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I took a step
I feel the air rushing fast
I closed my eyes
Let the wind rush past
I let it all go
As the world flies by
Falling upwards
The droplets from my eyes
Hands open up
Waiting for a reply
One more look
and it all goes goodbye
Originally Posted: 6/16/2008
When your child was born…
What do you think of?
When you speak of that day?
Do you think of the new life?
The amazing beautiful child?
Or of the pain? The labor? The hours?
When you got married…
What do you think of?
When you speak of that day?
Do you think of standing with your love?
Of your heart pounding with joy and anticipation?
Or of the cost? Arguing about planning? Battling parents?
Why do we focus so hard
On the pain, the hurt, the empty
Why do we explain in such detail
Our trials and tribulations?
Yet leave but a second
For the beauty, the success, the amazing
From a fragrant rose to an excited child
We see weeds that need pulling
And clothes that need washing
Love each moment and embrace the beauty all around
That fragrant rose needs smelling
That amazing, excited child needs loving
Watch them run
Climb and swing
Sliding without a care
Purples and pinks
Yellows and blues
A new world to explore
Tubes and slides
Nets and tunnels
Discoveries waiting
A hundred small bodies
Absorbed in the now
Free to just be
Run this way
Now jump that way
Pause to ponder the next step
A screech of joy
A yell to another
Hey! Watch this!
Giggles and grins
Eyes wide and aware
I wish it were me in there
I look into the glass
Reflections I do not remember
Flash before my eyes
The eyes that look back
Dark and alone
When did the light die out?
When did the fire burn out?
Recognition is lost
The vision fades to schemes
Remembrances of times lost
Who was that dancing in the grass?
Looking at the stars in awe?
Who was that?
Where did I go?
The shell glaring into my core
Full of contempt and remorse
Sunken, withered, withdrawn
Am I in there somewhere?
I see my flesh
But it is not me
I slowly reach out my leathery hand
Touching, tracing my fingers
Over what used to be alive
I feel something wet against my finger…
Is it hope?
I think it might be…
(another impromptu poem – written 4/1/05 while updating the site)
As I close my eyes dark without a way out
Drawn, I fall back
Slowly, arm’s outstretched
My body drops and drifts
Slow motion, yet all is a blur
I watch as I disappear into the empty
Like Sinking into black water
I slowly sink beneath the surface
Holding my breath, heart beating faster
There is nothing but heart beats now
Echoing like thunder, then fading
They seem further and further apart
I try too remember before
To find footing as I fall further
Am I still falling? Or rising?
I feel the black swirl around me
Heart beats sound like a memory
Sounds far away and blurry
I blink to try to focus
Or was it a memory of blinking?
Where am I? Am I?
I am so aware… of nothing
Perception ceases
Thought falls to a lost memory
Empty consumes, yet never fills
Or does it?
Thought rains
In an unending turrent of emotion
Extracting reality from chaos
But which is which?
Through the drops I see form
Trembling and hazy
The torrential onslaught is not giving in
Force through to grasp the haze
Mold it into desires unspoken
Relinquish that which holds you back
Sieze and be seized
Feel and be felt
The thunder of the rain pounds
Pounds at the edge of what is and is not
I will hold this haze and be content
For now…
Fragments of thought
Bleed through decay
Humanities demise
Mother earth to pay
I am searching
Endless, beginningless
Pointless?
know not
Yet all answers are there
So much is lost
For physical gain
Mankind is the heroin
Shot into mother earth’s vein
Solutions… where?
Images of love
Fade to gray
Not yet lost
Boarder of extinction
Whales song echoes
Mother earth’s pain
Homosapiens to deaf
Too dumb to change
Walking along
A darkened path
Grisley branches
Clawing and scraping
Fight to impede
I must go on
Blood soaked
Tattered clothes
Hide the true wounds
Seething flesh
Unnoticed…
I must go on
Crawling now
Darker it grows
Thorns like knives
Ripping and tearing
Slash to hold back
I must go on
Bloody rags
Caked with mud
Agonized flesh
Misleads the torment
Of a shattered soul
I must go on
Written 11/4/04
My Haiku usually falls into it’s own space. I can never remember the “proper” syllable scheme, so you never know which way it will go!
Haiku-2005
A birthday wish thought for you
So many years past
You still feel so close to me
Driving around here to there
Lost in our to do’s
Where is the time to reflect?
Hurry, hurry, rush, rush, rush
Focus on the end
Now it’s to late to enjoy
Joy of sharing with my friend
Camera sees me
I see treasured memories
Haiku – 2007
Stare into wind
Listen to the sun setting
Life’s full of wonder
Beckoning the heart
A flowers pedals open
Needing to be touched again
When the shadows fall
Souls fall silent in the dark
Time to awaken
Feeling the path fade
Stumbling to gain a foothold
See with closed eyes, trust in you
Awakening souls
Seeking answers that elude
Comes not from trying
The glass, pick it up
Now, try to drink form the glass
No, that is doing
Moments that define
Decisions by heart or by head
Is one easier?
Haiku – Duality
12/28/05
Soft flower pedals unfold
Two come together
Life’s cycle completes once more
Stretch down to drink of the earth
Reach out to touch warmth
Synergy of life’s exchange
Soft and light, it gently falls
Covering bareness
Beautifully flows in the wind
Two pools dance under the moon
Distorted by drops
Seeking in nights solitude
Standing tall in the nights dark
Stoically swaying
Waiting for absolution
It’s soft touch upon your skin
Warm in summer heat
Revel in it’s purity
Sweet taste of the early morn
The blossoming glow
Warm satisfaction cascades
How breathe rises in the air
My lips part to greet
I revel in the feeling
Carefully follow the curves
My sense alive
A journey that needs no end
Droplets appear like magic
Glistening diamonds
Anticipating release
Hypnotically dancing
Sparks lash out at me
I bathe in the heats embrace
Milky white, firm, yet so soft
Atop perfection
It’s sweetness satiates me
Long fingers lash in the dark
Lighting the senses
Leaving echoes in your ears
Crashing down, washing away
Traces of the past
Take and give in harmony
Lush, glistening, deep red
Full and inviting
Temptations invitation
