We Bleed the Sun

Tomorrow

New Breath

Good Night

Forever is Now

Sweet Nothing

I See

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Written and posted for Poetics-Bathroom Poetry at dVerse~Poets Pub

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

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

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

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

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

Live and love

Posted for Open Link Night - 98 on dVerse ~ Poets Pub

Reborn

Be

Light