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Mar 2015 · 512
Our Season
S R Mats Mar 2015
In this season

There is a beauty.
Here- You are the reason
And the "why".

There it is
Again.  The air rushes in
And goes out,

A sigh,

A sign.
Mar 2015 · 1.0k
Why Stars Shine
S R Mats Mar 2015
Absolute magnificences
Held in richly woven garments
Arrayed in opulently fine linen
Washed in the light of ages
Adorned with sliver and gold
And they look upon you
Mar 2015 · 3.0k
Tanka 3-20-2015
S R Mats Mar 2015
"I can hardly wait
(My friend the diabetic)
to taste the poison."
He takes seppuku serious;
So many sweet things are here!
Mar 2015 · 379
Obstetrics
S R Mats Mar 2015
This room
red-velvety light
shine through
like a womb
I hold on tight
    to you
Mar 2015 · 1.1k
Fiend
S R Mats Mar 2015
I'm addicted, an addict in the night.  A rift, a fault, a weakness,
Something makes me fall.  I crack.  

So sad to be so intelligent and, yet, to be so stupid.  

In the middle of night you say to me, that "it just is."  I am blind and I am deaf.  
I cannot know what "it is" if I cannot see it, feel it.  

It just isn"t...O, love!

I once knew a brilliant young man who put a piece of wood under his chin
And played beautiful music.  

I wish that you were him.
Mar 2015 · 2.9k
Senryu 3-17-2015
S R Mats Mar 2015
An invitation-
With maturity, wonder!
So come into your own age.
Mar 2015 · 5.6k
Crow Time
S R Mats Mar 2015
The crow works its way sideways on the wire.
Nature lives at full tilt. It does not worry

That it may soon be used up.  It lives in the moment
In pursuit of having a fulfilled purpose.

For the busy crow the fleeting moments pass unnoticed;
Time scarcely has consequences for the satisfied;

Down he flies for crusts of hamburger buns.
Mar 2015 · 1.9k
Haiku 3-17-2015c
S R Mats Mar 2015
Essence, raw resins
Yellow, brown sticky substance
A scent too earthy
Mar 2015 · 1.6k
Haiku 3-17-2015b
S R Mats Mar 2015
Leaves rot in dampness
The summer rains came quickly
-An odd musty smell
Mar 2015 · 858
Hiaku 3-17-2015
S R Mats Mar 2015
We do not question
Beneath canopies, secrets
Deep forests expose
Mar 2015 · 889
Sort of a Love Poem
S R Mats Mar 2015
Where would I be without your touch?
Your memory is stunning.  How you respond to me.

And I love tapping your screen!
just for fun
Mar 2015 · 1.2k
Fill
S R Mats Mar 2015
Can you not feel my happy mouth speak?
Reach with your fingertips.  Seek!

Until all the world falls into exquisite darkness
You will remain my spark.

The velvety richness of you next to me
Is like trying to fill a thimble with the deep blue sea.

It is too much.
Mar 2015 · 2.6k
My Old Friend From Spain
S R Mats Mar 2015
I remember when you donned
-your polka-dot dress
And danced the flamenco

Such pretty and delicate hands
-the men who play guitar
Who played flamenco

You are suddenly young again
-the older boys gather
And you dance flamenco
This poem can be read 3 different ways.
Mar 2015 · 763
Plum Full Season
S R Mats Mar 2015
O, how I wait for you to be fruited
In plump, shiny, purple orbs to be
Plucked and delightfully popped.

Please cling plum blossoms!
Tree, do not let go in the stiff breeze
As you have done year after year

To the point where you were only good
For lovely birds to roost, for feeders to hang,
For me to look upon your beautiful form.

The years before you gave no other fruit;
This year a plum, that one, maybe two.
The greedy children ate three this past year.

I look out in the light of a spring morning
And you are full of lacy white!  Cling sweetly!
Stop being so selfish.  My mouth is watering.
Mar 2015 · 766
The Duster Queen
S R Mats Mar 2015
"I have never been content with being Amy*."
Her words break my heart because she is Amy.

