Best Guardedly Poems

As the second hand ticks away my breaths
a half-clad moon catches my eye.
Was a time when I might've seen
the ghost of half-eaten melon,
but I'm older now, my thoughts less spry.
Dark fear's hobgoblins
were long since relegated
to memory's chuckle drawer;
open windows to warm nights ease my mind.

I...

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My old bones swayed to the old tune
bringing back memories long forgotten.
My spirit rejoiced in exultation
of a ne'er forgotten loving excitation.
For you’re my Dancing Queen.....
 
There you stood like a wallflower,
indifferent, lukewarm, nonchalant;
seemingly thinking about other things.
You drove me mad, my dancing queen,
you taunted me...

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– |Life| +

I recall how I had surveyed you, guardedly from a rocky peak,

And why I left the shelter of the mountains, for you.

How we wandered on those plains together,

Endless long days and shorter nights.

You a gazelle and I an eagle.

Horned and barbed, we;

Leaping from...

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~Trials And Pain~ 
(Rhyme) 


Some folks may choose death over life 
In all the midst of their strife 
But I've always chosen heartedly 
Life because I believe guardedly 
That what really define us in the end 
Is the choices that we make my friend 
Who...

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To reach out and touch

Always seemed so much

For this weary soul to achieve.


A scarred, battered heart

Inauspicious start

Ever disinclined to receive.


Mind riddled with doubt

Puzzling it out

P’raps soul, not mind must discern 


Heart imperfect too 

Good enough for you?

History fills me with concern.


Safety does not sate,

In truth,...

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The poet comes up the road that the sun has baked to a faded yellow. His collar is open and his throat glistens with sweat. His thin brown hair is damp and plastered down. He's not young and there's no car in sight; he must...

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There was that noise again 
A soft buzzing in the room
Not that it was very loud
But with just the light from the moon
Sarah could not quite make out
If there was something there
Soon she found herself sitting up 
And continuing to stare

It wasn't more than 5...

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If we want to improve our shared climates,
and our interior, more guardedly intimate and vulnerable,
climates,
then we best cooperatively manage our nutritional/toxic landscapes.

Annual planning by individuals and families
seldom hopes to regenerate ecosystemic climate health,
but can realistically engage in discernment of healthy landscapes,
interior and exterior.

Combined and shared...

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One Sunday evening I went to a Sandy beach                             I found a little German shepherd puppy. ...

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He lay there -- supine in his splendor.
No wonder the wonder in his dead eyes,
shining as black nuggets of perfection
just at the intersection of my drive and the street.
He lay there, just a few feet from where 
the rubber meets the road,
the load of breathing...

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Don’t your daughter’s skin
Attack with a pin
Nor her blushing wall
Hit for an amusing fall…

And don’t your vibrant son
Leave in improvident sun:
Now playfully moving clockwise
If he ventures out, that’s streetwise!

Perhaps, you’ve your Good Head
Forced to forget what you’d read:
For what a bloke has succeeded to obtain
He...

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Pulling back inside myself
looking out guardedly
lest someone see me.
...

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Our Expiration Date
Miracle Man
9/9/2024

Time has no favorites, passing the same for each,
and at birth God assigns an expiration date.
This assigned time period man cannot breach,
but the life he lives determines his eternal fate.

Man isn’t informed when his last day will be,
and expiration date changes only...

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Raised Stone-Tablet eternally abiding under 
  Towering Heavens endless span; and in its 
   Solititude...charts the migrations of our 
 Highest Lord's cestial rockets.
  
Because of Stone-Tablet, bestowed unto us, we are 
    Gifted the Holy-Texts 
 ...

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