I don’t know - but I’ve been told They say the streets of Heaven are lined with gold Well, I’ve got a woman – she’s got long golden hair She’s got a special place... She says she gonna take me there I learned you can’t believe what a sales-man say It’s lying to you, …
Category: Poem
Purloined Destinies
Ifs and Coulds and Woulds and Shoulds and ‘things I meant to be’s Almost At most Foremost Burnt toast Purloined destinies Figured Speech Beyond reach Seaweed cluttered Empty beach Castles made of Sand Tidal shifts Voids and rifts Standing on Unstable Cliffs Dreams of Neverland Fingers clasped Gasps and Laughs Time …
Turnings
The grinding wheel turned, just a bit more today Turning Grain into grist while I’m making hay The Ferris wheel turned, slowly in place Baskets on pivots, each swinging in space The planet it turned, its’ cycle spins clear Day into night until morning appears Emotions have turned, as my heart flipped …
I believe.
I won’t believe in Laughter ‘Happy ever after’ Rainbows in Subtle sweet hues I won’t trust in fate What we both create Nor magic in glass slippered shoes I’ll doubt wondrous signs That planets align Feeling like one - Since we’re two Kismet is bull shit The winners will soon quit Love is an illusion …
A Void Dance
It’s Anguish when she turns from me Worse still, I've earned this action It wounds the ‘We’ – I’m sure we’d be It’s a void sprung from attraction How strange to feel the guilt of it It ignites a hole I’ve known The Fable sought – my acts were not The smartest seeds I’ve …
Life Spring
I’ve glimpsed the soul of ‘Life Spring’ as it huddled Doubt filled, hurting, twisting in the dark She ponders my intentions and befuddled Imagines that I won’t maintain the spark Exquisite she, though flawed and prone to finding - Reasons to distrust the love in me Trying to surpass the past’s un-windings Disavowing dreams …
Bed-lamb
It could have been a simple conversation It should have been, but wasn’t, not for me Because it bore the pungent stench of desperation She’s a coin, full in sight, but out of reach She could have said her lines a whole lot better I think I would have liked believability But she never …
Derrick
The lines, which led to cracks, fell into fissures A featured tin foil ball of wrinkled face It sat atop a feeble derrick body Knee deep in sea and rusting into space Decrepit, almost silent, the mottled hulk had stood Infecting the sky in a collage of carbonizing cancer He had stood a lifetime. …
Appleside
The holes in my hands had finally healed When my cart caught the gutter and shattered a wheel And strewn by the roadside my apples all lay But I’m doing all right… It’s just one of those days I sat on the curbside and twiddled my thumbs The Blind man just laughed, when he …
Idle Wild
Idle, wild, addled, able ‘Eager pleaser’ seeks the fabled Anticipating sweet immersion Penetrating dream conversion Not for sake of some diversion But for the heart of you. Believing in the dream unraveled The life-long coupled path to travel Past odd hurdles not disclosed Roadblocks, doubt and fears imposed Committed open heart, exposed All for …
Sam VanMusings 