The wind like time
Does not beg permission
It does not pause for longing hands
It moves illusively disappearing
Coming and going
Weaving the strands of tomorrow
into fleeting dreams transcended
From the bones of yesterday
It waits unseen in silent stillness
mummering with mystery
charging into an array
of constant cycles of energy
Touching everything
In its river of drifting sighs and huffing gusts
Its anger devours with
Screeching tempests
Swallowing the lifeless forms
Without discretion
Making alive and moving
All that lies in its wake
At the crossroads of departure
Spinning like a bird in flight
You are taken in its wake
Uplifted into its command
Within the chasms of little choice
Unsurmountable mountains of truth
Lay just ahead in perilous wait
Only to come to rest
Succumbing to the valleys of peace
To witness destiny
Categories:
illusively, allegory, destiny, wind,
Form: Free verse
Old sensations surface
Rippling through my stomach
Reminders rendering me nervous
Result in a pending judgement
Swore it would be the last time
Foolishly hoping for a miracle
Suddenly addicted to a crime
Illusively a fellow criminal
A false satisfaction
Masks the growling hunger
A toxic attraction
Sends me rolling drunker
Stuck in a vicious sprial
A never ending cycle
Basking in denial
Failure a fitting title
Categories:
illusively, 11th grade, allusion, character,
Form: Free verse
The Wave
The vastness of the ocean
An inconceivable body of water
The crushing weight cascading
As if all of creation came tumbling
In the face of such awful power
The force of a hundred thrown bags of sand
Crashes into where I stand
I had tried to run
But the water pulled me in it’s grasp only to obliterate
In the last moment
I turn to face the torrent
But I was too late
And the crushing boulders
Appearing illusively soft
Slam into me
And what remains is carried away
Far into the moving depths of the sea
I fall gently through the various zones
The water growing dark and cold
It takes me an eternity to reach the bottom
From here the surface seems stardom
And as I rest in perpetual night
I see a curious light
An Angel approaches me
And my heart flutters in ecstasy
But something was wrong as it approached
As I then understood my distorted hope
The Angel understood too and sought to consume
But was cut short by its own deity
As another monster of the sea struck forth from the gloom
Leaving my rotting body
Trapped in the vast darkness of the deep sea.
Categories:
illusively, loneliness, lost, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The days where the morning dusk ,
Stars timorous to light up at night.
A drop of clear salty liquid
rolled like rainstorm,
At last Love brought grievance.
Deluded by your love
Illusively dancing with you in white,
In a desert filled with roses.
Where fearing Love
pays death servile breath.
An augury which may never be,
Stupor by this love,
Disguised as felicity,
Let it be known that your love
portends the End of my Days.
Categories:
illusively, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
through the duration of time to think sublime
heroes are made through like hellos
the wrestling with the window
one to embark on its solstace
throughout the duration of time so fine
with love to climb upon
long lines formed in desolation
burst inside with appreciation
live long & prosper
keep your mind in heavenlies
illusively through a dream
meadows are plain in view
horizons of beautiful personifications
each door we close there's always one opened
search your heart to help impart the meaning
believe in hope
so far to cope
down to your last thin rope
love has hope we can share
let's look above to the heavenly love
sare with others a brand new you
Categories:
illusively, abuse, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Tea parties
Crumpets and lavender
Earl Grey in china
Swapping recipes
Smiles and pleasantries
Laughter and memories
Cards and bravado
Veneers and fronts
Lost in a haze
No notion of time
Just hovering in the moment
Time standing still
Illusively surreal
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~THE TIME WE ARE GIVEN~ 2023
AP: 2nd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2020
Submitted on February 14, 2019 for contest FEBRUARY WK 3 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND
Originally posted on January 5, 2018
Categories:
illusively, family, games, introspection, irony,
Form: Free verse
Walking away
It starts small yet expands unobtrusively
Unnoticeable even strangely illusively
You didn’t notice but it inevitably grew
So bad now will eventually suffocate you
I’m walking away
Enters pain acute the very worst kind
Saturates my body and even my mind
I know others share this terrible plight
Fact of the matter its just worst at night
I’m walking away
Loneliness whispers I’m here to stay
Exclusively yours both night and day
A one way road a quite single lane
A settling in this melancholic domain
I’m walking away
Scattered pictures my thoughts assail
Recollections prominent almost a holy grail
Precious memories oh thou soul set free
I will never ever walk away from thee
Categories:
illusively, health, today, , cute,
Form: ABC
Sometimes I like to go walking
In search of a quiet place
To free myself for a little while
From the entanglements of this race.
Occasionally, I find myself, running
In circles of modern-day-dreams;
Making ends meet in the fields or the streets
Is indubitably more difficult than it seems.
On the surface so simple and easy:
Do your duty and follow the crowd;
Be there on time and eventually you’ll find
Success, if you’re lucky somehow. Sometimes
I like to go walking
In search of a quiet place
Where trees grow high way up to the sky
And the winds pass gentle on my face. Still looking
Towards the illusively fading horizon ahead
Outward bound beauty beyond
Imagination’s Siren call I’m led.
Into the streets past cars and buses
Towards rivers wide with railroad trusses. Crossing over
Shore to shoreline, present to past,
Today, tomorrow, slow to fast. Following
That still small voice within, sometimes
I like to go walking now and then.
Categories:
illusively, life,
Form: Rhyme