Category: Poetic Musings

We jumped into another pond
Without knowing where’d land –

Found hidden patch of bullfrogs
Determined to eat all strangers.

With now established base camp,
Embraced by woods that shelter,

We leap for a better future where
Intelligence is prized above hatred.

It’s hard to tell when encounter corruption
If that’s the norm – or from bad intentions.

The fact that it’s so prevalent in societies
Lends us to think it’s our own impropriety

For daring to buck the trend of a system
Where honest morality’s akin to mystery.

Doesn’t waste time on a game of cards
Hoping luck will favor their endeavors –

But gets out there and works the odds,
Becoming real-living energy generator.

When you try to leave a system,
The membrane resists releasing:

Something about homeostasis, and
Mechanism working to preserve this.

You will be seen as a threat for leaving;
Other factors will behave as leucocytes –

Such as extra full hotel fees against funds
Scraped aside for bills being paid, securely.

This will cause a panic response inside you –
As if incapable of properly managing money,

Which pounds all messaging against favor
That you’re capable of exiting successfully.

I have been told that logic
Ought to be dominant over
What we feel in our hearts –
Yet, logic, without caring,
Is tearing the world apart.

Wings clipped and legs fettered –
Given a name greater than legend,
I could only rise by becoming Human.

At first, there was blackness
Across the darkened screen –

But, I could sense grids
Awaiting programming:

The void: it beckoned;
Synapses: they called

For design’s spectrum
Which overcomes all.

(“Let There Be Light!”)

When we understand love and its capabilities,
When we learn how to master our culpabilities –

Then, we become collaborators in improving life
And enhance quality of its experience for others.

With the break of dawn,
Blue chases back black:

A hen duck’s alarm quacks
Farm’s renewed awakening

As lay myself to rest
At last upon the bed –

Wondering what kept
Slumber detentioned.

Superficial tags denoting
Object in time and space:

What matters essentially is
Contained within one’s soul.

Wants, needs, desires –
All are manipulating us:

Calculating how to
Maneuver outcome
They desire as won.

In any relationship where risking intimacy,
One can become entrapped by a barrier of silence
Which forms like clouds in the night – at first unnoticeable –
Until one day, awareness permeates and pierces the veil of illusion.

Either off,
Left field,
Or right:

Catching
Perfection
Is fortunate.

There, my little one:
Relax into your ease –
For many moon’s risings
And sunsets, you’ll yet see.

Two struggling desperately
Plump fluffs of yellow joyousness,
Pummeled by forces’ velocities:

Reclaiming one upon hearing
Terrified cries for help sighting –
Black jacket waiving off
Cars’ bullfighting.

Wiggling, calling – bravely trying
Assertion of days’-old independence;

Hidden drainage providing
Forest glade pool’s cool relief:
Bundled safe –
Prevented from dying.

(Rescued Canadian Goose Gosling)

Dissected,
Disseminated,
Deconstructed;

Skimmed
For cream –
Discarded;

Present
Despite
Devolution:

Choking
On their
Pollution.

Water sinks down below,
Unafraid to traverse boundaries
Yielding to its accumated pressure as
Resistance grants passage to emergence.

What’s caged is meant to be free
To express its gift’s inclinations:

We all belong to a higher realm
That brings greater expectations.

Winter gray penetrated silence where
Once life bloomed verdant rainbows:

In darkness, to dawn birth was given
When shivering bones would grow old.

It is not to be discarded –
But held in highest regard:

Championed and protected –
Kept pure, as truth we guard.

My heart was called
From deep slumber to
Awaken and be reborn.

To be called by a love
That spans time’s sands,
Pulls across distant lands
Removing all belief’s barriers,
Beckoning one to cross the sky:
Is one a soul can commit itself to –
Transcending all earthly resistance

When confronting prior programming,
The body breaks into a shaking sweat:

A kind of neurological reactionism
As lets you know you’re in distress.

