Morning forest walk Strolling past the Sassafras Mindful expansion #haiku #poetry

Just water As if that Could ever Be possible Walking past or Sitting by Its seeming Gravity Pulling Whether creek or River Pond or Lake Or even a Vast ocean A connection Felt so deep As if knowledge Far within Knows it is An ancient Home #poetry #writingcommunity

The map Not the territory Indeed not Travel though Aided by Explorations of Others Phyiscal landscape Of a journey Morphs into Lever by which Interior landscape Might be adjusted "To be" So problematic Becomes "To be" The divine #poetry #psychology #transpersonal #semantics

Skipping when No one watching Not concerned With anything Never accused Of being manly Or even needed If man required Reading idly In the shade Old novels Or poetry Writing verse And little stories Dreaming of Yesterday #poetry #writingcommunity

Light of rancid oil Darkening night encroaching Wings of bats beating #haiku #poetry

Forever and A little bit A stones throw Then some more Everywhere Little flowers In the clover By the shore Rocks all a Tumble The sand Almost white This daydream Looking for A place to rest Only in the Moment With nothing Left to say Not a word Nor a nickel Something more But even less #poetry

Sad education Mistakes not made unlearned from Broken cup mended #senryu #haiku #poetry

Concept misunderstood Thoroughly Uncanny ability To explain it wrong Numerous attempts to become More canny #poetry #nonsense #vss

Borrowed Stardust As a neighbor Might a cup Of sugar In some distant Sleepy village Of long ago Just for a while Sincerely Promised Until payday Anyway A cake to bake With little Forethought at all Intuitive Synchronicity With icing Made of Milky Way #poetry #writingcommunity

One eye cast afar The other glancing inward Interpreting all Juxtaposed against shadow True meaning most elusive #poetry #tanka #micropoetry #writingcommunity

Sometimes Something Is funnier Out of context But not always Other times Something Else is #poetry #micropoetry #vss

Hallways And staircases Up and down Pictures hung askew Depicting scenes Of architectural mayhem In colors not seen Since 1964 Though vivid In some kind of Institutional flashback way Yet deceptively so As if ordered From a black market Sears and Roebuck Catalog #poetry #vss

All writing Presupposes Misinterpretation Words written Know not how Other eyes Might hear The sound of Light on a Horizon unseen #poetry

Silence deeper than usual One that does Not include The hum of stars Or the infernal buzz Of the universe So deep that Even thoughts Dont have an echo No reverberations In motion Eternally #poetry #writingcommunity #vss

Stumble through This life as novice No worries none Laugh and know Always where the Exit is #poetry #micropoetry

Quietly walking Not thinking As best one might Path familiar Tread many Times before Feet knowingly Avoiding all the Tricky spots Mind not so Very lucky Painfully so #poetry #vss

Mind and body Liberated Only to the Extent possible Earth and Physics being As they are Heart though Still captured By another Cell bound And captive Aching or Breaking Undecided Bleeding For sure Need for escape Unreasonably Perplexing #poetry #writingcommunity #vss

Spooky shadows cast Moonlight through tree limbs eerie Black cat enlightened #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

Metalliforous Unwrought And dull Just a rock With potential Not pure For sure But dreaming Of grandiosity And a furnace Capable enough For purity To be realized From an ore Tired of a Less than regal Existence #poetry #writingcommunity

Not inclined Toward order All the things Lined up As they should Perhaps be Better to keep Moving along Away from Shelves and Silly drawers Lest a column Might need To be counted The chaos of Wild places Always calling Forest disorganized In a more Natural way #poetry #writingcommunity #vss

Saw a dog Chasing a leaf And laughed Saw myself Chasing a dollar And cried Sweet memories Of looking For pretty rocks #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

Squirrel in tree laughing Neglected to write it down Haiku unrealized #poetry #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

Blue sky and white clouds Birds overhead fly away Sound of wings not heard #haiku #poetry #blueskypoets

When walking Suredly away Abandonment Is Abandoned At least until The next time Lessons add up Until learned Or eventually Dispensed with Rocking in chairs Alone or together Sun always sets At the end Of long but Diminishing days #poetry #writingcommunity #blueskypoets

Transmutation Of old pain Into art Working the Shadow Toward new form Wrought well So something Anything Might shine Through Inner darkness Dispelled Toward creation Carbon black Glistening in The light #poetry #writingcommunity

Light glistening Fractally so From street lights Of yesterday From dusk Till too late Until at last Hollered home Moths flying And waving Goodbye at least For now Blindness of Unadjusted eyes Traipsing away in The darkness sadly #poetry

Obscured Lost thoughts Not by clouds Nor fog No mountains Ascended In search of Enlightenment Different this As if hiding Suggesting maybe Vague references To something Missing or lost Where is a map When the territory Is a word With many meanings #poetry #vss

