praying mantis dancing on a pink cosmos our evening dinner show #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

fallen leaves I leave my honor here with you #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

I’m a big fan of simple black and white reasoning like this. Is this helping me? Or is it harming me? There’s no in between. Of course, it’s not so easy to put into practice. Thank you for the reminder.

exposing myself to all the world words on a page #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

Watching my kids look at TikTok is so painful. I think being busy with kids and work negates a lot of boredom because there’s always something to do. Similarly, I find that it does a number on passion

Actually, the poems come first. Later I write a little description about what led to each poem.

Maybe if we didn’t have phones, we’d realize that we are bored. 🤣 What countries did you spend time in?

performing for no one she waits on the corner school bag in her hand #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

a new makeup case sitting on the shelf where the dollhouse used to be #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

That’s interesting. It could definitely be modern too, but it struck me as having a seventies point of view and way of speaking in it.

polyrhythm your breathing and mine #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

Well, he claims to be determined to go pro, so we’ll see. 🤣 I didn’t have much discipline and natural drive as a kid either (outside of actual games). It took me a long time to figure that out. Naturally,

It rings true for America too, at least the America I grew up in. Drunk uncles these days might not make the same word choices they did thirty or forty years ago.

Yeah, we’ve had some big storm fronts and amazing cloud formations. My students were pretty distracted the other day watching one of the blackest clouds I’ve ever seen racing across the sky. The art thing

into the night the sound of a raindrop landing in the well #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

counting rain drops from morning til night the length of a day #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

Wow! That’s pretty ferocious. It makes me think of the song/myth of Ghost Riders on the Storm. We’ve had some pretty wild weather and menacing skies over here lately too.

大変な作業いちもありがとうございます‼️

scent of the sea I sense something just out of reach #bcpoets #leopoets #apoemaday

I love this. All the episodes and scenes are so vibrant, so characteristic of family holiday get togethers.