"unassumed" poems
We shut our minds
from the reality of
that which there is,
then we delve deep
into unassumed perceptions, not
without thought but with
utmost self denial.
The truth becomes art painted
by our very hands,
which more often than not is
the abstract we do not comprehend, but yet
smile in appreciation of.
Not to be considered foolish,
we succumb to this....
pleasurable nonsense of being
one like all.
I look at us
and I smile
because I see
that
We are frail,
we are weak,
we are foolish,
we are human.
Nov 26, 2012
Nov 26, 2012 at 11:58 AM UTC
You need me but I don't need you
In this old and dusty room
Cold, quiet, overblown and unassumed
My old lovers heart whispers to her open wounds
Hazy and angry in late summer afternoon
Hot, heavy, weak, few
Lost your true love,
'only to succumb to hate and fear
All I loved about you
'now only exists in a faded photo,
'My Dear
Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 12:18 AM UTC
scrolled shavings
feather light
take flight
captured on breeze
in graceful fall.
skinned by deft hand
working the blade
whittling dormant shapes
made awake
with each stroke
of sharp edge
upon wood.
I'd watch his rough
hands move
with an unassumed dexterity and gentleness
born from experience
of one gifted in perceiving the form hidden from all eyes
but his.
This time bringing to life
a song thrush resting on a rock.
May 14, 2017
May 14, 2017 at 6:31 PM UTC
My mentality focuses on the time
Unassumed the undefined
Leave behind the unconscious mind
Therefore malevolent
For when compassion comes around
Don't feel solicitude
Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 8:05 PM UTC
*The winds of change are coming
Feel it in your bones
Summers blistering heat
Says goodbye
Welcome in autumn's chill
The heart that felt cold
Even with summers blazing heat
Now becomes warm
Upon the autumn breeze
The book that's been worn
So many times re-read
Pages of past fall out
Blown away
by the autumn wind
The unassumed campfire
Now becomes the pasts
Celebrated funeral pyre
Acrid smoke changes
To the sweet scent of freedom
As the past burns
The heart is warmed
the soul set free
Upon this autumn's
Winds of change*
Sep 26, 2016
Sep 26, 2016 at 8:23 PM UTC