She is killing herself in the loudest way possible.

Amy would sell her soul, she would sell yours, too.
Men fuel her habit of huffing her "duster".

Amy is not a *****.  She only sells her body.
*The name has been changed.  Amy is a composite of several people.  However, this addiction is all too real.  This is someone's child, someone's sister, someone's mother, someone's heartbreak.
Mar 2015 · 344
3-15-2015
S R Mats Mar 2015
The world in a cup-
So eager am I to sup
That I bring two straws
could not decide if this was senryu
Mar 2015 · 983
Lost
S R Mats Mar 2015
She wanted to wash the man out of her hair
But the scent was too strong and the braid was too tight;

The sun cannot shine from beneath a rock;

So she cut it.
Mar 2015 · 6.0k
Unrealistic Securities
S R Mats Mar 2015
Shark and Grizzly wander in and out
Nightmare-

More so than psychotic humans
Scary thought-

I live in the city
Mar 2015 · 3.6k
Eating Pi
S R Mats Mar 2015
What is infinite is the eating of pie,
Cherry, pumpkin, apple, rhubarb, cocoanut...
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592­30781640628620899862803482534211706 ways,

Until there is enough pie for everyone.
Mar 2015 · 918
It Is Official!
S R Mats Mar 2015
Spring cannot be far-off.  
The Spring Peepers have sung.

Let the greening have its start
For flowering has begun.

Soon the bees will flit about
And sweetly start to hum.

Spring simply cannot be far-off
For the Spring Peepers have sung.
Mar 2015 · 540
Haiku 3/12/2015
S R Mats Mar 2015
Leaf upon leaf
Bursting green unfolds
Into bright sunshine
The tree waves
Mordern Haiku form holding to nature theme
Mar 2015 · 1.1k
haiku/senryu 3-12-2015
S R Mats Mar 2015
Happy rhythm.  I
Dance with myself.  Forbidden
Pleasure is most fun.
I believe that within modern constraints this meets haiku and senryu form.  Open for debate.
Mar 2015 · 2.6k
We Shall Be Water
S R Mats Mar 2015
We shall be water, my love.  For water flows around or through
obstacles that seek to impede it's true course.

It seeks another way to flow in it's coursing desire to go onward,
an effort to reach the sea.

We shall be water, Love, you with me.
I absolutely loved this when I wrote it many years ago.  Now I feel it is just okay.  I know that happens to most poets.
Mar 2015 · 1.7k
This Panting Flower
S R Mats Mar 2015
Upon the heat of the day
When Sol high above our heads towered,

Raindrops fell cool on panting flowers.
You took my hand and led me where

You picked damp flowers
And then placed them in my hair.

With drops that fell and touched my lips
Mouth was drawn to mouth in tender kiss.

The drops each sizzled in heated bliss
To satiated this withering flower.

With this bedewing came a glistening spill,
In the heating of the day

As Sol above us towered,
And renewed this panting flower.
written years ago
Mar 2015 · 5.4k
Spring Gratitude
S R Mats Mar 2015
Diminutive flowers burst onto the scene.
I am grateful to at last see that it really is Spring.
I was beginning to wonder-

The Winter birds will wing their way on;
Flying long distance to their Summer home.
They are a wonder-

Winter brought heartbreak, but some fun and joy.
A happy farewell to that harshest of seasons, boy!
Little wonder-
Mar 2015 · 1.5k
The Sandhill Cranes, Ritual
S R Mats Mar 2015
Like a chorus of angels singing slightly off key
In the chilly morning it builds as the sun rises.
Some mystery passes from one to the next, silent.
Just how, who can say? Their bodies lift in unison.
There is nothing awkward about them.  Poetry!
I was quite unprepared for the glorious spectacle.
Thousands.  Like watching a ballet of slow wing beats.
7000 miles they follow their heritage of millenniums;
And they rest upon the banks of this river.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DEkwIvS_PP8&feature;=youtu.be
Mar 2015 · 581
Echo in the Woods
S R Mats Mar 2015
The dank warm air stirs,
I hear sound echoing,

Moving towards me
Or am I moving towards it?

