Shade

In the woods…
The shade
comes to listen

In the shade…
Veined leaves
and silver firs glisten

In the veins…
There courses
voices of the trees

In the trees…
The shade listens
then grieves

The shade comes…
The shade listens…
Then leaves…

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Madness

Lonely in a crowd of people
Feeling crowded among just a few

Looking down from atop a steeple
High above the motley crew

Complications… simplified
Simplifications… amplified

Confusion reigns… I fear I’ve lost it
Though God know..., I really tried

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Kids are forever

You’re never quite free
From your kids..no, no! !

No… you’re never quite free
From your kids

They could be doing
Quite fine

Or even doing
Hard time

there's no way you can be
as eventually you'll see

That you’re never quite free
From your kids! !

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On Living Life

It’s not near enough
To have lived in full…
the length of one’s life

No… tis not nearly enough
The measure of length only…
Pray tell…

For length is far too narrow
A measure
of one’s life

The true measure is to have lived
The full width
As well

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My Christmas

Decorations are up
Tinsel’s on the tree

All the women out shopping
All busy as can be

Kids happily snooping
“Where can the presents be? ”

Are there others out there (I hope not)
Who can’t feel the glee?

Or Is the season of Christmas
Lonely only to me?

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Ol' fools and dreamcatchers

Still just an ol’ jerk
Puttin’ faith in dream catchers
Knowin’ they don’t work

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Nights…awake I lay
Trying to remember dreams…
Dreams that stole away
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Gonna be more smart!
That dream catcher’s Gonna be
Returned to Walmart! !

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Hugs

A hug
E’en if given
Only in jest

Tis still yet
a hug
No more no less

While Intended
Perhaps only
To be received in jest

I shall instead
Choose to Treat it
As a sweet caress

For no matter
How tis intended
The hug to be

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Tears That Fall Like Rain

Tears of joy and happiness
Trace cross one's cheek
When love fills one's heart

But the other kind
Can sting and blind
When love breaks it apart

The other kind
is kin to naught
but sorrow and of pain

Gives only rise
to red-rimmed eyes
And tears that fall like rain

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A wealth of sources (inspiration is)

Inspiration…
Elusive creature…yet
Only when pursued
Too arduously

Everywhere…
Tis All about us
Within our grasp
Continuously

In faces
So familiar
In places
So mundane

Inspiration…is
Daily conversation
Exposition of emotions
Inspiration…both pleasure and pain

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This Is Just Stupid!

Whenever I feel sober
And Try to write
something serious

Comments on my work
range from
‘stupid ‘to ‘silly’

So I’m gonna try
to write Somethin’
‘stupid and silly’

And perhaps the comments
Will say “Whoooa, dude
That’s way deep and mysterious! ”

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