Defying Gravity
“I am so tired I can’t stand up; it feels like somebody tripled gravity” – COVID Patient
Fiddling While Rome Burns
Buy me a flute, and a gun that shoots
Tail gates and substitutes
Strap yourself to a tree with roots
You ain’t going nowhere
– Bob Dylan
The Road Less Traveled – New England
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost
Tron Doras
To know where you come from is to know where you are going.
– Russell Paton
Cuba Libra
When the waiter came by, he told us that the guests who had just left were descendants of Fidel Castro.
Time and Tide – The Maritimes
“Time and tide wait for no man”
– Geoffrey Chaucer
From Ashes to Phoenix
“How can you rise, if you have not burned”
― Hiba Fatima Ahmad
Tilting at Windmills – Spain and Portugal
“Perhaps to be too practical is madness.”
Miquel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
Walking to New Orleans
This time I’m walkin’ to New Orleans
I’m walkin’ to New Orleans
I’m gonna need two pair-a shoes
When I get through walkin’ these blues
When I get back to New Orleans
Fats Domino – Walking to New Orleans
Leprechauns – Ireland
There once was a young lady named Terri
So tired of snow it was scary
To Limerick I’ll go
With my husband in tow
And trade all this ice for a fairy.