Out of place sun shines over a picket post cemetery
leaning against green hills.
Neatly tended lawns lay carpets of soft
and respectfully uniform sorrow
while watch tower trees are manned by keen observing birds
singing to pass the time.
Visitors are frequent, coming to browse the many headstones
sighing in sympathy with the loss of so many;
respectfully negotiating the tragic minefield
set [...]
Categories: Poetry
The fevered dance of common garden fly
busies about the creaking laburnum;
a mating rite, a dispute over territory.
Taking curious precedence over the crowded daisies
this ritual plays out to an old piano’s opus.
Envious magpies sweep by lacquered ivy;
green and swaying in a summer evenings breeze
the leaves are laminated in a soft, warming light
as playfully they jump to [...]
Categories: Poetry
Like a poem with only half their stanzas
My stories mostly fractured
Incomplete
Missing words and jumping tenses
My reader focuses
Only on the typographical
We all live and die by our words
Some faster than others
Some freefalling
My own self-doubt seemingly accurate
And how that hurts
To read
I should write of brighter days and hopes and dreams
Of frantic wonder and joy
Of infinite splendor
But I [...]
Categories: Poetry
Bluebonnets blowing across the forlorn Devil river
My feet sluggishly slapping its shallow end
The brightness of the sun competing with my smile
Underneath my smile are clouds darker than Carina Nebula
Underneath my smile, pain is slowly larking around
The corner of my lips, gradually turning downwards
The pieces of my heart tumbling like an ending tune of
Mozart’s No.16 at [...]
Categories: If only you knew, Poetry, When it comes to love