Brain dead echoes In empty caverns Because silence Often too loud In the hereafter? Whereafter? Which after Indeed #poetry

Only through Alienation Is being found Possible Veritable Strangers At every turn Language unknown Conceptual Reality Not shared Or recognized Refugees of A wilderness Only known To Earthlings #poetry #vss #writingcommunity

True places elude Even the best psychonauts Broken gates hang loose Path fading into the night The Way littered with sorrow #tanka #poetry #writerscommunity #zen

Paid the Fare and Dialed in The hologram For Metropolitan Mountains Relaxed into The experience Of an Earth No longer Remembered Except in Data banks On distant Stations Completely Out of Context In an attempt To keep Lonely androids Happy #poetry #sci-fi

Seriousness Of it all Often too much In need of Deflection Or at least Someone Jocular enough To bring A balanced Levity to An otherwise Morose event Laughter Delivered well In an effort To make A good cry Worthwhile #poetry #writingcommunity

Door hanging From broken hinge Creaking In the wind Vines invading Through windows Gone missing Voices speaking From years past Echoing down The ages Yearning to be Heard The word ghost Never said Out loud They don't Even know That their ashes Are gone #writingcommunity #poetry

Lost words Found loosely By the road Reminiscent Of those Normally encountered Hanging out in Dictionaries Or in long sentences Spoken by Important people But somewhat Tarnished now In need of A little polish Before being Repurposed Into likely Poems Of happenstance #poetry #vss #poem

Misunderstood But still Love The addition Of apples And oranges Difficult and Only possible Temporarily Why me? Because your eyes Met mine For six full seconds Too many #poetry #vss

Just an early Morning walk Through Familiar wood In hope of A thoughtful Harvest Pen and paper Patiently Waiting For a hand That might Be willing To write a few Interesting Words Delivered From a mind Still a little lost Somewhere In the fog #poetry #writerscommunity

The illusion Of difference Only suggesting Rough duality Shades of gray Fade away Toward an unknown Horizon The morality Of nothing No gods watching An empty heart And fearful mind Craving difference Company of another Lends contrast So that night And morning also Are welcomed #poetry #vss #poem

Last of April Doesn't know It is gone Moon hangs Just watching Reasons and Seasons Given as gifts Excuses maybe When bright Time slips Minds bend Hoping it Will last Owl calls softly Treetops Sway with grace These days The best Though not Endless

Undertones Of owl In a forest Deep Northside Thick moss Everywhere New growth Amongst The decay Moisture In the air Palpable And squirrels Gliding from Tree to tree Ignoring The stranger In their midst While gathering Acorns for The morrow #poetry

Length of creek Only measured By the water No longer there Miles mean Nothing at all To salamander And crayfish Or the sound Of babbling Over slick Rocks forgotten As long as a Piece of string And then just A little more #poetry

Tattered jeans And unkempt Tussled hair With no fear Of being Inadequate Street having Taught most Of the lessons Required Shade tree And an old Paperback book Usually Just enough To manage Contentedly The right music Drifting from Somewhere else Likely a cosmic Coincidence #poetry

Wind in treetop blow Crisp leaves a bit in tatters Lost thoughts hanging on #haiku #poetry

Short story Repeated often Just to make Fiction fact A better history Unavailable So the telling Adds truth To something Only imagined Wake up Work hard Go to sleep Embellishment So obviously Required #poetry #vss

In the depths Of a shallow mind Betwixt the lust And hunger Underneath Tiny thoughts and Pettiness too Nothing really Of great import Grandios ideas As well as Silly wants and Earthly desire A plethora of Words also that do not Intentionally rhyme #poetry

Floors of Quarter sawn Red #oak Beneath feet For pacing Front window To back door To stare and Contemplate Meaning Of a life Already lived Hardwood Laid down Same year As Birth But just An acorn Two centuries Before that Grateful for Warmth of Bare soles Always On their way #poetry

Drinks by The creek Old buildings With no Memory Of water Long past Swallowed By a forest Only seen Through Brick filled Sleepy eyes Stairs ascending Presumably Somewhere Away #poetry

What leaf Blow away On wind Afar So high Just to see Over mountain Further A wandering From tree With hope to know The world On lawn land Somewhere Waiting rakefully To be gathered #poetry

Old house So many years Abandoned Down the path Behind the school Almost to Kissing rock Rumored to Be haunted But mostly A good place To hang out After class Smoking and Joking Or telling Ghost stories About kids Gone missing Never to be Seen again #poetry

Thoroughly alone In the deep midst of nowhere A desolate wind #haiku #poetry

True intentions Always obscured Actual motives Just a shadow Roughly shoving This way and that Destination A mystery Lesson learned Through Manifestation Of destiny Claim of free will Mostly sincere #poetry