Lost and so entranced.
Can't help but delve into stars.
Deeply enveloped.
She's fallen into her mind.
Lovestruck with all she finds.
Categories:
delving, introspection, philosophy, space, spiritual,
Form: Tanka
I am thousands of feet below your surface,
you're deep.
Your inner worlds are legendary
lovely to explore with a farseeing mind
but I'm going deeper
the landscape is changing,
hell holes spew a residual purulence
like long popped pimples
now they have become
rugged antediluvian volcanos.
The badlands slowly give way,
I enter alien territory
a spherical spacecraft is sighted,
no i'm mistaken
its a crusty old golf ball
you once hooked into the rough
in a former existence.
Sweet grassland now
but it's not of your earth or mine.
Perhaps it is a mind within a mind
it pulsates.
I am beginning to realize
that the only way out of here
is to be one of your dream lovers
we can share memories
of being worlds within worlds
two inner space beings
and deep
so very deep.
Categories:
delving, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A serpent lies writhing on our divan,
we see now how denial might begin.
Hissing at all who would foil his vile plan,
our fatal flaw is not delving right in.
Climate Change is much more a twisty tact:
coiled thoughts like stone turrets in ivy.
If nations can't accept a real fact -
it's hard to turn this round, from what I see.
Setting science so very far aside,
deft doubters like letting sleeping snakes lie.
Skeptics scurry for a safe space to hide,
afraid to give the truth one honest try.
This then, becomes a crippling contrivance:
ever still stronger, steadfast defiance.
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Categories:
delving, change, conflict, environment, fate,
Form: Sonnet
The comment hurt and I withdrew
My response was brief as I promptly ended our conversation
Thoughts flooded through my mind
"He doesn't need me" "He has her now"
A truth that I sometimes still find difficult to accept
We shared a special, one-of-a-kind connection
A mutual, multi-level intimacy that we both cherished and carefully tended
A bond that neither of us had ever had with anyone else...
Everyday, I am reminded of what I need to do to avoid getting hurt
Honour the boundaries I've put in place
Establish and reestablish those lines
Yes, I have made progress...
And yet, here I am
Dodging strikes and curveballs that life loves to throw
Feeling side-swiped and unsettled by another round of letting go
Knowing that engaging only makes me want to delve in deeper
The way I'm used to
The way WE used to
And that's where my big heart gets me into big trouble
You'd think I would know by now
Because it lures and leads me to the place I've worked so hard to stay away from
The place that always ends up leading me...here
Categories:
delving, cry, hurt, love hurts,
Form: Free verse