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Welcoming sun beamsTickle the world awake Sometimes it doesn’t have to be long… #napowrimo, prompt from Day 14.

The waves ignore my pleasThey keep crashing at my feetOver and over the water foamsAnd spreads too thinBefore recedingAnd repeating If only they would stopAnd with them stop timeStop the sun from shiningAnd the clouds from movingSlowly sinkingAcross the sky I wish I could freeze herMy sister next to meShe keeps taking and jabberingLike wordsContinue reading “Sorrow Shared”

Clouds of steam surround him up highFrom dragons who smoke like old menLarge and lazy, enjoying the summer sunTheir fire trails spiral into the heavens No longer fighting and flying worldwideTheir battle scares earned them retirement.Now their flames dance from their mouthsAs they tell stories of those they lament. Remember when Ash tried to boilContinue reading “Remember When Dragons”

The dark corner has a drooped drunk faceWho never could solve a cold case,When he left the bar,He got hit by a car,Adding to his legacy a white outline trace. A poem for #napowrimo, prompt for Day 6.

The dark. The deep.I have seconds til sleep.My life flashes before meAnd it’s not that sweet. My mother, bless her, she triedWhen I hung with wrong guysShe warned me I’d regretTrading air for guns and knives. I thought it was worth itBeing cutthroat and in controlI felt powerful being the oneWho said who got toContinue reading “Out the Airlock”

Please make it stopThe turning the turningThis ride goes turningAnd I can’t make it stop I watch the gate passIt passes by againI always return to the same placeJust to see it again This heartache from heartbreakIt hurts, it hurtsI try to move on but I keep spinningAnd spinning around back It was over. ItContinue reading “Circling Myself”

Dark, black nose twitches and sniffsThe morning sun has warmed the earthEnough to awaken sleeping seedsAnd coax the hungry hibernator An eyelid quivers against the brightUnenthusiastic to the reawakeningDrowsy and slowly one paw at a timeThe bear rolls over and stretches Shaking collected dew from its furThe bear yawns with foggy breathLong sharp teeth pausingContinue reading “The First Yawn of Spring”

I play an A chord and close my eyesLetting the vibrations into my soulCalming me, the harmony resonatesUntil my bones are resting I strum a few more scrambled chordsAllowing my ears to meet my fingersAnd the notes hum unafraid of timeAs we wait for the next airplane Then a suit drops a dollar into myContinue reading “Struggling Musician”

Plants grow from the shinglesTiny roots and fuzzy mossCling to watery edgesThe green fighting the goldOf the once majestic temple Empty roads with jutted paversNow abandoned by its masonThe earth invading what is hersStones crumble to sandIs there a witness to this demise? An old man shuffles aloneHead bent like a sunflowerAnd a sole pailContinue reading “Not Yet Forgotten”