Wind Pushing the rain Stripping trees Yet a few Tenacious leaves Remain
Tenacious Leaves
Category: Free Verse
Most everything that isn’t a haiku or tanka falls into this category lately. Subject to change, of course.
Seattle Memories
Calming coolness upon me
Memories of walking, early morning, Seattle
Along the peak of Capitol Hill
Downwards through the city
Before urban life starts
Before thousands of coffee cups
Deliver their payloads
Of productivity
Under My Blankets
Blanket to my chin
Arms tucked underneath
I resist motion
Thinking of the fresh snow
Memories of Metal Shop
Sitting
Tall stool
Metsl tsble
Vice gripping
My victim
Bending
Shaving
Scraping
Demanding
It fit into
My will.
Resistance
Solid
We find
Detente,
This soul
Longing
For the
Trees
Ignorance Is Bliss?
Deer silently eat
Wolfs eyes glistening
Ignorance is bliss?
A Sunday morning meditation for you.
Thoughts, early Saturday morn
Going to sleep Friday
Tomorrow’s free morning
Ah, to wake leisurely!
My mind springs awake
Hours before dawn
This sadistic life
Getting Older
Walked to the living room
Grabbed my phone
Nodded off checking social media
Forgot why I went out there
This is annoying
Textures
Textures
Tell me stories
Shapes in the paint
Reach out
Like the dead
Demanding to be
Heard
The Pain Of Choice
It’s so easy to spin
Tumbling over, over
Losing my focus
In this maelstrom
Of possibility
For a choice requires
Leaving opportunity
Sitting in the sun
For another to grab.
What if that one
Is better than this one?
Too much of this
Is a table full of gifts
Where nothing is opened
And all potential
Evalotates into the day’s heat
Thursday Morning
Slowly waking
Against my will
For life’s demands
Cry out
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