Shark Attack

This is a crostic poem. The first letter of each line or stanza spells out what it’s about. On a cell phone it will show as a stanza and on laptop as a single line. I’ve been playing around with words for decades. This particular approach is one of my favorite ways to create a piece. You may see more of it!

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Deep within the dark abyss with light only from dying carcasses and phosphorescence

Exists the body of a shark once swimming omnipotent and with tough thick skin

Prominently now slipping away into puffs of cloudy gray sinew and flesh

Ripped painlessly away from bone by smaller glowing beings hungry for a piece of her

Even her eyes wide shut cannot deflect the tiniest of bites at her flesh

Settling now into blobs of eroding rotting powerlessness upon the ocean floor

Succumbing now to fate gone awry in the most horrific of ways

Ironically the hunter now the prey feeding the ravenous creatures she once chased

Only to have her fins and innards torn at like silk on nails

Nearing nothingness the shark no longer felt the sea flowing past

The Fade of Magic

“…blazing light blinding on…”

sometimes magic fades from places we once found profoundly mystical
spanning spaces of the heart
treating nostalgia like
once-upon-a-time gods

….rabbit pulled out of a hat
…. magician’s wand cracks
….picking the wrong card
….merlin trips on his robes

….the saw blade actually draws blood

forest for the trees slowly reveal
themselves breaking the spell of
enchantment with inferno opus
blazing light blinding on

gatherings from recent

long agos
still lingering in air

but losing ground
just as leaves cling with fortitude,
hopeful for just a bit longer,
eventually, we learn to let go

and in our falling we realize we can fly

Good Mornings Gone: Aftermath of Arguement

She missed the mornings when hello was the first thing on his mind

The soft dawn breaking just beyond the tall redwoods seemed so dark of late

With the shadows resting
in heart shattered overcoming the light temporarily

She thought of how in earlier days his hands could hardly get enough of her

Now, it seemed, he fumbled and played a role off Broadway

Gentle good finding itself lost in the ways and means of life gone for naught forgotten

Crashing onto the forest floor like a pine cone shaken loose from its thimbled gnarled branch

Ebbing far and few between now those hellos seemed empty and forced

She found sitting now on the deck of her abode alone

Save for the birds and sleepy bees with wet wings lost and heavier among hum of season’s first pounding rain

Her lover was miles away drifted by the pushing of her erratic mood and tears wanting her near him the way she once was before after new beginnings of honey and moonshine

She felt lost, in this sea of sorrow with its steely coolness upon her skin though culpable in palpable pain

Discomfort though oh-so-so-familiar this boned handling cutting like a well forged buck knife with stains and divets left to rust

Taunting her happiness like a jester in court quietly laughing to himself, a bluejay sits screeching and cackling watching over all of this just a joke of all jokes

Only she was no longer laughing.

The Proposal

“…heaven sees fit and the heart is true…”

Asking with open hands on bended knee if I’m worthy of this greatest love
Never settling for the many meandering lyrics of voices
Answering prayers on the radio
Waking up spirit with clarity
To the tune of a bell times three
Pleading proverbs entrapped by the counsel of men denying god and heaven scent messages
A Receiving flows over me like a warm blanket
trials and tribulations lifted accountability to the father belief trusts the path will clear from bramble
Returning to the fold of comfort and joy under light and a sign of despair if it’s made in demand the answer may be no.
If the will of heaven sees fit and the heart is true, may my prayers be answered become reality. Blessed be.