Dark Watching Poems

April 15 Lament Watching the News

While watching the news
I am constantly lamenting
The sad state of political discourse
In these increasingly
Disunited United States of America.

Where we have...

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I noticed whilst walking up and down the thing
What's going on here I thought
I had been given a middle seat
In what I consider to be...

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Clouds of many forms, shifting in the sky,
Fading in and out, quietly passing by.
Seeing floating forms in full animation,
Requires a reset of mind’s vibration.

For one...

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(inspired by "Gifts of the Most High" by G Alan Johnson.)

The crows know me, and I, in their untamed glares,
and wild, accepting, onyx eyes find...

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“F”, we’ll call him Felipe
Felipe found a doorway
he didn’t mean to
he wasn’t looking for it
and at first he wasn’t aware 
he’d gone through it
but something...

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This true story must be told,                                       ...

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There was a homeless lady,
one afternoon, outside the hospital.
Was she homeless? I don’t know.
She had a ladened shopping cart,
which, on TV, is kind of a...

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Watching the Perseids 

Each year August eleven to thirteen 
We fly through a cloud of comet dust
In those few days 
Watching skyward patient in the...

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Coffee While Watching The News 

coffee
must be just right 
kicking me wide awake
as I watch the news on TV...

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"Though I never see with human eyes                  ...

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Watching Dogs  On My Lawn
The faded beige cushions begin to warm as the sun rises above the palm tree in my backyard. As if...

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One block from my apartment
Is the 18-mile mark
Where the runners pass from 10 a.m.
Until it’s way past dark.

I love to join the cheering throngs
Lined up...

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I see her blue eyes
Even in the darkest skies
To my heart it is no surprise
Yet my brain tells me its lies

When she is not here...

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"A Whiskers Tale: Watching the Detectives"



Her whiskers tickle
when the lights go out
hormonal huntress 
on the prowl
Moonlight chasing 
itsy bitsies 
up the wall
a silent investigator 
tap...

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Watching
Your happy
Friend talking
And laughing with
You, filling you
With joy that
You could experience
This with them

Watching
Your sibling
Feeling better
After letting
Out their pent up
Feelings of
The past

Watching
Events unfold
In front of you
Sad...

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