Variety of Poems

Life

Swimming in the warmth

Comfortable in my womb.

Then some jerk disturbs me

And I enter the world.

Backyard 1

Life is the little bug

That lives under the bark,

As the red and white crested woodpecker

Picks and struts his music.

Life is a squirrel rummaging for food.

And the pieces of fallen bark that will make up his home.

Life is my daughter's voice that echoes in the distance.

Life is knowing that this will someday be gone.   Sunday April 24, 2011.

Backyard 2

Spring sun shines shimmeringly.

I don't deserve this.

Paradise in my backyard.

I must allow this to be.

Tragedy

I want to tell you a story

But I don't think I will

'Cause I don't think you deserve it.

You'll blame and you'll stew.

It's a story of forgiveness,

One might almost say grace,

Because the human it happened to,

Very nearly saved face.

But I can tell you he didn't get it

He killed someone that night

And the person he slaughtered

Had saved his life.

She cared for him and loved him

But he was lost in his role

And that night he finished it off

What was left of his soul.

The Buffoon

Let's face it, he helped no-one,

Sorry that's not true- he helped himself.

To a life of uncertainty

In a post modern world.

He wondered and thought, and thought and wondered.

Found a world without answers and answers without a world

Then slept with uncertainty, the whore of tomorrow.

The sky vibrates over his city

The stars say yes to whomever he is.

The sky says glory

The sky says grace

The sky says cold,

In this insignificant place.