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Timothy Mooney Jan 2011
High wind and low moonlight
In my bluffing poker hand
You strain to read the smile
behind my lie
But the smoke obscures my intentions
You check and ante
Calling me out to reveal
The truth of my brashness
We lay our cards there
On the table
And you stifle a giggle
As you rake in
My lost bet
I dig deep
While you deal again.
copyright 2010 T.P. Mooney
Timothy Mooney Jan 2011
Light crests and wanes
swift
speed flicker
moon unsure.
Skin swells then thins
with heat
wind
destiny.
Radio blackout.
Alone
I think I
Touched
God.
astronaut think...
Timothy Mooney Jan 2011
Who was it carved these lines
In ancient hand
Faded now
By sand and wind
And patient Time?

Whose voice on chiseled stone
calls on to us
Covered now
With mossy virtues
Lost,  unknown?

Should I now in my crewel
of saddened heart
And remorse
Add a stitch
Of love eschewed?

Should I wield stick and stone
And worry down
into this rock
My ****** tale
Of love unknown?

And ages hence, some thousand years
when this creekbed
sits up high
Will some fellow
read my tears?

No.  I will let my fingers roam
these runic forms
Singing loud
The loss we shared
Beside this stone.
copyright 2011 T.P. Mooney
Timothy Mooney Jan 2011
How sweet that an unwritten face
kisses me on this last hour
of Now before the
Not Now of tomorrow.

Across the wind of Einstein's count
And upon hopeful pigeon's wing
I kiss you back
And wish you happy sun.
Timothy Mooney Jan 2011
It's not about the rhyme
but the time spent
bending the words
to fit
you
You fit
To the words, bending
Spent time.
To rhyme?
Timothy Mooney Jan 2011
I woke up today.
Yay!
Timothy Mooney Jan 2011
Ride high on your
Blue horses
into Into.

I don't mean that.

Fix the hole I have
In my blue wall

I have no wall.

Scream happy no sound
here in the gallery

(Look!  You got a wall!)
tp mooney 2011
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