Sunday, October 13, 2024

Seasons

To find where time goes -
Have we discovered that yet?
Where the sun meets the sea
And the skies never met

Where the colors all shift 
In the blink of an eye
No in between stages 
No time to ask why

Missed it all in the moment 
Going so fast
Missing it still 
The seasons don't last

Sifting hot sand
Turns to cool rain 
Leaves crunch underfoot 
And snow starts to wane

The sea takes the sun
Where the changing years met 
And time slips away -
To lose but not forget 

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Cobwebs

Sunlight never reached this place
Hoarfrost crept further in
Amongst the slipping shadows
Lost and found again

Lost to time and memory
Where all forgotten things must go
Entrapped in dust and cobwebs -
Fate and dreams and snow

In the stories that we tell ourselves 
Now entwined within our veins 
In the background of eternity
Sifting through what remains 

Had the fog been any thicker -
The road that much more unclear
Harsh winds could stop us
Empty words keep us here

Still listening to the stories
Twirling on life's thread 
Of course the sun never reached this place
Rivers freeze inside each head
Yet - let us torch it all with inner fire instead

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

1096

It’s all just days and days
Losing count while they fly
It’s all an ongoing attempt
To hold the very sky

To grasp these possibilities 
Elusive though they are
To find the unique essence 
Held within each star

We can lay down beneath them
Watch how they shine
We can take our very essence
Learn how they intertwine

How they shift and grow
Together and apart
Complement and contradict - 
Overlapping always at the heart

Time may change all else
As only time may prove
The conviction within the profession: 
Stay with me - all else shall move

If it were but a fleeting fancy
A poetic license gone astray 
Would it have yet prospered to the
1,096th day?

It’s all easy while the stars shine
They say it fades when the sky is matte
But I will love you til it all goes dark -
I will love you even after that

Sunday, August 4, 2024

Behold

Ah, but look what we have found now -
Every shade of green within the grass
The trees whisper secrets but won’t say how
Time decides to pass
Through all that burns and fades
In swiftly cascading decades 
Or in slowly eroding ticks 
And tocks that make no sound
Buried in the ground
Or in all we try to fix

Shall we guess what we’ll discover 
In the changing colors of the sky -
The stars winking like a distant lover
The breeze laughing but never saying why
Time began to flow
And life began to grow
Through all that’s false and true
And everything between
What we say but never mean 
In what we feel but never do

But look what we have done now -
Colors bursting brighter than before
Tides crash and hiss, break and vow
Life can mean so much more
Than the counting of days
Discovering all the ways
To shade the grass and sky
And view the rolling sea
Everything we ever wanted to be
Is here in the beholder’s eye

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Downpour

After the clouds have gathered
Notched themselves into the sky
Drunk on liquid thunder
Weary and ready to hang dry

How the rains shall pour down
Atop the flooded plain
Turning the barren soil
Igniting all that isn’t sane 

Forgotten things come crawling 
Ignored thoughts toss about   
Here amongst the lightning 
Are all the fears and every doubt 

Vicious as the thunder 
Echoing inside your skull
Numbing the ragged edges 
Of every flight and fall

Take nothing from this place
Hearing only these unknowns 
In all the liquid lightning
Notched into your bones

Go now, while you can -
Take your breath and run away
Or drown amidst the downpour 
Swelling in the fray 
After the clouds have scattered
You can find dry land some day