Dim light, tunnels of trees;
I am deep into the unfamiliar.

What is that sound
Vibrating through me?

Is it moving towards me,
Or am I moving into it?

An uneasiness moves
Up my body.  My blood

Is pumping, flushing me.
That sound engulfs me.

The echoes stir and I realize
It is my own heart.
Mar 2015 · 1.4k
Soil Soul
S R Mats Mar 2015
3rd Ward, Houston, Texas; where the ancient layers
Exude the art of living.  Living cheek to jowl,

Hand to mouth, foot to road, bullet to head, head to heart.

Under these paved streets beats a heart of history
Mortared with ground bones, and sweat, and blood.

I call to you Soil teeming with our mothers and our fathers.
There is no rejoicing when I meet you, face-down,

And I am pushed and shoved down by hands of any color.
Mar 2015 · 688
Haiku 3-8-2015
S R Mats Mar 2015
The leaf, dried, wrinkled;
A life aging, it is mine.
Greening gone forever.
This is a bit more tradition in its syllable count (I hope).
Mar 2015 · 1.1k
Kill the Spider
S R Mats Mar 2015
A man found a spiderweb in the corner of the room.
He brushed it away with his handy kitchen broom,

And then he walked away.

Upon his return, which was actually quite soon,
Not only had the web reappear but it had mushroomed!

This only proved to make him madder.

But, now here is the moral of the story, which is true
Try as you might, no matter what you do,

You cannot remove the results of the problem
And allow the cause to stay.

You must get at the spider of the matter.
Mar 2015 · 6.0k
Lives Living Life Fight
S R Mats Mar 2015
The unfortunate things take our Lives.
They storm the castle walls of Living,
And run like hordes throughout Life.
We, at times, are too lazy to Fight.
S R Mats Mar 2015
"This whole neighborhood
Bad, Baby.  We broken.
Ever week somebody get shot,
Right here!"
Mar 2015 · 2.7k
Late Nighter
S R Mats Mar 2015
It is truly cold out, 32 degrees,
and into late night.

But, in order for me to write

I stay up late, eating ****** Nuts and ice-cream
and letting my feet freeze.
Mar 2015 · 771
My Always
S R Mats Mar 2015
I love this poem, but it is going to break my heart.  For

I wanted life for my Love.  There were such beautiful things about him.
Yet, the demons in him sought his death in ways so cruel.

He was Man who loved family, friends, and thrilled to living life within
Brief moments; when the ugly moments waned or his demons tired out.

The distruction, which we have made will drive us to our own, I've seen.
If I were a brain surgeon I would have gone in and exspunged the parts

That slowly ate at your heart, my Love, my always Love.
Mar 2015 · 395
Breathe
S R Mats Mar 2015
Waiting for Spring, lovely, tall ladies hold their breath and eye one another.
"Do we dare to open to the season?  Catch a breath?"

The dry leaves will soon crumble in the warm sun
And crunch under our feet; just so much fodder for chic maidens.

Inhale deeply Sol's rays.  Breathe!  Open to the season
And don your Spring bonnets, full-petaled.
Mar 2015 · 247
When We Are Old
S R Mats Mar 2015
When we are old and gray
(Which isn't so far away!)
Nicessity will call upon me to say,
"Honey, put your teeth in!"
Mar 2015 · 799
Papier-mâché Lies
S R Mats Mar 2015
Only the sum of a room,
Just so much accumulated stuff.

Once, I began to fall in love
With a man.  But it was his room,
The sum of his things, which cemented it.

