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Life and Time
Life is trying Trying To stretch me Stretch me thin Extenuated Tries Treasons Lies Reasons Death and life Sorrow Trouble Borrowed double Tears flow Falling Like rain Striking Splashing Battering Splattering Ripples spreading Intersecting No respite No recrimination Insinuation Sentiments shared True words Honestly spoken Beyond token Interim station Terminal destination Past time To […]
At Risk
At the risk that I repeat I am not feeling replete By cars upon my street I know I’m not an elite Fearing I only baa, bleat As my hours vanish fleet Till I’m but merely meat And lying ‘neath the peat For life’s rarely ever neat It’s messy and indiscreet Sun, rain, snow and […]
Hoping to Receive
Sitting at a store counter waiting A new, nonworking fountain pen Hold head down, no flow grating So grab another pen, begin again As I write, I watch the busy world Coffee kiosk, fuzzy socks, balloons Ads, short, tall, and flags unfurled Acres of pretenders singing tunes Ghosts, goblins on All Hallows Eve Robot, ghoul, […]
In All Its Lovely Raging
The ice cracks, breaks up and melts away Flowing southward from its place of birth Causing Earth to grow hot, angry each day As massive storms shout warning at earth What secrets have we found, have we lost Our ignorance has caused a stormy tirade Even now, do enough understand the cost In hubris cowering, […]
Until
I wander A house Known As if my own Wondering, pondering Past interactions Missed opportunities Arguments Confrontations Love Laughter Anger Sorrow Could have been Might have been Other than it was Other than A tragic dénouement A single Word Missed Cue Lost Feeling Reaction Action Blank look Angry glare Beady-eyed stare Chance mislaid Never noticed […]
Nothing Left to Give
Smart phones are a boon and a curse They unite, simultaneously isolate us Rooted deep into our days, our purse In oh so many ways they bankrupt us Tech rules, talking, staring at a screen Cut off from each as we communicate To the fly on my leg, it means nothing In caves, no-touch interaction […]
Business as Usual?
Could it be we all simply do not care Enveloped in our sad and petty lives Trusting wealthy, politicians, swearing Won’t alter Earth so only they survive Hasn’t happened yet, that I’m aware Nor a thing to help our world survive We might well live outside, walk bare Any leader we asks only jukes or […]
A Matter of Heart
People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. The confusion in this world is that things are being loved and people are being used. Unknown – At least I couldn’t find any attribution I am sick unto death of describing how screwed up our world has become. Earth, our home, […]
Now
Words, for me, wind down My art draws me, to paint All my words, all the words Any language, form, intent Incomplete to curry change Still I grasp I’ll persist, scribbling Verses, essays, stories, more Offering vision, being, truth My truth, which the universe Fills or drains, ebbs or flows Seeking Creating courses high to […]
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’m, like, listening to, like, voices impressed, like Never mind, I think I will go out for a long hike We mistake politicians for leaders, know they lie Kill, discredit true leaders, but do we […]
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