Editing - rough draft
A fog settles upon these shoulders
the cape that sweeps across the plains
the biting wind sings its wailing dirge
whose fingers pluck and scrape and snap
Once upon a breath so dreary
the banal landscape stripped away
a peril hunched in fitful slumber
morning promise not guaranteed
When golden shafts part the curtains
and birdsong fills the early air
a once dormant heart rises
thankful for a good cup of tea
I met a Japanese man
Poetry talking we did
Somber old Haiku
His wife sat silent in back
His vision made me see him
She wasn't there though
Flying to Australia
Seeing family again
She smiles her remarks
Rainbows with Golden Lining
You dwell in imagery
I, in an isolated museum
You come to whisk me away
You’ll find me behind
A newer
Golden creation
Like some smashing rainbow,
I will appear in the sky,
Some one will then say
Twas Loved.
Some day
They’ll question how and why,
I’d find my way
Striking gold to become
Shakingspeare!
Ah!
But not shaky
But to all humanity
Having become so lively
.
watching ice cubes melt.
like our love
in a tumbler
...no, not love
but affection.
no, I mean
...you know!
where does it go?
once solid
now
melded
into background
fulfilling obligation,
function, duty
after time,
what's left?
tastess dilution?
tepid staleness?
thankfully,
the buzz
we love in big giant gulps,
remains
`
Who can tell the difference
between gallantry and deceit;
that is clear only to
the querying breeze?
Who could not smell
the pungent heavy cloud
before the pulling of
the petulant wind?
Further, afar off, no one inquires
about foreseen mornings unseen
dreams once winged zephyrs
echo in forgotten hallways.
Perched high on rock faces grim
beneath the humming of the bird,
awash on porous promontories -
failure now permeates the abject soul.
On the frozen verge of land and water
my footsteps ring upon the empty sands
Where the wind touches my face with laughter
Warmth of home beckons with promise of shelter
yet pleasure is held in these open hands
on the frozen verge of land and water
For cold gives old father sun no quarter
and empties all the throngs from summer lands
where the wind touches my face with laughter
No thick crowds now crush and make feet falter
no more park rangers smug their dumb demands
On the frozen verge of land and water
Sometimes it starts this way
you're sitting, thinking
mental gears churning
about nothing
and not one idea
about anything
seems to come to mind
So, you just start hammering
on the keyboard
and, still nothing much
a deletion, then another
but you are writing
which is half the battle anyway
And you realize
that even your
best efforts
are lacking ...... alot
and it's all more or less
worthless ..... to most
.
why dost thou recoil?
hast thou never met a man?
I stand over thee
only because thou dost cower
stand, and face me
even should I be thine enemy
this lowly posture thou adopt
t'was not thrust upon thee from above
'tis but a lie of thine own making
and wilt attract no grace nor mercy
from me, nor the heavens
'til truth of thine aching heart
be known a'loud
speak thy truth,
and know thyself
in the stature thine own natural will
would command
Seeking refuge
In your gazing eyes
Your sweet lips
Keep a smile on
Sad faces
Angel that fled from heaven
To ease broken spirits
Stay with me till first light
For your presence
Brings spring flowers
On a winter day
Ah, how your smile echoes
In my darkest hours
Your smile defeats Hades
Your every word flows
Like Shakespearean sonnets
At the stern of the speeding ship
I met her where the railings swept
around the curve of rain-slick deck;
our arms slipped about each other,
and together, in growing warmth,
we fed the soaring gulls.
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