I Needed to Wait in the Hall
I needed to wait in the hall
I needed to wait in the hall a long time
and not be welcomed
To see your books on common shelves to be shared
Books inscribed to you
Some books I gave you last Christmas
And to hear worried phrases and roaring grunts from voices
not quite yours I needed to wait long enough to be sure that
if that door were to open
there might not still be an easy chair (or two)
A joyful if unsteady greeting
And a dresser with drawers that smelled the sa
Three Haiku
Death is not in my sights now
Nor ’round the corner
But nearer than it once was Here late in life’s long end game
What plays are left us?
Joy friends love joy friends love FIN Even our blackest blunders
Dark fears and regret
Can’t scare away love from now. © Richard Chamberlain 2009
I Saw Who I Was Before I Was!
I saw who I was before I was! There is a perception of eons of genetic material slowly adding each piece of nucleic acid DNA from countless ancestors and countless mutations. I can see the huge golden egg from mother filled with genetic material from both her mother and father. Then I see the tiny sperm, so overwhelmed by the size of the egg and so determined to seed life, also filled with nuclear material from both mother and father. I have no idea who all these donors were,
Love is the Blood of the Universe
When your heart aches
And, some inner voice
Recites that old list of faults Or when the colors of the world
Seem to pale and your
Trying to be positive and upbeat
Seems like a lie you tell to yourself Remember that I too have felt this
And, so have your mother, father, friends, and children
And even the master teachers of the world If you pause now
Just for 10 seconds
B r e a t h e
And feel your Heart’s Beat Know that your
Heart-blood courses through you
Without y