Best Subtleties Poems

the beauty of subtleties

there are one thousand shades of grey
each separate and distinct
across this desert month.

low gravid clouds puffed,
like the breasts of flocking doves
touch the earth transforming 
to pearlescent, pale white gauze
caught in reaching branches.

steely water on the bay,
life sheltered far below,
rolls smooth as oil...

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Sinking deeper and deeper in despair
As I raise my hands and murmur a prayer
Oh, how I wish those fairytales were true
And happ’ly e’er afters, we had no clue
What would happen next, what would come to pass
Would have had us lost, had we heard en masse
About...

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When taken past experience to future consequence,
one has very little or even nothing as reference.
Experiences from the past and its present handicap,
the same same and its changed attribute gab.
That where the times as one speaks,
giving gratitude to some obituaries squeaks.
What ever one thinks and hoping...

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I caught that look in your eyes
you thought I didn't see
but I was paying attention
to all those subtleties

you hold me at arms length
and keep your feelings in check
I think it's a contradiction
that you're less than direct

I'm standing at the station
this train is about to leave
give...

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