After a major storm

After a major storm
Emotions peaked and went

Deadwood is left upon

The base of a bridge bent

It may take another

Rising water and storm

To release or forgive

To heal again the norm

Bolstered up on my own

Bolstered up on my own
Wishes to be better

Healing or hurrying

Track suit or full sweater

Keeping weeds from growing

Better fence to neighbors

Inviting tender hearts

Alongside the labors

Somewhere in a forgot

Somewhere in a forgot
But not forgotten lost

An importance tugged hard

On its leash at all cost

A bauble, a brief bloom

A button needing thread

On an article of

Clothing that I had shed

Do I turn this corner

Do I turn this corner

Little significance

Just one syllable more

Altering the cadence

Self-imposed strategy

Graduate to seven

Or maybe even eight

Or nine, ten, eleven

There are burdens with dreams

There are burdens with dreams

Anchors dragged through oceans

Cargo thrown overboard

To encourage motions

But without them - abyss

A darkness without edge

We must Imagine and

Set compasses to pledge

Having no empathy

Having no empathy

And those that cannot feel

Approach with knowledge of

Impenetrable peel

Not capable of love

We should have been afraid

It was not about "all"

Just only their parade

All of these absolutes

All of these absolutes

(I'm finding that funny)

Even a cloudy day

Is still a bit sunny

Never ever again

(And still I have to laugh)

Negating my own self

In an intended gaffe

Taking it on the chin

Taking it on the chin
Swallowing hard on pride
Out from the dust cloud ring
And brushing off my hide

Still offering some crumbs

Fewer birds are landing 

So much food in this world

I am understanding

Falling forty stories

Falling forty stories
In the course of two days
And then to up and walk
Away and not be fazed

Asking how it happened
Internal clock and springs
Sailboat-like butterfly
Capsized and then with wings

Wanting to disappear

Wanting to disappear

A lost penny at sea

Feeling like a lost heart

Wishing cloud canopy

A sense of giving up

Drowning not yet floating

Smiling while self-demised

A thick sugar coating

It's closer than ever

It's closer than ever

See the path I have made

Off the beaten track once

Now old and clearly staid

So much in the distance

But future is a no

New is far, old is here

Just simply, let me go

Sadness in shallow pools

Sadness in shallow pools

Deep sadness so much so

Out of perspective like

Murder and stubbing toe

Needing to step out of

This senseless sense of blue

So much humanity

Violated each dew

In a forward motion

In a forward motion
Wishing to pick up speed
Discarding emotions
That only want to feed

Granting self-approval

Recognizing treasure

In others and myself

Engage without measure

Void of vindication

Void of vindication

No jury, judge or court

In silence, a vacuum

A Life without a port

Bring myself back to land

To climb a new plateau

Pull myself to soil

To plant each even row

Living in the ombre

Living in the ombre
Ears constantly ringing
Feet striding less and
Worrisome hands wringing

Wanting to be youthful
But cannot live again
I don't want to repeat
Look forward, not back when

Nothing is the answer

Nothing is the answer

At least that is something!

No more details follow

Deadwood without a Spring

Yet not without rewards

The verbs we must embrace

Before we switch to nouns

Just occupying space

Rainbows are circles and

Rainbows are circles and

Beneath each crown, tree roots

We only see arches

Or trunk, limbs, leaves and fruits

Volcanoes erupting

From seismic shifts of plates

Our lives seen as crescents

In rushing of the dates

So immaterial

So immaterial

Insignificant pause

This slanted sunlight or

This metaphoric clause

In the sum of beauty

There's a spout and a drain

But some moments get caught

On the bank in the grain