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Sep 2010 · 596
Secreted Thoughts
Allen Smuckler Sep 2010
Flaming ember nights
clashing against
peace ridden skies.
Ancient, endless thoughts
echoing in those
meager times
we once knew,
and once loved,
a long time ago...

Silk covered days
on the streets
and cow pastures
of life’s distractions.
Stopping on the way
for a cup of tea
at a sidewalk cafe
that we once shared
a long time ago...

Broken, sleepless nights
on the edge of
our drifting past.
Collages of lights
on every corner
telling us it’s all a play.
Remembering when we were one.
Remembering when we were young.
Such a long time ago..
April 8, 1972 (Boston MA)
Revisited: January 12, 2010
Sep 2010 · 444
And I Hope
Allen Smuckler Sep 2010
And I hope
and I pray
to tell you someday
what’s on my mind.
Though I know
I can’t show
the way I feel
within my head,
upon my heart,
beneath my soul.
And I hope
and I pray
to be able someday
to say what’s on my mind.
So I rest
on my couch
floating back into time,
past alleyways
of  memories
which are weak
and perplexed,
but certain in direction.
And I hope;
Lord I pray
to let you know
you’re always on my mind...
copyright;  October 30, 2009- From Poetry In Motion
Aug 2010 · 490
Does She Hear
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
The blank stare
and cavernous gaze
leaves me stark
and disenchanted.
What lies beneath
those orbs of haze?
Questions left unanswered.
I wonder aloud...
Does she hear?
Does she care?

Lost in the abyss
of endless days
unable...unwilling
to deal with the dark.
I talk to my sister
who cannot respond;
while
cell phones ring
and radios sing
and still
nothing makes sense.

We sit and wait
and ponder reasons.
Perplexed by answers
left untold.
It’s all behind
that endless gaze…
although
all I could ask was,
Does she hear?
Does she care?
Is she there?
August 4, 2009
Aug 2010 · 1.2k
Crickets on Main Street
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
1
   listen to the silence of night
and the sounds of the crickets;
away from the city
the strikes and the pickets-

     2
night has fallen
on the big meadow
children running to and fro;
crickets churning
gas lights burning,
tranquil nighttime
here at last.
Papst Blue Ribbon
near the end;
sandman time
around the bend.

        3
The Rolling Stones
Exile on Main Street
Sweet Virginia
side one-cut one
           right on.....
August 28, 1972
Aug 2010 · 876
Love...
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Love can always be
the beautiful
renderings within the
passages of life...

Love can sometimes be
the glorious
delights from those
special moments in time...

Love can possibly be
the flirtatious
diversions of these
unexpected encounters...

Love can never be
the perilous
defeats for the
lost soul, the broken heart...

Love is,
always will be
never ending...
June 11, 2009
Aug 2010 · 457
New Haiku
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
New Haiku


Magical moments
on soft spun sandy beaches;
alone and in love

June 28, 2009


Soft and tender lips
providing lasting comfort;
complex as it is.

June 29, 2009


Tomorrow’s sunshine
just for fun and just because;
I missed it today.

July, 25, 2009
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Westerly flows on
a northbound
express..
Trembling wasteland
in the dreams of
her dress...

Southerly tides
in East Michigan’s
winter...
cascading skies
under a buried
splinter...

Destiny’s heartland
in the middle of
nowhere...
condoms and fish gear
on a diet of
Lite Beer...
December 3, 2000
Aug 2010 · 1.3k
On My Knees
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Tormented fingers
clenched tightly in a fist
of condescending blues.
Maple leaves and acorns
strewn about the landscape,
and I, on my knees
reaching longingly and hopefully
for a past I’ve left behind.
Understanding and nurturing
those thoughts of ambiguity,
the reckoning of the present
resonates soundly within and
encores prevail from
future reverberations.
I continue to question,
while on my knees,
all that is worthy and good
and yes, even meaningful.
I often stand corrected,
like a blizzard’s whiteout,
however confused I get, and
you, always on my mind,
and again, you find me
floundering on my knees,
searching, groping, exploring
the world...on my knees,
trying to rise and be counted.
While on my knees,
bloodied and wounded
from the heat and the pavement of life,
and the hardness and complexities of time
and the unyielding fact that
I must remain on my knees forever,
if I am to survive another day.
November 6, 2009
Aug 2010 · 603
It Matters Little
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
It matters little
where we spend our time,
as long as we
spend it together...
and
it matters little
whether we’re apart,
as long as our spirits
are with each other..
and
it matters little
that we’re in love,
if it is not
with one another...
January 29, 1972
Aug 2010 · 504
Out of the Night
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
You’re right, of course
about everything...
and my heart
goes boom in the night.
There’s a slip in the ship
and never the twain shall meet..
Perplexed mind
underscoring
the uncertainty.
Sleepless nights and
restless days and weeks
and months and years,
and yes, even decades...
Festering fear and
harboring discord and
unfortunately,
hatred of times gone by..
Forgetting the good,
the positive,
and yes, even the growth,
that we both knew
and loved and shared
a long time ago...
Quietly, without celebration,
the past disappears
into the future of hope.
September 27, 2009
Aug 2010 · 594
Not Far Away
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
I looked deep within my sister’s eyes today
and reached inside her soul...
I pulled and tugged at nature’s way
and said, not far away...
I know within my being,
my sister’s eyes though glazed...
can sense the world around her
she’s not that far away...
She’s standing at the entrance
the precipice, the door...
she’s searching for the key of life
to step outside once more...
It shows upon her face today
she’s aching to be free
It’s time my sister, you can see
you’re not that far away...
And now to speak the words we need
to say you’re back again...
relate the journey you’ve been on
with purpose and belief...
you’re not away,
but here to stay
as we rejoice the day...
July 22, 2009
Aug 2010 · 1.7k
Take Me In
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Take me in you, now....I’m dying
take a deep breath and inhale me
I love when you do that
and ****** me the way I love the way you do
with branch like fingers
and flowery tips...
****** me...and never stop
take me in and set me free
let me in to your beauty
and change me for life
take me in
take me in
and remember where we’ve been.
January 20, 2010
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
I sense the words askew,
in the recess of my soul.
It tends to lend some credence
if the ending is sublime...

