Entitled title
Is earned through
Commitment
To greed
And dishonestly
Dishonesty
Entitled title of my next poem
Should be
And is
For some in the main of streams
Believe entitled live
Are lived
Entitled title
Is earned through
Commitment
To greed
And dishonestly
Dishonesty
Entitled title of my next poem
Should be
And is
For some in the main of streams
Believe entitled live
Are lived
A blue tune
On the radio
I would not rather hear
As it simmers
In the distant background
Stirring up my head
And heart
This blue tune
Of me and you
Written too slow
To listen to
Tied to
My side
A tell tale
Ride
What learning can help me
Overcome
But what is learned
Must sometimes
Be undone
If we reach the truth
We teach the truth
If we fall short
We fill ears with wars of untruth
Can be me
Can’t be you
So strive for truth
Newness
Is it new
In the now
What has been done
What I learned from
Starting anew
Today it is due
To push farther
Run faster
For the now is due
In the face of time
I quiver
I walk
Away
Today
I
Face time
While
Heartedly
Aware
Of the passing of a figure
Unaware
Of time and place
Like my own mind
Unaware
The old wicker chair
Rests on the deck
Paint busted and worn
Summer town
Heat torn
The old wicker chair
Has remained a constant
In a changing world
All around us
The wicker chair remains the same
Face the fax machine
A worker from the past
Labeled into confusion
Now unused
Abusing
The old teller of tales
Gone away
And a deep water whale
Retreats into the ocean
Face the fax
And the fact is
We have moved on
A present
In the present
Tense
Can be tense
People angry
Remitting attention
Observant
Defiant
Presents given
Presents taken
How can we gift
To each others
When anger prevails
The wind in our sails
It must not be too often
But it happens
Now and then
When the lightning strikes
In the desert land
Crack like a crash
Upon the Hollywood Hills
The lightning struck
As it wills
Feel free to wait
For perfection
Or whatever your pursuit
Hope for the best
And trying to see it through
Some will laugh
At attempts made
But at least we are trying
Up here
Rather than sleeping in
The shade