~The Meeting Place~
I am the age now of my father
as I first remember him.
His face is on me
and I hold the same position.
That music is his
and wave of hair not mine
I am caught in a cyclical time.
That shamrock breath
and hands to skip rocks
those pained eyes
that never forgot.
Smile line
and stubbled chin
a posture that won't let people in.
I am him.
As I remember,
quick breath upon an ember.
The jumping flame
and rolling bark
a freewill craving
an exclaimed spark.
And I am now,
the same age as he
when once he used to hold me.
My smile wide
as his used to be
there is no separation between him and me.
Whose ha
~The Weight~
That weight that weighs upon her
that image of the grade 12 brush cut boy
who swooned girls with no words at all.
but that weight which won women wavered his trust in love
that weight; a great debate in his mind of who really did love the likes of his kind
that boy who saw and thought song
whenever he saw a wrong and took it on
that boy who knew that the real world was love and that vision is not all it's comprised of.
That boy knew a love
so hot it burned and turned like a whale in a sling
and with no water to swim that whale how could that whale sing?
A master of guilt and a keeper of time
he knew just when his opp
~Ever Gone~
Drinking down dark red oblivion
to get that hot feeling back
to dizzy himself to forgetting that there is no going back
Those cards have faces which reappear
and those faces cannot be trusted
with each passing year those stained teeth are locks hopelessly rusted.
If a chain is only as strong as that link that's been broken
and if a relationship can be annulled by a feeling that's been spoken
then love has clearly not been awoken
and will need a louder bell
because love is a beast that raucously
feasts on a heaven greater than hell.
Love doesn't let a day fade away
nor long to be free day after day
nor wish of a life
~The Sleepless Mind~
The sleepless mind is edgy
Abnormal
It has seen you all while vulnerable.
It watched the sky darken as slow as you danced in the deep, deep blue.
It saw the dark set in and stick to the trees
And freeze like teeth.
It peered through the tiny square holes
In the screen
to the streetlight gleam,
little stream of light
bright enough to fit
through the square holes of a screen.
Then, just Long Enough
like a drawn out huff
A yellow haze begets the blue.
Pale blue, to a beige haze
made brown seem brown and grey seem duller than
Grey.
Chirpi
~The Kreepy Krauly~
The Kreepy Krauly gives me the heebeegeebees.
Its quick tempo ticking
Its dead worm sucking
Its gyroscopic bobbing
Its click, click, clicking
Its Manta Ray gliding
As the Summer goes sliding away.
Its ribbed edges are now zipping
While my hand-over-hand hauling is dragging its body against the side of the pool.
Like a twisting eel,
This manufactured water snake flips around
Spurting water while spilling out its innards
And suffocating on the prickly lawn.
Like an unwanted trophy,
It now hangs unceremoniously in a cold garage
With its mouth gaping
Silently screaming
For the return of the Summertime feel
~Day Dreaming~
As a child sitting under the slide
I found that summer park feeling.
The slide's cool shadow
On hot wood and its oil-treated thickness.
A drift of sand, dry and dusty.
The kick of pebbles.
I could plunge my hand into the rounded rocks
The cold rolled up my arm.
Playful screams everywhere
~He's gonna catch me!
~She's gonna kiss me!
No danger, but excitement.
The high-pitch squeal of
Bare skin on the slide overhead.
The Whoosh of track pants on the way down
And the thump thump thump
Of Converse running up again.
Always distant mowers humming.
Dogs barking.
The thwack thwack of
Tennis balls on a brick wall.
~The Magician Musician~
Between the rows of battered houses
Music scurries along the walls
And eves troughs
On conversations and ivy
With the pitch of caterwaully
And of wheezing inhalations.
Children drop their jacks
And lose their marbles all at once,
The town is Breathing.
Hearing without seeing they flock to the roadside
And strain their eyes to hear
Where
The scattering music comes.
The convenience of it all, the
Coca-Cola whining, the
Alien singing
The feeling of the roadside has changed.
Small trucks, crawling
Through the mesmerized faces as
Music passes through their ears
And eyes
Focus on a man
From whom the
~Rotation~
Another day out of the rain
Another day amoung the sane.
Minds reeling to unreel the real
A spinning colour wheel, flashing blue, red, yellow and brown
Bleaching the shades pulled over eyes.
Despise the differences and see the light.
Bright cigarette
white and brown
Turns glowing red, deadly black
Tarring the living
Suffocating the breathing
Leaning to the din of death.
Small and blue, spinning wheel
Sparks yellow the night
Light
Invisible blue, invisible fire
Mounds a cancerous funeral pyre.
Bodies discarded
Crushed under heel.
Cell phones chirp
Blazing a path to distraction
Cell phones hurt
Chirping the m
~AUTUMN MORN~
Leaves.
Like so many dead,
gather where the weak often fall.
In a gutter, they watch as the decomposition process
undertakes before
death occurs.
In the autumn mist
the leaves watch as more are cast out
from the source of which they have established
their name and stature.
The tree casts a blind eye towards the mounds and piles
of leaves and
In wild protest,
Exuberant colors, screaming for attention
commit suicide.
--Sean O'Mara