Unintentional art

Unintentional art
Roadway hieroglyphics
Arabic Picasso
Airplane psychedelics

Beauty found in purpose
Only here to repair
Elegance abounding
Not putting on an air

All these observances

All these observances
An understanding built
Stronger are the stems than
The flower blossom wilt

The losses of limbs yet
The trunk is still standing
We are made of roots not
Steps but bottom landing

All at once making sense

All at once making sense
Competitive failing
Disappoints declared
In the midst of flailing

And when servicing ceased
Suddenly what I saw
Was self and self-worth and
All celebration gnawed

Privileged of presence

Privileged of presence
Even shadows have light
In the grace of beauty
Overwhelmed by the sight

No sense of looming or
Pressing power of weights
Ethereal and wide
Yawning tectonic plates

Coughing up consonants

Coughing up consonants
Wanting to sing vowels
Echo the mockingbird
And not the haunting owl

In this melancholy
Seek music for a march
A triumphant effort
A flying buttress arch

Do not love the obscure

Do not love the obscure
Wading in the abyss
Identifying with
The things no one will miss

A tree along the road
Succumbing to a storm
A distant friend now lost
Accept this is the norm

Literary cabin

Literary cabin
These ancient words not new
Out of touch from modern
Can I find a fresh blue

Is my life with lightning
The tattoos of tree bark
Somehow unique, modern
Lit once and back to dark