As it turns out, he could not maintain his worth,
His values were papier-mâché;

And the objects in his room told lies.
2000 His room said that he was warm, caring, interesting, playful and deep.  He was none of those things.  It had all been staged as a lure, a clever game.
Mar 2015 · 1.6k
Junket-
S R Mats Mar 2015
Are we junk?  Waste,
Shard and smear,
Empty symbol made by
“Doled out Poet’s papers,
Hoarded like sweets?”

Our awkward secrets
stumble
cislunar.
2003
Mar 2015 · 2.3k
Prescient
S R Mats Mar 2015
Head trust, heart must cuddle,
Care and,
“More wine over here!”

Is this a dream?  All things are,
It seems,
Because I always wake up to something

Different.
I am forever goddess
By candlelight.  Poke out the eye

Of love,
That blind it might be,
And stupid,

Stupid, stupid.
But, there’s another crumb in my bed,
I just know it!
2003
S R Mats Mar 2015
Her burial place is in the records.
We have her lovely name.
She was a benefactor of the friary,
Thus, a prominent soul.  Agreed.
Her story, lost forever.  O, what a shame.
Nothing more is known of Emma.
Here's her 5 minutes of fame!
Mar 2015 · 468
-Or, Just Sleep, Maybe
S R Mats Mar 2015
I wish I were,
at this very moment,
at a coffee-bar-bookshop;
walking through the isles
in my tee-shirt and underwear,
sipping a triple shot latte,
eyeing books longingly,
fondling pages and
smelling ink;
my mouth pasty,
my hair wildly
riding my head,
-two in the freaking morning;-
it would feel good
to just sit at a little
table in the corner
and watch the lifeless,
the insomniacs, or shift workers
sipping coffee, staring blankly.
Mar 2015 · 835
What Words Have Been
S R Mats Mar 2015
Are words harmless?  Can they ever be benign?
Between you and I?-

And, how many times has the Soul mated and re-mated?
Tearing, scarring, and numbing the connection.

Is that how and why, we keep this distance?
Or, Love, is it fear of perfection?
Mar 2015 · 749
Vancouver
S R Mats Mar 2015
We drove because we saw the top of the mountain covered with snow.
Our desire was to feel its beauty.  As we traveled up and up
The forest encapsulated us with its velvety-richness; and the sound,
My heart pounding and the cascading waterfalls, played the music of the Soul
In the forest.  On we drive up the narrow road until there is no coming down.
Mar 2015 · 2.6k
Soul Art
S R Mats Mar 2015
You come to my bed with prose written on your skin
And because of your love stories I let you in.

I would rather have honey than candied treats
And the nature of you makes it twice as sweet.

Your art and your song complete my thoughts
By your candlelight’s glow my heart is taught

To open wide to the possibility of you.
Mar 2015 · 1.7k
Sigh
S R Mats Mar 2015
Meet me under the apricot-sky
And linger

Until the ember-coal-moon shines
In the Dutch-oven-dark heavens

Then sigh when I sigh.
Mar 2015 · 2.4k
As We Age
S R Mats Mar 2015
I will look upon your face
And I will love it, Sweet Gentle.
I will love it, soft and tender,
Wrinkle by wrinkle.
Mar 2015 · 1.0k
Arouse Heavy Morning
S R Mats Mar 2015
I stare into supple beauty,
Shudder Sweet Man
And worship Luscious Woman.
Hard feather, smooth pleasure,
Arouse heavy morning,
Tremble breast and glisten full bloom.
Mar 2015 · 237
You
S R Mats Mar 2015
You
It is Love that has to be believed to be seen.

Deep within the heart, My World, the illusive passage

Tremulous feelings emerge into a light, which becomes You.
Mar 2015 · 474
Profound
S R Mats Mar 2015
I have never looked at the world
From this angle before.

I have long sat and watched the world
But never have known

The things you've shown me, taught me
From the beauty of your throat.
Mar 2015 · 4.2k
Soul Ballet
S R Mats Mar 2015
I watch

You sleeping;
The movement of your body,

Your breathing,

It’s like a soul ballet.
And quietly, softly,

I watch

From a corner across the room

The dance.
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