9.22.2024 – I am waiting to

I am waiting to
get some intimations of
immortality

The view from the beach for the last day of summer or the first day of fall, 2024.

The Haiku is adapted from an excerpt of the poem, I am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in his book, A Coney Island of the Mind.

I am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early childhood
and I am waiting
for the green mornings to come again
youth’s dumb green fields come back again
and I am waiting
for some strains of unpremeditated art
to shake my typewriter
and I am waiting to write
the great indelible poem
and I am waiting
for the last long careless rapture
and I am perpetually waiting
for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn
to catch each other up at last
and embrace
and I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder

A renaissance of wonder.

Is there a greater illustration, perpetually and forever, of a renaissance of wonder then to watch little kids at the beach.

I am waiting to experience this like a kid again.

Youth’s dumb green fields come back again.

I am waiting for that too.

I know too much and I want to know less and just enjoy it all as a child.

Immortality!

I am waiting.