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Ebony birds with damaged wings
Fling themselves
Towards the darkened clouds
And find no draft to lift them.
Screeching in despairing cries
They slowly circle back to earth.

Second verse of same sad song
Echoes and reminders catch the light.
Unexpected findings ring the bell
That calls to life the waterfall.
Help is proffered by empty hands
To heartstrings that no longer tug.

And the clock goes round and round
And the Sun goes up and down
And the Moon grows somehow dim
On a path that only circles back
Into a room that has no door.
I’m home again, it seems.
ljm
Just me being me, I guess.  Don't know who I am sometimes.
 Jul 2022 Gidgette
nivek
Caught a glimpse of you standing on the cusp of forever
your radiant soul outshining the Sun
I reached out to let you know, let you know I wished you well
and before I could reach you we both transfigured into forever, and were gone.
 Jul 2022 Gidgette
Patrick
This life: a single drop.
My soul: An ocean unbound.
The source of ripples through the well of my existence:
A moment in time,
You.
An ocean of grey:
Infinite, timeless, vast;
Unyielding to change.
All transformed,
Drop by drop,
Unbound cascade.

The time we met:
You,
Changed infinite fates.
A 'dream of dreams' to 'kick it' along the ocean ..
To travel familiar shores at daybreak
To explore blue mysteries in-
free fall symmetry
To glide the Summer winds
Set sail into a lovers twilight moon -
where seaside imaginations swoon
Bound for Neptune's lair -
with the sound of seagulls -
in thick , salty air
To rest atop sandbars , buoys and-
rooftops
A photographers muse
The musicians newfound melody
The painters inspiration
A poetess's play on words
O , to partake in the pelicans world ..
Copyright July 29 , 2022 by Randolph L Wilson *All Rights Reserved
 Jul 2022 Gidgette
nivek
sign posts.
 Jul 2022 Gidgette
nivek
memory labyrinth,
falling into past

tumbling downward
clutching at straws

mind has mountains
cliffs of fall

sign posts forgotten
reaping the storm.
There's more than one way to skin a cat or pin the tail on a donkey which is good to know when you're playing musical chairs.
kids and games with happy faces somewhere in places I can't recall
but names I knew so well,
Barry and Robert, Rodney and Lawrence, Ilsa and Julie and Jackie, and now racking my brains for more names, they will come when I remember.

And apples, one a day to keep the doctor away
I scrumped a million to keep the school at bay.
This was our encyclopedia
the tree of knowledge that we climbed.
"The man in the mirror"
Who is this man in the mirror
I whipe the face to see him clearer
I see now looking back at me an image of the man I used to be
Wanting, wishing, hoping, waiting, fearing, loving, and sometimes hating trying my best to fit in
Wanting my life to begin everyday passes me by
the way way I lived was one big lie but that was then and this is now
My life is better and I know how it all changed
When I met you the way I was in now through
My heart is filled with love and peace
My guilt was lifted on wings of a dove
When I think of you I start to smile
I know now it was all worth while
You opened my eyes, my heart, and soul and now I have a brand new goal
To start our path of life together and live with happiness in our lives forever, to be beside you when I wake and prove to you that I'm not fake
Until my goal is fully complete my weary bones will never sleep
So back to the man in the mirror, one that I hope you can see clearer
This man is yours forever and true
Because I will always love you till my life is through
Written in 2010 while deployed in Iraq
Going to work and
having to work!
what's that all about?

2020
work didn't bother me
and
I become smothered by lethargy
drowning in apathy
eyes glued to the TV
until She,
laid down the law.
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