An Ode to the Past

Jean Stimmell©2015

Resting peacefully in their cemetery on the family farm

now so overgrown with weeds and the march of time

that their lives seem almost mythic, like a fairy tale.

Who could imagine living such meaningful lives today:

of honest work within the arms of Mother Nature,

raising crops to eat and children to carry on,

without iPhones, Google, or social media?

Out of the blue at age 73

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Jean Stimmell©12/4/18

What does tangible mean at age 73

My eyes lock on a bolt, much older than me

at my cousin’s ancestral fishing camp:

I am spellbound

This bolt is more than a rusty headed

metal pin used to connect things :

It is a bolt from a cosmic crossbow:

A lightning bolt shocking me,

 into a waking dream 

In dreams, a lightning bolt can foretell

the crack of a sudden and terrible event,

or a divine message honoring the chosen...

Which will it be for me?