Anything Can Happen

Shel Silverstein

Listen to the Mustn'ts,child,
Listen to the Don'ts
Listen to the Shouldn'ts
The Impossibles, the Won'ts
Listen to the Never Haves,
Then listen close to me --
Anything can happen, child,
Anything can be.

Canada Day

I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to my fellow Canadian Friend.

She is my light, my hope and my fears. I miss her so very much. Star Child I will see you again soon.




Star light, star bright may you shine like no other,
Show me the way to our earth mother.
In the deepest darkest night when all seems to be nothing but gloom,
She finds the light over the never ending coombe.

Star light, star bright may you shine like no other,
Show me the way to our earth mother.
She taught me to dance, laugh, and play in all her glory;
As she says; "This is how all shall feel, for happiness on earth ought to be made mandatory.

We shall learn from our mistakes, and take with us our pain,
And let's not forget that our troubles and our losses become our personal gain"
Star light, star bright may you shine like no other,
Show me the way to our earth mother.

EarthBound

The Thousand Thistle Seeds

Ten years ago, I followed a lizard
Through a grassy, ruined amphitheater,
Quick as quicksilver,
But green, not silver.
The lizard darted,

Skimmed, froze,
Shinnied, insinuated like flame,
A pinpoint of pulse and flash.
The lizard knew
The Etruscan wall's cracks,

The downspouts,
The stone that blunts the plow,
The mortar's and stucco's flaws.
The lizard dwelt in a present
That extends, elongates, thins

Into a filament of consumed air.
I followed the lizard
From brick chink to olive grove,
Poppies to straw,
To sand and loam.

I knew, for a moment, the balance
Between the intimate and the infinite,
A word and what it reckons.
The sun on the hilltop
Flared upon the thousand thistle seeds,

The thousand virtues,
The thousand minerals,
The thousandth of a second
It takes the lizard to taste the moment
And change course.

by Eric Pankey • from The Pear As One Example: New & Selected Poems, 1984-2008 • Ausable Press