Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


a daily breath

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

    Not everything is what it was or where it was, when you last paid attention.
       Places, people, predicaments altered by time and grace, take on new meanings as they grow older.
       A poem started long ago, misplaced in a wrinkled notebook, reads differently now or needs a little more thought. The page holds so many corrections. Perhaps there were reasons it was abandoned (besides utter carelessness or contempt).
       Even the moon looks different than it has before. It, like you, has changed. Like you, it prefers the darkness and does not always wish to be seen. Like that poem.
       The intentions of a month ago, or sooner, are different now. 
       Intentions are like that. The perspective of your reality will allow further thought when faced with an ever-changing environment. 
       Life is like that. Pay attention.

    01/29/2024                                                                                    j.g.l.

  • Let’s talk

    You can call me brother. You can
    tell me stories, lay out your troubles,
    express opinion (or question mine)
    and share a bit of your wonderfully
    complicated life with me.
       In doing so I would only expect
    that you extend the same courtesy.
       I too have thoughts and many, or
    most (or some) will be contradictory
    to yours. That’s only right. For while
    we all eat, sleep, breath and shit, we
    do so differently.
       We are all different (and that is one
    thing well worth talking about) and
    while we may feel some of the same
    pressures or obligations, there is so
    much more going on.
       So while I am open to hearing your
    politics, poetry, personal convictions
    or preoccupations, I am interested
    in — and more inclined towards —
    dialogue that might provide a greater
    understanding of each other and this
    curious world we continue trying
    to figure out.
       Let’s talk, and let’s listen.
    © 2017 j.g. lewis

  • gr@ffiti

    You haven’t before, even  
    as I often remind you of 
    what is to come. 
    Proclamations fall upon 
    ears that do not wish to 
    listen, eyes that fail to see 
    the signs, minds closed to 
    the havoc that surrounds us. 
    Trust me this time.  
    The only truth I know, at 
    this moment anyway, is  
    that which I dare to speak. 
    Is anybody listening? 
    Even I have been known 
    to ignore my own counsel. 
    Does that make it any less 
    significant? Trust is hard. 

    01/23/2024                                                                                       j.g.l. 

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

    Aches and pains
    from another day: physical,
    psychological, anything but
    understandable.

    Or avoidable.
    It all gets in the way.

    We all hurt. We all heal,
    by and by, in our own time
    exercising empathy with others,
    as much as ourselves.

    Compassion.
    Understanding.

    We can only try,
    we can only do what we
    have the strength for
    today, or any other day.

    We grieve, if need be.
    We all hurt. We will all heal.

    We just don’t know when
    or why or how to
    deal with everyday
    aches and pains.

    01/22/2024                                                                                   j.g.l. 

  • January Blues

    Winter’s chill. Precipitation. 
    Frost on the windshield,  
    only anticipation of days ahead,  
    months from now. 
    Frozen in the moment, how  
    can we tell of spring flowers or  
    summer dreams when 
    the weather outside  
    is just as it seems. 

    01/18/2024                                                                                     j.g.l.