Friday, May 30, 2014

May 30th, 2014

Smoke

Sitting on a
friends deck, chatting
easily about little
things, big things

weddings and islands
and what is happening
at work and not
what is coming up

the smoke from the fire
the kids made
sifting over us and
getting into our hair, clothes

my glass briefly
hides the smell of smoke
while I breathe the
breath of hops

I look out and see the sparks
that still glow and
I can hear the kids
but cannot see them

As they run pell
mell through the yard
miraculously missing
the fire pit and the new hole.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

time for more haiku

folding stacks of clothes
little and big some quite old
a sneeze damn the dust

washing so many
dishes all clanking and wet
hey! there's my yogurt
May 29th, 2014

shade of brown

A shade of brown
dark almost black
eyes looking

my love
you lose me
in those eyes

a dark pool
without end
into which I fell

so long ago
on that night
late into the night

now my son
the same eyes
quiet brooding

echoing your look
a chink in my armor
a crack in my facade

a shade of brown
dark almost night
eyes looking down




Wednesday, May 28, 2014

guns and idiots

My guns
my rights
he screams

the bullets
fly by like bees
stopping the screams

You can't take
my rights my guns
2nd amendment

he turns
just like death
staring coldly

the government
wants to take
my guns!

his finger tenses
he pulls against
the spring

I need to
protect myself
against the foreigners

the bullets
fly out like a swarm
stopping the screams

As he stands
proudly holding
a gun designed

the screams
are quiet and
the blood is so red

a gun designed
only to kill
other human beings

Two men
one screams about his rights
one doesn't scream at all
he just uses the gun
for it's only purpose
to kill

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Terror deep
we sleep guarded
waiting for the word
that it has come


The missiles
make no noise
sliding through the sky
dropping on our heads


Terror keeps
we sleep guarded
waiting for the flash
that tells they did it


Someone’s decision
and then we pray
to whatever we believe
as we wait for it


Terror sleeps
we wait guarded
waiting for the word
that someone slipped


We wait for the
day after
the day
that everything has changed


Terror creeps
we stand guarded
facing East, West
North and South


The skin peeling back
the nausea
that tells us that the poison
is in our blood


Terror peeps
out from behind our knees
letting us know
that it is still there


No bomb shelter
will seal this out
no magic pill
will make this go away


We just wait
but Terror doesn’t