Cleverly
Articulated as I type these words,
Cleverly thought up, diligently said.
Hence, this is where my story begins.
As words come, I should write,
No place to go, but what is right?
Thought up in verse,
You see, I know.
But about its sentences,
We will read, but how's it going?
The poem it is with arousal begins,
My brain is stirring out on this limb.
My rhyme, you see, has it to be,
Or is it this that is a joke?
My fingers, my thoughts,
These words that I type.
I am doing my best,
Do you see as I write?
I shall write these words,
In its simple of ways.
I think my story has found its end.
Not so fast I'll try writing this again.
Edited 04/27/2023
Categories:
cleverly, character, humor, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Time, It So Cleverly Slips Away
Time slipped, slipped into the sunset mist
looking back, I saw only half done list
There was that trip to a green island shore
never arrived there, missed so much more!
Time raced, quickly raced so very far away
Looking back, heart sinks into dismay
There was her hand, that touch forever gone
never gotten, was her sweet love alone!
Time fled, fled into that bitterly dark sorrow
looking back, heartache eats tomorrow
There was love, gathered at such a dear cost
never gotten, greatest treasure now lost!
Time, time why ever did you dare race me?
The faster I chased, the faster you did flee!
R.J. Lindley
May 9th, 1990
Note- today found out she passed away. Never got to say goodbye
Time cheated me, it shall now pay..
Old note presented with old poem because it reminds me the insanely foolish battle
I wanted while still drunk on whiskey!
Categories:
cleverly, absence, conflict, deep, desire,
Form: Sonnet
After Midnight Musings - impromptu
cleverly staged
the way you are
slinking in your
trinket-ed skin
oozing pure milk
and manuka honey.
cleverly staged
the way you are
slow as molasses
a flaming lick of
hot lava, the
epitome of life's
thirst-
life's thirst for
a mere droplet
to be overcome
by your
charming ways
the way you are
cleverly staged.
Categories:
cleverly, beautiful, sensual,
Form: Prose
I want to run across moss covered stones
Over a rippling creek of crystal
Adorned with your shined and polished bones
Away from this constant peril
Salty quartz bleeds out from my eyes
Such a dark sphere of onyx hate
You slice a smile as another part dies
When you set another piece of me ablaze
You delight in muddling my transparency
I am singed by your laugh as I crumble and crack
I continue to marvel at a demons consistency
To commit these most heinous acts.
I once held the rose heart filling it with you
I should have know when you were too dark
And would never clear up for me to see through
Now that it’s too late, I see what you are.
And I am crushed by coal, covered in the soot
Of a defeat that will never release me into the sun
Mourning for the lost trust I had put
Into a cleverly disguised someone.
Categories:
cleverly, angst, confusion, introspectionme, me,
Form: Rhyme