Timothy Ward

Timothy Ward Jan 2016

must our words
cause so much pain
must our words
cause so much shame
must our words
so much abrade
must our words
so much degrade
watch our words
our words we must

It's a poem dedicated to all who ostracize and marginalize those whom they judge "unworthy"! In my case it was my parents, friends family at various points for being gay. Let's not hurt those we don't understand - try empathy! ; )

#gay #understanding #empathy

Timothy Ward Jan 2016

Haiku

tucked safely
into bed at night
with demons

Using a non traditional 3/5/3 instead of the usual 5/7/5 format. More restrictive and challenging in English

#haiku

Timothy Ward Jan 2016

Haiku

cradled in your gaze
in the absence of movement
we are one - at peace

#haiku

Timothy Ward Jan 2016

Poets

I try to be poetic
This is hardly a gift
It's linguistic aesthetics
For emotional rifts

Humble are the poets
Who write with such skill
For they foster heroics
And cry with ther quills

#true #poets

Timothy Ward Jan 2016

Rock Climbing

we set out
expeditiously
climbing quizzical
stony faces
grasping
slithering
clambering
to the top
we lay down
spent
you have breathed
sweet life again
past parched
unloved lips
into an empty soul
craving
simply
to be quenched

I finally met someone for the very first time as a 21 yo! Mountains of barriers - internal n external - keep coming up but we keep climbing over each Khyber Pass together :)

#together

Timothy Ward Jan 2016

Blue Sanctuary

songs of endearment
enticed us here
deep blue sanctuary
not man's "frontier"
the seas grow silent
of sacred sounds
"humanity" bereft
of life we have drowned

#saveourseas

Timothy Ward Jan 2016

Afternoon Surfing

an afternoon surfing
a whale pod is near
the whales are warning
'tis me they fear

i try...i wonder
at just what we've done
tearing pacific asunder
to be so shunned

Saw 2 mother and 2 calves and a larger male swimming 150 meters away from my board this summer - Off Pismo Beach central California

#unnatural #mankind