Thank you to Mark Antony Rossi of Ariel Chart  for publishing my two poems in the May issue.

https://www.arielchart.com/2021/05/the-meaning-of-good-life.html

The Meaning Of A Good Life

 

The manifestations of summer,

so much sunshine and green, green grass,

the glistening of a starry evening.

Bare feet on cool sand or polished hardwood floors.

The thought of the value of my own name,

spoken through friendly lips.

Everyone should have 

their own little paradigm

for living the good life.

Neanderthal Man Dies Out

 

My life’s timetable supplants the jerk.

Boorish, gruff brawn replaced with sane kindness.

Loutish blame countered by the textured lines

of smoothed manners, while the iron-hearted gloater

is sent to the graveyard of the coarse and 

contemptible, where gardens of truer hearts,

and unflinching dependability bloom,

covering old, unpolished steles.

Unsophisticated discourtesy

Is no longer active, forever dislodged,

as the intrepidness of refinement

becomes the new, joyous state of my affairs.