Category: Poems

Project on C, an epitaph

An empty wasted space where once some knights could thrive
A room of hope, sometimes a place where children might survive
A system of paper and rules and myriad fools that hid some light within
But quality and reality’s touch where lost when hope became so thin
Now the knights and Sancho Panzas moved on to strive in other fields anew
While empty space and some lost grace search through other rooms to find what’s true

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At the core of myself
I felt that for all to be good
it would be right to be willing,
and able, to do a great kindness
for her, for them.

Those who need my forgiveness are forgiven.
Those who have wronged me are forgiven.
Those who hold a perspective
which brought me pain and hardship
have kindness awaiting them from me.

Then the healing may be fully done.
I have made a commitment such as this
because I have come to the realization
that forgiveness rests in kindness.
And kindness wrests peace for the soul.
God is good
and she would have me see this way.

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February 22, 2013
Just reaching inside and being reflective

Driving in darkness
Passing through the morning rain
Seeking only light
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Circle of empty chairs
Offers quiet reflective
Accompaniment
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Steady winter rain
The world goes on as usual
No great cataclysm
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People see the world through a very narrow prism
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On a clear dark night
Full moon in a winter sky
Chills yet thrills my heart
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New light arises
Crows calling across the sky
A cacophony
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Being in this state of being
Normal is relative to more than just feeling
How time and events reframe our perspective
Just reaching inside and being reflective
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It’s always a choice
Action now or apathy
Life is up to you
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Buzz definition
Since most of my distractions
reside in my head
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Hawk and coyote
Wise sometimes mischievous
Influencing me

Hawk is the totem
Coyote always teasing
Guiding assumptions
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Throughout our short life
Our death is an advisor
Our constant token
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February 22, 2013
Leaves are like illusions

Wind through the trees
Blows leaves that flutter
In their last attachment to life

The buds of Spring
And green Summer
Give way to orange
And brown
Of life moving on

Leaves are like illusions
Or lives blown by truth;
They last through time
Until contradictions
Or wisdom
Blow them away

The flutter is caused by
The stem clinging to its source
In a gale force

The sputter and flutter and denial
Both stated and internal
Of any person resisting
Acknowledging the truth
Is like those stems
Destined to separate

In the depths of winter
There may be a few leaves
Still dangling
Old beliefs die hard
And illusions linger
After long and bitter truth
Blows down upon the disillusioned

The blue sky of reality
Cold and stark
Is laid bare
By the winds of truth

Until a new Spring
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February 7, 2013
I’d blame it on God

I’d blame it on God
But he doesn’t seem
To be listening
Much.
Just when a miracle
Or some such healing
Is needed
There is silence
And distance
As if to say
You’re on you own there
Find the strength
To heal
Or carry on
Or whatever.

We could use
A bit of help
Here,
Ya know?
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February 7, 2013
The space between breathe and a sigh

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Tilde makes equal
The space between or above
A breathe and a sigh
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Dancing through the dark
Of time and uncertainty
Learning from music
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Cancer lies dormant
It is a false dark shadow
Hiding life’s wonder
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“It is perfectly possible and it’s all okay.” David Servan-Schreiber
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You would write that which
You have to say. Nothing more.
Haiku masters know.
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Crows fly below
The towers of our lost dreams
Bearing some new hope
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Crows fly below
The towers of our lost dreams
A flock of sorrows
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And I love you so
Grace in life was sweeter than
Dew upon a peach
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inebriated
frustrated commentary
not the finest kind
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Watching the day fade
Light like time measured then gone
Another phase shift

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February 7, 2013
Clouds

Blue clouds or cold nights
reflect heart and memory
as when hope prevails

from Ron Parker, Tahoe Sunsets on Flickr
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Shadows in the sky
Shades of gold, gray, and silver
Dawn breaks through the clouds
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February 7, 2013
Summer poems 2012 – July

There are certain spots
Always in the shade of trees
Never direct sun
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A baby redwood
Small of girth can grow to be
A forest giant
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Where does the smoke go
As it wafts from wood through fire
Like thought’s energy
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Insular cortex
Physical temperature
Emotional warmth
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Counting pockets on a fishing vest, Gerry said, This one has fourteen pockets.” Anne said, “Better than a mini-van.”
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Upon finding a cabin, a cliff and a river it was written

An accidental
Adventure into the past
Sunny river day
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Ineradicable
Unpredictability of
Quantum physics
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Fireside memory
Blue turns to black then to gray
Then it turns to ash
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Balanced o’er the flame
Until embers took a piece
Of heart and soul
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The sun on the trees
The chill in the air
The warmth of the fire
The jays calling
The mountain air crisp
With promise of
A new day
And hot springs
Relaxation
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Fire renews the soul
Warmth and light yet consuming
Forms shift like spirit
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For the poker stick

Like flaming prayer
Guide wood reached out for heaven
Ember memories
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February 7, 2013
rest in peace

The grace of the Creator finds the souls

The father who did the best he could
May his soul rest in peace

The young woman who struggled and strived and fell to evil
May her soul rest in peace

The child who lost her life from the death brought by war
May her soul rest in peace

The son, the daughter, the child, the adult
The joy and the sorrow that will not be known
Because their souls rest in peace

May their souls rest in peace
May their life’s lessons be made clear to the souls yet to find peace

[All souls’ mass at St. Rose]

November 11, 2012
Haiku for the moment

Some things we see are
just inadvertently fun
That’s why we do this
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The quality of light
The manifestations of light
The sun, the moon and the earth align
And show the shadows of our being
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White flowers blooming
Beauty adds to our healing
soul connects to mind

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June 1, 2012
Poems are words

Poems are words
Floating in the air
Blown on the wind
Spinning about
With their own meaning
Lonely until joined together
By a thought

A statement flows
But it is no poem
Directions are given
But those words are not a poem, usually
Random thoughts expressed
As words
Come closer to being a poem

Then a phrase,
A joining, or a theme emerges

Some words are grasped
And drawn down
To paper or voice
So they can be repeated

Once captured from the wind
Together they can form
A poem
Good or bad
A poem nonetheless
And the joiner of words
Gathered from the random wind
Becomes a poet

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June 1, 2012