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Socked
Why are there socks in the kitchen?Are they coming or going laundry? Future or returning Where does anything start or end? And what starts the inevitable end My partner is dying She’s suffered long enough still I don’t want to let go I lost my mother in October now this The universe must think I’m…
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Somber Much?
Just checked my last couple/few published poems. There is a reason for all the darkness. My partner of 20 years passed (was cured they say in Alzheimer’s circles) almost a month ago. I’d been caring for Jill the lions’ share of the time for a couple of years, as she slowly then suddenly declined. I…
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Postulations
She’s gone like the wind hope it’s a gentle breeze Wherever she is now Somehow this cluttered house With my “tornado just came thru” decor Feels oddly, coldly vacant within it’s conflagration It echoes with melancoly You were So much More than a part of me Wondering just who I’ll be After I stumble into…
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Mechanisations
Will I miss you When both of us are gone Will you miss me When we no longer rage against the dawn Or the other machines that tried to grind us down When my cynical sacrilegious-ness has launched it’s last sardonic clown And your inherent sugary sweetness is sadly no longer around?
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Feast
The house is quiet but for the clickety clack of the dog’s nails otherwise padding softly ‘cross the floor I’ll turn to Music soon Something angry hyper rhythmic beat Something rough and tumble enough to calm the beast Tactile shadows sweetly sweep in Palate etched with bittersweet sketchings of pain Brain convulsing with an unseen…
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Moving
Moving forward Through hight width depth and time Towards what some call destiny Where I see endless intersecting circles Never quite the same but familiar excepting the final destinations that go by the names of Life and Death
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Spectre
it feels like there’s someone else here i count, 1, 2…. maybe in the basement maybe in my head my life is full of endemic strangeness and dread not complaining trying to find explanation through expression peace of mind isn’t prevalent in the midst of regression the veil of obstruct silence suffocates like a shroud…
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Projection
You sabotage your own creation With a smile and a kick a frown and a kiss you were never fond of any of this and how do you respond? Bitch and complain about what life has done to you Maybe you should light a candle to the patron saint of Eeyore-ness and see what you…
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Cry
Slam hammering Having heart torn to pieces In front, inside Anger boils up through the tears not alone more than lonely Out back, still inside Questioning the omnipresence of the presumed spiritual guide legislating this reckless ride and Who’s navigating and to what metaphysical end Karmic repentance to pay for the privilege of sacrilege Lacking…
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naked prayers
Everything will be ok tell myself then I pray hoping the multiverse can find it’s wayward way to seeing things that way … today Heros on welfare it’s hard to hold a job or anything when you don’t know what day it is Im stranger than many a stranger I was cultivated Outside The Great…