Angst Spring Poems

Clouds bursting on clouds from the uncured rain,
Where stemmed wicks snuff out flower smoke,
Fissures that droop so much deeper—
The air full of seed will burn...

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It's snowing
       even though it's
           April
   ...

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It's partial to Winter's bark gloom and weed bite—
Then comes Spring with his light massaging through stone,
In cold spots along her dark towering spine—
That lovers...

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Winter with thoughtful wings slips upon
When her voice is too frail to hold life—
Everywhere green, this light she's from;
In gentleness back the forest bites,
As feathery...

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As the door's brass knob aches—
Where winter season holders twist;
A new bloom in her child's frame—
Outside in my heart throb away.

Where winter season holders twist,
By...

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If I were independent.

I would drive.

I would drive everyone around.

We would smile.

We would be friends.

Taking turns.

At the wheel.

I would be generous and helpful.

Offering to drive...

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It’s spring and spring is a time where life is settled.

Winter was sad.

Winter is always my sadness.

I don’t hate spring.

No one hates spring.

Even on the...

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You happen through the moments of your life,
Stepping from one worry to the next.
You plod along seeking your solace
From those who hurt the same as...

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March means melting snowmen and freezing rain,
with black ice coating impassable roads.
And driving through flooded streets that can't drain,
while my frustration with potholes explodes.

I love...

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I sulk in solace by the ember’s glow
of warming hearths that temper to the bone
then wait in earnest ‘til the thaw of snow
and all the...

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The trees unfurl their buds and blossoms cheer.
Howdy-do Spring…achoo…grab a tissue.
Grass grows Godiva-strong. It’s as I fear -
For all your beauty brag, I’ve an issue.

Here...

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I'm ready to turn over a new leaf
But have found the day is too windy now
Spring you are a motivational thief
Spurring me on just to...

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The opalescence of the early morning light flows over everything
It touches over ever leaf, every tree, every exposed part of her skin
She stares at the...

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Dapple, broken rainbow upon my heart,
A light within and existential angst.
Once a spring breath that danced, now falls apart.
Dapple, broken rainbow upon my heart,
A moment...

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Your ocean waves have, 

Beaten me down, 

Across the rocky shore,

As I lay facedown, 

Thinking about our lore, 



How nothing I did, 

Seemed to even...

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