Deeds recognized beyond you.
Does nothing leave its hole?
Develop something more than dance,
dessert my endless climb...

Ask only if you dare to view
a monster black as coal.
Address the thrill of holding hands,
and help me reach my prime...

Lust doesn’t mean a simple brew,
laid neatly in a bowl.
Life’s hugs are often happenstance,
left loving all the time...

In harmony we come as two;
I’m breathless from the toll.
It’s just another kissless trance
involved in a crime...

Scurrying thoughts without a clue;
succumbing from our stroll.
Shadowy dreams that will enhance;
some days are more sublime...
May 1, 2001
One of my most difficult poems...and most satisfying
Aug 2010 · 382
All I Got...
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
All I Got...

I got teeth that roam in the morning...
I got teeth that roam all the time...
I got teeth that smile and grin...
I got teeth that haven’t been brushed....

I got eyes that roam in the evening.
I got eyes that roam everywhere.
I got eyes that stare at the moonlight
I got eyes that haven’t been touched...

I got arms that reach for you daily..
I got arms that reach into space...
I got arms that need to be ‘round you...
I got arms with no one to hold...

I got lips that  seek what they yearn for
I got lips that never been kissed.
I got lips that drip from the passion
I got lips that kiss everyday...

I got dreams I dream in the nighttime
I got dreams that weigh on my soul
I got dreams that stay with me always..
I got dreams I hope will come true...

I got love from here to forever
I got love to give to you dear..
I got love to have for the asking...
I got love and wouldn’t you know....
June 15, 2009- From Poetry In Motion
Aug 2010 · 875
Man with a Phone
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
A Coughing man with a baseball cap, and
a girl in green scratching and caressing
her tanless velvety legs.
Water cascading from the
unnaturally made stoic fountain...

And the man with the phone
in his ear, scrapes by my sunlit chair.
Couples lying and teasing each other
soaking long lost rays together
with eyes smiling for one another...

Palms playing and swaying in the cool breeze    
protecting and shadowing those
who chose the shade over sun.
And a man with a phone attached to his ear
glides pass the unsuspecting couple.

The owl and the eagle peering and
observing from their precarious perches
lifeless in their tachadermal state
expecting more of the very same
yet only a busy signal leaves its mark.

shiftless, shirtless man on the shelf above
gingerly stepping into the steamless pool
again the man with the phone in his ear
ambling and gambling with his call
and only he knows what we don’t.
January 20, 2010
Bonita Springs, Florida
Aug 2010 · 773
Ben and Mike and Me
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
We sit awaiting in the cool
thoughts of anything but school
counting, grading each new wave
boogie boarding is the rave.

Ben and Mike stroll toward the action
Me, I sit here like in traction.
Throwing pebbles toward the sea,
Me, I write these words of glee.

