm going to stop here
my brain hurts
and my coffee
is cold