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Sunday, August 8, 2021

Personal Experience With Canned Oxygen Use For The Effects Of Wildfire Smoke



I noticed these oxygen cans at the local grocery store in the pharmacy department a month or two ago. Since the air quality has been degraded by wildfire smoke, I'd been suffering low level headache, bad fatigue, and brain fog.  I have noticed some relief since using it (along with Tiger Balm). They are a bit costly, around 17.00 a can this size, but since the smoke will be around for days, I felt it was worth the expense. It is 10 liters producing about 200 one-second inhalations. I am encouraging the family to use it as well. The label makes no claim of any ability to cure, treat or prevent any disease, it is sold as an athletic aid & is not medical grade. I did feel less crappy & a marked improvement in the brain fog, so if anyone else is suffering, I recommend it. Follow label directions & remember oxygen is flammable.

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Prickly Rose Time





Reflect the light
Reflect each other
Double the scent
A thousand thorns
On the prickly roses
At peace back to back
It is their season
In the sun's heat
Welcome for the bees
Dancing upon the prairie wind






©️Sylphide    poem/image 2021

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Anyway

starless clouded night
a darkness unrelenting
firefly beacons rise






©️Sylphide poem 2021

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Springburst


Detritus pushed aside
Bulbs flaunt their hidden
Lifeblood
Arrayed for selection
Opened to the sun
Reflecting it back
Vital in their needs
To mix again
Increasing their force
Their number
Their presence
More, more, more!






©️Sylphide poem/image 2021

Monday, May 3, 2021

Newflower


in a greening lawn
there are new colors today
violets appear





©️Sylphide  poem/image 2021



Saturday, April 24, 2021

Talley

feet
soles
pavement
pavement, pavement, pavement
a day
all night
and a day
bearing the standard
in sorrow
for honor
of no greater love
than i have ever seen
I would be his valkyrie
on pavement
for all to see
that they would bear also
the hero 
to
Valhalla
in their hearts
away from life
away from family
Love
which many still enjoy
because of his sacrifice

bear the standard
for his ideals
and their practice
in his agony
willingly chosen
shining drape
over mindless dark
one path oblivion
his path
Beacon
from now on
Unforgotten




©️Sylphide poem 2021



Inspired by the 24 hour long run undertaken by CU students and law enforcement personnel carrying both the American flag and the Thin Blue Line flag to honor Officer Eric Talley. He set the hero's example of rushing into danger to save people he never knew or will know now, because that was the duty he chose over a safer existence.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Hanging On

Hanging On


As Old Homicide starts to lose his grip
Fair sun is stealing more each day, gains ground
The grass greens and poseys start coming ' round
The ice and snow steady reduced to drips
Winter would cause one more stumble, a slip
Keeping you in his stiff frozen world bound
Covetous, with his dying breaths yet hound
Loathe to lose the taste of bluey cold lips
Though knowing his time from him is now ripped
His talent for hanging on does astound
When gentle warmth, Spring's victor prevails
There remains a few late frosts crystal-
dipped
Icicle dangerous daggers abound
Watching for the unwary to assail





©️Sylphide poem/image 2021