Posts filed under ‘POEMS AND FLEETING THOUGHTS’

POEMS & FLEETING THOUGHTS: TERRORISM

Brussels

Innocent they gather

For the usual experience,

 

While those deprived

Of a future

Plot their destruction,

 

Lives torn apart,

Bodies torn apart

On both sides

Of the equation,

 

Where is the meaning

The hope

When hate overcomes

The value of life?

March 22, 2016 at 9:48 pm 1 comment

POEMS AND FLEETING THOUGHTS

Progression

 

As my years gain numbers

My once youthful mind

Cannot comprehend

This change,

Ponders

The fading past

And wonders

At the future,

I sometimes feel

Like Kafka’s

Roach,

I went to sleep

At seventeen

And awoke

Nearly seventy,

Trying to grasp

The thoughts

Hopes and dreams

As they drift away,

How will time

Treat my questioning

Soul?

 

 

March 20, 2016 at 9:39 pm 1 comment

POEMS AND FLEETING THOUGHTS: SLEEP

I seek sleep,

There is too much

Left to fight.

March 11, 2016 at 8:32 pm 1 comment

POEMS & FLEETING THOUGHTS: THIS ELECTION

I feel

I live

In a place

In a time

That cannot be real.

March 2, 2016 at 7:53 pm Leave a comment

POEMS AND FLEETING THOUTHTS: ROCKS

My pockets

Are full,

Rocks, just as Virginia’s

Predict my destiny,

But with the drought

All is dry.

February 18, 2016 at 8:38 pm Leave a comment

POEMS AND FLEETING THOUGHTS: OLD BOOKS

My old books,

Some two hundred years

Have little value

Except to me,

I wonder at their owners,

Readers long gone.

 

Gazing into a future

Unknown,

With my words

Hundreds of years gone

Cause the same ponder

Of a lover of books.

February 10, 2016 at 10:31 pm 2 comments

POEMS AND FLEETING THOUGHTS: THE COMING STORM

As I look out the window, the darkened sky predicts the approaching storm. The remnants of the last weather event are nearly gone, but no one is sure of the power of this one.  Here are my thoughts while I await.

 

A pregnant sky looms,

Soon the landscape

Will change.

Altered by nature’s course,

Solitude created.

February 8, 2016 at 9:37 pm 1 comment

POEMS AND FLEETING THOUGHTS: THE SERENE

I envy serene church goers

Never doubting, never questioning

What they’re told

Oblivious of the deeper truth

They fit into the mold.

February 5, 2016 at 7:50 pm 1 comment

POEMS AND FLEETING THOUGHTS: PAST GLORY

As I age

Past small accomplishments

Thought meaningless

Take on new life.

January 30, 2016 at 8:22 pm 1 comment

POEMS AND FLEETING THOUGHTS: TINY LIVES

Their ghosts rise

And no one listens

As they ask, “Why?”

January 29, 2016 at 10:30 pm 2 comments

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