Peace filled festive season wishes

/ Robert

I laughed out loud when I came across this picture on FB. I have included a rough pronounciation in Black Country English.

Recently, we unpacked the soft toys. A dusty, sun-bleached, Pooh, of late 80s vintage emerged.

This year’s Yule tree again includes a bauble depicting a snapshot of Pooh walking their path. I feel a connection with Pooh. They are one of my alter egos.

However, my soulmate in the journey poem below is a Tiger rather than a Tigger or a Piglet.

A shared legato
Almost deafening
Mezzo-staccato of “see-hearing”
Zooming by
Fermata
Reflecting on
The path here

Out of step
Out of time
Even in minority
Faction of a fraction of inversion
Lightness of spirit greyed by inner dark
Misguided
Misunderstood
Yearning to fit in
To be part
Of something

Journey’s search
Whilst learning life
Decades taught
Idealist dreams to be
Reality soured
Came to nought

There is I and those closest to
Wakeup to then and now
You gentle old Airhead fool
For thirty-two years counterpoint
In duet steadied the line
A little out of step a little out of time
A shared legato

World’s a blur of noise
In home’s sotto voce
Dark thins to quiet glimmer
In warmth of being known
In coda we crescendo

Wishing you a peace-filled festive season.

10 thoughts on “Peace filled festive season wishes”

  3. Enjoyed this. Can relate. My Christmas just over. Twenty four here, even my two from Cambodia. I’m the matriarch of five generations now. Beginning to lose it a bit, so in two months moving to Memphis to live with my Daughter and son in law for three months, then back to Dickson with my oldest son and his wife for three months. etc. etc. etc. like a ping pong ball! Facing downsizing to one room at each. My primary care doctor says that I’m healthy and could live a lot longer! At 88 with my brain beginning to leak, that’s not such good news. But all my family came at Christmas and made me feel very loved. Being loved and loving is the name of the game of life to me, so I will go with the flow and hope to not become too much of a challenge! Merry Christmas season. I love all the colors and music and enjoy asking frowning grocery shoppers, “Are we having fun yet?”

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    • Thank you, Eileen, it has made my day hearing from you. You are fortunate to have a loving family to facilitate the ping pong. They will grow as humans through caring and being closer to you. Can the doctors do anything to dam the brain leaking?

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      • Yes. I am having hour long infusions every two weeks that supposedly can slow down the progression. No pain, delightful people, pleasant experience and so far paid by Medicare. They last a year and then slow down to once a month. The infusion center has offices in Memphis and Nashville, so I can have them both places. Just started them, so can’t really know if it’s helping since I am still mostly functional. My mother went through this, so I know how it progresses. She started at 64, I’m starting at 88. I’m basically healthy, so may live a long time. Having five children with two having room for me is a blessing. Medicare doesn’t pay for a nursing home and good ones run over $100,000 a year. Not an option for me.

      • Thanks, Robert. I have enjoyed these years of being connected across the world. Something my generation could never have imagined! Gives one hope for the future. My grandchildren spend hours playing games and connecting with people all over the world and accepting differences that divided people in the past. We are currently in a transition time with fear of change controlling many, but change is inevitable. Hopefully, the new generations will embrace it better than our older ones. Wishing you a year of growth and blessings.

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