Adrift on the outgoing tide
While I stood on the moonlit sands
Emotions that I couldn’t hide
Streams of tears pouring through my hands
The years we had together were kind
More than that – a fairytale come true
But when nature made up her mind
Instead of me she came and took you
So, with a vow I had promised to keep
Into the ocean your ashes swim free
As the horizon brings on the new day
A man stands alone – that’s me
I tore the pages
And threw them out the window.
Who would ever want to read this mess?
So many words of wisdom
Just out of reach
Evading, in fingertip duress.
Step back and take solace
All is not lost.
From time to time we all weep.
Then pick up the pace
In a fingertipped race
Putting words on the pages – then sleep!
I had deja vu
In the opposite direction…
Breakneck speed
The only way to go
Straight to the grave
Don’t you know
Don’t you know
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A real rabble rouser
Always stirring up the crowd
I bet his mom and dad
Wouldn’t be too proud
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Serendipitous
That’s where I want to be
Did it happen to you
That’s serendipity
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A Haiku writer
That’s how she stayed alive
The voices in her head
Always five-seven-five
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Searching for cessation
To this spot of poetry
Will it ever end
Yessir-ee, yessir-ee
It was a moth
That beat against
The window pane
It was the size
Of a hummingbird
And flew about the same
As I neared
Ever closer
Close enough to see
Was it I that saw
The moth’s reflection
Or to the moth
A reflection of me
Will envy be the cause,
For the last fighter to go down?
Will jealousy conquer,
And continue to tear lives apart?
Will fame really give solace
To those who have had none?
What of you and me?
Will our common sense prevail,
Or will the world have its way with us?
No! We have God on our side!
We have each other, too!
Life is good!
When the world gave me mud pie…
I pretended it was soft serve ice cream
And shared the love.
