Each day the dawn and sunset vie

to stir those dreams you set awry.

‘Cause with the dawn a new lot’s cast 

and what’s on hold could vivify.

          From the Kindle book Rubai Gems by James E. Cox

 

Senryu {Importance}

Waste not one minute

searching through a pane opaque...

unless much at stake.

 Arizona Gerrymandering

The AZ gerrymandering

has made me an Independent.

O’er twenty years their foul machine

has lost my vote...I revolt vent.

Some say Dems, too, gerrymander...

I look to see who is the worst.

If votes are fair that Dems augur

and GOP is most accursed,

my votes for Dems will be disbursed.

 

 

December 7, 1941 

Though young, I still remember

how on that fateful day

the look of shock in mother’s eyes

said that our world had just turned gray.

 

Then came the deprivation...

rationing for our army’s needs.

The radio and the cinema

swelled our hearts with their brave deeds.

 

Resolve and toil helped win that war.

For eighty years our land stands free,

but those who bore that world war

showed moms who helped were key.

 

Perception

 That which we perceive

we tend to believe.

Yet shadows may weave

all we can perceive.

 From my book, As the Mood Prescribes. 

 

Physicist to Poet

As physicist, I did relent

when I retired I folded tent...

decided to leave that fab field,

and see what poet’s lives can yield.

I heard that poets don’t get rich

and oft to prose smart writers switch.

Twenty-seven hundred poems

published in my ten books of gems

never made me wealthy,

but readers keep my mind healthy.

Thousands at home and foreign bent

have never had to pay one cent...

because love shown when they return

prove for my poetry they yearn.

 

 

December 2021

It's not a meal in late November,

nor gifts exchanged each December.

It’s love that’s shared throughout the years

that we hold dear and remember.