Distant Bleach

The smell of distant bleach

On fresh cleaned linens

This is the hotel room

That we will attempt to live in

Faded carpets with old stains

Attempts to clean them

Have obviously gone in vain

Paisley and plaid hung drapery

Old recliners

While we make our escape

From the city

Old cigarette stains

Outside the door

From someone long before

Shower curtains white

Fluffy and snug

With clean towels hung

Next to the rug

Life lived in hotel rooms

Find a different way

Of saying hello

Enjoy your stay

Life Rock

I never did it for money

I never did it for fame

I built my house on a rock

At least that’s my claim

 

In people I invested

All of my blood sweat and tears

Despite many fears

We have grown

 

For anyone else out there

Afraid to give to others

What is theirs

Yet

Live and love

Was never ours to give

Freely gained

Freely lived

So throw out love recklessly

 

With no abandoned

Just hoping it finds a soul

To land on

 

In our darkest hour

We must remember

We are never alone
In the end we will find

Along this sometimes lonely walk

That if we have friends

We build life on a rock

The Dust Migration

How can dust exist in such plethora

Consuming humans in black filth

Penetrating apartments with stealth

What is the creator

The destroyer

Yet it plooms from every

Vehicle brimming black and burdened

From the backs of trucks

Tossed lightly into the air

To begin it journey

Destination unknown

Yet it flies just softly enough

Through the screens

Into our homes

Where it land

Collects friends

Possibly propagates

Until we have the motivation to cleanse

Purging our home from such creations

Out the shoot

And back into the circle

Of the dust migration

Minutes take Seconds

Arise

Awake

So much is at stake

Minutes take seconds

To change

In one instant

The hard work

Begins to rearrange your life

New opportunities await

Challenges left hurdled

In your wake

Do not sleep past the rising sun

The morning calls

Opportunity calls

Arise

Awake

 

Hails the Sun

The skyline hails the sun
In a stretch upwards
Calling the blue from the moon
Orange flecks gold over the estuary arm
Setting for the even
The empire reaches high and mighty
As the east river ferry barrels through
The wind stricken water
The brooklyn bridge reaches Manhattan
Strong and grounded
As planes launch from the ground
One world trade as new as a baby in the sky
Brooklyn in the back
Heralding the spring night
The rocks
Tucked with miss on the Brooklyn beach
On a Friday night
In New York City

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Congenial Misinformation

A pleasant mistep

Created from the onset

Of a morning awakening

Tired and straining

I arise

To drop my glasses

All in passing

I have been misinformed

Of today’s purpose and form

I try to go ahead with the day

But one turns to two

Two to three

Three to seven

It’s gone

No more time on the clock

Those days are hard as rocks

On my underbelly

I must arise now tomorrow

With purpose and control

Informed and ready to go

For as tomorrows sun is raising

I will forget yesterdays

Congenial Misinformation

Apartment Door

Rain falls

Hard as I can ever remember

My hair drips wet

Water balling up

In tiny circles

Falling on cold hands

As I reach

The apartment door

Small winding rivers

Create islands and shores

Staying dry is today’s chore

Blustering wind

And rain a little more

But I made it dry

To that apartment door