Poetic License

But I learned – the very hard way – that if you never consider yourself, eventually you have nothing left with which to care for anyone else.

“You therefore must be perfect” just like God

“You therefore must be perfect” just like God / It’s there in letters red and hot as blood

Oh, my muse

Thank you / For saving me.

With Her In Her Sadness

my friend is sad

certain somethingness

I feared a sonnet love-filled ne’er could be; / For though I’d felt it, words would not align.

list?

out of the head and on to the page…

September, 1986

Matriculation – First day’s class

stay right where you are and feel nothing.

Satan is silent as he destroys us, / then loudly runs away from us in broad daylight.

mercury falling

outer cold / exceeds my inner heat; / I never know what shape to take.

fable flaw?

slow and steady wins

#SOCS – I Met a Mutt on a Mitt, but Not on a Mat. A Bon Mot? I Think Not.

Read the title. Maybe a few times. That’s all I’m doing with the prompt today. I got nuthin’.

Housewarming – 6:02 pm

I thought no one was going to show. I really did.

SoCS – Too Much On Your Plate?

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “on your/my plate.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! … More

Eternity it Stretches Forward.

Now as Lost Days have passed me by, Eternity it stretches Forward.

The cold steals my Warmth

The cold steals my Warmth

Tick Tock

I used to prefer the peace / Of the silent sweep / Barely cognizant of the passing of time

me/Me

mechanically mesmerizing / to be A me you want see…

Dare we admit that time will ne’er be right?

Dare we admit that time will ne’er be right?
‘Tis 2 AM; we’re far from ending night.

Sonnet XLV – Let Nothing Fill Your Sail

If seeking Something, e’re the hope will fail;
Instead, lie back, let Nothing fill your sail.

Start. again. anew.

start. again. anew.
transformed again by some truth