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Month: December 2020
Waiting for an updraft
If the year that was Is now over Let me leave it there I don’t want to take this lesson again Squeezed Through another pattern of stars The constellation of a life Burnt energy falling to earth Muffled into conformity Repeating steps built like code Into DNA Puppet on strings I follow the trail Higher […]
Leave the circles to the men
Buried alive Beneath a thousand sighs Incoherent thoughts leap From yesterday’s ideas Do you think you can think your way out of this? Around we go Like sheep in a square To water To food And back again Following a trail of triangles Made with small Sharp Feet Cyclic as the moon The tides We […]
The marching pair
Restless is a feeling akin to limbo The two go pacing hand in hand Swinging their arms Back and forth Inside of my head Laughing at a world That is not quite Normal
Lost in life
Hesitation drifts Raising hairs along my skin Overthinking Never got me anywhere Take the step Risk Just a bit A lot All Living isn’t found avoiding death Breath doesn’t arrive at the behest of holding on Holding in Rather it flows As we getting lost In simply being Alive
Aussie Summer
The heat The gusting wind The flies that coat my shirt back Running their little feet all over my skin The scent of smoke and dirt Dry grass Skin burnt Dehydrated Sprinklers whirring Welcome to the Australian summer Out here Magpies, beaks agape to breathe Wings spread to catch a breeze Leaves in the pool […]
Nowhere near me
You can write a lot about yourself Without ever getting anywhere close All these thoughts spill out And we take them so personally at the time In the end they are just bits of nothing Already over by the time the next emotion comes bubbling up So what do they add up to? I used […]
The bone of contention
He said It doesn’t rhyme I said It isn’t supposed to He said I thought poetry was supposed to rhyme I sigh Take a deep breath And say You’re right You’re welcome He just told me something he didn’t know And wanders away smug and smiling But so am I And peaceful You cannot waste […]
The bougainvillea
Bright flowers Sharp thorns No scent Rather flamboyant Rambling out my front door It is the first thing I see of a morning Protecting little birds In the depths of it’s not a tree shrubbery It does what it wants Roams freely Highly resilient Can’t be insulted I could stand there for an hour yelling […]
Making an honest bird
Firelight Smoke And the scent of charred feathers The Phoenix is burning Again Egg shells are made for cracking And when people walk on tip toe Avoiding They may appear higher Taller For awhile But it’s just an illusion Unbalanced, they topple Victims of their own guile Burning is painful But it’s honest Besides, The […]