Strangers stop and tell the boys
‘bout  jellyfish they will enjoy.
Just walk a piece to yonder shore
to open up adventure’s door.
April 18, 2000
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Ben: Age 13
Aug 2010 · 1.7k
Birthday Wishes (to me)
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Happy Birthday to me!!
Can’t believe I’m sixty!!
neither can the bumblebee
or that nine foot oak tree.
Too bad if they can’t see
or wish that they could be,
able to escape and flee
from thyme inside the pantry.
Happy Birthday to me...
inside my soul is glee.
Figure out the fantasy
of you, and me as we...
May play nine with Marty,
kayak in the fake sea,
have some cake and party
as long as it is free.
I prayed my sister Sandy
could be here and be happy..
and celebrate our history
of her, and me, and we.
Happy birthday to me.
I need a cup of coffee,
a little bit serenity
and lots of you and me.
September 30, 2009 (My sixtieth birthday)
I know......I don't look that old.......or feel it.
Aug 2010 · 594
A Girl
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Fleecy, golden, shiny crown,
glimmering from the sun’s reflection.
Standing silent with the sea,
shivering from the wind’s conviction.

Talking, laughing from the heart,
shuddering from the word destruction.
Walking slowly on the beach,
smiling with a warm affection.

Wincing, squinting from the glare,
entering into love’s confusion.
Hoping, praying to the Lord,
wandering in beauty’s direction.

Kissing, loving in a dream,
shimmering haze of contemplation.
Gazing, staring in her eyes,
I’m now in love without rejection.
January 21, 1969 (Age 19)- From Poetry In Motion
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Buttercups running aloof
in mi cluttered mind
of discomfort

Leaflets flapping
as the world turns
mournfully
on its side

Turnstiles of my life
flipping through
the pages of time

and all i can see is
misery

Flowers cresting
in the space they’re
allowed
hoping for the light
the rain...
the time-

Memories wafting
by the impulse of wind
billowing, bellowing
the new season
begins

yet all i can see is the
scenery of despair

Tormented tides
slapping upside mi head
drowning mi tears
as if i were dead

Wandering dreams
of days future past
i’m trying mi damndest
to make mi life
l...a...s...t...

But all i can see
is languishing fear

******* and moaning
not seeing the light
From "Diary Dreams"
I don't know why I went on this tirade...I suppose just to get it off my chest.  ***** and Moan, ***** and moan.
April 4, 2000
Aug 2010 · 1.2k
I Wept Today
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
I wept today, I have to admit I did
and felt my tears moisten my lips,
as they flowed and ebbed;
and I couldn’t turn them off.
I wept today and for days gone by.

I wept this week, like I’ve never done before.
for the memories and thoughts,
and cascading streams from
mountainous reserves.
I wept today at the reality of time.

I wept today at the pictures of  youth,
and thought of  life..and death.
I wondered and wandered my soul,
as my tears turned to rain.
I wept for you and me as well.

I wept this month, and continue to weep
for the emptiness and void
your passing has left.
I grasp for a reason I know won’t appear
I wept today, again and again.

I wept for you and those you loved.
I wept like I’ve never wept before...
I wept and I wept ‘til my tears ran dry.
I wept today and I know for sure
I will weep tomorrow
and ever more.........
To Sandy, my beloved sister
August 13, 2009
Aug 2010 · 2.7k
Parachutes
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Parachutes billowing,
floating
above the abyss
though we all once knew.
Parachutes colliding,
landing
upon the barren land
that man once had.

They came by the millions
     drifting from heaven.
Their reason for being...
      a mystery to all.

Parachutes flaunting,
opening
to reveal themselves  
so that man might learn.
Parachutes lifeless,
wafting
through cloud speckled skies
when man was glad.

They came by the thousands
    dropping from heaven.
Their reason for being
could not be explained.

Parachutes lingering,
meandering
toward their spacklespace
of the damaged sphere...
Parachutes multicolored,
sized and shaped
caught in the crosswinds
and turbulence of man.


They came by the hundreds
crashing from heaven.
Their reason for being
was not understood.

Parachutes traveling,
transporting
the essence of life
for all to perceive.
Parachutes tangled,
snared and collapsed
by pettiness and greed
of those who wanted more.

They came by the dozens,
groping from heaven.
Their reason for being
was a little too late.

Parachutes hanging,
lifeless
not realizing their fate
but expecting the best.
Parachutes sputtering,
idling over the masses..
too blind to see...
too ignorant to know...

They came by the millions
but now there are none.
their reason for being
will never be known-
Written: February 12, 1972 (Age 22)
Revised: May 4, 2010
Aug 2010 · 812
A Place in the Sand
Allen Smuckler Aug 2010
Two old gents with cameras in hands,
attached to tripods, made five feet.
they stopped along the shore so fine,
and watched pelicans dive on Marco Isle.

Those same old gents with cameras *****,
gazed and snapped a stately white heron.
Posed and strutted where water met sand,
on Marco Island, mid-winter twenty-ten.

Two old men on their destined paths,
no matter where it led, no matter how far.
Adrift in their thoughts and their friendship,
cameras in hand, attached to their tripods.

Two old gents disappeared behind dunes,
never to be seen or heard from again.
But two old ladies arrived, cameras in hand
ready to take their place in the sand.
written January 29, 2010
(Age: 60)- From Poetry In Motion

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