Thursday, March 6, 2008
Afternoon Walks
He adores me silently, and without having to say a word he loves me. When I come home from school he greets me with kisses, so enthusiastically. I love him, but sometimes I think he uses me for my thumbs. I think Buddy just wants me to get his leash and walk him.
Monday, February 11, 2008
House Of Cards
Based on a painting by Jean Bupiste Simeon Chardin
This hazy light doesn't help
hunched over his kings and queens,
he can smell the balance approaching the royal court...
He swears just one more layer of cold faces, then he'll rest.
Insomnia creeps closer
and the countless hours reserved for sleep have been
forgotten.
If only it could stay like this ; studying his progress
he builds;
higher;
more elaborate than before.
One wrong move, though,
it's over:
his vertical dream gone horizontal.
A little stability?
He looks to his hands
as if they hold the answers.
The sound of nothing
answers his question.
They're mocking him now, and he knows.
For a man,
this redundant fixation is not
healthy.
So
kill
the lights.
Lock them up
into the cardboard prison in which they call home
But he knows that
that is impossible.
The queen of his heart will be coaxing him for freedon
for just a little while longer.
He tries his best to ignore
their taunting demenor.
Jack and his friends grow impatient.
He stares at cardboard.
They're just paper....an obsession.
He taps on the table,
trying to block the urge.
He can't take the pressure,
he knows it's wrong.
A drop of sweat leaves his forehead
along with his
sanity.
He hears the king's order.
Let his people out and
no one
will get hurt.
No one.
Surrender.
This hazy light doesn't help
hunched over his kings and queens,
he can smell the balance approaching the royal court...
He swears just one more layer of cold faces, then he'll rest.
Insomnia creeps closer
and the countless hours reserved for sleep have been
forgotten.
If only it could stay like this ; studying his progress
he builds;
higher;
more elaborate than before.
One wrong move, though,
it's over:
his vertical dream gone horizontal.
A little stability?
He looks to his hands
as if they hold the answers.
The sound of nothing
answers his question.
They're mocking him now, and he knows.
For a man,
this redundant fixation is not
healthy.
So
kill
the lights.
Lock them up
into the cardboard prison in which they call home
But he knows that
that is impossible.
The queen of his heart will be coaxing him for freedon
for just a little while longer.
He tries his best to ignore
their taunting demenor.
Jack and his friends grow impatient.
He stares at cardboard.
They're just paper....an obsession.
He taps on the table,
trying to block the urge.
He can't take the pressure,
he knows it's wrong.
A drop of sweat leaves his forehead
along with his
sanity.
He hears the king's order.
Let his people out and
no one
will get hurt.
No one.
Surrender.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Sheep
Blank pages whisper to my shy thoughts
as they float around like wandering kites.
40 minutes hijacked by
restless thoughts
followed by eraser marks,
regrettedly placed on the lonely paper.
It is in that moment
my word flow comes to me like drying concrete.
as they float around like wandering kites.
40 minutes hijacked by
restless thoughts
followed by eraser marks,
regrettedly placed on the lonely paper.
It is in that moment
my word flow comes to me like drying concrete.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Chelsea's Music
Verses of "AMANDA"s
sung loudly from the bottom of our stairs
sail from the Sea to my oblivious ears.
Vibrations from my purse
convince me to view her notes reminding me to walk the dog.
Beats of stratgically placed Uggs on my carpet
follw the rythm of my clothes
swaying as she looks for the perfect outfit.
It is her favorite song,
a song always on repeat.
sung loudly from the bottom of our stairs
sail from the Sea to my oblivious ears.
Vibrations from my purse
convince me to view her notes reminding me to walk the dog.
Beats of stratgically placed Uggs on my carpet
follw the rythm of my clothes
swaying as she looks for the perfect outfit.
It is her favorite song,
a song always on repeat.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Just a thought... ROUGH draft
Your synthetic facade can't shelter you
from what you do not know forever.
Reconstruct your frame of mind
before it crumbles.
from what you do not know forever.
Reconstruct your frame of mind
before it crumbles.
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