poetry – Page 3 – Poétique

Pamplemousse

The sun looked like a
Grapefruit today
Sliced open cut
Down the middle
Left for everyone to
Devour with their eyes

What we think we want
And what we actually want
Are two very different things
A heart cut open
Halfway down the dent
Curiously askance

A panic attack is
Far more dangerous
Than the fire itself
Do you know how to
Calm yourself down?
Do you know how to
Start a fire with
Absolutely nothing?

How many more times
To wake up wondering
How many days until
A return

Only wanting to
Feel yourself wanting

Too many pieces to count
Too many memories

Ethereal

Getting used to the idea
Of how to relax
Everything falls into place
After you stop trying to rescue it

It’s a really strange feeling when you
Have everything you need but it
Feels like it belongs with something
Else or somewhere else

It’s challenging to give
Equal importance to everything
People don’t sign on for one
Another in a day to day way
As they do if they could
Show up for you in a
Lifelong way or at the end

No pressure
No pressure
If it succeeds we
Witness the seed
Growing from beneath
An earth of possibility

Singing singing
Waiting for the return
Of the messenger bird
To breathe

Wait wait
Not much longer to linger
An answer an offering
The north is calling

Ululate in wonder

To push beyond the limits
Of uncompromising feeling
Uncomfortability is reaching
Into grasp deeply at the
Sky and touch the stars
In such a way that you feel
Parts of yourself which are
Hard to face hard to see
Difficult to look down
Or back upon into your
Own heart and eyes
In the shadow of yourself
Standing in the light with
Nothing to keep you
From opening the door
To your own soul

Abeyance

Myrmidon passion
No fear for love really
I could start again
Anytime

Married myself
Ring on both fingers
Had one on each
For two others
Now for myself
What’s left
To burn

Keeping alive
That’s a thing right?
Aren’t we all doing that!

Think of a time in your life
When something important
Was hanging in the balance
Paused, unresolved, waiting…
Am I

Waiting to shape
The eventual outcome
Found in the “in-between”
A state more frustrating
Less like irritation
More like fertile thoughts
For reflection

There’s no overreacting
No overriding just
A beautiful abeyance
That swings in the air
Gives way like a pendulum
A sound or a bit that is
Hinderless to the ears

Feel you feel me
Deservingly quenched

Ikke!

Tempestuous predicament
Preposterous considering
Breathe in breathe out is
Just the normal thing
Busy living our lives
Keeping up sliding in
All things trying
To find a system
That goes

You know I form these
Deeper connections
With people all the time
Why give that up?
What was the point
Of building the stadium
An arena for love
Watching it escalate
Just to tear it down
Or pretend it’s medical

It wasn’t necessary

How long will it take
To get past it
When the first guess
Was right and you
Went for the second
It was wrong!!
Let it go, there will be
Another chance

Another day

Love is a very reckless thing
What is important and
What is tragic?
Questioning

Would being blind
Make it any easier?

I’m sorry I’m late

Begending

Our realities are made up
By the worlds we surround
Ourselves with and I find myself
Settling as a house might
Crackling and burrowing
Into the ground

Maybe I’m just tired
Of keeping up or possibly
Creation knowing full well
There could be more
In some other place
In some other way
This is not it
This is not all
That there is

Halfway mark
Feels like a dead end
Maybe all that can be
Accomplished is already
I’m not sure what will be
Longer or shorter
Revel in the new
Forget about the future
Fishbowl

When we scratch off
The top layers and
Keep finding our way down
Do we have a place to
Go or end up
Keep going
Start over
Keep going
Maybe nothing

Sweet voices
Of children
Just beginning

Today felt like
An ending
So early

Bridges

I’m not one to burn bridges
I’m more into building them
People can die when the
Scaffolding collapses
Lose our friends
Relationships end
Being with someone
Can also be lonely
Just as much as being
Alone can also fulfill you
Main cables stretched
Out into the sky like
Horizontal arms
Wishing to fly
Or at the very least
Feel something
Spun and strung
Between heart towers
Stacking rocks
Twisting the sky
Steel anchorages
Water sloshing against
Our bedrocks
It’s never to late
To try

Gauge

Settling into myself
Such a strange sensation
To be genuinely happy
Not over concerned
Enjoy the moment
Oh of what we’ve created
Lived up to and
What we’ve done!
When do we realize
And step back
Take a deep breath
And enjoy everything
That we are?
Will life surpass us
Before it’s too late?
Fall out of the tree
Of expectations everyone
Has been growing
For you with
Conference calls and
Calendars just a
Basic phone call
Where our personalities
Intertwined and there
Is no evidence that
It ever took place
No record kept
Except for
You and me
No second guessing

Earthwish

Tear myself away
From the memories
Total recall see it fall
From the back of my mind
Water the ground
A million times more
What are you running
Away from?
Are you afraid of the truth?
Flowers would bare only
Honesty each petal
Nature doesn’t lie

To have hope and feel
That it’s broken when
It’s just not enough
Is there ever enough
Are you too much to love?

Checking back
Never too tired to see
Mornings don’t have the
Mother behind the kind
Two birds would request
From the nest of a tree
Free from lithium batteries

Slow vibrations
In the earth rattle
A hard but delicate ground
Trembling a heart that
Craves response and
To be heard that’s the
Greatest escape

Saying things to people
Who end up being no one
Because they never affirm
Your words how devastating
Only to wish that the ones
We believe we can find
Hope in are also broken

Staircase

We step out
Beyond ourselves
To find forgiveness
In someone else
A different opinion
To be forgiven

I look to my heart
Tied to the universe
Married to the mother
And her children
The stars

Comfort my empty faith
How they cradle and bathe
My symphony of pain
How they give my whip rest
Arms of light about my chest

Forgive this human condition
Release your selfless victim
There is no worthy hostage
O, how the heart swells
With pure joy
When we free love

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