Tag: postaday

Precious

Found a little gem
Looked it up when I got home
Found a precious stone

A night market lull
Politics and jewelry
Impatient vendor

Suffocating smoke
Smothers glimmer and glee
Even the sun subdued
To wan gloom
Long before it sets

Still

I know colour lingers beneath
Recall its effervescence
Manifest the latent joy
Until that rises above the horizon
Of my heart

I remind myself

On the dreary days
The days that drain my heart
Of all but grey

Seek the colours
Let them saturate my being
Rekindle the joy in my heart

Cloudy tendrils cling to hillsides
As a child to its mother on school’s first day

The bus driver beckons
Come, this way to new worlds

Mother’s kiss lingers on rosy cheek
Solid and eternal as the hills

Some places just feel ancient
Time there stopped
And the land quit changing

I never feel more here and now
Than in such places

This little speck of life, I

In the midst
Of eternity

One tiny moment
Of meaninglessness
Writ large on existence

Nice place to kick back
Nestled red Adirondacks
Stop on the way back

All life stripped from the core
Still remains beauty and purpose
In the skeleton

Once was a time
The path seemed
Straight and narrow
Far as my eyes could see

Entered a doubt
A fear
Indecision

Possibility compounded
Upon improbability

Chaotic grid of no means forward

So stop
Reconsider

Unwind the improbable
Evaluate the possible
Quell the fear and doubt

Make a choice
Then another
Build upon choices
Until trust defines a path

I love the big guys
The established ones
Those who’ve changed the world
Become big through accomplishment

But age has changed my focus
To the little guys
With all their potential and possibility
The ones who’ll change this world to the next