July Poetry

Thrill Alive

7/1/10

The jeopardy of it all

And in the thunder of my thinking, it seems…

Seems to me that I had lost certain words to say such things

In the ever-being of weeks

The fault all around me is present

In resentment and misunderstanding

And I see I have done the same

I forgive the missteps of others in anger

Due to my own aching flaws

And hope that blessings come to all

See, the danger of life

Is the conquest that is a promise

You keep to yourself each morning

That drifts into the afternoon, muddled

And remembered while saying your nightly prayers…

Because of a love I once had

For direction and focus and accomplishment

I seek that thrill of victory

Laughing in the face of failure

A smirk on my face

The Uncertain Doorframe

7/26/10

An indescribable description is what I want to write

Despite my simple mind and my complex life

But it’s not in the art of these days that I find solace

Nor the beauty of nature

Nor the comfort of friends

I lend my mind to yesterday

A play that stays in a half-finished outline

And it both enlightens me and tortures me

For the past was great and tragic and bittersweet

And my present is blessed and cursed

And the future: UNCERTAIN

Certainly, I know my path

I know my destiny pre-written, unpublished with errors

Yet, it is re-written in my writing

My soul and pen always in-fighting

It saves the pathway to a door locked and open

The knob is both keyless and broken

And beyond it is the life for which I was hoping


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