they're there
quite quiet
as the dawn sweeps across the planet
I meditate in the April light
new leaves and fading blossom
it turns
it turns
our planet
the solar system embedded in the Orion Arm
our galaxy
turns
birds wheel in flight
the mud slowly settles
in the stirred mind
note and
breathe
they're there,
my thoughts,
of you and the blue sky,
I let them go
and start my day
yakiba
poetry from the tempered edge
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Monday, February 21, 2022
you know that I love you right
I mean full on
think about you constantly
love you
but you're married
have been for years
and I believe he makes you happy
and I want you to be happy
I tell myself it is obsession
there is no reality
no basis in shared reciprocity
mutual interaction
and yet
you own a corner of my soul
it is only love
and I'll live
Monday, February 7, 2022
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Monday, December 13, 2021
Today someone opened a box of darkness
and threw the contents all over me.
It got into my eyes and teeth,
and drowned my mind
'til I could hardly breathe.
Now I peel the scabs from my eyes
and drain the dark into ink.
I swim and swim
and wash away with words,
the shower of pain,
swim
swim
the burnt offering
the incense smoke
the fragrant coffee steam
transmogrification
holocaust
and rain
the soot in the rain
runs down my face -
shut the box -
light a candle,
survive,
I see you,
I see you,
trying to make a better world.