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2013-05-16 18:36:02 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 29 +1s)

Thanks to everyone for all the plusses and kind comments. I am off on a necessary break from posting and will be back when the skies clear up again. All the best to each of you.

2013-05-16 17:00:03 (8 comments, 6 reshares, 65 +1s)

[where it happened] - [on a break from posting]

I tried not to notice -
as the quiet spaces widened ...
and perhaps what I really feared,
was hoping she might be real ...
but on a sunday it happened -
and as the fog crept in ...
I thought to myself -
maybe this is where,
I lost her.

2013-05-14 17:04:37 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 53 +1s)

[anticipation]

revisiting the moments
that created a connection
simply thinking happily
of this building anticipation

2013-05-12 01:11:29 (13 comments, 5 reshares, 67 +1s)

[hear her whisper]

just when I think
I am beyond believing it
when I almost lose
the will to wish for love
the moonlight breaks
like a silver knife
through sorrows cloud
and there in between
the beats of my heart
I hear her whisper

2013-05-08 13:25:51 (18 comments, 1 reshares, 113 +1s)

[declarations of spring] - [away from g+ for a bit]

washes of crimson
and a rapidly setting sun
declarations of spring

2013-05-05 13:49:44 (11 comments, 12 reshares, 103 +1s)

[waiting for the summer]

it was barely audible
what the stars heard being whispered
but in that instant they knew
why he was waiting for the summer

2013-05-01 18:08:22 (19 comments, 5 reshares, 137 +1s)

[a single moment of spring]

perched in his tree
the blackbird stood watch
unwilling to miss
a single moment of spring

2013-04-29 16:49:50 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 62 +1s)

[sunday styles]

warm weather emerging
leading to another season
of purely sunday styles

2013-04-29 12:37:15 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 69 +1s)

[reasons to love the spring] - [for shoes monday]

I almost missed them
but I quickly remembered
just some of the reasons
for loving the spring!

A little something special with the color retained for #shoesmonday ! Sometimes color just insists on itself, this is one of those, and for me, one of my favorite #shoesmonday  offerings so far. As always this is dedicated to our wonderful curators! +Laura Harding +Mee Ming Wong +Olga Kafka +Terry Fabre +Shoes Monday +Erwin Vindl +Thomas Andersen +Paul Wright 

2013-04-29 12:20:46 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 69 +1s)

[form versus function] - [for shoes monday]

two sisters standing
waiting for the light to turn
on in favor of form
the other focused on function

This first of two offerings for this weeks  #shoesmonday - A shiny start to what hopefully will be a beautiful spring week. A shout out goes to themes talented curators!!!+Laura Harding +Mee Ming Wong +Shoes Monday +Terry Fabre +Olga Kafka +Erwin Vindl +Thomas Andersen +Paul Wright Thanks! for keeping this such a fun an vibrant theme!

2013-04-27 08:39:28 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 74 +1s)

[all the rain]

like wavelengths
of silver
sometimes the light
finds even us
and for a time
we can breathe
yet there is always
or so it seems
and end to
those kinds of summers
where fall is
the briefest
of all whispers
and like taxes
there is the cold
and even when winter
finally lets go
there's just something
about the spring
that reminds us
that all the rain
in the world
won't ever really
wash our secrets away

2013-04-25 15:14:50 (23 comments, 3 reshares, 105 +1s)

[spring in the fen]

exhausted for a time,
the fen woke from sleep ...
roused by the hope,
of the sun's warmth -
lingering on its face ...

2013-04-25 02:01:21 (10 comments, 4 reshares, 94 +1s)

[I heard her sing]

maybe it's just,
the fool in my heart -
or maybe its because,
of everything I've seen ...
but last night,
she made me cry -
while I was sleeping ...
and only because,
I heard her sing ...
In a dream.

2013-04-24 03:26:56 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 107 +1s)

[afterlight] - [after the song by tamaryn]

the flowers of all love spent in vain
are never the same as they seemed
the silver is severing their plain
petals distinct to fade away

now they wilt forever
nothing come through
afterlight

come on the hunger following
now that it's plain enough to see
the dirt on the veil of ecstasy
in temporal hours turn to leaves

wilted as the flower
where nothing come through
Tamaryn - Afterlight

2013-04-22 13:36:10 (15 comments, 2 reshares, 99 +1s)

[a break into spring] - [for shoes monday]

past the grasping fingers
of winters last proclivities
with steps towards may
she found her way at last
off towards a break into spring

+Shoes Monday +Laura Harding +Mee Ming Wong +Terry Fabre +Olga Kafka +Erwin Vindl +Paul Wright +Thomas Andersen 

#shoesmonday

2013-04-20 23:05:08 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 77 +1s)

