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May 2020 · 63
A Song A Sound Tanka
Colm May 2020
Your sound here in ears
Is peaks and valleys out west
In this eastern world
Hear the Allegheny sky
I'm myself, a wishing song
A song called Tough. Echoing still.
May 2020 · 52
Becoming Life A Shimmer
Colm May 2020
I am sunset rivershine. Holding onto the final fragments of the young moon fallen, and the starlight smile given quietly, free. In the passing lane of time, accelerating towards truth. Forward as I may be, at this present time. It's nice to know, that I'm not yet, or at least fully, through.
Sometimes I know I am. Other times. Not so much lolol.
May 2020 · 41
And I Need Coffee
Colm May 2020
Invade
Emancipate my blood stream with caffeine
So that I dont feel groggy
And captured by sleep
In a new world
Of coffee to be
Would you
Please?
Feeling my better already.
Colm May 2020
Where the mountians meet the sky
There is more sense and visibility
Behind all of these tree branches reached
Than in me

In this moment of there and then
When I'm caught wondering about life
And where my next meal will begin
Respect is built

And all that's left is the untimely hill
Which is yet to climb
Over my yesterdays self
To again is to try
May 2020 · 85
The Deer Know Not Human
Colm May 2020
The deer, for one
Know better than to fraternize with humans
And their mechanistic ways
With coffee and love and oil to burn
Les their own natural pattern be disturbed
And lost
In our perceptive order and ignorance
Of the ways of the turning world
Beneath our very feet
They'd better not
Learn
May 2020 · 35
Dating Time
Colm May 2020
I send not love, nor hate
But acceptance
Because I cannot help but live with you
And escape your resting presence
With what?
The occasional rest
And sleeping in
As is the provision of heaven itself in self
I sleep, and thus
Break from our mortal relationship
Colm May 2020
Guttural rumble
As tree rings move
So shifting Huorns call

Like bark rippling
In denim jeans
Refreshings

And yet odd
The feeling is
Of springtime through the windows felt

At last
Let me step into it with being
Firm as rocks refined by subtle streams

For you are birchwood and in beige
A beauty of Earth
An eternal sky

And moving less much
Like a tree
Will be the ever end of you and I

And so I move
In premeditated you
To find us

The mere sight
Of you
Makes such standard spirits fly
Yearnings Of The Earth And Sky
Colm May 2020
Guided like the steady light
Which call out
Over the vast ocean darkness of mind.
Clearing clouds in a single bound
With skying hopes
And ever leaving leaves
Falling out of favor now.
And down
Quickly towards the earth
Where I am brought back  
When your night
It ends.
As with sentiments drawn
Renewed embued.
Are you more than just the light persistent?  
Hiding above the sun's inevitably found?
Or are you the guiding
Winding
Downward stars?
Don't leave me now
My heart abound.
Without your light
I'd be in lost.
Leading by light?

https://youtu.be/8q87dgioLdw
Colm May 2020
Scarce were no more words than weeds
In the garden of our perpetual being

Be they plucked or pulled
From tree born stars
Or shooting leaves across auburn eaves

How they fall so smoothly
And with such succinct being
That they couldn't be misconstrued as less
Or more so present in our mutual meaning

We are a garden of bygone dreams
By the wayside of being
Been
Running
May 2020 · 87
hopefully forever
Colm May 2020
I hope so now, more than ever, forever
That you will see my face in the quiet uninhabited corners
And when you hear this song
May you always
Remember
hopefully forever
May 2020 · 124
when the moon winked at us
Colm May 2020
Until the sunlight bounced its last light
Off
Another gleaming face
And we
Looking up amidst the lenses
Memories bright as burning eyes
Puddling in skies
Above you see
And when the moon winked at us
Knowingly
We knew that it was alright to love
when the moon winked at us
Colm Apr 2020
Let my hands know, not stray
My mind not walk into the sunlight bright

With a will of being, I persist
And by all means, mean
When approaching this

Still reserved, stirred and steady
Waiting patiently as the moon
Full as tides, light as snow
Closer than a ticking soon

Approach
My time it will be, ours  
Just as the train will come, I will be ready
Holding Hands With No One At A Train Station
Apr 2020 · 237
Dynasty
Colm Apr 2020
There was a time when I was broken
When I was down and waiting out
Watching others wear my crown
And waiting silently in wings

A folded self just asking why
Trusting in healing found in years of time

I outwaited all those demons  
Turned my enemies to friends
And then for ages, they looked on
As we won again, and again, and again

Sometimes you are the only problem
Sometimes the time is all you need
Sometimes the losses build the victor
No dynasty is meant to be

