My Dear Poet

My Dear Poet Nov 2021

Be yourself
there isn’t anyone else
who’d be a better YOU

Don’t be me
and be blind to see
all that YOU could be

Don’t be them
and fail when
they ask for all YOU are

For even then
one can’t pretend
being YOU is best by far

#real #integrity #raw #true

My Dear Poet Nov 2021

Trust

Sitting on the side
of the eclipse
we’re hanging off it’s edge
I’m thinking of you too
dangling off your ledge
I’ll be counting
to number three
and then, I will let go
So I can catch you if you fall
if you count on me
and follow

#trust

My Dear Poet Nov 2021

Forgotten and Found

Today I forgot
the very thing I lost
I forgot I lost it
I forgot what it was

Tomorrow I found
in my memory tossed
what was not there
where all along
it never was

What M.C.Escher is to Art
poetry can be
https://moa.byu.edu/m-c-eschers-relativity/

#lost #forgotten #found

My Dear Poet Nov 2021

Pins upon my pillow

Pins upon my pillow
puncturing my brain
Sprinkling out my dreams
like sleeping in the rain
Flowing out my nightmares
Rivers run in my bed
Swimming in my dreaming
Plugging holes in my head
My mattress is floating
My soul is sinking slow
Down the river drowning
and in my dreams, I row…row… row…

#sleep #lucidity #nightmares #dreams #insomnia

My Dear Poet Nov 2021

We are the Poets

We are the poets
that dare to be

We are the poets
who dream without sleep

We are the poets
who soar without flight

We are the poets
who see without sight

We are the poets
who scribe without book

We are the poets
who sing without song

We are the poets
who are
and are not

and always will be

#poets #poetry #poem

My Dear Poet Nov 2021

Blood

Friends come and go at whim
but blood flows freely beneath the skin

#brother #unbreakable #friendship

My Dear Poet Oct 2021

More than beautiful

I breathe in your fragrance
I blow out a field of freesias and forget me nots
I catch your smile with my hand
and release swallows and sunsets
I turn your eyes into stars
the night your sweetest silence

#magic #wonder #love