Poems by JakTrakstag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-16354502011-09-20T13:16:18-05:00So I can see where I've been . . . life, humor, ideas, nature, etc.TypePadJust A Momenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834015391c08ea0970b2011-09-20T13:16:18-05:002011-09-20T13:16:18-05:00sunlight falls through the window onto my arm on the arm of a chair, lays soft and warm, my rumpled shirt sleeve made a brief...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/09/just-a-moment.htmlA Still Lifetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c4883401543587f487970c2011-09-18T12:14:55-05:002011-09-18T12:14:55-05:00the oak TV tray holds a still life, a catalog of Great Courses topped by a book about energy coherence held closed by a pair...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/09/a-still-life.htmlSecret Sowingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e89670c3b970d2011-06-26T12:07:12-05:002011-06-26T12:07:12-05:00you have to step into the futility in order to bear it, to see what it guards: a garden of all you've planted - wild...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/06/secret-sowing.htmlTo at Least Wade tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c4883401538e7fce1e970b2011-05-15T10:41:04-05:002011-05-15T10:41:12-05:00upon all strips of sand-land water leans forward only to pull back - a tease - receding tides a finger curling toward its mysterious self...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/05/at-least-wade.htmlso I said, tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e8863f73d970d2011-05-12T13:49:50-05:002011-05-12T13:49:59-05:00so then I said, "are you kidding me? after all the searching I've done all I've discovered is there is nothing to search for what's...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/05/how-i-loved-finding-here-and-therecookies-of-insight-leading-me-closer-to-truefrom-mini-fulfillment-to-mini-fulfillmenti.html6 Weeks Laid-off tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e88263f30970d2011-04-29T09:23:51-05:002011-04-29T09:24:02-05:00last night I woke and wondered why I wasn't nervous shouldn't I be without a job lacking any mapped direction following instinct happily now this...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/04/6-weeks-laid-off-poetry-poems.htmlI Just Feel Like Rhyming tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e881bf40a970d2011-04-27T11:28:49-05:002011-04-27T11:29:00-05:00I would like to write a poem, to give some words a brand new home to relate with one another, sister noun and rhyming brother....jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/04/i-just-feel-like-rhyming-poetry.htmlAfter Filing Taxes (5 Days Early) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c4883401538ddf8895970b2011-04-15T10:09:46-05:002011-04-15T10:09:53-05:00cool breeze, warm sun, clear marble of blue above, a united nations of bird song; I noticed the tree buds swollen, ready to pop, spread...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/04/after-filing-taxes-5-days-early-poetry-poems.htmlJust This Oncetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c488340148c7960320970c2011-04-10T13:03:28-05:002011-04-10T13:03:28-05:00saw my psychiatrist and asked her for a pill to change me into a different person not entirely but someone fearless minus OCD twitches or...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/04/saw-my-psychiatristand-asked-her-for-a-pillto-change-meinto-a-different-person-not-entirelybut-someone-fearlessminus-ocd-twi.htmlEquanimitytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c488340147e1e1c3f4970b2011-04-10T12:55:36-05:002011-04-10T12:55:36-05:00Sunlight lays a cool hand across my blue-jeaned knees, I shiver, leaving Mocha Joe curled undisturbed on my cozy throw, how few days the weather...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/04/sunlight-lays-a-cool-handacross-my-kneesi-shiver-leaving-mocha-joecurled-undisturbedon-the-throw-how-few-days-theweather.htmlNever-ending Escape tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c488340147e380382b970b2011-03-27T14:31:45-05:002011-04-10T12:49:37-05:00in emptiness sad is acceptable, softer and clearer than first we interpret, it hovers at the Earth's horizon wherever you live, belonging to the world...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/03/in-emptiness-sad-is-acceptablesofter-and-clearer-than-first-we-interpretit-hovers-at-the-earths-horizonwhere-ever-you-live.htmlRabbitstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c488340147e37ff9b2970b2011-03-27T13:42:29-05:002011-03-27T13:39:17-05:00Oh so quick, oh so fast - one direction never lasts for very long, this way that, hind legs pumping lithe and strong. Fashioned to...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/03/rabbits.htmlSea Turtlestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e87000dd0970d2011-03-27T12:45:44-05:002011-03-27T12:44:44-05:00The female swims many hundreds of miles to drop eggs on the sands of her own birth, clumsy on land but a grace through salt...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/03/sea-turtles.htmlNothing To Hide Behind tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c488340147e2e0659a970b2011-03-24T18:08:22-05:002011-03-24T18:08:29-05:00That couple, when they bit the fig of a foreign idea the world was made for hiding, perhaps some inkling other than love - snuffed...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/03/the-imaginationrides-with-the-rights-and-respectafforded-the-feminineeven-though-nothing-is-bornanywhere-else-when-that-coup.htmlHeart Rhythms tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e5ffe7a03970c2011-03-22T19:33:36-05:002011-03-22T19:33:45-05:00My heart rhythm is in three-quarter time, the pace of a flowing waltz lilting so lightly there is barely an accent; circles spiral over the...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/03/heart-rhythms-my-heart-rhythm-is-in-three-quarter-time-the-pace-of-a-flowing-waltz-lilting-so-lightly-there-is-barely-an-ac.htmlBefore tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e86d929e6970d2011-03-20T13:49:56-05:002011-03-20T13:50:02-05:00Looking down I saw the left one untied, the lace two cat tails rhythmically thwapping shoe and street. Like pants dropped to the ankles, time...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/03/before.html3/4 Time tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e86343d74970d2011-02-20T18:32:48-06:002011-02-20T18:32:55-06:00When I entrain to the box-step of the busy-ness world, and only despair softens the fear, I have left Vienna and need return, my heart...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/02/34-time.htmlSky Sweep tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c48834014e5f31d74d970c2011-02-13T10:27:25-06:002011-02-13T10:27:35-06:00it always feels good - after I vacuum, the tracked litter and cat hair snatched-up from the dark carpet, I tell my cats no more...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/02/sky-sweep.htmlMorning After Blizzard tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c488340147e2540ad7970b2011-02-06T13:30:38-06:002011-02-06T13:30:49-06:00the white world outside my window a meditation -- like when you close your eyes during stress-laden days at work and take a deep slow...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/02/morning-after-blizzard.htmlSlippery Moments tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5521411c488340148c7eaaa71970c2011-01-23T11:53:48-06:002011-02-20T18:38:01-06:00I released my crows into the the bright morning, my doves into a moonless night, now, at twilight and pre-dawn, dove and crow wink pearlescent...jaktrakshttp://jaktrak.typepad.com/traks/2011/01/slippery-moments-poems-poetry.html