I travel 'long the winding track
Seeing mostly green, but a tree trunk black,
The orange and brown of a falling leaf,
It settles and nestles to a bush beneath,
A rocky outcrop where the wallabies bound,
The hidden tinklings of bellbirds sound,
A wispy fog emerging from a gorge,
Enveloping sheer cliffs that wind and rain forge,
It feels so good my walking track,
Although often away it always beckons me back.
Categories:
tinklings, beautiful, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Rhyme
and so it goes, the more you try
the more it blows, the lightening strikes,
the weight is towed, the rain it falls,
the yarn is sewn, the rhythm ranks high,
the face lies, the smiles come when faith finally dies,
and all in all the time ruptures to the tinklings of an instrument
one never learned how to play &
raincoats are worn on the sunniest days &
boring is the only game that’s played &
smog replaces the beauty traced like
scars that come when babies make their way into this
place, aren’t ya glad you were part of the whole
charade? aren’t ya glad it all ceased to make
sense, when the landlord came to take your rent &
ya looked him straight in the eyes &
laughed, for it all comes quick when you want it to
last, it all slows down when you need it to
pass, humming the notes you’re sure you know,
forgetting the words that don’t quite flow,
lucky to wade in the shallow water,
luckier to pretend that there is no other,
watching you & watching me, we’ve known it all our
history, the one that meows out loud a whine is the last to get
the sip of milk before it turns---
and we both know it doesn’t turn like the finest of
wines.
Categories:
tinklings, life,
Form: Free verse
Mystic Tinklings
Mystic tinklings
Ancient echoes from the past
Fleeting inklings
Glimmer just beyond your grasp
Phantom footfalls
When you know that you’re alone
Echoed choircalls
Of a long forgotten song
Shadows slipway
From the corners of your eye
Darkened hallways
Hints of time passed by
Brief reflections
Of things you did not see
Vast collections
Of the things that used to be
Categories:
tinklings, angst, confusion, fantasy, history,
Form: Quatrain