puzzle
very odd...
nothing fits
puzzle pieces
intentionally twisted
placed on a board
upside down
res
It is that day I savor for its particular
flavor...
Summer Saturdays
I almost feel as if I am
nine.
Not ten or eleven but nine
Old enough to while away the
day absorbed in the imagination
but young enough to be
free
from worry
from lonliness
from any care but today
free with the hardest decision
simplicity itself - whether to go fishing at the pond
build a fort - ride bikes to the river
and lay back and listen to the horns of the tug boats go by
muddy muddy mississippi
sounds scents and sights.
Summer Saturdays
Whatcha doing?
A lover's moon
I look at the sliver of the waxing moon
reclining against a sky washed with steel blue
purpling slender clouds
fingers caressing
I know it is a lover's moon.
the scimitar curve with dual tips
razor points that rend and slice beyond healing
as a lover does in silent leave-taking.
A lover's moon.
What do you think should be playing on this radio?
I am waiting for barren trees
for leaves that fall
without one breath ever being felt
I can see the color
but only in my memory
it flickers bright
but only for a moment
fragments
Summer Saturdays.
Remember when you could jump out of bed throw on your swimsuit and shorts and be out of the house? Who knew where you would go. Beach or Swimming hole or the pool. You didn't worry about anything except perhaps being home by dark. Go ahead. Do it again. Give yourself a Summer Saturday... Even if it is in your own back yard with the kids and a hose.
I am asked why is everything so dark.
I say it is not dark it is just the other side
of light...
If there is sun...
there will be a shadow
but would you
give up the sun just to avoid the shadow?
I think I will stay here in the sun today
and enjoy the shadows it casts.
stiletto heels strike an assured cadence
stairway spiraling skyward
a sigh
a last single step
Screams
spinning
a downward symphony
slash stillness
sirens
silence
sweet serene silence
I am resting
in the shadows
Of life
I can see the light from here
But...
it can not blind me
with its hope
I can feel the warmth from here
But...
it can not burn me
with its passion
I can cry here
And...
no one hears
that is the point
of being here
for now
Often times....
I feel...
like a too small fish....
mesmerized. . .
by a too bright,
unattainable lure...
the lure flickers as it darts past...
tantalizes and mocks my simplicity...
as it dangles briefly...
teasing, intentionally...
then draws away...
leaving a faint trail...
that fades...
along with the allure of it.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious. It is the source of all true
art and all science. He to whom this emotion
is a stranger, who can no longer pause to
wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as
dead: his eyes are closed."
(Albert Einstein)
spring rain falls...
one droplet trails down the pane of glass
it touches another
they form together
one
together they move a course
unsteady, halting, shifting
their course ever traveling downward
their goal unknown
the glass holds imperfections
moving headlong
their journey seemingly smooth
the shimmer of the distortion draws them
only beauty do they see in the flaw
as they touch it together
it splits them asunder
they travel on alone
each carrying a part of the other
downward into the unknown.
"Surround Me" by Chris Sotiri
I am not sure how things happen nor can I explain them... be that as it may this man's music came into my world. The how isn't important... But the first song I listened to "Surround Me" exposed, expressed and exhaled how I feel.
More of his music can be found
Lyrics
Wash away this life, put it all behind
Won't take anymore, this tired soul can't fight
I am not afraid, to leave everything
There's a world, where I won't be in pain
Surround Me, Surround Me
I've lost what I need
Surround Me, Surround Me
My heart was torn away, ever since that day,
Never will forget, one fateful mistake
Visions of the end, play back time again
There's a place, where I won't feel a thing
Surround Me, Surround Me
I've lost what I need
Surround Me, Surround Me
How can one live, just suffering,
How can one live, so helplessly,
How do you live??
Surround Me, Surround Me
I've lost what I need
Surround Me, Surround Me
Surround Me, Surround Me
I found I'll never be
Surround Me