(Forgot to post this earlier)

Friday, February 5, 2010

In a light-filled room
I pour amber maple syrup
On a warm brown waffle
And think about life.

Broken Pavement

Thursday, March 11, 2010

To find the secret way

Beside the voices-

Whispering of heretics

Traitors.

Mother Culture holds us close.

We must

Walk the winding paths

Away from the highways,

Sidewalks,

Sticky-hot asphalt.

Where:

Blueberries grow

And you can eat the cattails

Waving in the passing breezes.

Avoid the-

Institutions,

Corporate

Long grey hallways.

I’ll find the old buildings

Reclaimed by-

Love

Life

Life

And camp,

By a stream that fish still follow.

While I watch beauty escape in-

Ruins.

Finally,

Truly free

The stars will find me.

My Poem a Day project went on hiatus for a while.  From February 8th to March 10th I wrote only one poem.  However, I have now resumed the project!

Monday, February 15, 2010

Cobwebs criss-cross
My window
Dust gathering solemnly
Along the sticky strands.

Monday, February 8, 2010

finally,
silence in a warm room
I blink slowly,
rest.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

warmpth and happiness
laughter 'round a table in a bright-lit room
hot tea
sipped with smiling mouths

Saturday, February 6, 2010

The low sun
Flashes
Flickers
Through the trees
Red Light
In the space behind my eyes
Telling stories
From a billion years
Of watching
The spinning planets.

Knowing
Brushes past me
With wonder
In a blinding flash
I shut my eyes
My heart beats,
And we drive on.


~

two sisters
lean close together
shining white
alone in a field of brown bark

~

Suddenly-
a cloud of birds
sharp wings outlined by grey sky

~

bare sculptures
painted branches
twist in praise of the sunlight

~

The eyes of a house
Watch us,
Disspassionately,
As we drive by

~

out of the fading daylight
we drive into the shadows
of heaped-high stormclouds
the sun shines bright farewell
as it fades into greyness
winks,
then disappears.
darkness falls.