poetry – Page 51 – Poétique

Have Some

I’m good at keeping alive
Good at overprotecting myself
Does it keep away all the pain
Debatable but still rises up
Or possibly makes for better days
With the sun or the grays
Couldn’t stand up for me
So I stood up for myself
It happens that way sometimes
Feeling taller these days
Less smaller these days
Funny how we all still live here
Positioned on the same rock
Circling the same system
Solar powered or otherwise
Some of us never see each other
I remember the time when
We fought for the same things
Fall brings new beginnings
I like a fresh start…
Especially with tea…
Perhaps one day we’ll have some

Cracks

Historic epoch
Masoretic text
Read your heart
Like a book
Study your body
Melt in your aura
Crevices and cracks
Similar to an oil painting
Notes on old papyrus
Paleolithic pursuits
Arrival of the galley
Receiving the best goods
In a heartfelt manner
Dancing the atlas
Mapping the globe
Wishing to hold you
Bones like bronze
I’ve waited centuries
Counted grains of wheat
Without rupture of
Pulmonary destruction
I gather the moss in the grove
To make a pillow to rest
In the light of our
Ancient love

Sargassum

Washed up on the shore
Been through this
More than once before
Compress on the chest
Heart beats deep breaths
Algae in the blood
Seaweed sugar on the tongue
Find your level
Like water in a pond
Feelings up passions down
Lackluster aside
What about rooftops
Empty glasses and
Midnight dances
Horseback rides
Late breakfasts and the rest
Is just around the corner
When we find our mate
Without the toxic traits
Hands are supportive
No resentments reported
Crystal clear waters
Guiding our paths
Find a way to each other
There are nets to be cast

Plantythm

I can see the rhythm in plants
The digital splay of vibrations
Like counting numbers in leaves
Completely still geometrically
They’re moving shaking in place
Reverberant foliage unmuted
A tremulous explosion
Frozen in space with motion
How it’s growing from the earth
Perfectly patterned
Exquisitely mattered in
Fluttering leaves of quavering
Dances in quantum milliseconds
Without moving a single frond
Every needle every petal
Each and every blade
Full of motion in an immobile
Spellbound line

D’amis Éternels

Running the length of time
Before the earth was born
Further beyond what is recorded
In destined records unknown
In human consciousness
Looped back before the
Essence of external comprehension
Ringlets of our existence
Were found curling and waving
Through the eyes of
Endless love living in a
Space and time where
Twin flames burn
And soulmates chime
We discovered ourselves echoing
There in the infinite imagination
Of creation like two mushrooms
Gravitating in the forest
A friendship eternal
Deep in the woods
Extraterrestrially magnetized
Travelling like a myofascial
Network of neon release
Observing the underbrush
Glowing with our love

In the End

It doesn’t pay to get heated
Over things we can’t control
It doesn’t always pay to be
Responsible either if they
Can rip it away from you
It only takes time to heal
The heat the pain the anger
Out of our hands fuming
No matter how you build
No matter how they steal
Recall sitting at the back porch
Not a penny to my name
Begging for a break
Trying hard to get ahead
And enjoy it in the end
A chance to profit
Pied in the face again
Like a tornado
Or Mother Nature
Nothing is permanent
In the end
Ahead once more and then…
Things get given
Things get taken
Impermanence
Brief eternal
The ups and downs
Are still a thing
It’s truly temporary
In the grand scheme
Everything stands
Momentarily in the end

Speak

The passive bug is out to get me
I want to speak my mind still yet
The bug it won’t permit me
I know the thing to say is right
It wrestled with me in the night
Why is my tongue tied up to say
The things in which I am afraid
Mysterious moth upon my lips
Lift your wings show me the gift
If words indeed need to be said
Part my mouth relieve my head
My teeth can feel no sound relief
If not to say what’s in the heart
For where the words will hide and twist
They must be clear to pass my lips
And once is said what needs
Spring forth my head then also
Rest returns to bed for me to sleep
I cannot keep the mystery
Entirety foreshadowing what
Still my heart yearns yet to speak

Enough

Semi legendary
You find a way around
A distance can be found
From caring too much
For loving with everything
You have to give
For being imperfectly present
In every day that you live
For each part that can be
Touched and each moment
That can be nourished
There is a space where
Judgements will release us
In the open arms of the earth
Standing in the chaos of
Feeling like you’re not enough
There is a mystery that
Is solved in the air that
Holds us up
In the potential construct
That we have made up
There is something
That we all do not know
How it ends or how it begins
Semi immortal
You find a way around
A distance that is found
True to the beloved self
Sharing existence with all
Forgiven for not
Feeling as if you are enough
Finally in one eternal breath

Innermost

Wait it’s not that deep
Breath on my ear
Whispering words
Fallaciously or even
Just to tease
Wait it’s not that deep
Surface connection
Take it brick by brick
Tongue on my ear
Flames are to lick
Illusory notes
At the back of my neck
Questions answered
When the heat settles down
Emotions are high
In the heart and the mind
Claims to be something
Romantic reminds me of
Sitting at the edge of a fountain
Feet dangling in the water
Reaching over with definite
Prattle tickling my ears
Handling fears
Wait it’s not that deep
Let the spark stoke the fire
Strike the match on the grit
Of my heart unpredictable
Moments in charge
Let the surface enrage
What the depth could engrave

Premier

A suzerain to myself
I’m goaling to be ground zero
Start with hello and
Beginning to look now
Past the curls into the eyes
Try not to remember
Any hurt from the lives
Before I have led
It’s like I’m living multiple
Past lives in one lifetime
My suitcase lost its handle
No longer hindered
By the weight of all the things
I have been carrying
I dropped it all, left it
At the station and then
Went shopping to start over
With new things new people
A different wink and stop to
Think for awhile about the
Coffee with a stranger
At the table in the corner
Middle day and the next
Morning could be seen
Amidst the eyes of another person
Looking through the same entrance
With new affections