The herd mentality

The herd mentality

Togetherness like clouds

For status, belonging

In the safety of crowds

But when it's genetics

It is wrong to exclude

What if it were brown eyes

Forbidden to include

The future is present

The future is present

Decisions made today

Hindsight twenty-twenty

Will have the final say

Living without a map

Relying on the wind

A compass points to chance

Tail on the donkey pinned

Thoughts without influence

Thoughts without influence

Original and raw

Immaculate at start

Without physics or law

Out of the void thriving

In an unknown fragrance

Upright and unbridled

Universal vagrants

Branding fellow humans

Branding fellow humans

Your heart is a stencil

A fast graffiti art

"With love" signed in pencil

Disguising the muddy

With peaceful and poised pools

Faux stickler on surface

Whilst breaking all the rules

Someday the cloud will rain

Someday the cloud will rain

The information drops

A downpour of downloads

Data at mountain tops

And the oceans will rise

The tired moon surrenders

Not picking up waves of

Kindness or offenders

I am letting go of

I am letting go of

Days and months, even years

Layers of sediment

Of sentiments and tears

Feelings forging fossils

With gingko, shells and grain

An unanchored anchor

With disappearing chain 

Plucking from a promise

Plucking from a promise

Each petal full of hope

Like the coming of Spring

Or waited envelope

Deliberate living

Crown the power of be

Reign over the future

And possibility

Black Christmas ornaments

Black Christmas ornaments

The starlings this morning

Nestled, over-ripened

In a tree adorning

In a slow snowfall where

You can catch all the flakes

I wait for black fireworks

The moment silence breaks

Greeting today's questions

Greeting today's questions

Curious of my views

If there are no new thoughts

Uniqueness needs the news

And in this one on one

Two pairs of staring eyes

Unparalleled moments

Comprehending surprise

I am not fence posts that

I am not fence posts that

Rail across the prairies

Or the mountain ranges

That contain the valleys

Do not fix your gaze at

A distant star above

Look past the lights into

The darkness and discove

The Artist can dissect

The Artist can dissect

Or relish the dessert

Absorb The Overwhelm

Or give Life to inert

Stand singular or All

In séance or science

To build together and

Maintain self-reliance

In the middle of it

In the middle of it

The speed and the spinning

A poetic moment

Rising up and chinning

Like a flashing sunrise

Setting in just seconds

A full day rotation

That memory beckons

I did not look for you

I did not look for you

When you called out my name

Life goes on old friend, it

Will never be the same

I am not a subset

Or a tangent to claim

Outerspace is not cold

If inside you, a flame

Trump wears a wife beater

Trump wears a wife beater

At the breakfast table

Calmly making statements

Both false and unstable

Forget the past cruelty

It won't happen again

Until "again" happens

Not if or won't but when

We once chased the tail of

We once chased the tail of

A narcissistic hawk

Blackbird mobbers on a

Territorial stalk

We poked and pecked as we
Clearly set our border
Rejoiced Life and found a
Normal set of order

Two opposing magnets

Two opposing magnets

South to south, north to north

Seeing eye to eye, no

Yin and yang, back and forth

Pushing further apart

Breaking like shoelaces

Deemed useless, discarded

Falling from good graces

Why is depression blue

Why is depression blue

Skies without clarity

Before a wide ocean

Lone sense of rarity

A color not fruitful

Blueberries are not blue

And the color of cold

The death of me and you

Looking at the blue sky

Looking at the blue sky

Not finding clarity

Staring at an ocean

No sense of rarity

The looking at mankind

Ridiculous yet true

Passion, hope and promise

Generation debut 

Just another marker

Just another marker

And nothing more than this

And yet a moment of

Togetherness, a kiss

Briefly looking back then

Ten seconds here and now

A threshold to future

We are, we can and how