Page after page after page
I read, settling into a rage
For characters I’ve never met
Whose teachings have me e’er in debt
Tag: poetry
330
Truth is often torn to shreds
When met by human wanting
A nightmare
Fevered dreams of rains and flood
Wake me in a sweat
Head hits headboard with a thud
Which awakes my pet
Now we are excited both
Break silence of night
Stuck now, tired and out of breath
In dreams’ ne’er-ending fright
The quiet thought
As I am writing in my chair
A quiet thought arrives:
Why do I write? How do I dare
To presume to change lives?
Why should I for a moment think
That which I’ve said’s profound?
That all will still my poems drink
When I am in the ground?
This tort’rous thought traps me in webs
Of which I can’t escape
While fleeting inspiration ebbs;
In doubt I myself drape.
Playing around
A-running and running and running around
A not-yet-grown pup joyf’ly plays
He smiles and he barks and he rolls on the ground
As if he could run ‘round for days
326 – a haiku
A man whom oft lies
Focused only on himself
He oft dies alone.
Sonnet 10
‘Tis said a man can walk his life alone—
That others form a not unwelcome part
But one that is unneeded for his heart—
That by himself he can his talents hone.
This grand and spurious fallacy is e’er
About when talks of “manliness” occur
When men take truth and right and them inter
‘Til more convenient truths take to the air.
Forever’t seems we struggle ‘gainst such thought
Some misbegotten, fruitless, mad ideals
That seem so deaf to reasonéd appeals;
With peril reason’d words are ever fraught.
For ‘til the day can come when reason wins,
Men will be filled with barb’rous, “manly” sins.
And a day
I’ll hold you
I’ll keep you
I’ll kiss you
I’ll love you
For longer than the universe
Forever and a day
More
However often I have lost my way
However many times I’ve given up
However much I’ve wished for a new life
It matters not, now that I’ve so much more.
321
Forever seems an awful lot
To those who live in doubt
They wonder if they’ll ever have it
Truly figured out
A Poem A Day 