Shrouded Shore: The Many Musings of Thom Singleton

  A Medical Term? Had a medical appointment for back pain With a serious and  competent practitioner Probably overburdened Aren’t they all? My goal, to put a little humor in her day So when she said, “You have a funky spot on your back.” I said, “Funky. Is that a medical term?” Did I meet my goal? Yep, she broke out laughing. 

  Riches Pearls in the blueberry bush Diamonds in the dewy grass Sparkling emeralds everywhere The jeweler? The sun

  Pain Vs. Love One AM It comes and it goes With every breath Back pain Loving wife, awakened, tries...    Pain meds    Cold pack    Hot pack    Pillow under knees Her not-so-patient patient grumbles and groans He can’t get comfortable Pain persists Ambulance considered Pain with every, even shallow, breath Exhausted he sleeps Then, miraculously, the pain eases He pulls himself out of bed He walks to his recliner Pain still there but abated Doctor appointment made Love beats pain

  Wind World Maple leaves, colored light green by the sun shining through, flutter in the stiff breeze, and cast their shimmering shadows on the meadow. The buck thorn,  bobbing and weaving in the gusts, make funny faces in their leafy branches. The spruce greet the day with their green-shawled arms waving hello. A lone squirrel braves the wind, always on the hunt for nuts. Other four-leggeds stay in their burrows, not yet used to the cold. Even the birds stay sheltered from the wind, figuring it’s not worth the effort. The wind takes over the world.  

  Feelings Are you in-the-moment right now? What’s the feeling inside? Are you blah or rah? Eek or ache? Or just plain irate? Bored or glad? Scared or sad? Or just plain mad? Express them safely Let them go When you do You’ll feel glad!

  The Artist in the Sky The distant Sun, artist of our own corner of the cosmos, paints Earth’s clouds red and yellow. Then, somehow, a bolt of not lightning but light pierces through the tangle of trees behind our house, and falls on the dew-jeweled meadow. The Sun, an artist beyond compare.