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Booked Weekend: a haiku
12 Sunday May 2019
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
Category Archives: Poetry/Lyrics
Sand Castle
05 Tuesday Feb 2019
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
So good raising me
all bad was beyond
you had no effect
on the young mold
Now I wonder
where the base is
did it exist
or was it sold
the leaking cracks
must be my fault
for not speaking
left alone in the cold
Today this distance
lacks a bridge
no apologies owed
is what I’m told
Nothing new here
I see light
where you see sand
standing with you, I fold
So I take a step
no matter how small
I grow hope in truth
my real base takes hold
Hope Centered
04 Tuesday Dec 2018
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
Tags
bitterness, center, forgiviness, happiness, healing, heart, hope, poem, poetry, roots
Hope centered
on happiness fails
a faulty feeling
delivery fleeting
Bitterness roots
forgiveness heals
not a cure or easy
but better forgotten
Good intentions make
a centered goal
but guarantees
no desired result
For a heart knows not
complexities of itself
let alone another’s
so judge not unseen
A heart knot knows naught.
Hope Waits
03 Monday Dec 2018
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
Waiting, always
when shame goes
after all it sows
never knowing
Growing, rooted
some fruitful
others hurtful
rooted all the same
Sharing, hopeful
too afraid
offers made
yet none taken
Intending, helpful
not result
instead tumult
burying healing
Slow to Speak
02 Sunday Dec 2018
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
It’s easy you see
to spot my needs
name that change
toss those seeds
It’s hard to plant
in infertile ground
growth needs more
in order to abound
Faith gives more
than surface deep,
knows heart’s deceit
yet a hope can keep
So consider needs
for a fruitful life
stay slow to speak
to avoid more strife
We all know Job
and his friends
who spoke no truth
through limited lens
Hurt is complex
builds strong roots
consider the depth
shaking in my boots
You speak no harm
when you listen
let the trust come
as tears glisten
Then you can see
how to adjust
what fruit comes
after the dust
Empty Truth
12 Thursday Apr 2018
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
I gave you all
let it slip straight through
my heart overflowing smiles
directed straight at you
So you felt full
a new confidence showed
as we confided stories
and our hopes glowed
but you pierced a hole
not in you but in me
nothing left to share
the truth I finally see
Our Time, Our Days
28 Monday Aug 2017
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
Tags
anchor, becoming, crossroads, found, homecoming, hope, leaving, lost, love, poem, poetry, stay, time, welcoming
just as I was leaving
you found me again
now we’re right back
onto that same track
you make me want to stay
you make me want to go
wherever you decide now
I’ll figure out how
each with a foot out the door
we found an anchor of hope
like a welcoming homecoming
a reminder of becoming
when we lost touch then
we lost our way to stay
yet here at a crossroads now
we have place to share our odes
you kept in my time
feelings ticking on your wrist
a subtle reminder of me
and what we may not see to be
while I tucked away mine
let the hands fall still
waiting for a chance to tick
yet on your day it’d stick
because once we reached
our time coincided
the days the same
despite what the calendar said
July 20, 2017
Craving Higher Hopes
27 Sunday Aug 2017
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
Tags
authenticity, comfort, connection, daydream, desire, hope, identity, inspiration, light, love, poem, poetry, presence, relationship, safe, self, smile
no money, no rent
no way to meet ends
yet you daydream away
hoping somebody else tends
a day laid in bed
a blanket blocking out
no light streaming in
inspiration to move about
until I’m invited again
a smile lift lips
as you start to arise
head resting on my hips
my lap brings comfort
the presence you need
to embrace the real you
as that desire you feed
a connecting you bring
to go deeper you crave
what you hold dearly
you still can save
July 20, 2017
Chester Bennington
26 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
Tags
belonging, Chester Bennington, depression, faith, hope, hopeless, hopelessness, life, light, Linkin Park, mind, music, poem, poetry, sad, sadness, success, suicide
listening back now
seems so hard to miss
that deep felt desire
for life more than this
so how did we not
see that darkness filling
what light was left
as hope went spilling
radio plays nonstop
an endless tribute stream
what now seems proof
in that musical scream
let us not forget
the reality of those songs
as hopelessness expresses
it feels it belongs
success matters not
when the mind does miss
a light, a hope, a faith
to make life worth this
Long Distance kiss
22 Tuesday Aug 2017
Posted in Poetry/Lyrics, Uncategorized
Tags
almost time to sleep
time to say good night
not lie wake to keep
thinking of what might
missing your warm arms
body entangling me tight
a hug holding us as one
knowing our timing falls right
pursuing what has begun
always in each other’s sight
