#penumbra
You are a thought that doesn't need to be chased
I’m here w/you, Penumbra, light shadow graced
Almost in a partial shade at an edge of darkness
Thin in soft layers, slipping thru a flowing dress,
Traces of you remain in the outer of a foggy ring
A place of the gradient--where light & dark sing,
Overlap negotiate a word companion barely real
Uncertain beauty her presence trembles to reveal
Moments pass between us, feel it shape the light,
Fades a coming dawn, between us, touches sight
Something soft lingers, meaning leans gradually,
The moon in the sand waves that beckon us a sea
In the morning of a light draw me to a very edge,
The light hesitates, our shadows reach and yearn,
An almost in a barely kiss the possibilities in turn
May 2
May 2, 2026 at 7:47 AM UTC
stepping from the shadows into the penumbra
violent salty seas return to chaotic calms
i understood in the beginning but i’ve lost the plot along
the way, days bleed into days, mistakes live in the grey
tumbling towards the sea from cloud nine dreams
idealistic, unrealistic, done climbing the tree
done trying to see
past the unclarity, revoke my charity
done climbing the tree
Jul 17, 2023
Jul 17, 2023 at 10:53 AM UTC
If I told you to visit this moment
To look around just an instant,
Would you refuse, would you consent?
Would you see what no-else can?
If you did, how could you share?
In penumbra, light up the flair?
What if you did, what if you dared?
What if you did yet no-one cared?
Everything sees through its essence,
Anything else it may comprehend.
Here lies the Fog, a forest so dense,
Spreading across, throughout the land.
Right up in front, close to your faces,
Written in crust are a thousands promises.
And along its growth at increasing pace,
At each of your blinks a few words erase.
Now you look back, but now it's too late.
Now's what you'd purchase at any given rate.
When there's no time and where there's no fate
Nothing no longer ever has to wait.
Plunged in darkness, see that you're blind;
Even there lurks something that shines.
Here is the Way, that path you must find,
Hidden within and without any sign.
When life stretches much too far to see,
To look way further is never to be free.
When gazing below, deep down the dark sea,
Know that beyond always floats this clarity.
So here I've been asking, but I'll ask one more time:
Having been through, is there two of a kind?
When raised in this manner, no question's ever clear;
Thus poems and rhymes are allowed to end here.
Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020 at 5:00 AM UTC
The penumbra that is loss, cast upon us abruptly
The light creeping onto shadow, kissing its edge
Gazing on the dimness or light, betwixt the two we strive
Arbitration just beyond our sphere, amidst our grief
Concentrating on the brilliance, a difficult endeavor
Maneuvering in darkness, nearly impossible
Remain fixed on the penumbra, await the separation
The momentum of loss may cast us in an impetuous direction
But an eclipse does not last forever
May 7, 2017
May 7, 2017 at 8:30 PM UTC
This is an SOS
This is to keep from blowing my brains out
This is to save another's life
This is for tomorrow
This is what it has always been
Oct 4, 2016
Oct 4, 2016 at 1:05 PM UTC
...and the angel covered his
eyes with another world's light
for her penumbra was not
enough to perceive.
Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016 at 10:51 AM UTC
The sun undresses its silky rays
before the blushing earth.
The earth gazes,
her sapphire eyes soak in
the glimmering shot of dawn. The moon
hide away, curving against
the hangnail of light. Stars
scintillate their last dust of evening.
“You always act like you’ve never seen me before.”
The sun removes another layer.
“Like each time is too good to be true. ”
Spinning, the earth grows dizzy. “You are the one who
abandons me in the dark.”
Above the horizon, the sun smiles.
“Clairvoyance is buried inside of you.
You know I will always return.”
The sun’s amber skin
radiates along coasts and cities,
intensifying. Brightness diminishes-
night turns into day into night once more.
“I’m still alive for you, love.”
The earth tucks in the trails of dusk
as the sun cradles revolving planets.
“See you again, soon.”
Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 11:50 PM UTC
A priceless beast, so prideful and mild
With eyes so clear, full of wisd'm and guile.
Nevertheless, true child of the wild:
Untamed shadow with a taunting smile.
To revel in your pride and beauty,
I hunt you down, make you my trophy,
Put you on display, for all to see
Your beauty, pride and serenity.
But when caged and trapped, you have lost your pride,
Lost your raw beauty, lost your wild side.
So pitiful it sickens me inside...
When shown that to yourself you must be true,
With parting utterance I release you:
"May the eternal hunt begin anew."
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 5:26 PM UTC
There is this moment.
After hectic hours in the daylight.
The view minutes after the landscape
was painted in the splashing colors of sunset.
Before some people fall asleep
Or break out in an insane serenity
Caused by the feeling of being incognito
Under the invisibility cloak of the night.
There is a moment of placidity.
When the last rays of sunlight
Battle with the first stars
For the ********** of the sky.
When the shadows grow longer
And blur between light and darkness.
When the surroundings are dim-lit
I am the most alive.
The silence makes me hear.
The monochrome paints make me see.
I step out of the penumbra
And vanish in the outlines of the world.
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 9:04 PM UTC