How to add excitement

How to add excitement
Moments without a care
To the disappointments
In our daily despair

Shearing the wooly sheep
Proceed without caution
Racing down avenues
Past complete exhaustion

Like threading a needle

Like threading a needle
It has to be just right
Perfect mathematics
A constant speed of light

Yet love is not a truth
Often the odds defy
The view can't be the same
When staring eye to eye

When the heart is broken

When the heart is broken
It fills with empty words
A hollowness, a hole
A void of any verbs

Yet an apology
Touches deeply, with love,
The bottom of the heart
And overflows above

A caravan of clouds

A caravan of clouds
Is crossing Lake Erie
It's Spring migration though
The warblers are weary

All eyes on the north to
Feel Canadian free
Starting a family
In a red maple tree

Originality

Originality
Inspiration within
Without an influence
Leading to next of kin

A self discovery
Of the essence or core
An ocean odyssey
To untouched fertile shore

I am a butterfly

i am a butterfly
Longing for the cocoon
Bring back January
And not the coming June

The world becomes too wide
Glorious profusion
Gross over abundance
And human intrusion

This abandoned heart will

This abandoned heart will
No longer occupy
Yet ghost gardens still grow
Evidence of the try

The shell of a locust
Skin of an aging snake
A point of no return
Despite longing or ache

Are these eight lines merely

Are these eight lines merely
Long run-on sentences
Of hopeful tomorrows
And past repentences

Scribbled on note paper
In hurried handwriting
And transposed to print like
A rod used for kiting

The magnificent words

The magnificent words
Strung like lights in the dark
Perpetual echoes
The forever, hark hark

Jewels, precious metals
Forming crowns of content
Worn with fluid gowns on
A high throne of intent

To live without master

To live without master
Not slave or consumer
Of wants and dreams like an
Unstoppable tumour

Not driven by the past
Or future hopes or fears
Accepting the risks
Unchartered life careers

Forced to participate

Forced to participate
Technology success
The state of art beauty
Ugliness of progress

The consumption of land
And water full of crud
The misconception of
The World is still a bud

Perfect day to be had

Perfect day to be had
Seize without urgency
Just glide, gallop or skip
Avoid emergency

Find equilibrium
Joy to give and receive
Rally in the moment
We can never retrieve

Not only inspired by

Not only inspired by
Great days of fair weather
Sun drenched or skies tipped with
White clouds of loose feather

A poet is much like
Painters of open air
Resorting to still life
When the sun is not there

Softer than Sandburg's cat

Softer than Sandburg's cat
Perhaps on kitten feet
Fog on Lake Erie and
A silent shipping fleet

Are passing like perfume
My senses once acute
Become fully absorbed
And then render me mute

Are we celebrating

Are we celebrating
Sparklers and confetti
Simplifying our lives
The tangled spaghetti

Exuberant skipping
Not fearing the next step
And only choosing sleep
When exhausted from pep

Never out of focus

Never out of focus
Neither a smear nor smudge
Can blur or erase it
It refuses to budge

Like an afternoon sun
Never giving a break
Or each night a full moon
That forces you to wake

To keep moving forward

To keep moving forward
So much is left behind
Fashion trends and friends of
The most beautiful kind

Inundated with the
Outdated and cliche
There is more in the past
Than in the present day

Apples and oranges

Apples and oranges
Is how the saying goes
Here I am an acorn
For a hip on a rose

It's neither here nor there
DNA rolling dice
An acorn for a hip
A segment for a slice