Dreams of White Shores

Skies

2013-04-18T08:56:00.000-07:00

Just another day,

Chance to laugh and play,

Can’t recall the time,

When I felt the rhyme,

Fell a slight behind,

Ducked out of the lime,

Please forgive the climb,

Let’s soar into the skies.

Vice

2013-01-05T11:01:00.001-08:00

Vice, terrible ice,

Frozen in the bone,

Lice, terrible mice,

Infests the soul.

Nice, call it twice,

Knife of folly,

Dice, cut it thrice,

Path to poverty.

Rice!

All that’s left,

Concise!

Debt to robbery.

Scattered

2013-01-05T11:00:00.001-08:00

A little lore,

Tale to tell,

Fading interest,

The eyes fell.

Ring with truth,

So often knell,

Ignore alarm,

Warning bell.

Sleeping fool,

Could have learned,

Avoid the gifts,

Scattered now.

Numbers

2013-01-05T10:59:00.001-08:00

Allegory for life,

Example of choice,

Too many teachers,

Not enough voice.

Make the same mistakes,

Saw them come again,

Learned once before,

Why is at the door?

Could I start again?

Reset the hunger,

Should I err again,

Do the numbers.

Death

2013-01-05T10:58:00.002-08:00

Why do we love you,

Shade of our fear?

Run we far away,

Yet often jeer.

So often preoccupied,

Through the day to year,

Visit you often in our minds,

Though often near.

Celebrate and fear,

Don’t it seem a little queer?

Hate you and love you,

Death, human’s tear.

Taught

2013-01-05T10:57:00.000-08:00

I life once lived,

Begin to end,

Makes the soul to pause,

Reflect within.

What was right and wrong,

Choices made before,

Light my way today,

Wisdom from the start.

You didn’t live in vain,

Though many hath forgot,

Little did you know,

Biography, that you taught.

Cycle

2013-01-05T10:55:00.002-08:00

Cycle around we go,

Every dip to rise,

Hopes seldom die,

Dark only by the light.

Renewal to come,

Just a passing thing,

Today must fall,

Tomorrow springs.

Calm the troubled heart,

All has been before,

A moment settled now,

Begins the newest start.

Wake

2013-01-05T10:54:00.003-08:00

Windy month,

Creeping in the bones,

Cast the gray paler,

Need the light.

Few smiles,

Faces hewn rock,

Cough to see the life,

Grim dreams.

Hurry past,

Season of death,

Close your eyes,

Wake with spring.

Creaking

2013-01-05T10:53:00.002-08:00

Haunted melody,

Clicking wheels,

Red light glow,

Murmured words.

Always going somewhere,

Shivering coats,

Close-eyed dog,

Fallen paper.

Back and forth,

Shuffle on,

Rhythm of life,

Creaking train.

Battles

2013-01-05T10:51:00.002-08:00

Desperate times,

Fight to hold,

Rain falling,

Tear stained.

Cherished ones,

Hearts aglow,

Warrior marches,

Battles lost.

Trudge on,

Light the way,

Patience test,

Shadows at bay.

Page

2013-01-04T10:45:00.003-08:00

Little idea,

Turning of the page,

Fill in the colors,

Woven in the lines.

Just a picture formed,

Opened up the mind,

Excited expectation,

Formed another time.

Story in the work,

Colors blazed alight,

Voices in the dark,

Adventure upon the right.

Welcome

2013-01-01T00:26:00.003-08:00

Winding down,
The clock ticking,
Last bell of the year,
Hearts beating.

What was said and done,
Few remain,
Forgiving to the past,
Looking ahead.

We welcome it again,
Chance for renewal,
Shouldn't need the wait,
Leaf turning for the good.

City

2012-12-30T13:11:00.001-08:00

City lights blink,
Chill of the evening,
People going somewhere,
Others without a care.

Contemplate a problem,
Listen a fair share,
We aren't much different,
Questions everywhere.

