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Late night drives
always help me think
the farther away from home I get
the further I see in to my future
dazzling lights
blur on the speckled windscreen
then starburst through the dust
I can never seem to get off my specs

Don't wanna turn around
not feeling the need to go back
the closer I get to home
the more memories that come back
of a life I've lived, of one
I could never get on track
the road is wet I should slow down

The steering wheel my punching bag
my microphone, my audience
a place to rest my head when I'm sad
empty seats are empty
just like empty me without the envy
and
I can't see the street signs
'*** I don't care to
.
.
Drive safe
shyguypoetry Nov 2016
In my last moments

I wonder what I will say,

"All set!" or "not yet..."
Seán Mac Falls Oct 2016
.
Winged caterpillar
That frees my soul,
Sets my mind to dreaming,
How the hand of man
Out plays the God,
Makes love
To its master.
With fondled fingers, you paint
A dumb firmament, the way
Light dazzles as it breaks
Or how the itching rain
Taps a teasing melody as it falls
To the lover ground.

Beloved of Orpheus
Whose wove you coiled in-
Vents a garment of bird song loom,
Content my breath
The way that water wells
And lolls into puddles
Nesting not before the hot,
Harpy steam.

O melodious pool,
Undulating lake, frame
To emotive vapours, without
Ship you ply in wakes.
The oarsman plucks the main,
Your body is the sail,
Drunkard winds and warblers,
Blow hard, but fail my ears,
Atone as well, the wretched sounds of day
For they are sour spells, and but a fools
Trash canned movements, in a state
So needy of weeding,
Mere sound is soiled
The way you rake.

Evolution spreads,
As stones do,
When moves the river bed,
Grace, in violence,
Sparkles as it blooms,
Like an ears creation—
Rose on the tomb.
Seán Mac Falls Sep 2016
( Sonnet )*

I saw a hunter by a country road,
In tandem with me he sailed as I drove.

His hoody-head set monkish to the soil
Conjured up music so soundful, sacred,
And I unmoving over a tired flesh—
Coloured vehicle felt naked and dead

For he so saintly robed and dressed to ****
In the colours of the sky prayed with wings,
My harrier, his eyes cleansed purity and gold
While mine unsightly piebald pale and blue.

But want of food dovetailed two craving
Creatures, yet— over fed I felt rusty
Below his steely hunger and what saving
Grace God might offer either mice or men.
Seán Mac Falls Aug 2016
.
I sit under the ancient apple tree,
My heart is low, my head in the clouds,
The day is slowly ending, I am sleepy
When visitors arrive, little buds come,
Raining down on me— a cadre
Of red-headed finches.
Seán Mac Falls Jul 2016
.
Under loving branches of tree,

Singing birds bathe in garden,

Butterfly and cat jostle, sleepy,

Flowers bolt into the open sun.
Waiting4TheStop Jul 2016
Hush don't wake her, leave her in the quiet.
Hush don't wake her, it's the nightmares. Let her battle the internal riot.

Hush don't wake her, there is no longer any need.
Hush don't wake her, now she must take the lead.
Hush don't wake her, yes we have shown her this ledge.
Hush don't wake her, but, you see, she must be the one to walk over the edge.
(C) 2016
Justin S Wampler Jul 2016
Lets
ruin ourselves
for
each other.

Lets
savor the
squandered
potential
later,

when
we look back
fondly
on
what
we could have
been.
I am standing on the precipice. It is a cliff from where I can examine the scope of all things and ponder my worth. Am I good enough? That is the aching question that resonates within my bones. It is the enigma that makes my heart feel like the most congested intersection. I’ve been tinkering with the cogs in my head. Never certain, but still searching for what is broken and trying to fix it. But I can’t; I am no mechanic, so I look down and stare at the nothingness below me. I hear the void calling my name. In a desperate attempt to find self-definition, I jump. I jump from the cliff and allow the darkness to consume me.

For some arbitrary reason, I decide to look up. Awaiting my gaze is a breathtaking infinity I never imagined I’d see. A beautiful blanket of stars flows over me as I descend. I remember when I was a child, I always dreamed of venturing into outer space. So with my calloused hand, I stretch out and reach for those celestial ***** of fire hoping to fulfil the fantasy of my youth, but I only drift further and further away. I scream. I yell for the illuminated sky to take me. Worthless!

As I throw my irrational tantrum, I realize that I never really wanted to explore the heavens. What I wanted all along was to fill them. I longed for purpose. Now, with that in mind, I stretch my arms not to reach the stars anymore but to fill the massive vacuum — to become a giant, a limitless, boundless giant shining in an infinite container… in the darkness.

I reconsider my existence. Falling. I am a light falling into… no, filling the darkness. I am charged with exuberance. It’s as if a bolt of lightning struck my chest and is waltzing through my body at this very moment. I feel safe now, drifting away from the precipice and into the unknown. I am a light. I am a giant. Limitless. Boundless. Infinite.
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