[you lost your cause]
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Rise or Fall

Please don't suffer 
Gotta just make it quick
You thought you had it 
You don't now what it takes to beg
You lost your cause 
You lost your time to kill
You won't matter much 
When they all got their feel

Mothers teach you to crawl
Fathers teach you to rise or fall
Mothers grieve for a son
Fathers teach you 
"You're on your own"

I won't quiver 
I don't squirm a sweat
You lost our gun you got 
Nothing to make a fist
Incinerator 
I'll just flip a switch
Forget we did it 
And you and I will face this hell


All my fears awakening
I've let them back
All this flash before my eyes
I never had
Where's your consultation?
Now listenflies more »

2013-04-18 18:38:45 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 62 +1s)

[april showers] - [all indications]

a biting april wind,
gnaws at our hands...
leaving us little choice
but to admit to ourselves -
all indications point to...
several more weeks of rain

2013-04-17 08:56:01 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 83 +1s)

[some clear shelter]

on a sidewalk
seeking to curry favor
with a chilling rain
a stranger found
some clear shelter
beneath the transparent
shelter of an umbrella

2013-04-14 21:55:38 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 77 +1s)

[for shoes monday] - [slightly amused]

he met her suggestion
with a slightly amused smile
another sunday shopping

Something simple for this week's contribution to #shoesmonday . So to +Shoes Monday +Laura Harding +Olga Kafka +Terry Fabre +Mee Ming Wong +Thomas Andersen +Erwin Vindl +Paul Wright Happy Monday! [a little early!]

2013-04-14 20:08:24 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 68 +1s)

[to the trend]

disembodied thought
gray reaches of dissolution
submission to the trend

2013-04-13 13:15:26 (18 comments, 2 reshares, 111 +1s)

[a dissonant spring]

too many snowflakes
are perplexing the robins
too many gray days
have left the trees without buds
too many weeks to blooming
have left us all feeling the effects
of a clearly dissonant spring

2013-04-12 01:33:10 (8 comments, 5 reshares, 106 +1s)

[holding still]

there are days
that hold to silence
that leave me 
memories of a legacy
that render me
incapable of more
than holding still

2013-04-09 10:43:22 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 74 +1s)

[down a black pier]

down a black pier
where no one sees
I found my city
and named her solitude

2013-04-08 00:44:38 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 72 +1s)

[black steps and shadows] - [for shoes monday]

the sounds of midnight
echo on the darkened streets
black steps and shadows

Winter abates and once again, there's so much to see... and so for this week here's my contribution to Shoes Monday as curated by +Laura Harding +Mee Ming Wong +Olga Kafka +Terry Fabre +Erwin Vindl +Paul Wright +Thomas Andersen  #shoesmonday  
Happy Shoes Monday Everyone!

2013-04-06 15:13:37 (20 comments, 8 reshares, 101 +1s)

[particles]

on the horizon
we stand off from shore
particles derided
for having managed
to fall hilariously
from the stars

2013-04-06 09:16:52 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 78 +1s)

[silver cathedral]

broken planes of silver
slip past me without regard
the kind of silence
familiar amidst the restless
the bells of dissonance
that ring in this empty lectern
this laughable mess of dreams
this cathedral in my head

2013-04-04 19:12:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 82 +1s)

[back among the haunted]

driven,
like a nail -
towards realization ...
the spirit,
entered again -
past jagged panes ...
finding comfort,
in being home -
among the haunted.

2013-04-03 18:33:53 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 134 +1s)

[back into a storm]

drawn out from the horizon
by promised days of kindness -
the spirit found contradictions ...

distrusting easy assertions
it took note of the receding sun -
and a building angry wind ...

familiar with the conditions
it felt darkness tap its scepter -
and turned back into a storm.

2013-04-01 00:18:35 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 63 +1s)

[back to monday]

After a long, winter induced hiatus, I made a point of getting out in the city, so I could get back to contributing to my favorite theme! so this goes out to all my fellow #shoesmonday peeps!!!! ...  +Shoes Monday  +Laura Harding  +Terry Fabre +Olga Kafka  +Mee Ming Wong +Thomas Andersen +Erwin Vindl +Paul Wright 

2013-03-28 15:17:29 (19 comments, 4 reshares, 125 +1s)

[back to black] - [the crevices]

from the window
I watched her leave
on a day where
even the rain disappeared
falling into the crevices
where her convictions
drained out like blood

Cold Showers - Violent Cries

2013-03-27 15:29:39 (53 comments, 34 reshares, 261 +1s)

[back to black] - [two black stars]

do you remember 
the way it was that summer?
when everything we did
felt so entirely perfect -
like there was only us?
and everything whispered
that we were simply 
two black stars -
slipping reality
into a dream.

