(a series on human nature)
Betrayal
If you hadn’t been standing so close
I might have spotted the knife before it
Slid underneath the skin
Covering my heart.
Scorched Earth
Tag: poetry
Photographer’s Dilemma
Sunrise or moonset
Behind or ahead
We wait on a ridge
As sun wins by a smidge
Prairie Winter
A winter palette
Painted hues of seasons past
Bitter winds unleashed
White-washed mountains, whirling snow
Seeing more for seeing less
Her Shell…
I would never allow that, she says.
(She never thought she would either)
but normalcy is creeping.
Walk a mile in her shoes,
smile masking defeat.
Look past the shell,
past the barbs,
past the
front.
Mountain Sunrise…
Silently waiting
Capturing movement through space
Erotic, carnal
Chill of pre-dawn air yields to
Unwavering candescence
Linked…
Loved
Inspired
Nurtured
Kindred
Empathetic
Devoted
Relation…
ships
Entangled between wind and water
Broadside delivered, ballast shifts
Precarious stem to stern
Into the murky depths
Hopelessly befouled
Reaching, cutting
Float, weightless
Slipping
Free
Ebb…
and flow.
Time, unbroken, blurs the illusion
Quells the ocean, unveils its depths
Fragments reverberating
Turbulence, dissidence
Humanity wanes
Fading imprints
Swept away
Suppress
Shroud
The Woodland…
whispers.
The woodland whispers, why do you come
Snow swirls, swallowing every word
We’re both the same, you and I
Limbs laid bare, scarred and scorched.
Cunning artifice
Into the still
Black boneyard
Emerge
Soar
A Day in a…
covid winter.
Over landscape sculpted by winter
A veil cast of simplicity
Snow blanketing last fall’s leaves
Bracing wind, hunkered down
No voices ring out
Silence echoes
Tangled trees
Empty
Bench
