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Sam Shoyer Oct 2014
A purple stain
Just above
Scattered orange
Cheesy grimy
Brands of experience
Saggy sleeves
Rolled up
Too many times
Worn by use
Shown in white ripples
An ocean rolling
Up my arm
Buttons
Unbuttoned
Each a stone
Smoothed over years
Under mountain stream
Glowing
In their dull silence
Every seam stretched
Visible stitches
Made in China
Made in Taiwan
Only a world away
Through the portal
Of the itchy tag
On my ***** shirt
Sam Shoyer Oct 2014
Syllables and sound
Many brain waves and senses
Not all conscious
Sam Shoyer Oct 2014
An ocean of clouds
Catches light
In turn
Thrusts it at the sun
Pitching it black

The clouds hold the light
As colors set in
To break the day
Of white

The ocean hums
Beckoning for a day
Simpler than the one
It casts away with ease

The sun catches it
Turns the light away
Its pockets
Full

An ocean of clouds
Still...
The waves settle as light leaves
To return in the tide of morning
Sam Shoyer Oct 2014
Your trunk is firm
Your leaves collect the wind
You stand alone
Glowing orange
Deeper than the others
Assimilating in brown
You imply attention
With the beauty of your trunk
One with all else
Still one
Sam Shoyer Oct 2014
Mountain air so crisp
Eager sun to kiss my lips
Valley sings a song
Sweet as glacial water
Pooling, icy at my feet
Bare and cut
They pace me through
The highest mountain pass
Sam Shoyer Oct 2014
Rising late to rolling white
Clouds that roll off mountains
Like water down a waterfall
Slowly blanketing the valley in grey
Gently touching every rock

Pouring gently in slow motion
Crawling without destination
Like a newborn calmly flailing
On its first test of motion

Growing, shrinking, with the wind
Change is all it knows
For now it moves at pace so slow
The pouring white has stopped time

The pitter patter ceases
Brings robins songs to echo
Through the clouds
Against the grey white blanket
Falling to my ears
Sam Shoyer Oct 2014
A road is a destination
Not more so
A way of travel
It rolls by you
And you by it
Turning to match the contours
Yearning to be the contours

You are the road
And it is you
Like elbows and knees
It takes its shape
Bends, snaps to
Straight lengths
Of black
Turning
Underneath
Your feet
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