Archive for ‘Poetry’

Autumn Colors

Autumn Colors

What is not to love

with autumn

a crescendo of color

from warm to cold

green grass covered in frost

from lull to storm

birds in formation

navigator set to south

nature smells

of settling down

Life is a cycle, ride on. Ha de Gött!

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Keep Calm

Keep Calm

She stands there on the tiny rock. Firmly against all roaring winds and crashing waves. Calmly she blink with her green eye. Safe passage to still waters.

How I wish to be like her in the modern world. Every minute we are flushed over by impressions and alarming news. Curled up in that comfy armchair. An embrace to land in.

Oktober 10 is world mental health day. Make a difference. Smile, say hello to a friend or a stranger, ha de Gött!

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Foliage

Foliage

Rays of light sipping through the thick foliage of the Oak and Linden trees.

Ancient rocks covered with soft green moss. Shaped and tossed around by the inland ice, or perhaps by the giant trolls sleeping their thousand year sleep in the hidden caves.

Leaf rustle around my feet as I slowly walk over the old stone fence.

Around me the acorns drop to the ground, or is it the squirrel throwing trying to hit me, tries to scare me off.

The forest is full of mystery, just stop and listen, imagine. Ha de Gött!

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Going West

Going West

One man’s sunset is another man’s sunrise. Twenty four, three hundred and sixty five. Countless spinns, on and on. We are but a blink in eternity.

Carpe diem, ha de Gött!

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Billy

Billy

Billy was a country boy
had a used up tractor for a toy
oblivious of come what may
with a luscious girl in the hay
life like river twist and turn
ramifications of that yearn
now Billy Junior factor
plays with used up tractor
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Dedicated to Hobbo, ha de Gött!

Imposter

Imposter

I envy the ones
that never seem to suffer
the imposter syndrome

walks tall, head held high
confident clapping steps
in smart suit corridors

slips away unruffled
casually brushing off
dandruff shoulders

hands never seen 
shoulder deep in cookie jars
the real imposters
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The one that got away

The one that got away

Memories, of could have been
if just alone in that scene
giggling friend intervene

across crowded train, eyes flirting
butterfly stomach, holiday fling
in the heart, a little sting

last dance so close, so tight
but separate ways in the night
bitter sweet could this been right

tongue stuck, nothing to say
growing distance in the sandy bay
the one that got away

Nothing compares to my wife, ha de Gött!

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Light

Light

Evening sun reflecting full spectra of white light. Magenta, Green, Cyan. Shadows fading all the way into black.

An eternal swirling dance by sun and earth at the ballroom of universe. We’re along for the spinn, only hoping to catch those golden moments.

Like dancers fixing the gaze on something still. A snapshot of that exact moment. Keeps us from spinning off, fall over and puke.

Snapshot your life to feel alive, ha de Gött

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Six pack

Six pack

Cardboard wrapped arrived this thing
long smooth neck and six string
locked in ruffed up shed
frantically played till fingers bleed
pays off with the coolest riff
rockin' hard like a giant cliff

friends with drum and base
life went off to another phase
greasy agent, giant record deal
life on a roll, that was the feel
playin' hard, no gentle song
nothing, could really go wrong

caricature like a bad cartoon
acting out like loon 
sex and drugs and wrecking room
heading fast to his doom
tucked away in rehab
made comeback like Ahab

Rock on, ha de Gött!

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Shave

Shave

Once so silky and smooth

soft as mothers caress

pinched by lady in blue hair

As voice got dark

nature made its remark

a sandpaper like texture

This ancestors heritage

I wish I could escape

these cheeks like an ape

I know it’s not a big thing but I really hate shaving, ha de Gött!

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