Best Familiarity Poems

Having been on my own 
for the past ten years 
I suppose I am set in my ways
If I’ve no planned routine
at the start of each day
I just come and I go as I may

Awaking each morn just before dawn
I can go where my mood...

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What is it about me
that I cannot place you
in the picture painted by the years
the life has already spent?
Do you merely lurk,
and leave at a much later time?
Or, 
maybe
you are staying
because 
    you 
        are...

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Michelangelo
Stretched God’s hand to Adam’s;
A bridge to heaven.







* For Gareth James' Familiarity Unknown contest and intended to honor of both the image 
and the thoughts it inspired.  The natural bridge and its expansion across that magnificent 
sky reminded me of the now iconic image...

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Pure Black Velvet grasps  
 diamonds that hold endless thoughts-
  we know so little. 

Inspired by my Contest - Familiarity Unknown...

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How can one once so familiar become so strange? 
The ease and flow of conversation, so stilted? 
Awkward even.  Our 'in-commonness' a rarity? 
Our connectedness disconnected? 

The once passionate embrace a tentative touch: 
a 'should I or shouldn't I' interrelation. 
Now so different to...

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What is it about me
that I cannot place you
in the picture painted by the years 
the life has already spent?
Are you merely stopping by 
Passing the time (maybe charmed) 
Then leave later at the frown of sundown
Or at the smile of dawn?
I wonder.

Still, amazed more than bewildered
Finding myself...

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i'm beginning to know them
a bit smudged at first
like spots on my readers, but 
gradually, after a few gentle rubs
of my fingers between something soft 
like a spritz of sonnet,
they slowly come into focus and
recognition comes to me

i know that one - and that one...

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Familiarity, the bridgework of intent,
as common measures rise, or bring dissent,
I plead my virtue, cave to my insight
the road aspiring network asks invite!

Ah, but familiar were the sound of love,
that too would perish, as the listening's groove
would leave aspiring, my own heart the louvre,
so far...

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The familiar glazing over of the eyes
The all too strange stare
Mismatched eyebrows
And in-grown hairs
I was sure
Sure I knew that person
Then I opened the medicine cabinet
And she, she disappeared
Just like dew on a summer afternoon...

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i have been caused to fall
as you have come crashing
into my little world

unobserved,i'm diving in
pushed so far to believe
a fearful little girl

i don't want to alter you
you are your own delight
i will never gun you down

but now i am silenced
feeling like a naughty child
thrown from...

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in garden of contented sighs
beneath a bridge of family ties
Time flows gently through the rows
of loving constant care
here seeds swell to burst to pose
as beauty grows aware

Partaking in heart aching words
of loss and sad despair
seeking love I pause and find
some gentle comfort there
I tense and...

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I walked for a while on the other side of the road
The whiteness of the late morning clouds
The moving rounded shapes of familiarity
Walking in the same uphill direction
With eyes in the sky
I do not remember the gutter on that side of the road
The pavement was...

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Familiarity Does Breed Contempt

Contempt can often be bred by familiarity,
And an ideal environment appeals to parity;
We tried to find,
But left behind,
Fear from despair they created by disparity.

Jim Horn...

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Lonely I walk through the walls of crowds
Reach out but like shadows they don’t connect
Their eyes are vacant cold and empty

Ghostly people walk on by crossing my path
As I head back home in wonted despair 

Where I find solace in the whisper of your silence
I...

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I close my eyes
feel the sun on my face
hear the sounds of the sea
smell the cooking of Greek food
I lick my lips
all around the sounds of Greece
a language that is familiar to me
a smile on my face
But, it is only a dream
and I open my...

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