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day 78

a thousand deaths

death moans lazily
from the edge, as shadows
grow long…another day
fading to black while we
sleep, dreaming, under
a moonlit sky

~kat

It occurs to me that i practice every night for my final journey from this life. I close my eyes and drift off to sleep trusting in the dawn. But I am not promised the dawn. All the more reason to rejoice when it comes and I am given another day to live. Tonight’s sunset was a brilliant display of golden and red hues bouncing off wisps of clouds. If it were to be my last, if dawn never comes, I am grateful that I stopped a moment to breathe, to take it all in. Should dawn greet me tomorrow, I shall rise knowing that a new day is a gift. A reminder to myself to live it fully.

Peace, Love, and Glimmers to You! (If you’re reading this, I am so grateful that you are here and we can share this moment together!)


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day 77 ~ another piece of pi

mother of exiles
.
she
has faced many trials
here
in the land of opportunity
once upon a time she stood as a beacon
until now
as a malevolent wave sweeps across
a broken nation under siege
shuttering the gates
liberty mourns for her children

~kat

A day away from the news and so much happened… just one day. It’s insane. But even if I do write my angst in poetry, I would be remiss if I brushed off the fabulous show from this morning. The turkeys are very restless. It’s spring after all! A couple of Toms it seems finally have an entourage of lovely Jennies. They are being coy and hard to get but they are keeping company with the gents now. It’s just a matter of time before nature takes it’s course and sets the stage for a brood of young chicks. Life goes on, doesn’t it? Life always finds a way.

And so as bleak as the news may be this day, I am reminded by my Turkey friends that life is a gift.

Peace, Love, and Glimmers to you!

~kat


Poem inspiration: pi = 3.1415926535 – the words of each line correspond to the number sequence of pi.



day 75 ~ time again for a ReVerse

A ReVerse Poem ~ March 2025

Can you see it? Why can’t you see it?
We have a murder folks
Even the TURKEYS are restless
when everything slowly faded
with a sharpie in hand rename points on the map
the sun fills the sky with light
they leaned in to hear more
paying it forward to someone in need
filling our hearts with joie de vivre
at least they cannot cancel spring
since we stole an hour from dawn
you can’t eclipse her
Blood Moon on a Starry Night
we laughed then, but it’s not funny now
if it’s with not at

~kat

Happy ReVerse Poetry Day where I revisit the last few weeks of postings and weave together a new poem by lifting a favorite line from each day’s entry. 

Today’s ReVerse is a bit all over the place. Kind of like the affairs of the world…chaotic…frenetic…destructive leaving us all stunned in the wake. I have to admit I thought it would be bad, but the last few months has far exceeded my worst expectations. The latest stroke of trumps poison pen orders include a stop to all federal funding for the institute of museums and library services as well as an order to ram the final nails into the USAid coffin by demanding that all classified records be shredded, and if there are too many to shred…to burn them. We need to remember … we need to keep reminding ourselves and others of how we used to be before the those claiming to make things great began their rampage of destruction. We need to hold those stories close to our hearts and tell them to our children and grandchildren…the stories of our imperfect experiment in democracy, fraught with civil wars and challenges, and crimes against indigenous peoples and African peoples but who managed to have glimmers of greatness, of justice, compassion, inclusion, and kindness. 

Currently, we are a disaster, not to be trusted. This US administration is erasing all evidence of the truth. But there are legions of us who know the truth and who see the lies for what they are, perpetrated by insecure, selfish, criminal, vile, white men who want it all, even if they have to destroy us and everything good to get it. 

Once again world, I am so very sorry for the monster that our country’s ignorant fools have unleashed on you. I have never been so grateful to have moved to the hills several years ago so I don’t have to see them every day through my window. I like it here with the songbirds and my beloved murder of crows, and the squirrels and chipmunks, the turkeys and opossums and raccoons, the snapping turtles and snakes…and the fungi, flowers, blackberry bushes, and trees. There are glimmers to be found in this ash heap of a country yet…all around for those of us willing to see, and always to be treasured in our hearts! 

Peace, Love, and Glimmers to you!

~kat

I’ll leave you with a few of those glimmers…I hope they lighten your heart like they do mine! ✨💚✨



day 73…have yourself some pi

Happy Pi Day!

It’s Pi day and you know what that means! I get to write a poem based on the pi number sequence. You can do that a number of ways…by correlating the numbers in the sequence by syllables or by the number of words per line. It can be as short or long as you like. Typically I use the first whole number of the sequence (3) for the title line.

pi = 3.1415926535 8979323846 as the inspiration for today’s poem

Peace, love, and glimmers to you! I promise, there’s a glimmer at the end of today’s poem! March On!

~kat



we forgot
.
when
it first started,
when
they crashed the party…
we laughed then, but it’s not funny now
funny
if only we had known,
paid more attention
to the signs…
it might have saved us

how blissfully ignorant
of us to assume benevolence
from a vile, psychopathic,
felonious, predatory cheat
who never
cared for
anyone
not even those who kiss his ring
it’s not over
we decide how this ends

~kat

day 73…first things first

First things first! I am a lunatic! Yes I set my alarm for the wee witching hour for my rendezvous with Luna. She was right on time in all her blushing glory! It was a magical night! I bid her farewell hours later in the afterglow…she was stunning even still, as she dipped below the horizon. Of course I took photos! What kind of Glimmer Documentarian would I be without evidence.

Peace, love and lunar glimmers to you.

~kat

Blood Moon on a Starry Night – March 2025 ~ Kat
The Afterglow…~kat 2025