Every Moment an Instinct 30/30

Oh, how we compare ourselves to caterpillars.

But it’s like the moths gravitating towards bright lights 

then dying that we mimic.

How we tell children that dreaming is where happiness is made.

That when dreams come true, 

wings unfold with unimaginable colors and take flight.

Yet, the lives of birds, insects and flowers are not so beautiful as we are told.

Every moment an instinct. 

They are not joyful for their magnificence.

Our happiness on the other hand has the habit 

of transforming like clouds to tears.

It’s not true that rain comes from the sky, 

and rain is not falling to the ground.

Why do we lie to ourselves?

At the top, will the view will be enough?

From the top, there is only room for one, 

looking down,

                                              looking down.

From the top, 

       there is 

                only 

                              looking 

                                         down.

Staying Takes You Somewhere 29/30

Which-

ever 

the 

way to 

go?

Up, 

down, 

same thing. 

Depending on

what you're looking for. 

When to move? 

But even staying 

takes 

you 

some-

where. 

The only 

constant is 

constantly 

going. 

Suffering 

is trying to make it stop. 

Stopping is like perfection; it doesn't exist.

When I Heard Your Heartbeat, I Cried 20/30

#NaPoWriMo Challenge: Write a poem that states the things you know. 

The ground beneath my feet is really layers 

and layers of time.

Stepping softly won’t slow my growing old.

Walking in circles only makes me dizzy.

I know I need to embrace this journey. 

The sun doesn’t choose whose eyes to shine in -

I am here as witness to each glimmer. 

Your spring hydrates my crisp summer leaves.

When I heard your heartbeat I cried,  knowing 

The flood was on the way - and I knew how to swim.

I had thought I knew what love was,

I had thought I knew,

But love is like time,

beneath my feet,

with each step,

I grow wiser.

Modified Haiku in The Key of Sea - in three parts 17/30

#NaPoWriMo haiku challenge-4:9:4

Modified Haiku in The Key of Sea

In three parts

I

Another wave 

Won't stop for the shore because it can't. 

Energy's curse. 

II

Compulsive bursts 

Spit up the underbellies of thoughts

Then back to sea. 

III

Then back to shore 

Then back to sea, a marriage of fates

Without a truce. 

All at Once Yet Never Together 15/30

Heart and mind. 

                                   A metaphor murmuring 

                                                          And melting evermore

                             Into puddles of 

       Desire and despair. 

    Always all at once yet never together. 

                            Which one could stand alone?

As the sea and the shore join endlessly 

                                                         Rock by pebble by 

                              Sand to silt. 

         I am left to reflect how the 

                                           Waning tide suffers 

                                                                          no remorse 

                                                       As it leaves me. 

                                                                    Returning later, 

                                           It will not grieve that

I have gone. 

Starry Eyed Hopes 12/30

Those starry eyed hopes,

That this life sees who I am.

Life is but a dream.

A Hard Truth 9/30

Waking up inside small circles

Still asleep. 

Still wrapping around and around and 

Around.

In truth,

The center is hard to locate.

The center has its own center.

Its own center doesn’t exist.

So what am I

Wrapping around if not 

Nothing at all?

River Won't Listen 10/30

River rushing,

Messing through tranquility,

Upsetting soft grasses 

And still trees.

Calm sky clouds

Stay open for a wide sun.

But river shatters the rays

Upon rocks and edges.

River won’t listen 

To birdsong or deer hooves moving.

Instead, tantrum-ing down mountainsides,

And butting up against boundaries and lines.

Always running,

although towards or away from,

We may never know.

Whirl-pooled and streaming puddles of childish tears,

Crying until they’re all dried up.

I'm No Sooner Arrived 8/30

I'm back from the woods where I spend a few days off the grid...I couldn't post for #napowrimo, so the following posts will be catch up posts of what I put together at Breightenbush Hot Springs in Oregon.

Sooner and later I'm always

Looking for shadows and shapes

That disappear behind 

Each distraction,

Dissolve into every reflection

And dip beneath an under-looked depth. 

And later I awake to find 

I'm no sooner arrived. 

A Drop in The Bucket 7/30

Today's writing prompt from NaPoWriMo is: Write about Money

A Drop in the Bucket

It’s in our DNA,

To build upon and build upon.

To multiply, and increase.

To take up more space, 

To be our own. 

To identify what is ‘mine’. 

One penny connecting to another,

Becoming another form of currency, 

Attracting more connections.

The endless becoming of many pieces 

That together represent 

More than the whole.

Culturally the monies display differently, 

But underlying the structure, 

Their concepts, 

look the same.

Like with our own DNA, 

Money buys ninety percent junk, 

Only ten percent for what we need to function.

Often, our wallets suffer from disease and loss. 

Some feel emptiness,

Some are obese,

Some are tainted with bad blood.

Many submit to the God gene and feel all powerful,

While others are stolen

Disappearing into the masses,

Unnoticeable,

                  An insignificant 

                                              drop 

                                                                       in the bucket.

It’s in our DNA to make more.

It’s in our DNA to take over,

As we spend

                              we speak,

                                                                 Through our voices,

                                          we evolve.

Aubade to a Sleepless Night 6/30

Aubade to a Sleepless Night 

Let me return this to you. 

It was a long night,

Restless and aching,

With sheets damp with worry. 

Upon your dawning,

I thought to give this back

See if you could do better with it. 

With its colorless cast,

Soundless lamenting,

It's not so much that I tired of it,

It just didn't seem to take to my efforts. 

So, here it is,

With its soft luring,

Whispering and warmth 

It so cruelly withheld from me. 

I know as soon as you rise, 

It will nuzzle up 

To your sunny disposition 

And stop racing around 

Through the gaps in my breaths.

Murky Waters 5/30

Murky waters. 

A place to stay away from,

Perhaps a state to beware of.

Or rather something to not get mixed up in. 

It might be too deep,

Too dark,

Unclean or worse. 

Yet, from the womb we emerge

A sooty mess,

All muddy from pure beings blood,

And we arrive full of light,

Having endured the darkest 

Mysteries of life.

#puddlepoem #napowrimo2015 #napowrimo #poemaday #poetrymonth #poetry #earthart

Enter or Exit 4/30

Where on earth to go?

Wheels can spin fast or turn slow. 

Enter or exit.