Alive At Seventy-Five

Today I became 

inadvertently cool

when my blue jeans

sprouted a tear at the knee,

but my granddaughters

were not impressed 

even when I said

I’d pair it with

my favorite “T”

of the Grateful Dead.

                                                              JDG

First And Only

My first order of

business this Thanksgiving is

to have no business

other than deep gratitude

for my granddaughters who cook.

                                                                         JDG

All Shook Up

Sometimes we search for

an answer to a question

not yet clearly formed

and then fret and fume because

we get a garbled reply.

                                                                            JDG

More Than Enough

Just as too much light

on rain-soaked roads can make it

 hard to see, too much

thought can divert heart’s  mission

as we walk grief’s sodden path.

                                                                                  JDG

A Cup Of Contentment

Cloud of frothed milk atop morning coffee –

simple pleasure –

I’m off to

a good

start.

                                                                                      JDG

Blessed Detour

Circumstances forced

her to take an unchosen

path where she found what

she wasn’t looking for and

discovered it was herself.

                                                        JDG