You and I and Others: Tilting Windmills

By Paul Walsh

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 29, 2008
• ISBN: 9781462819317

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Copyright © 2009 by Paul Walsh.

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Contents

Nectar

Garden Royalty

Rendezvous

Grandma’s Kitchen

Tilting Windmills

Living the Dream

There Is

Protection

Recollection

There were Things

Running Away (The Start)

First Night at the Federal Prison

The Houses Lyle Might Have Built

Last Ride Soon

Yard Races

Combatants

Identifying a Mother

Table Talk

Pasturing

Elevated

A Tiny Nip

Suspended

Lessons

Mute

Opportunity

Queen Billy Blues

London Night

Memory of the Business in Ireland

Paris Shade

Repairs

Angling

To Maintain The Total Balance

Final Footing

TV. Violence

Knowing Troll Words

Remodeling The Alligator

Bicycle

Nature Lesson at Recess

Elements

Counterpoint

Impressions

The Trip

Security

Larceny

Fliers

Raising Cane

The Round-up

Anger, Love, and Prayer

Christmas Five

Always

Animal Farm

Lonely

Panthering Together

The Morning Glory Stroll

Conversational Vacuum

War Time

Humility at Home

Getting There

Authority

Word Choice—Not

The Clock

Awakening Past Moments

War Pride

Double-Dog-Dare Times

Equine Math

Two-party Achievement

Togethering

To The Lady I Promised a Poem

Our Lives

Choice

Kinder Help

Old Birds

Recall

Bring Them On

Spiced

Limits

Timid

Webbing

Different Races

Silence

Self Praise

A Bridge to Build

Citrus Breeze

Apple Truth

Fjordian Repast

Meeting

Housing

Hunters

Salute

Guiding Light

Proximity

Wounded

Mountain Climbers

Tall Guitar

Rapids

Covering

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Mounted

Bon Voyage

I wish to thank my wife, Connie; my sister, Jean; and the many good friends who inspired, encouraged, and helped shape this book.

Nectar

If

you

and I

were blossoms

on an apple tree,

in spring of every year,

I’d bribe an idle bee to find

you out and carry sips

to you from me for sweet

replies in

kind.

Garden Royalty

If you and I were iris

in our beauty blooming,

we’d not look down

on cabbage nor refuse tall grass

the time of day

unless we feared it might,

by crowding, crocus.

Rendezvous

If

you and I

were planets

with orbits arcing

close but once a twelve

month time, precisely

in the sky of then,

I’d play

a

trick on

mother universe,

whirl to where you were,

scratch between your shoulders,

quick-whisper starry stories in your ear,

smile at your kind-clever thought,

then scurry back to plan

the tale I’d tell

to you next

year.

Grandma’s Kitchen

Are you

resolute and spirited

enough to push your voice to kindness,

your face to smiles, when you hear

oft-told jokes and thoughtless banter

men and women, down on luck, or with voices

filled by bragging laughter, let

their lips relate? If not, then lottery

of life may be telling you to work awhile

at the local eatery before you try

to climb much further in the business

of treating people kindly. You may

have learned to listen to the stories

of others just like you—pampered, pretty.

Of course, you’ve read and heard the tales

of those who are not wise, but you have learned

to judge most shrewdly. Do not be so sure! When you

spend some time in a diner with the mind alert,

you will appreciate the opportunity it gives

to ascend a camp or two beyond the elevation

life presently has let you reach. There’ll still be steep

in all the hills, but the way you treat the ones

you meet