Category Modern Life
What Time? What Hope?
What Time? What Hope? ~~~~~ Being greedy In small steps. Grabbing what, What you want, As though It’s yours, By right Or rite. Casting bones, Waving feathers, Odds and ends Imbued with power. At midnight, Any hour Darkness hides Our fright, Our trepidation, Nervous laughter. Hoping, hoping, Longing to know The secret, Wrest the prize, […]
That’s Why
That’s Why These days, life feels so crazy and confusing. It does not one bit of good to keep refusing. I simply cannot spend all my time snoozing. I find no answers in the books I’m perusing. I am told it’s about the winning and losing. And I think this more than a little bemusing. […]
Make It So
Make It So ~~~~~ In this frightening, contentious time of pandemic, sheltering at home as nearly as we can, we have the time to think about how we have spent our days until now. We have time to pursue thoughts of the dreams we held for our life before reality moved in to stay. In […]
A Hint of Moon
A Hint of Moon ~~~~~ With a whimsically dramatic Play of color, the sun swoons, An overwrought stage diva. She disappears, with a faint trace, the perfume of a lover Who has slipped silently, yet Swiftly from a secret tryst. The darkness embraces her, As his sparkling cloak falls Softly, covering her absence, With, a […]
I’ve Heard
I’ve Heard ~~~~~ Certainty, it’s said, is fleeting It may vanish upon meeting Or offer you a warm greeting You hope it will last a lifetime Pray that it will be your lifeline Most lose it, such a rife crime It’s ephemeral, so it’s precious Though it can turn you vicious Believe it, it’s gone, […]
Wood Drake
My Recently Completed Painting of a Wood Drake on the Shore Wood Drake on the Shore. But what are you waiting for? I may never know. Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think. See more of my creative […]
Simple Complexity ~ Complex Simplicity
Simple Complexity ~ Complex Simplicity ~~~~~ Why then must poetry’s meaning be couched, Like the imagined sea-sound heard in a shell? May fleeting beauty, convoluted truth be vouched, Said simply and offered crystal-clear from a well? Will it help if I use night to presage age or death, Flying birds or sunsets standing in for […]
Light, A Distant Vista
Light, A Distant Vista ~~~~~ Responsible, preoccupied, needs, daily duties, urges to create. Atlas beneath my half-sky, inventing my truth in beauty before I am late. Days, time-paced, sheltered, stopped, shoulds and musts to meet and answer While so few sought either truth or beauty; they didn’t pay the financier Is shielding the candle flame from […]
What I Always Expected
What I Always Expected ~~~~~ He was sure he could encompass it all Inside of his brain, his body, his being/ A world grown oh so incredibly small; With little work all would be agreeing/ But we did not agree, and battles raged, Despite how tightly all were connected. Not yet evolved, our animal’s uncaged […]
Buy and Bye
Buy and Bye ~~~~~ Can you tell us of days, our future cast How we fared and how long did we last Not really important in the grand scheme Everything changes; whimper or scream All of our glories and all of our horrors Blink of an eye; so much less than hours We all think […]
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