Category Archives: Poetry

Lovely Limitations

Love, Poetry, , , , , ,

Label reads
Non-toxic
Trusting the seller
A message so clearly
Intent on creating calm
Belief in goodness
No harm will befall
Promises of faith
Love always,
From beloved mouths
Years later discovering
A stranger’s declaration
Has value in truth
No more, no less than
The someone
Once thought
Would only part
Upon death
Words and deeds
Truths at an outset
Will give rise to
Painful expectations
And perspective’s
Limitations

Looking Up

Poetry

Floating thoughts, white bilious clouds
Look a giraffe, a penguin, a starfish
Visions animating smooth sunny days

Oppositional heavy, slate thin, fast
Eyeing for necessity, mitigating danger
Fear’s preparation, the unknown

Skylines birthing unintended offspring
Uncontrolled fancies of a mother
Intent we look for truth upwards

August

Death, Family, Memories, Poetry, , , ,

Midwestern moist heat
Heavy, unrelenting
Lacking moderation
Dry, brittle grass
Yellow in its death
He, ashen in his
Calling me by name
One last time
Asking
Would he be ok
Scared, spooked
My yes answer
Belied the truth
A forty year habit
Had squeezed out
All beating and
Capability for life
Massive
The door, wooden,
75 years on hinges
Sturdy, stubborn
Oppressive humidity
Halting the key’s
Turn in the lock
Jammed, unwilling
Like his heart
Sobbing
Attempting entry
Standing in that
Startling brightness
August sun
Challenging surrender
A quarter century gone
Still I remember
That brass handle and
Finally
My letting go