Misty shapes and blotches
Wept from hairline cracks.
A world-bloom, fertile ever
Painted the river shore.
Saplings turned to knotted trees,
Grass whipped by wind turned yellow
Died; and then were green again.
Sun, moon and stars, above.
Rock formations burst, stampede
Elephants across the land, I learned,
Every secret of its beauty,
When, like an arrow let loose
A mouth cast me swiftly
Through sand bank swirls
Into tumultuous ocean
It spoke with me:
Immensity
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020 at 9:29 AM UTC
Went back to the river and its waters still flowed
Like they did when I was younger and lost in the world
And time was drawn by its white-capped rapids
And boys were still playing in its treacherous mud.
Mushrooms and fishbone, aniseed whiff
Traces of apple and rosewood mold.
Went back to the lake with its water still calm
Mirror-like settled and brushed by the dawn
Upset by waves of careless wishes
Made by hearts of aimless mood.
Time paints heavy with water like this
A landscape of sorrow and dreams and bliss.
Sat down at the banks, felt lost at home
A visitor I was, now and back then.
Something leaned heavy on my shoulders and heart
Like a friend all tired, how we’ve grown apart.
A fruit all shriveled in the grass by the trunk
Waters uprooted and blossoms undone.
Whatever makes you happy, can’t be owned.
Let it flow unbounded and winding just so.
Come back to its shores and come undone
Return to where it has all begun.
Time paints heavy with water like this
A landscape of sorrow and dreams and bliss.
Jun 30, 2020
Jun 30, 2020 at 6:59 AM UTC
Hound dog for honesty
got a sniffer for fearlessness
harrier than thou, oh yes
only closer to here is this
growling for profundity
and bark at the moon in bliss
catch the scent of levity
clue you in what you missed
get a whiff of humanity
bona fide and real artistry
doesn’t get more upfront than his
and hers is straight virtuous
true art has an odor no less
than you and beasts and me
it’s certified amenity
to smell when someone’s
finally free of
uncertainty tee-off
performance feat me-bluff
authenticity handcuff
got rid of the fake fluff
and reeks of human real stuff.
Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020 at 1:21 PM UTC
The world grew a puzzled look
and settled in silence.
There was no answer it could give
about who you would become.
And so it marveled with us together
at what you had become
in this short time alive.
A wonder.
Jun 25, 2020
Jun 25, 2020 at 2:32 PM UTC
Diaphanous, like glass dons frost,
the view to lavender distance is lost
Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020 at 4:51 PM UTC
My body, very terrible.
the shape.
Demon comes in
and crazy time.
take the sleep,
for the wake-up time,
feel like cheery boy.
Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020 at 4:58 AM UTC
I want it to lean heavily on my shoulder like a tired friend;
Tell me of its secrets with earthy hints of walnut and aniseed;
Lure me into warm melancholy with traces of apple and rosewood.
Jun 20, 2020
Jun 20, 2020 at 12:32 PM UTC
I'd stomach the smog of Athens
Just to pray at your temple.
Jun 20, 2020
Jun 20, 2020 at 12:30 PM UTC
She lives alone
at the ocean.
Bird's eye view of her
feeding off the waves.
Jun 6, 2020
Jun 6, 2020 at 9:26 AM UTC
Ka-Pow!
It's really nothing dire
Just an engine misfire,
Something that you and I are
Not even thinking about twice
But it turns his blood to ice
And he's back in the dust
and the mud and the fear
has him convinced that his end
is finally drawing near.
And as he's cowering and screaming,
and want's nothing but to be dead,
His blood that was ice, has now turned to lead.
Jun 6, 2020
Jun 6, 2020 at 9:22 AM UTC