Continuing my verbless journey through May… Fire in the trees color, light, heat, ash Symbolism with intent a cocktail of confusion A sea change worlds in flux jazz afternoons blues in the night Fear of knowledge fear of youth Resistance—Pushback—Struggle—Conflict One way or another the inevitable resolution Lessons from the imagination (3 M3ay 2016)
Tag: resolution
The dark horse runs unnoticed at night (A poem)
This bit of mysteriousness emerged from somewhere… The scene of my surrender is one flight up from the sidewalk This is where I lived before the war that took you from me I couldn’t wait to leave but chose to stay My open-door policy trapped me inside I spent years here stashing away my secrets [...]
Last grasp (A poem)
It seems some things are harder to let go of… Sometimes I like it too much that’s the problem I want to let it go but it keeps me clinging when the memory isn’t enough to get me through And what I quickly forget is of little use What I’ve written no longer makes sense [...]
If it isn’t already obvious by now…
…I am trying to write and post one new poem every day in this new year. For the last few weeks, I have been working with opposing goals. On the one hand, I have been making an effort to write more regularly—every day, in fact. Not forcing myself, but making space during the day to get [...]
