Tag Archives: laughter
Ours to Choose
What is it follows? Can it be found? Follows you around Sometimes in front Sometimes behind Opens doors Slams doors In your face Sneaks in Cheek by jowl Cuts no slack A burdened back Dogs your steps Manacles Your joints Points of pain Reminders Of reminders past Needles and pins Stuck in a map Of […]
Taking Your Chance
What do you do if you discover you don’t like your life? When the wonderful choices you’ve made lead to strife Not all of them, certainly, but you feel stifled, unfulfilled One more day you’ll spend praying your world is stilled What you dreamed, do you remember, or who you’d be Memories lost in the […]
Live In
‘Tis a gift to be simple and uncomplicated |No bartered existence to prove we’re alive Sit silently, existence within contemplated No more true separation than bee and hive Appearances deceive, it’s all grand illusion Alone, the same centers, edges and middles So rapid, intricate that we live in confusion While the chorus relaxes, sings and […]
The Other Shoe
In times which try you, foil your plans Do you hold on tightly with both hands Sink beneath the waves in dark despair Hope someone saves you; no one’s there If all days, weeks, years, the world stinks You feel so hopeless, know you’re jinxed You don’t know how to thrive or survive Question just […]
Over Chai or Beer
If the sky had been really falling Would I have felt it hit on the head If reason’s voice had been calling Would I have heard what it said Do I prattle all the live-long day Trying to make my life have sense Tongue tangled, mind in the way My plea, hope, peace, my defense […]
Story Arc
In time, I will surely find my place In my place, I will surely find the time Human existence no longer a contest or race Let’s discard the fears of youth for a new paradigm
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Chapter Three The Arcadian wind blustered as Eni walked Stento up the main street. He strode boldly, proudly, is if he saw no reason for the restraints she was compelled to place around his legs. He ignored those who had come to watch, gawk or taunt him, as if they were the dregs of creation. […]
Another Way
I wonder, if you had gone the other way Would it, to me, have made a difference It probably would have, but who’s to say Whether better, worse, drained in the rinse Your life feels like you’re in the spin cycle Pressured, wrung out, stuck in one place You pretend to ravel riding an exercycle […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Chapter Two Eni no longer stood by Stavo and Brother Dom. She marched up to North and pinned him with her stare. Joy Hardiway, looking distraught, came up as well. Eni made North begin again, though it made him swear. He spoke more slowly under her prodding glare and his tone was not so fraught […]
Beneath the Grass
What would it feel like, any fun, to live to be one hundred My imagination tells me it would be less fun more dread With luck, still shuffling around, able to pee upon my shoes Not rolled about like deadwood by someone I don’t choose Perhaps I will be non compos mentis and it will […]
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