Using the Big Dipper

Using the Big Dipper
I pan my night for gold
Words like stardust sprinkled
In the galaxy folds

Higgs particles sifted
Out only to behold
Poem nuggets before
The smelting and the mold

When will celebration

When will celebration
Overshadow this grief
This fixed solar eclipse
Relentless pin oak leaf

A chorus of black notes
Too lamenting to sing
In a cave upside down
Underneath a bat's wing

A sigh that is months long

A sigh that is months long
Exhaling until lungs
Are dried grapes on a vine
The last stage, lowest rungs

To have ripened early
Future seasons untouched
The realization
It doesn't matter much

I must continue as the

I must continue as the
First sun rises about
Create the next brick for
The next layer of grout

Your story residing
In chambers of my heart
A song to the beats of
The rhythm of my art

Too inarticulate

Too inarticulate
The detail explosion
Beauty and light meeting
The two biggest oceans

No matter the sentence
Or wordsmithing this gaze
These random and fleeting
Moments are without phrase

Question the directions

Question the directions
Determined by the past
When emotions ran high
And decisions were fast

Calculations based on
Fervor, fury or fear
Need calm confirmation
If they are sound to steer

Shake the night until each

Shake the night until each
Star falls like a snowflake
Leaving the moon alone
All pockmarked and opaque

Old souls are never young
They've already been sieved
Sure, steadfast and weathered
A thousand winters lived

Into the forgotten

Into the forgotten
The gift you loved so much
That story, how you laughed
And how little we touched

I can't recall that name
You always remembered!
I've lost it again and
Can't stoke a cold ember

No evidence of cool

No evidence of cool
Not spiffed up or elite
No bent up rhymes or words
Too common on the street

Just because an answer
Is honest doesn't mean
It's logic is right - no
If, and, or buts between

Sun setting through the trees

Sun setting through the trees
Like nature's picket fence
Drifting from the present
To past and future tense

Living life fuels sadness
Like a hollow tree trunk
Successes and failures
Branches high and roots sunk

The swell of Overwhelm

The swell of Overwhelm
In total amazement
A minuscule, a small
In such a large placement

No mysteries, no gods
The landscape just a leaf
No planning futures with
A sense of disbelief

October offers a

October offers a
Cold mirror reflection
An almost clinical
Complete introspection

Austerely looking back
There's little standing out
Some trees on a prairie
Small tufts of grass about

This is about our love

This is about our love
I rarely write the word
That can make every noun
Turn into every verb

Imagine your absence
The stillness this would bring
The world without you just
A person, place or thing