Photograph by Bob Gentry 8/5/99
A Thought for Today
Conscience, like cowardliness is contagious, but only the
brave can catch it.
The regular daily Flight Plan will be
suspended for a few weeks while I'm away helping Webmaster Ken Blackie work out the design
and content of our upcoming STANYAN HOUSE web site. I hope you'll continue landing here
ever day though because Jay Hagan and Melinda Smith have chosen two poems from a different
one of my books for every day that I'm gone.
So, something new will be here every morning. The Thought for Today and the Notable
Birthdays will continue. See you soon.
Love, Rod
Two poems from the soft cover edition of
"Moment to Moment," Rod McKuen.
On the Way to Sacramento
The three of us
on our way to Sacramento
and no one speaking.
Each having committed the error
of caring for the other -
but separately.
And all the while
we thought that we were different.
From what, I wonder ?
Passion doesn't even need the wind,
it is a need unto itself.
Where friendship lurked
and love once lived
now only silence dwells
and truth between us
will not come again.
Though we're altogether naked
even to the autumn trees,
we are more private
than we'll ever be.
I wish that I were home
wherever that might be.
Home for always, and alone.
Not just one more
passenger of hate
on this third day of October
riding down the California highway.
I pray that I might never be
amazed and let down even once again
by those I trust.
Not possible? I know.
Then I pray
we'll all reach Sacramento soon.
- Chosen by MS |
