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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
You
Looking out across the
Sunlit fields
He stood in
Awe
Silent he stood
For a century
Gazing upon the unspeakable
Truth, no words could explain
Days shifted into nights
Into days
Into nights
In endless passage
Yet no time had passed
As his gaze remained shiftless
And his beard grew long
He stood
And looked into the soul
Of beauty
Laid bare
Love
Sunlit fields
He stood in
Awe
Silent he stood
For a century
Gazing upon the unspeakable
Truth, no words could explain
Days shifted into nights
Into days
Into nights
In endless passage
Yet no time had passed
As his gaze remained shiftless
And his beard grew long
He stood
And looked into the soul
Of beauty
Laid bare
Love
Guilt
You wandered upon the inconceivable
Buried beneath the tombs
Of Memory
Left in fragmented shards
Of misaligned mirrors
Broken
It was uncovered with
Just a brush
Of your words
Pure and honest
Like an atom bomb
A discovery you knew not of
Something not in your search
But still real
Molded and grown from spores
Of moments forgotten
Emotion remembered
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Difficult Conversations
I am sitting here
Contemplating the life
That we have woven
Intricately placing thread
Upon thread
Stretching strings
Taut
While others remain slack
White and burgundy
Hues
A composition
With a melody
Left incomplete
As summer recedes
And leaves turn
Falling leaf upon leaf
The crisp northern wind
Takes firm hold
Leaving hopes
Frozen in place
Like the arctic tundra
Ready for the thaw
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Passage
A slight chink
Left hidden within
The wall that time
Left standing
Hidden among the
Briarwood for none
Who dare to look
To see
Left hidden within
The wall that time
Left standing
Hidden among the
Briarwood for none
Who dare to look
To see
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Turning
The world stopped
For but a moment
In the midst of
Joy and Yuletide
Stopped spinning
On its tilted axis
Under the shine of
Sun
Drinks and gaiety
Exchanged as the
New year rang
True
But left behind
Leaving a barren
Wake
Where spring refused to bloom
Hung in each
Home
A wreath
Long into summer
For but a moment
In the midst of
Joy and Yuletide
Stopped spinning
On its tilted axis
Under the shine of
Sun
Drinks and gaiety
Exchanged as the
New year rang
True
But left behind
Leaving a barren
Wake
Where spring refused to bloom
Hung in each
Home
A wreath
Long into summer
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Do They See
I wonder
If I am alone in my
Thought
Alone in my
Head
Do others
See the world like I
Do
Walking into the supermarket
Scanning the produce
Do they
See
What I see
Do they see a
Cacophony
Of brightly colored
Primary hues
Exploding
Into beautiful art?
Each fruit set to
Detonate
The moment my eyes
Take in their
Beauty
Do they
See
Walking down the aisle
From fermenting vineyards
Chardonnays and Merlots
Sparkling and not
Shattering in shards of green
Red and gold
At their feet
Making the aisle
Impassable
Am I alone in my
Thought
When I see what lies before
Me
Strewn in destruction
Precisionly crafted buildings
Crumpled at my feet
Sun exploding into
Wonder
When life becomes
Extinct
Oceans freezing over in
Mid wave
How is it not possible
To see the beauty in the
Fragile
In the
Vulnerable
Existence
Of each thing
Of each being
Resting on an edge
Thin like air
With so much possibility
How can people not
See
Like
Me
And love
Each moment
Each soul
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Carried Home
Let this
carry you forward
In the time
of unknown
When the
flame feeds on wax
That does
not diminish
Burning
brightly like sun
Radiating unity
beyond reach
Staying
strong and resilient
In the
coming winds of uncertainty
Let this
ivory candle light the way
Through divergent
paths past the solstice
Giving
guidance and certainty
In times of the
uncertain
Illuminating
footfalls on uneven ground
As all else
falls away into summer
Drifting in
a sea where nothing is lost
Let this
flame find you
In the
darkness of the day
When despair
settles in
Beyond the
reach of the sun
When days
pile into days
And road
washes away from unseen storms
Let it carry
you forth
Over times
of loss
Out of
perdition
And into in
the equinox
Where once again you are home
Where once again you are home
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Summer
You have passed
Beyond the boundaries
Of good hope
And good measure
A time of morning
Sun
And beach
Swells
Beyond the walls
Where pupils
Sit
Dilated
With distain
Beyond the
Strain
Of schedules
Of moments
Of knowing
A time of unknown
When paths cross
To tempt
Fate
Stepping to free
And light
Convictions
Hold true
In summer time
When tranquility
Builds trust
In the unknown
When fear
Subsides by the
sea
When destinations
And arrivals
Are not timed
Nor expected
But knowing
