RESONANCE
Is it natural for men to cry
Knowing what it may mean
Things that they have seen
Whether ugliness or beauty
Perhaps in the line of duty
Friends there on the ground
It is never too late to die
Or hearing a special sound
Like that old familiar tune
Memories fade all too soon
Maybe a single wild flower
A chance to spend an hour
Yet few will ever know why
No need to hold back tears
Resonance will have its time
Sensing when emotions climb
Places that one may recognise
That photo of summer skies
Familiar faces from long ago
Realising just how many years
And letting inner feelings flow
Memory is a powerful thing
And the shock it may bring
It is that lump in the throat
Recall events of special note
A release for all those fears
INVOLVEMENT
Only heard ! Paid no attention.
Just you told: I was not concerned.
Truly : Needed explanation.
Involve me and then I will learn.
I might not given importance.
Convince me on your path to run.
Either to start or to enhance.
Involve me and then I will learn.
I may forget, I do not know.
Guide to process on creation.
Teach me precise, I will follow.
Involve me and then I will learn.
If taught right, I will remember.
Train me well to perform my turn.
Prepare me as active member.
Involve me and then I will learn.
Nighttime, the muse is tangled in the talon of riots
catching bricks to the head- mace to the eyes-
Come morning it sips unholy cups of politics
heavily sweetened with the latest deadly virus-
Noontime it wears a brooding- grimacing mask
it's very breath under the most vicious attacks-
Its spending more time in its darkened cave
9 mm alpha dreaming of an omega escape-
Now it'll only listen to T. Robbins and B.F Skinner
slowly become a braying-blue ribbon beggar.
BF’s Girl
Man is identified by behavior.
I say man and she demands an
Accounting. The definitive correlative
Can not be spoken. The constant common
Can not be held in union. I must discourse
All caveats else no communion, no love.
What of it? I can stick a thermometer
Up her ass and she registers normal.
All biology, chemical registry, hormone
Therapy, cat scan technology yield
No abrasion any unguent could quench.
I say what harm I live and chose, too?
She speaks of a box she wasn’t raised in,
Impacts everything. A falling body accelerates
Jubilant of nearing home. Childproof or regret it.
My best friend Moved Away
Shelley Sjolseth moved away
My best friend with eyes blue gray
Had a crazy basement house
Sneaked as quiet as a mouse
Shelley played the games I like
Hiked and had a shiny bike
Shelley, Shelley, miss you so
Where in this big world did you go?