It’s a self protection mechanism that
Warns to not go near forbidden door –

For if you do, “you will regret decision,”
Challenging where became indentured.

Death, over time,
Builds a potency

Which causes dark
To erupt into light.

(April 11, 2021)

These valued precepts
Glimmering in our hands

Are not to be misapplied nor
Corrupted by subversion’s plans.

(April 11, 2021)

The ebb into flow of short to long:
Light beams erase and then reform;

As colors phase across textured land,
Rain’s rivers replenish – sink into sand.

(April 10, 2021)

Our heroes and heroines
Dared to fashion reality

To reflect core values –
Thus, becomes destiny:

For actions speak where
Words become platitudes,

And bravery’s proven
Where fear’s destitute.

Why is it such a rarity
That mortals achieve?

Because they focus
To gain quick relief

In a world now bought /
Sold by elitist mockery.

(November 1, 2020)

She lay among the wreckage
of battles fought and won,

Abandoned by the errant knight
she’d met when she was young

Though smoke still thick from burning,
the air began to clear

A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark,
the sound of shouts drew near

A horse approached with man astride,
then dismounting to land

Tall and proud, he gazed at her,
leaned down and took her hand.

(December 31, 2017)

The plight of a queen
Is to find a worthy king –

In all of the world,
Is there such a thing?

(November 1, 2020)

Deep exhaustion
Of feeling alone

As represent
Gilded throne:

Where is knight –
Beloved King?

Empty halls echo
Now silent things.

The mice – they scurry,
Crows call from lofts:

Memories caress as
Abandoned thoughts

Where souls of worth
Once stood for truth,

And eternity’s youth
Embraced the earth.

(November 1, 2020)

Faith tests weakness
In minds and hearts –

Dares us to express
Ourselves as fine art

Regardless of forces
Against us or at odds:

For our greatest desires,
We fight without pause.

What is this tug
That pulls at me,

Pushing me now to
Challenge everything?

My roles, my goals,
My self definition –

It overthrows
My inhibitions!

It will not yield
To consultation –

Will not wield
Devastation:

It’s leaning hard
Against limitations,

Forcing stuck doors to
Break at foundations –

Revealing what it
Means to be Living.

(2019)

The valid, helpless soul
Twitches as adversity takes hold,
Squeezing life from every breath –
Causing darkness to manifest
As the only truth abounding:
Isolation confounding.

(2019)

When a scale is balanced,
Both sides hold equal weight.

If a side’s contents remove,
The other slams down hard

While the now empty plate
Flings high into void space

To come down careening,
Jangling hard into place –

The scale now cocked,
No longer functioning…

Sometimes weights
Are attached to a side

That by scale’s flaw
Need help to balance –

Yet, still, that side must
Provide its own weight:

Without accountability
We do not know mass.

Without analysis, all
Occludes in mystery –

And the power we have
To intelligently discern

Remains exposed to
Assumption’s cruelty.

(November 7, 2020)

The sweet non-serenity
Of complete anarchy –

For I have released the cats,
And they are not satisfied:

The dogs must eat them /
The cats must cheat them

Everything is for climbing –
From divider walls to siding

Nothing is sacred, but
Subject to gravity as

All is investigated and rejected –
Then tossed to ground, eventually…

There is no disharmony like
A cat’s alarming disregard

Found in asynchronous
Chaotic destructionism.

(2019)

Sent out on the current of time:
Can be an ambassador for
Welcoming the future –
Ensuring that we
Remember.

(April 30, 2017)

The dead must sleep – so bury them,
Though we weep upon their graves;

But if still alive – cherish them:
Give them hope so they remain…

It’s difficult to explain just how
Circumstance can smother one’s life

– Or how a person finally gives up
Once encounters too much strife.

Strange how things keep happening
Where cultures tear neighbors apart:

Wisdom would seem to indicate
Needed partnership from the start…

As to how to relieve the pressure
Suffocating a loved one’s heart,

The only truth I know to embrace
Is expressing beauty through art.

(March 8, 2017)