Admissions
When I join myself in prayer
all the survivors; all those still able to bear witness
regarding my twisted way through the moments
and decades come together in the nothing flat
all eager to tell their tales once more.
The dead speak little;
ushering blindfolded angles
lead them into my presence
yet they are reluctant to testify or blame.
The survivors line up ready
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Categories:
admissions, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Admissions
Escalated had it, through mere words
An argument with a drunk, leaving none sober
Avoidance I practiced, consequential to unity
A day of togetherness, spent alone
My desire to leave, superseding my will to stay.
You were right, I conceded; true or untrue
A waste was it to speak, when I would be unheard
To read was it my choice, to
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Categories:
admissions, care, christmas, conflict, december,
Form: I do not know?
All Wonders Are Free, No Admissions Price
All Wonders Are Free, No Admissions Price
Lord grant me, days in Nature's rainbow hues
Walking among wildlife, searching for clues
Thankful for these very fine hiking shoes
In splendor of morn's new risen sun
This peaceful, calming walk will be fun
Later, short picnic before I run
To find butterflies fluttering about
In Nature's pleasing joy, no need to shout
Here waters
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Categories:
admissions, art, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Admissions From a Heart
Merely, the hardest thing
I must ever do
Is express myself through remorse
Especially when being in the wrong
And alas my dearest, in this moment
You were in the right, all along
Thus, where my heart begins to fight
It starts by raging war
Against that of solemn shame
And now of 'tis wounded pride
But, the forces they gather among a storm
And
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Categories:
admissions, forgiveness
Form: Rhyme
Admissions of a Sloth
I like to exercise my mind, but how I hate to work.
Whatever needs exertion is the action that I shirk.
Labor with the brain is fine. I do it all the time.
How I love to sit and read or think of words that rhyme.
But send me to the bathroom with a brush so that I'll
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Categories:
admissions, funny, workme,
Form: Quatrain