Can you
Could you
Solve this conundrum
Decipher this dilemma
Troubling me?
How do you find
What seems lost forever
How do you seek
What is no longer found?
What do you call that which
Has forgotten its name
How do you point fingers
When we are all to blame?
I look up at the sky
Glimpsing nothing but clouds
Though my eyes search for a silver lining
How can it feel so bitterly cold
Though I see that the sun is shining
An elusive enigma
A problem perplexing
A quandary quite sigma
And truly quite vexing
A Gordian knot with no simple solution
No way to escape this mental pollution
Perhaps in the face of a futile endeavor
I will remain in this labyrinth
Trapped here forever
Or perhaps this is only a passing phase
I will recover, I will amaze
Life is too rich to be squandered away
I will rise to fight another day.
Categories:
conundrums, conflict, confusion, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
She, suffered in angst and a deep loneliness,
As her jasmined poertry, was new and just growing.
“What good are my poems regarding truthfulness
or honesty?”
Against seas of creative poems, puff-pretty, bright
And glowing?
The icy, winter,rains came and gave her not a
whisp of a warm answer.
Her soul and stomach did crave some reprise..
“No, no, rest, dear poetess,”….words whispered
came in the form of a mystical soul- prancer.
Then..what to do, she most freely wept!
“Stop looking for readers of my poems?”
Is there a wondrous secret being kept?
“Stop, stop”, the laughing, winter-prancer said.
“Each poem you wrote once sweetly slept in
the soft bed of your heart.”
“Let it be go now….and like a newborn eagle..
alight with freedom and depart.”
Dedicated to Joe Maverick in Australia, on the
loss of his cat, Tibbles.! Condolences.
Your kndness to me has always been
appreciated!
Huggs~Pangie
***Written sometine in my early years here***
1/6/2024
Categories:
conundrums, cat, friend, friendship, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Abandoned shoeprints
pressed between night and day.
Muddy, empty, discarded,
throats wide open,
mouths mutely appealing,
tongues untied,
revealed in the act
of escaping
both dark and light.
Two elderly men sip tea.
The loud ticking of a communal clock.
Unshod feet shuffle in white cotton.
Perpetual twilight stirs milk
in dimming eyes.
Exasperated attendants hunt
for lost shoes.
Categories:
conundrums, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Clear cobwebs from your eyes
To pave the way for progress
To grace and bless your life.
Categories:
conundrums, poems,
Form: Haiku
It's late
And I am taking my prose
From the either
A non believer
Who sees belief
Not as the word of God
But rather as a question
To which answers
Provide more questions
Which came first
The chicken or the egg
I don't know
Egg's cook quicker
And chicken is deadly uncooked
But it is finger licking good
And egg's are full of protein
Which came first
Breakfast
Categories:
conundrums, chicago,
Form: Free verse