The unknown
As it is
The now
The present
Once future
Time
When clarity
Eases focus
And purpose
Arises
Soon to be
Past
And distant
Part of the
Known
When all
Is known
Leaving
Time to step
Again to the
Unknown
The now
Intentions
Your intentions
Were hidden
Behind a wall
Of intention
Of which
You did not know
What it was
But your
Intention
Masked behind
Emotion
Behind guilt
Your intentions
Were not received
As they were
Sent
As they weren't
The intentions
Of them
As their
Intentions
Were different
Than the
Intentions
You meant
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Four Months
Staring
Standing
On the cold bathroom
Tile
Searching the face
In the mirror
For what has
Changed
The years
Have been kind
But something has
Changed
The face is
Familiar
But it is not
True
Staring
Searching
The mirror
Has not
Lied
The face
Is not the same
Four months
Time
Is all it took
Four months
For it all to change
Eyes dark with
Shadow
Muscles forgotten how
To smile
Life has washed
Away
Joy remains
Walled
Behind the veil
And you
Simply Exist
Standing
On the cold bathroom
Tile
Searching the face
In the mirror
For what has
Changed
The years
Have been kind
But something has
Changed
The face is
Familiar
But it is not
True
Staring
Searching
The mirror
Has not
Lied
The face
Is not the same
Four months
Time
Is all it took
Four months
For it all to change
Eyes dark with
Shadow
Muscles forgotten how
To smile
Life has washed
Away
Joy remains
Walled
Behind the veil
And you
Simply Exist
Written and posted for Poetics-Bathroom Poetry at dVerse~Poets Pub
Friday, May 31, 2013
Eclipsed
Sometimes the sun
Does not shine
Sometimes the sun
Dims from view
Just at the moment
When you need it
Most
It is
Gone
Eclipsed
Hidden in the recess
Of time
Without warning
The brightly
Burning orb
Explodes into
An impenetrable
Abyss
Leaving only
Shadow in its
Wake
Like a death toll
Calling for an end
It has evaporated
Into oblivion
Into nothing
Does not shine
Sometimes the sun
Dims from view
Just at the moment
When you need it
Most
It is
Gone
Eclipsed
Hidden in the recess
Of time
Without warning
The brightly
Burning orb
Explodes into
An impenetrable
Abyss
Leaving only
Shadow in its
Wake
Like a death toll
Calling for an end
It has evaporated
Into oblivion
Into nothing
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Crescendo
Our existence
Is silence
Between the folds
Of the unfolded
We reside
Watching flowers
Bloom
Under blue skies
Between the rustle
Of leaves
You can hear
The noiselessness
Of our nature
A cacophony
That envelops
Impenetrable
Impervious
To the thought
To the will
Of the outside
So we are
Cast aside
To live
In our existence
In silence
Steady
Out in the cold
Morning Light
When dew is
Fresh upon the
Grass
He stands with
Resolve
Breathing the
Crisp
Morning
Sun
Lilac scented
Inspired
He breaks
Away
From the known
Stepping with
Deliberate
steady feet
He releases
Himself to
The
Unknown
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Sunshine
Standing
on a moment of
Indecision
A
thin chalk drawn
Line
Of
reality
Real
and not real
Over
which the heart ceases to beat
A pulse
of depth
A
pulse of life
Like
seeing
The
birds outside the
Prison
walls
Seeing
the open
Gate
and fighting the urge
To
Run
Out
into the light
Out
in to free
Out
in to the peace
The
subtle quiet
Instead
I turn from the door
And walk slowly down the hall
And walk slowly down the hall
Canopy
In
the peace
Of
the forest
A
tree stands
Alone
Screaming
Searching
Branches
Outstretched
For
sun
Artichoke Eaters
Surrounded
by love
Tender
and Kind
Warm
and sweet
Makes
for a lonely
View
Of
the world
Shadowed
in bright crispness
Laughing
faces
Split
open in
Carnivorous
grins
Eating
hearts
Of artichokes
Monday, May 27, 2013
Simplest
I
wanna be free
Free
to float on a distant
Dream
A
dream locked in reality
With
beautiful bliss
And
sunshine
Old
wood and
Threadbare
clothes
I
dream such a dream
When
light streams
Through
simple windows
Falling
in beams of hope
Blossoming
simple love
In
faded jeans
Love
waits
And
lives
Love and Fear
I am
thinking of a time
When
I
will choose to live
Rather
than be defined
By limitations
The
shackles that bind me
Do
not define me
But
the breath
I
breathe
When
I am free
To breathe
Under
the Sun
Without
constraints
Without
bonds
Without
suffocation
If I
choose to leave
If I
choose to stay
I
will not stay
Because
of any fear
I
choose to
Live
And
Be
alive
If I
am not alive here
I
will be alive elsewhere
I
want to
Rejoice
in the love
Rejoice
in the sun
Rejoice
in being alive
I
want to
Be alive
Fly with
the birds
Live with
the dolphins
Become
a blade of grass
Bend with
the wind
Be a
snowflake
In midsummer
Be a
grain of sand
Blown
across the dunes
Sway
in the breeze
Be a
drop of rain
I
want to live
I
want to love
Do
not fear
The choices
I make
Be
not defined
By fear
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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