Pics and Poetry Wednesday

Juliana's very flattering drawing of me

Does anyone refer to Wednesday as Hump Day anymore? And does that make anyone else giggle unapologetically or is that just me?

Can't be!

Let's have some pics and poetry to alter and illuminate our times, K?  

Song for Baby-O, Unborn by Diane DiPrima

Sweetheart

when you break thru

you’ll find

a poet here

not quite what one would choose.

I won’t promise

you’ll never go hungry

or that you won’t be sad

on this gutted

breaking

globe

but I can show you

baby

enough to love

to break your heart

forever

Madison's hands. BRILLIANT! I'm gonna frame this.

A snippet The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski (the rest at the link)

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.

know them.

Reluctance by Robert Frost

Out through the fields and the woods

   And over the walls I have wended;

I have climbed the hills of view

   And looked at the world, and descended;

I have come by the highway home,

   And lo, it is ended.

Bob's heart, drawn by Doc Drachman (colorized by moi)

The leaves are all dead on the ground,

   Save those that the oak is keeping

To ravel them one by one

   And let them go scraping and creeping

Out over the crusted snow,

   When others are sleeping.

And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,

   No longer blown hither and thither;

The last lone aster is gone;

   The flowers of the witch hazel wither;

The heart is still aching to seek,

   But the feet question ‘Whither?’

Ah, when to the heart of man

   Was it ever less than a treason

To go with the drift of things,

   To yield with a grace to reason,

And bow and accept the end

   Of a love or a season?