Category Poetry
Happy Trails to You
~~~~~ I look around and wonder what each of us sees. Where I sit, it’s cliché, the forest from the trees I listen to voices, talk spiced with the word like; never mind, I think I will go out for a long hike. We mistake politicians for leaders, know they lie. Kill or discredit true […]
Remains of the Daze
~~~~~ I watch all the faces when I walk. I read their heartache, joy and pain. I imagine their stories, as if we talk. Despite tales I create, theirs remain. O so many stories and, also, so few. I think I read this number is seven. Basics match if not life, who knew? Bad, good, […]
No Reply
~~~~~ I walked along the sea and sand, gathered followers on every hand. I did not know them, nor they me. Did we all wonder what we’d see? No clue why the trailed, accident? I strolled at leisure, with no intent. Houses and people all left behind. Was it but solitude I hoped to find? […]
Whose Sweet Face?
~~~~~ While club and maul and stick and mace may have been effective to smash a face, they all require study, practice and intent, maim or murder always what was meant. While the spear and stone or an arbalest, increased striking distance, were not fast. Designed to kill prey, as dangerous as us finished more […]
Which Three Letters?
This is a piece I originally posted last May, but with the shooting at the synagogue in Poway, I feel like I need to post it every day. ~~~~~ Which Three Letters? ~~~~~ NRA, DOA, RIP ~~~~ The NRA pushes guns without any regret, as they myriad Needless Requiems Abet. Doubtless they think they deserve […]
Your Life
~~~~~ What we select to hide; what we’re willing to show, live in conflict, diametrically opposed, poles apart. Doesn’t matter whether we’re moving fast or slow, whether our journey is near its end or just the start Life now flashes by us in rapid fifteen second clips, with staggered moments, fraught with raw emotion. While […]
Can They?
~~~~~ Conservationists have the goal, bringing species from the brink. Extinction the brink they extoll. Can they do this, do you think? Maybe, aliens are here even now. Don’t think their effort working. Ornery, stupid, don’t know how, Probably not, it’s but us shirking. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
Children’s Duty
~~~~~ How lovely a bouquet, yellow daffodils, in a clear glass vase, the stems cut short, die the sooner; their life and beauty stills. Though death comes for all life, no resort. From the far field we hear a loud report. Death stalks killing fields and marks all, knowing lives of children, it will abort, […]
Again
~~~~~ Again, I ask you to sing me my song. I do not know the tune or the words. Unclear where notes or rests belong. Even to me this sounds quite absurd. Still, I know, if I once hear this tune, I’ll believe I have always known it. Self-symphony, under sun or moon, this harmony, […]
My Friend
~~~~~ Begin at the beginning, just before. Do you know where that might be? Bring light into all the dark places; opening your heart, light the world. Moonlight, starlight, both the same. Inhale deeply, feed lungs and brain? The beginning of everything always begins at the end. I urge you to open wide your wings, […]
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