Gray poems
started January 24th, 2021
There are poems
that are easy to share
that want to be seen-read-heard
then there are other days
when gray skies
reflect my gray disposition
silent be silent
say the critical voices
don't scar the world
with ___this___
and so my mark on this world
has often been
one of absence
but to deny these gray poems
is to deny myself
is to deny the crocus
blooming through the snow
for if I don't give expression
to all of it including the gray
then the beauty in me
also stays hidden
unexpressed-unrealized-unknown.
Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021 at 9:30 AM UTC
Gray poems
started January 24th, 2021
There are poems
that are easy to share
that want to be seen-read-heard
then there are other days
when gray skies
reflect my gray disposition
silent be silent
say the critical voices
don't scar the world
with ___this___
and so my mark on this world
has often been
one of absence
but to deny these gray poems
is to deny myself
is to deny the crocus
blooming through the snow
for if I don't give expression
to all of it including the gray
then the beauty in me
also stays hidden
unexpressed-unrealized-unknown.
I have a notebook with unfinished poems in it. I sit down each day to write, and start by paging through this notebook. This poem is a combination of 3 gray poems that I turned past day after day. Now I can move them into the finished (but not quite right) notebook.
I don't like all the prepositions and connecting words in this poem, but it's just part of how I am writing currently.