You have to make it
Happen
Dynasty
Apr 2020 · 1.1k
Edges (A Tanka)
Colm Apr 2020
Hovering where here
On the edge of a mountain
Holding steady fast
A tired high, a subtle cliff
A calling fall which rings out
This one is about that lost feeling when you're traveling between work and personal time. Stuck between repetitious duty and selfish desire.
Apr 2020 · 138
Inevitable Sun (A Tanka)
Colm Apr 2020
Streaming sunlight calls
New beginnings like a day
With existence old
And remembered fondly found
The familiar ways return
Some things you can just feel, as inevitable as the daylight unfolding. It happens, and you knew it would.
Apr 2020 · 33
The Introverts Wish
Colm Apr 2020
There's a great big beautiful world out there
Full of sights, and smells, and perceptive days
But to see it enough
Leaves me wanting to not
Being in it too much
Makes me wish it all away
Sometimes I can't breathe the same air. And sometimes the opposite, I need the old familiar walls. Two sides of the same coin. Flip flip.
Colm Apr 2020
About the wind
From here where I am wondering
In
How it endlessly whips through the hair of the willow lace
Calms the desperate sigh of the wandering mind
As its own embrace
Reaches across every state and barrier
Being felt by many whose hand will never hold  
Yet wonder about the leaf born trees
From rock and acorn, stem and root
I don’t wonder about their noise or leaves
For the wind is behind it all
I see
Just as you are motionless
Silent to me
Just as I have left, and you have left, leaves.
Apr 2020 · 32
The Horizon In Her Eyes
Colm Apr 2020
From the moment I first saw
The sunlight fall
Into irises warmer than southern seas
All I could think about was how
You are not my starlight
Yet in sky
But as another day ends
I'd like you to be
Apr 2020 · 166
Burning By Nature
Colm Apr 2020
There is no dark side of a star
Only hydrogen and heat
Careening forward and beyond
The bitter cold of knowing

Unaware of the reality of fall
Unpersuaded by all
Afraid of nothing that has been
We are not falling stars, my friend

No we are not
Apr 2020 · 130
A Turning Clock
Colm Apr 2020
I snap my fingers in a crowded room
Call out quietly to the one of you
And wait patiently for fate to turn
For the clock chimes to unwind
And ruminate aloud

Will your song give me a chance to hear
My words to speak
Colm Apr 2020
My world is words
My pen my ears

And all I want right now
Is to hear

You
And you alone

All other noisey words can go
Back into their never homes

Alone

Indulge me please
Colm Apr 2020
How does one cross an ocean
Begin a journey in a direction
Unknown

Let die an echo in an empty room
And speak without hating
Your only sound

How, how

Do you let yourself be seen
For real
When all around you is judgemental and rude

When the moonlight amongst others
Is not willing to avail itself to you
How then will you begin

With a breathing step
Into the drowning unknown

Beyond how is the when you will go
Apr 2020 · 80
After The Fade
Colm Apr 2020
Saying you will
Is not doing at all

Just as doing without
Is not reason in the least

Man and woman need meaning
More than the other
More than anything
Apr 2020 · 28
The Great Investment
Colm Apr 2020
The greatest gift of all is time
Be it present or in invested thought
Be not offended when their style
Is not to your taste
Your mild mannerisms
Because if they, like you, were all one and the same
You wouldn't know your own or be

Just as the time without time is yet to come
So you should appreciate what's been

Founded in time
Is not waste
But times itself
Apr 2020 · 26
Weariness
Colm Apr 2020
A man can only fight so many battles
Be it known

Let so many days run into themselves
Before he remembers who he is
And is home

Even humans must sleep beneath God and sun
Hear songs in the wind when they are walking out

At the courtship an end with a breathless noise
Comes light and truth, not dark for long
Apr 2020 · 31
Rebecca, A Tanka
Colm Apr 2020
Radiant your dawn
Untied meaning ever yours
A joyous lifted
Hymnal light as spoken word
Be here not gone from my side
Apr 2020 · 20
Warming Words Leaned Into
Colm Apr 2020
There is a differing motive
In the can and should
Fire should burn just as match can strike
Just as no heat is guaranteed in this human life

No ways unturned in this cloister of if
And in the conversations felt
All that is good and honest and impressive

This is warmth, when really
Can should not always be as should
Just as sould is not being the detail
Apr 2020 · 33
Walk
Colm Apr 2020
Walk to the end of the road
And turn
Walk, not till you find yourself
Or your place
But walk because thought
Because stillness kills
We are walking beings
At pace
Colm Apr 2020
Fear not

Concurred worlds such as these, incurred
Stretch out only in mind
And thorough constant memory
And considerable adaptation, often hold

As the army of creation marches on
Towards the rounded everloving demise of me
So this uniformity of us marches there without toll

Paying nothing
Saying nothing

And to no one
In particular

We grow old before we can realize that fear
Held nothing but the bitter cold
We Humans Ignore, Based On What We Want
Apr 2020 · 111
A Gentleman's Coattails
Colm Apr 2020
Long strides
His flashing coattails on the countryside
Winding like a sight but for a desperate moment
No less in his footprints often found

But as a pumping heart with a walking pulse  
And a wondering mind no more contrived
He knows not yet instead
He decides
When he's comin down the hills - Did I post this already?

