in and out...
within seconds of time...
now... now not... now...
petals falling...
till no more...
hung...
flower...
still seen?
© 2024 Jim Davis
Oct 12, 2024
Oct 12, 2024 at 1:58 AM UTC
The twister has come
Taken you out of Kansas
That was your destiny
With "what" yet to come
You have landed ground
In the Land of Oz
Toto was in your arms
Imaginary, I know, in sounds
Find the Yellow Brick Road
It's path is your path
At the end is the Wizard
Who will tell your answer
Don your ruby slippers
Hope they fit well
You'll have them forever
Until the Gates of Hell?
You will have companions
To protect and help you
Don't look backwards
Flying monkeys follow
No one gets to see the Wizard
A curtain hides his frown
Time to get to moving
Know the Wicked Witch will die
© 2024 Jim Davis
Jul 13, 2024
Jul 13, 2024 at 10:15 AM UTC
Cloudy summer day
Mind holding life's mirror
Quiet reflection
© 2024 Jim Davis
Jul 12, 2024
Jul 12, 2024 at 10:00 AM UTC
name this worst cruelty
is it that
which comes from love
is it that
which doesn't end
is it that
which engulfs me
is it that
which pulls one over
is it that
edge of the abyss
is it that
first second of eternity
© 2024 Jim Davis
Jun 22, 2024
Jun 22, 2024 at 12:36 PM UTC
We touched antiquities...
as relics in memories...
in poetically sorrowful times...
gobbling...
Thessaloniki, Kalabaka, Patka, Mykonos, Delos, Santorini climes
Stood whereon Paul preached...
Phillip's Alexander lived to die...
far before Lord Byron romanticized
Ferried blue and white seas...
flapping blues and whites in skies
Prowled upon Holstein grounds...
amongst surreal beings, windmills, cats, drifting sails and olive pounds
Whilst grasping threads of life...
with love's memories...
losing all to time
© 2023 Jim Davis
Oct 2, 2023
Oct 2, 2023 at 10:58 AM UTC
A chance… finally
to hide… from the moon’s bright eye
to glow… on my own
© 2022 Jim Davis
Oct 14, 2022
Oct 14, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC
I’m gonna
Get me a Blue house
on BACKBACK Street
Hopkins Village
Belize
If it ain’t Blue
when I get it
I’mma gonna
turn it Blue
It’s called
ColorMatching
Me… and my house…
“I got the Blues”
Rolling Stones (see lyrics)
© 2022 Jim Davis
May 9, 2022
May 9, 2022 at 4:03 AM UTC
Falling in
A wondrous thing
Tied in a knot
Unforeseen occurs
In time’s passing
A strand breaks…
Then another…
The twist
comes undone
The knot slips
Held by nothing
Except gossamer thread
A miserable thing
Falling out
© 2021 Jim Davis
Oct 20, 2021
Oct 20, 2021 at 7:02 AM UTC
How did I finally become
this hideous terrible beast
In the mirror’s reflection I see!
It’s happened gradually I suppose
Without my realization of change
****** to forever live as a beast
Now it may be too late for me
Howling at the moon’s cool light
Lonely for another’s breath of love
© 2021 Jim Davis
May 9, 2021
May 9, 2021 at 12:58 PM UTC