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ymmiJ Sep 2019
hiking above the alpine tree line
misty mountain cloud tops seem like floors
raindrops there don't fall they hover

suspended in time
for just a single moment
before plummeting

descending back down amongst the masses
stopping to recapture that halted moment
only to hear the hum of diesel engines
ymmiJ Apr 2019
Cool lone winter howl haunting power
Echoes off frozen ground, and frost bit limbs
The wind lifts her chilling scream  for all the others to hear
fear me,  
I come
ymmiJ Apr 2019
I'm gonna be ready
Planning my words as I speak
when you start coming
back around again, see me
getting straight thoughts not yet said
ymmiJ Oct 2020
nothing equals her
empty spaces never filled
without her nothing
ymmiJ Feb 2020
my conscience went streaming by
in the mouth of a giant king salmon
the sheer audacity in eating my fly
consumed with fresh squeezed lemon
ymmiJ Sep 2019
in my deep recess
where my true self goes to think
I take you with me
ymmiJ May 2019
contentment
when knowing enough is enough
just me and you, being alone, anywhere
ymmiJ Feb 2024
DARK
this last breath
like so many before
forgotten
LIGHT
such sweet breath
the next ever sweeter
enriching
ymmiJ Jul 2020
under an umbrella
yet no rain to shield
nor sun to block
it’s just there
out of place
in space
blocking views
of above
of you
never cared
for umbrellas
kind of
depressing
ymmiJ Feb 2021
hot mug warming hands
fire heating still quiet
outside snow flutters
sending cool chills deep inside
cozy feet rub in reply
ymmiJ Apr 2019
four toe heads all tan
launching lures and cannonballs
salts healing skinned shins
ymmiJ Mar 2020
his lone call echoes
haunting frozen winter lands
inside bones chilling
ymmiJ Nov 2019
creepy crow calling
echoes with lonely despair
even the dogs stopped
ymmiJ Apr 2019
White caps on the  inlet
Only the crows stand obstinate
As the sky turns black, forbidding flught
ymmiJ Apr 2019
wolves shed tears, howling
moonlight cries, echoing
fireplace writing, reflecting
old flames in my heart, rekindling
memories, drifting
old feelings deep, thawing
when I too howled tears, crying
at the moonlight, sobbing
ymmiJ Apr 2019
You make me laugh and cry
In one simple gesture
or one silly smile
My heart flutters
At those delights
For kim
ymmiJ Apr 2019
The blue drape covers
So complete, no start, no stop
Fish too, hold their breath
ymmiJ Apr 2019
I'm sorry if I hurt you
It's just so many things
not to say, not to do
so many rules, taboos
it's difficult for me too
picking up all these cues
filtering, to find the real you
ymmiJ Apr 2019
If you give less then you get,that's self destruction
I you get what you give,that's mutually assured
You give it all, with hope of little return, the satisfaction
To be sure, that's the secret, love cured
ymmiJ Mar 2019
A king dies as
The silver prince spawns
a new river of life dawns
in alaskan rivers in the spring and summer we get the annual spawning of five different species of salmon. Kings are the biggest and are also called Chinook Salmon. They arrive, spawn and die first. usually followed by Red, silver, pink and chum salmon. By the time the silver salmon or coho hit the rivers from the open ocean the kings are dying on the river banks spent. It's quite a life lesson as you watch and try to catch these river beats of current!!
