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When Still
Posted on Sunday, May 25th, 2008
A walk at dawn inspired this poem. What would I do if I did not live a couple of hundred yards from the ocean?
“When Still”
Would that I never
Tire of a sunrise,
That lava hot liquid
Oozing from a depth
Not seen but imagined,
In instant it creates
A rip between rain clouds
Above ripple green sea –
A distant flame that shines
Two dolphins to surface,
Four cormorants as they
Tip touch surf in melody,
A container ship long haul
To ports beyond expression –
All recognized when still.
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Caffeine Throttled
Posted on Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Sometimes I find that when my mind is weary a depth opens within that was previously overlooked.
“Caffeine Throttled”
I’m startled wide-awake
Long after I should sleep,
A mind caffeine-throttled
In conversation with you.
Next morning weariness dulls,
Fatigue rescues me from all
That cries for resolution –
I remain distant within.
Settled soft I catch a breeze,
Spy a lone dolphin submerge
Beneath the easy surf and
Gentle, hesitant sunrise.
What is harmony, peace, but
Yielding to consciousness,
From which the active mind is
Tossed – wrestled down contrite?
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