Words can share life's truths or shroud them Words can clear up myths or cloud them Words can set things straight or break them Words can make dreams real or fake them If there's order, words can end it If there's #chaos, words can mend it Words have power when we use them Don't let A.I. choose them

I’d rather bite a bitter #fruit than slyly steal a sweet one For I have learned a taste unearned upsets, so I won’t eat one. #vss365

The thing about time is it #tends to get twisted Entangled with futures that never existed While parts of our past get recast and repeated In synchronous cycles that spin uncompleted. #vss365 #tend

An author earns more admiration for A.I.-less book #creation. #vss365 #booksky

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

Baseball has brought families together for generations, but what happens when a son no longer has time for a catch with his dad? Catch, a children's book written by D.C. Swanson and featuring the scra...

bookshop.org

The ghosts I know do not appear as misty forms that conjure fear. Instead, my ghosts #arrive at night to ask, in dreams, if I’m all right. #vss365

Does the ocean get exhausted from the waves that it must make and aspire to retire as a still and glassy lake? But alas, the #coast is stubborn and unbowed in its demands for a ceaseless tide of waves to glide and crash upon its sands. #vss365

Our love will not end when decades pass by, when mountains wear down, when rivers run dry. Our love will not end when time takes the trees, when islands #descend, and shores become seas. Our love will not end on earth or above- though many things end, those things are not love. #vss365

From shipwreck depth to #summit height, we sink, and climb, with words we write. #vss365 #booksky

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

Baseball has brought families together for generations, but what happens when a son no longer has time for a catch with his dad? Catch, a children's book written by D.C. Swanson and featuring the scra...

bookshop.org

Sometimes, when poems rhyme they can feel like old friends. They greet you like neighbors where sidewalks find ends. Their rhythm and #cadence will drift through the air, alight in your attic and ruffle your hair. #vss365 #booksky

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

Baseball has brought families together for generations, but what happens when a son no longer has time for a catch with his dad? Catch, a children's book written by D.C. Swanson and featuring the scra...

bookshop.org

If your views are dated, #shift them. If your hopes have faded, lift them. If your instincts hurt you, fight them. If your thoughts desert you, write them. #vss365 #booksky

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

Baseball has brought families together for generations, but what happens when a son no longer has time for a catch with his dad? Catch, a children's book written by D.C. Swanson and featuring the scra...

bookshop.org

On a #road, a man lies broken, Beaten, robbed and left to die. Eyes averted, words unspoken, Those around him hurry by. Would you stop and lend assistance? Would you give your time and care? Or continue at a distance, Burdens of your own to bear? #vss365

Every day we live means one less day we have till dying. Try to seize each day, and when it’s difficult, keep trying. Life will twist and #turn and will astonish and amaze. Go enjoy the ride before you find you’re out of days. #vss365

I respect those who enrich with their talents while keeping their conscience, their grace, and their #balance. #vss365

The #Sprint The time we have becomes our past. The time that’s left will run out fast. The time we spend will all get spent. Make sure you’re glad where your time went. #vss365

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

Baseball has brought families together for generations, but what happens when a son no longer has time for a catch with his dad? Catch, a children's book written by D.C. Swanson and featuring the scra...

bookshop.org

Sitting, staring at this screen can leave you frozen in your fate So, get up and build #momentum toward a future you create. #vss365

There's never been a mountain height too high for some to climb. There's never been a wall that will not wear away in time. There's never been a sea that spans too far for ships to sail. When #headwinds hold you back, explorers find ways to prevail. #vss365

Awaken your dreams- do not leave them confined to the stifling cell of a slumbering mind. Acquaint them with daylight, with soul, and with heart, then let your dreams grow, and take wing, and #depart. #vss365

Our basement, at night, has the scent of old books and it helps #conquer fears of how dark basements look. #vss365

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

Baseball has brought families together for generations, but what happens when a son no longer has time for a catch with his dad? Catch, a children's book written by D.C. Swanson and featuring the scra...

bookshop.org

As steady as a statute, as guaranteed as fate, as #patient as a portrait, for you I’ll always wait. #vss365

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

bookshop.org

My #unabashed view is that A.I. itself cannot teach half as well as a library shelf. #vss365

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

bookshop.org

Science doesn’t care if you accept it or deny it. Math will still be there if you #embrace it or defy it. Truth is always true no matter how you try to spin it. The world won’t wait for you to recognize that you are in it. #vss365

Our children will rise, just like we once #rose, to rue, and revise, all the choices we chose. #vss365

If screens are where our time is spent their content won't make us content Their algorithms seek to tame our minds' #defiance to their game But like a desert thirsts for rain our minds crave more than clicks obtain And screens cannot supplant the need to give our brains good books to read. #vss365

Catch: A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

A Kids Book about Baseball, Family, and Growing Up

bookshop.org

Regret repeats, reminds, remains. Releasing guilt you can’t restrain. #Revealing what you can’t regain. You can’t rewind, so best refrain. #vss365

A.I. does not love. A.I. does not mourn. A.I. does not die. A.I. was not born. A.I. does not dream. A.I. does not share. Do not think A.I. will #tenderly care. #vss365

The oldies may make ratings #swoon, but man, I love to hear this tune. #vss365 www.youtube.com/shorts/ytyzs...

Hint: It’s all you need #TEDTalks

YouTube video by TED

youtube.com

The sky was orange, streaked with blue The grass was green, a verdant hue I bet it was a #stunning view But as we sat there, just us two, I couldn’t take my eyes off you. #vss365

Before you critique, first try to create. Before you reject, first try to relate. Before you condemn, first share your concern. #Appraisals improve the more that you learn. #vss365 #appraisal www.dcswanson.com

We’d better pay attention to our past and what it cost, or we’ll live in #apprehension of a future that we’ve lost. #vss365

The poems that I write are like pollen to bees. Like acorns to squirrels or like puppies to #fleas, Linguistic ambrosia, a lexical fete, A feast that, at least, you'll find hard to forget. #vss365 #flea youtu.be/3RuC0biTta4

Catch, by D C Swanson

YouTube video by D.C. Swanson

youtu.be