ymmiJ Nov 2020
darkness settles in
winters somber companion
warmth ever retreats
as embers in nightly fires
rekindle in morning flame
ymmiJ Apr 2019
Floating to take root
The lions tooth on dragons breath
An elegant dance
ymmiJ Apr 2019
Walking foreign paths
Collecting strange fears, others sorrows
Gives understanding to wondering souls
ymmiJ Mar 2019
Even on the gloomiest faces
the light of love has traces
a firefly leaves in a
forest's darkest places
ymmiJ Apr 2019
terror in falling limbs, crashing
forests of decayed life, growing
a chanterelle, golden, bursts free
ymmiJ Dec 2019
your smile enlightens
my now shadowless heart shines
my dawn sun rises
To Kimberly Dawn who makes my heart shine
ymmiJ Feb 2020
you're my breaking dawn
rising every morning
reassuring me
ymmiJ Mar 2019
Dawn's early caress
Dawn's light reflects in her ever green pools
Dawn's golden rays fall about her face
Dawn's warm hug lulls away my stress
Dawn's the best part of my day
To my co-pilot on the Windjammer. We've been  riding the winds on this most epic of journeys
ymmiJ Mar 2019
Conflict in the early night sky
Battles swirling raging between deep pastel foes
Epic daily struggles as light slashes dark
Leaving streaking flashes in futile fights
Finally prevailing the black veil flexes
Showing the power of having no light
Till dawn when darkness sees the light and dies
ymmiJ Apr 2019
Listening for night
Feeling for light, the dawn sun
Seems so far away
From this cold and lonely place
My deaf, blind heart led me to
ymmiJ Apr 2019
Magpies, black white blue
Tussling for a fry, brown ground
Foods still rare, I guess
ymmiJ Dec 2021
faded memories
among ever weakened eyes
slowly we decay
ymmiJ Oct 2024
Their imaginary lines are drawn
Our true past unknown, our future forgone
Humanity is killing it's own
ymmiJ Apr 2019
Peering into blue
Deep frigid waters, white capped
Beauty wrapped cold death
on high tides washing away
dead shells echo wails of whales
ymmiJ Apr 2019
When your in the blue
Silence, everything goes numb
Thoughts bubble of you
ymmiJ Feb 2020
beauty so fatal
tempting fate for just one kiss
dying in her trance
ymmiJ Apr 2019
alone, wolfs been tracking me
around every corner I see him
big, gray, beastly, black fangs
tempting me to veer off to fear
to lose my place, panic, scream
I've seen him before, he's as cold
as his hot metalic tinged breath
Life comes to him but never goes
time to stand my ground, I need
a new wolf skin pelt to lay on
ymmiJ Aug 2022
shrouded among clouds
epic faces rarely seen
denali peeks shine
N. A tallest peak. Is a shy mountain
ymmiJ Apr 2019
Roaming desert scapes
waterless countryplaces, searching
Your eternal springs
bursting forth in full bloom
Painted in Apache plume
ymmiJ Apr 2019
My desperation
me frantically searching
and never finding you
ymmiJ Oct 2019
Truth doesn't become so because you think it is so.....
...... just as it does not become so because your friend said it be so.
different for me but it is designed to make you think on what you think it true. What is really true and how do you know it's your truth?
ymmiJ Apr 2019
There’s more to this view, you know
Worlds yet to explore, besides the rear view
new horizons to cross for you,  with
Your view of the change in you to better
Change the view around you, it’s all in
How you view you in this big picture view
ymmiJ Apr 2019
from permafrost thawed
white arches rising upward
ancient beauty, now
resides on a modern shelf
next to plastic elves for sale
ymmiJ Apr 2019
Imperfections make beauty
Like an ideally placed dimple
on your perfecty dimpled face
ymmiJ Oct 2019
earned his pennies saved
clanking jars he threw them in
spilled for ice cream trucks
Who didn't raid the change jar for a rocket or push up on occasion?
ymmiJ Apr 2019
ignorance is bliss
hard to miss baskets of gold
sprinkled around you
your blindness, tunnel vision
swiping right, as flowers die
Just observing families at lunch, each on their own little world, sad
ymmiJ Oct 2020
all these people
some in concealment
others not
none
saying hello
ymmiJ Apr 2019
we pulled crab and fish aplenty
upon the barnacle scarred wood planks
our splintered arm to creek side bounty
ymmiJ Mar 2019
My dogs are barking shut them up
That dog don't hunt stupid animal
Can't teach an old dog new tricks
He's a dog and she's a female version
We use dog in a derogatory way
put him on a leash if you walk today
best of friends is what they say
loyal to the core all day every day
who treats friends like dog crap anyway
But every dog has his day
Ever seen a Dogwood bloom, true beauty, I say
Just cause we have two canine members of the family and I love all my dawgs!! Even tho I am a Tiger from South carolina!!
ymmiJ Apr 2019
This dog of mine
has this strange and
peculiar way of
Letting me know
How I constantly
Disappoint him
He looks just
Like you
And me
When we
Get let
Down
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