Can't recall...
Apr 2020 · 139
Voiceless
Colm Apr 2020
My words most dry
Call nothing
And certainly not out
Or about
To me
Voiceless
Colm Apr 2020
The greatest canvas
Known as sky
Looks down on us
And sees the drama
The ever-present
Life of mortal
Unfolding and
Unwinding in
It's skyborne
Blueish eyes
The Sky Which Watches Us Unfold
Apr 2020 · 48
Iamtired
Colm Apr 2020
I know no pain
No ache or throb
Quite like the morning after life
The day after the perfect night
Which has gone into the bitter dawn

No walking coffee can salvage me
From such a feeling
Such a wrong

I am
Tired
Apr 2020 · 49
Memories I Can't Remember
Colm Apr 2020
White flowers on a sleeping river
Clear glass waters of a Mnemonic ripple
How I beg and plead to be remembered, this feeling
Of my own feet standing in this euphoric dream
Dearest of mind
Don't end again and make me wake
Don't leave this river to unwind
Memories I Can't Remember
Apr 2020 · 103
Are Stars
Colm Apr 2020
Do the stars know that they're far
Or do they think that falling is just warm
In love with the friction of an attractive atmosphere
How they wish to plunge into our wishful sight
Like a rippling rock or a wavering tree
No stars are not afraid of being seen
If anything sought out in both sky and sight
As the most truthful of stars, ever been
Have and are smiling
From an insatiable height
Are Stars - And P.S. I'm taking back the trees
Apr 2020 · 75
TAALI
Colm Apr 2020
Talk about a lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting impression.
This isn't even a verse. I'm not sure what this is. A truth?
Apr 2020 · 80
In The Path
Colm Apr 2020
You're either in the path of the demon
Facing down the fear forthcoming
That or away you're running
And I am done with that
As a being forthcoming
About who I want
In this caution  
Of none
I will
Be
Apr 2020 · 44
A Wish Granted, A Tanka
Colm Apr 2020
Going nowhere is
Is still being here, something
Be it time to pass
Anew, whatever else you
Wished for on this burning gas
I wanted to see the sunlight again. Well not I can, due to these recent events.

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Tanka

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Apr 2020 · 37
Filter, A Tanka
Colm Apr 2020
Let there be words found
Midst accompanying song
Joyous actions too
Abound with simple light stroke
In this artistry complex
Filter - Crosshatch - A Stroke Too
Apr 2020 · 38
Never Lie
Colm Apr 2020
The trick is not a trick at all
     Of self
           Of other
                 Of wanton desire
But in thIs and therein the I
Never be what err you cannot
And never have a reason to lie
Colm Apr 2020
A walking wisp took my hand
The other lifetime for a spell
And in leading us to a flooded field of homeless tails
And endless tells

Outback with water through my shoes
I with-saturated-held
Onto her with everything I had
Yet forward I still fell

Into a flooded field of endless tales
https://youtu.be/FtfCw5EC_O4
Colm Apr 2020
In the stillness after all the distractions
Fade into the fading air

The hope of you
It dawns on me
Is it there to last
And in the darkness
Soften this once lonesome stare

All evenings end where the morning begins
And I am there
I am such an early morning dreamer.
Colm Apr 2020
Doves coo a quiet
And whisper softly to her
That they've seen'em thee
The suitor suns inquiry
Of her eccentricities
Mobilewriting
Colm Apr 2020
Caught mid a breath as
I escaping metaphor
Ic fly my needs
An I to open windows
Cold to feel what is in between
Apr 2020 · 42
On A Hillside (A Tanka)
Colm Apr 2020
Black willow rises
Across a hill beside Me
Underlaid burden
Spent no more a tragic be
Than in this being up grown
On A Hillside (A Tanka)
Colm Apr 2020
This time is not wasted
Though poorly spent

On the repetitious tasks know mostly to me
And to all those wishes and crashing dreams
Which fall down from star height
And burn into a nine to five atmosphere

Tell myself it's not wasted
Loaned and lent

Tell myself it was meant
To be spent
Colm Apr 2020
Bumped into your words the other day
In a distant mall of a shopping dream
A little desire, a lot of forget
And I was off again on a spree of me
Unthinking in regards to what you were actually saying
If and when again
And again
Colm Apr 2020
Ruminate through me as the ache of trees
The quiet joyful tears of rain
Which ripple and shake
The ground beneath

These stars, this shimmering gleaming shine
Never tasted half so sweet in mind
As when I am with you
And underneath
Apr 2020 · 36
Makes Me Laugh
Colm Apr 2020
My own mother called me an adult today
How dare she
Without even seeing what I've become
Know
Makes Me Laugh
Apr 2020 · 49
Ahiakutruth
Colm Apr 2020
No time is biteless
Memories worthless to those
Too hungry to see
Too thirsty to listen - Memories are not currency
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