Cold Showers - Alight

2013-03-26 09:15:00 (11 comments, 5 reshares, 130 +1s)

[new work] - [ a cold haiku]

against cold promises
fiercely driven stinging drops
a straight line she walks

2013-03-25 22:37:01 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 59 +1s)

[new work] - [gather the violets]

an angel approached me
trailing stars in a torrid quiver
and flames licked its shoulders

with a voice of broken strings
stretching between trembling stars
the angel asked me a question

and what would it be?
that you would have me do
if I were to grant you that wish?

that wish you whispered
on a sullen night in the summer
when you pleaded for another kiss?

go into the forest messenger!
and gather there all the violets
and lay them naked at her feet

2013-03-25 17:26:00 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 85 +1s)

[new work] - [dark larceny]

by halting staggered shadows
and careening petulant moonbeams
her memory ended with an elegy
and love bequeathed her larceny

2013-03-24 14:25:37 (14 comments, 10 reshares, 109 +1s)

[new work] - [with certainty]

a collapsing thought
turned a dream - inside out
and when providence asked
was it worth - all of the rain?
she grabbed a strand of her hair
and said yes - with certainty

2013-03-24 01:57:17 (13 comments, 7 reshares, 103 +1s)

[new work] - [a jealous sun]

diffident stars
black trains - come midnight
the gentle larceny
my eyes -  can not deny
as moonlight
streamed in - like the echo
of one purely
swiftly falling - jealous sun

Sin Cos Tan - In Binary

2013-03-23 18:15:06 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 95 +1s)

[new work] - [call it reverie]

call it reverie
this dance of souls
where blithe darkness
discomfits the dreamers
as easily as nightmares
upset our children
where what we know
fades in the staggering
long black shadows
of one perfect night

Michael McDermott - Dance With Me

2013-03-23 03:08:05 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 84 +1s)

[the small things] - [a poem of winter] - [from the archives]

how gently met
the moonlight calls -
upon the maiden
who bears the stars ...
whose every step
lands without a sound -
whose gentle ways
leave not yet a trace

2013-03-22 03:02:18 (17 comments, 3 reshares, 78 +1s)

[in silence kept] - [quotation by charlotte bronte] - [from the archives]

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

2013-03-18 16:12:40 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 81 +1s)

[remembering manhattan] - [number five] - [in eclipse]

maybe proust was right
when he talked about memories
and maybe we don't really lose them
and they are but momentarily - in eclipse.

2013-03-17 23:50:43 (15 comments, 2 reshares, 103 +1s)

[remembering manhattan] - [number four] - [a broken song]

when the storms come,
to the island of these dreams.
the streets fall asleep,
and time just ceases to be.
and all you can remember,
is how what was a symphony ...
is now just - a broken song

2013-03-16 14:54:15 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 82 +1s)

[remembering manhattan] - [number three] - [apartment story]
The National - "Apartment Story"

be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on
can you carry my drink?
I have everything else, I can tie my tie all by myself
I'm getting tired, I'm forgetting why

oh, we're so disarming, darling, everything we did believe
is diving, diving, diving, diving off the balcony
tired and wired, we ruin too easy
sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave

hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours
while it sings to itself or whatever it does
when it sings to itself of its long lost loves
I'm getting tied, I'm forgetting why

tired and wired, we ruin too easy
sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave
but I'll be with you behind the... more »

2013-03-15 03:32:48 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 85 +1s)

[remembering manhattan] - [number two] - [anyone's ghost]
The National - Anyone's Ghost

say you stayed at home
alone with the flu
find out from friends
that wasn't true
go out at night with your headphones on, again
and walk through the manhattan valleys of the dead

didn't want to be your ghost
didn't want to be anyone's ghost
didn't want to be your ghost
didn't want to be anyone's ghost

but I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else

you said I came close
as anyone's come
to live underwater
for more than a month
you said it was night inside my heart, it was
you said it should tear a kid apart, it does

didn't want to be your ghost
didn't want to be anyone's ghost
didn't want to be your ghost... more »

2013-03-15 03:30:43 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 87 +1s)

[remembering manhattan] - [number one] - [urban strategy]

daylight dissolved
into veils woven in gray
shadows and memory
calling to mind the need
for a momentary urban strategy

2013-03-12 23:21:15 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 75 +1s)

[urban encryption]

strung like strings of static
through the body of a hollow guitar
the scenes of the city emerged
and left the sidewalks slightly dazed

2013-03-11 17:06:47 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 68 +1s)

[rain into spring] - [number four] - [whispers of april]

the wind
still struck a chill
the rain
still reduced to frost
and yet
on a corner in the city
I am certain
that I heard in the air
whispers of april