PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

clearly decided

while mildly discontent

two near fanciful notions

I have much too fondly

grown to respect

and its such a profoundly

personal knowledge

but one that somehow still

lacks

indeed so very much clarity

which forces me to concede

that I must continue to revisit this

'the incomplete thought'

as there is such incredible beauty

in one's fear

it glimmers brightly

but only just so

usually lurking rather mysteriously

in the haunted cavity of the eyes

by a small torturous preoccupation

perhaps

but its a crushing travesty for the soul

woven with the brutal on rush of unshed tears

so a fool would be wise to tuck tale such

knowledged woe

and note that upon occasion

I am such said fool

playing my out of tune trumpet

in the meadow of quiet

though I am one weened all too generously

upon a poet's necessary displeasures

and the reaping is in the writing

itself you see

just as the sewing requires

only the finest threads from the soul

so in not so short

I shall write

until there are no more threads left in

me to thatch

joyously destroyed

shall be mine mortal being

then only before God

shall I fully readdress my intent and life's

meaning

and perhaps

this time

he will find me more pleasing

since my faith spreads spring time seeds

of unsoiled muse

upon vast plains I have yet to even gaze

upon clearly

I am at last glance

almost spoiled in my blessings

which in an odd term of strangled conflict

confirms for me

that God indeed must have

a superior sense of humor............

(Aug. 28,1998)