Someone Should Remember
someone
should remember
stone scratchings
primordial echoes
tattoo'd heavenly bodies
on limestone and slate
symbols and suggestions
an epic hunting trip
fades in the light
from being looked upon
under heavy breath
papyrus and pulp
printed and pressed
historical script
ideological how-to's
scribbles dissolved
with rough touch
tephra, dirty fingernails
raindrops and wind
inflexible binary
it is either yes or no
nay signalled
by an absence
of the one
complexity
defeats duality
with variability
infinite scrolling
immortal truths
faded tattoos
inked in red shift
deciphered by time
mirrors and distance
a very close look
dusty scratchings
predawn echoes
lost to twilight's
sundowning
still, someone
should remember
Boggy Regrets
figures of speech
far from straight-forward
full of assumptions and dark turns
driving conclusions
potential complications
it’s a Victorian thing
to never say what you mean
but take aim and shoot
she’s not in the mood
but says …
please keep in touch
cynical insight tells you
you’ve left her …
bitter and burnt-out
fall into the drink
indulge, well, really I shouldn’t
in intentional tongue lashes
letting the cat of the bag
and Freudian slips
trip on your phrasing
delight in the hit
swan about the lagoon
of I’ll say what I mean
and say what I want
go ahead
stick out your neck
give a good squawk
come ashore
sober up, hang over
fill up on sorrow and inhibitions
and drown in the quagmire
of your boggy regrets
*Published in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels and is available in paperback and #kindle from Amazon.
Nightmares to Lucidity
a tide away
from the sea
of lucid dreaming
is a range of shifting shoals
moonlight and waves
shadows and starlight
create a world of illusions
the voice inhabiting the ribbed-sands
will tell you
you have awakened
the realm you have emerged from
was imaginary
imaginary and full of monsters ...
turn back
fight the leviathans and gorgons
it demands, or fall asleep again
wake-up the sleeping beauties
and somnambulist narcissists
before they fall deeper still
into the sinuous grasp of serpents
enemies are everywhere
reject and fight
hide or flee
go ahead
feed terror and anger
joust with windmills
save the world
I ask you
how can you be awake
if you are still living a nightmare
all existence is based on illusions
the perceptions and preferences
the fears and insecurities
of beings contained
within the formless mind
sub-atomic space
collisions and contrast
experienced as solid
who do you save
when the tentacled limb
you lob up is your own
the connection unseen and ethereal
how will you run
when there is no solid land
to find firm footing
no place
outside yourself
you are only ever dreaming
you have gained awareness
when your enemies
have transformed from foes
to creatures of wonder
ask yourself
why do you create this way
perhaps then
you might truly wake-up
and soon discover
there is no need to
shift your reality
from nightmares
to lucidity
*Published in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels and available from Amazon in paperback and digital.
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