Why do you crawl When you can fly? Among the chaos You skitter Directionless As if lacking sight Bumbling, fumbling, stumbling Confused Don’t you know You have wings? Strong, expansive wings The decay that gave you life Need weigh you down no more No longer a maggot Suckling on another’s shame You are empowered To…
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The Mist diffuses the light Offering it equitably To parts of the world Content in the shadows Those places normally Blessed by direct contact with the sun Do not protest this redistribution They sit Patiently, humbly Honoring the grace of the mist The birds honor it too For they have not fled in fear of…
An audacious cardinal hops from picket to picket his acrobatics steady, sure. Bees hover drunkenly over tender petals Filling branches with trembling expectation. An anxious chipmunk skitters from tree to grass to garden Gauging the danger with a paralyzed pause. The trees’ choppy shadows blanket the pathway, Mimicking the stones – envious, covetous. I watch,…
The Clouds Feigning innocence in their white and fuzzy cloak Withdraw triumphantly Satisfied, whole – Awash in after-glow Denied discretion by her ecstasy Earth lies splayed after the glorious romp Wet, disheveled, at peace – Each fulfilled through the giving, the receiving They part Free from regret or expectation Knowing it will happen again
Early explorers, adventurers Whispering the hushed tale of their Pilgrimage from eager heights in poised flirtation with the wind to Freedom of release in gleeful tumbles to the ground, They are the first to fall. – Humbly bypassing an Encore of yellow and orange They rest, meekly brown, on a Bed of silty fate in…
Many times in my life I have yearned for a machine to go in and erase certain memories from my life thinking that if this or that wouldn’t have happened I would be happy and open. See – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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