day ends with light that permeates the sky as if echoing through the calmed storm clouds there is a rooftop that shimmers with the golden pink glow of the setting sun and a palm tree standing as its fronds flutter in the gentle breeze farther off we hear people shouting speaking forcefully with bold lettered…
Category: Poems
making magic
standing underneath a streetlight dim artificial glow rain falls around like glitter and when the light hits right you are floating within stardust darkness like a warm blanket hugs the sidewalk barely seen tree outlines lean in close and whisper good ideas to enact later i write them down i go (to myself) oh that…
a little bird
ground i stand on while the light keeps shifting warm sun seems like an anomaly and clouds’ shadows drift in the breeze creating a space that reflects patches of light and at the edges of park in between the brush a sparrow finds a place high up above the city walkways speeding cars and the…
visualizing purple clouds
seeing the infinite landscape stretched out before me cloud lines along the distant mountains just a scribble on the paper in purple bleeding ink soaks into the page and down into where the mountain meets the water can you see it in double vision? as something from within your imagination, a picture within the mind…
moving through the denseness of a forest
in a place where there are millions of trees leaves create a temporary barrier palm leaves brush past you while moving forward doesn’t matter the pace slow or moving fast through greenery the air is thick with dew and distant birds animals calls echo reverberating off the stems shaking moving through underneath a canopy of…
look to the sky
when you come to the first part of the day where you are under sky after a long while confined and neatly organized suddenly released into the the wild vibrant rainbow sky where you don’t know the outcome but feel that it will be good stand under it looking up and as you close your…
unbroken
the hands reach out to hold on put the pieces back together hold it together the hands surround support each one giving warmth each one giving strength the hands soothe the hands calm the hands centered around the body place hands and hold they do so until there is no more they bind together bring…
this sounds so familiar
bells ring across the land the chord structure sounds familiar and sad and i’m trying to remember go back in my memory playing the notes backwards the beat is inside out and someone sings in spanish, which makes me cry i’m breathing at a pace that seems reasonable but i don’t know if the fog…
play this song for strength of vision
bounce this song will hypnotize this is the song you tell your problems to it is a patient listener but don’t surprised if it moves around while you talk it has things to do as you are in the same room as this song you notice your heartbeat begins to slow until the guitar enters…