Short Unheeding Poems
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Squirrel roadkill
flattened by unheeding wheels
No! He escaped!!
A note to readers: The squirrel escaped and wasn't flattened into roadkill. My apologies for my lack of clarity.
Pill bugs wet with dew
as crawling gray domes mirror
green turf, salmon sun.
Copter seeds whirling,
a squirrel chases paper
treasure for her nest.
Young cat mock-tweeting,
wily sparrows unheeding,
paws press on the screen.
Sightless you gaze past the love in my eyes,
I am sending your way in friendship’s disguise.
Unheeding you neglect the words I treasure,
That reveal the feelings I've yet to measure.
Detach from my dreams, migrate from my mind,
And save me from the pain of going in blind.
Restless I ache from this love unrequited.
Dealing with desires which show up uninvited.
Don’t count on luck when you are stuck;
It’s fickle and unheeding.
A little pluck may help unmuck
Your journey to succeeding.
Don’t pass the buck or try to duck
When problems have you sinking.
Let others cluck or run amok
While you, instead, start thinking.
You may be struck by train or truck
Before you get unmired,
But brains and pluck, when things just suck,
May get what you’ve desired.
(inspired by the movie “Joy”)
When one of inspiration is shorn
And every poetic thought stillborn
When every glimmer of light disappears
And every proud conceit ends in tears
Should I to my unheeding Muses turn
And offer holocausts for them to spurn?
Would Melpomene listen,Thalia heed
And grant help in my hour of need?
Why do they cast me so cruelly aside
In my own grim Hades to abide?
Prayers do I offer for this barren time
Wherein the empty page is branded crime.
From the deep recesses of mind
emerges a stimulation
that necessitates a defined
sudden, high-level invention.
Once imagined its stay is brief
and must be dealt with before lost
to distraction. I would as lief
act on its potential than toss
it on an unheeding scrapheap.
Each notion is temporary
and must be exploited to reap
whatever essence there might be
notwithstanding it goes to seed
or an idea that succeeds.
when my river ran into your waterfall
startled egrets and alarmed herons
reached for the sky
the claws of surprised osprey let go
of wriggling fish
for a long moment
florida became a frozen lake
you could see the stunned faces
of stopped clocks
trapped beneath the ice
when we plunged
into each other unheeding
of time and place
plastic flamingos
and pink barbie dolls
flew away
in the wide open eyes
of passing snowbirds
sleek cat watching
crouched
low-sprung
statue still
only a tail tip twitching
the birds are unheeding
feeding
two still green lakes
blink once
cat leaps
sparrows scamper up
a flurry of hurry
cat claws land
miss
cat licks a paw
hides
a quick flare
of pique
cat slinking
stiff tail high
a furry finger
mocking
the fluster
the dither and flap
cat nap
Pesky squirrels have come out to frolic
Their elders keeping a wary eye on
Feral cats perching on the redwood fence
To pounce upon the unsuspecting young
With sharp talons extended razor sharp
While their elders chatter warning signals
The younger ones prance through the fresh-mown grass
Ignoring the ever-present danger
They could dash up the huge sycamore tree
Into the safety of their birthing nest
The unheeding will miss the summer sun.
[Unrhymed Dizain]
written May 17, 2021
there are those
who lived by the sides
of my ever-green forests
whose naked feet
trudged along my endless
bush-paths -
there are those
whose voices
still mutter in tremulous sounds
to unheeding sons
& daughters
within some grave-yards
of new happiness
there are those
whose faces saw the twigs
of today in old mud-morrow
tho still going a-sorrow -
these are the clan's sages
who sit unseen
among us
like our casualties -
these are the ancestors
who sit unseen
like us
in a world of the casualties
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