A moment to sit back,
Glasses half full,
Red glow of heat,
Comradery.

Sleeping

2012-12-27T07:39:00.001-08:00

Cries in the night,
Had a bad dream,
Why did you leave me?
Can't you see the weeping?

Scoot over for me,
Make a kid some room,
Hold but not too close,
Forgive the flailing.

Feeling better now,
Slept so soundly,
Whats the matter daddy?
Why haven't you been sleeping?

Sway

2012-12-27T07:34:00.001-08:00

Frustrated fancies,
Plans to tatter,
Pushed at the wall,
They don't shatter.

Many a star in the sky,
Dancing in their course,
Hard as I try,
Not around you or I.

Sipping at the coffee,
So much for scheming,
Tried to bend the time,
The world still holds sway.

Prick

2012-12-20T16:27:00.000-08:00

Self righteous quip,
What a trick,
None acquit,
Home of the nit!

We aren't dead,
All carry lead,
So many in the red,
Common path tread.

Conscience to prick,
Food to the wit,
Truth to be writ,
Pride of the twit!

Tokens

2012-12-20T15:07:00.002-08:00

Four hundred days,
Three hundred too many,
Tokens of life,
Stolen for gold.

Only so many,
No account too large,
Tossed in a pool,
Lost to the dark.

Some for you,
To others impart,
How do we spend?
Dwell well on the art.

Indolence

2012-12-20T14:36:00.002-08:00

Poverty or wealth?
The choice seems clear,
For one the bitter cold,
The other little fear.

Yet wisdom on the table,
Intelligence be bartered,
Soundness of mind,
Let not be altered.

I'd rather the road,
Discernment remain,
To gilded chambers,
Upon indolence be laid.

The Shelf

2012-12-15T07:44:00.002-08:00

Echoes in the hallway,
Dancing memories,
Shadows on the wall,
The years have passed.

Too young to regret,
Old enough to know,
How dim the respect,
Time that has flown.

Reflection for tomorrow,
Joy in the moment,
Chapters carried with me,
Volumes to put on the shelf.

Reality

2012-12-12T07:10:00.001-08:00

A dream on hold,
Not so bad at times,
Growing up,
The hardest part of life.

Some say just survive,
More than that to do,
Living is giving at times,
The years speak it true.

A change of course advised,
Sometime a different berth,
Shelter from a storm,
The grim of reality.

Blame Game

2012-12-07T16:09:00.001-08:00

The blame game,
The name game,
Oh what are we to do?

For shame ma'am,
What a sham man,
Such a simple thing to use.

Take it in stride now,
Give a little wow pal,
Time to own up to what we do!

A Toast

2012-12-06T13:41:00.000-08:00

Every now and then a friend,
In the darkest mood it tends,
A word or three,
Sincerity to believe.

Just another hope,
A chance to give us scope,
Harsh on the fool,
The wise will think it cool.

Kindest suggestions,
Modest corrections,
Those we trust the most,
To the brave, a toast!

Good Behavior

2012-12-05T11:13:00.000-08:00

Never thought it much,
This call to good behavior,
Why make it such a crutch?
We didn't learn it from strangers!

To each their due,
Respect is mutual,
No crying at the door,
A simple plead for more.

A man is shown,
A woman too,
More or less by what they do,
From the heart it's true.

Pen and Page

2012-12-04T11:01:00.001-08:00

Flight of the keys,

A soft tapping in time,

Jotting down the reasons,

Putting in the rhyme.

An adjective placed,

Pictures set,

Just an explanation,

Directions meant.

Craft of the artist,

No little the waste,

Toss the idea or keep it,

The pen and the page.

Fancies

2012-12-03T18:37:00.001-08:00

Aspirations delayed,
Never say nay,
A time will come,
Dreams can stay young.

Just a choice here and there,
A life decided at a stroke,
No regrets here to tell,
Find the joy, not the joke!

Happiness in the heart,
At home from the start,
Fancies come and go,
Contentment, few will know.