The Educated Branch

The ill-fated hum

Of a 4×4 truck

Settles in the distance

The United decisive blow

Given while the engine runs

Idle

To assume the worst

It’s in the title

The educated branch leans low

On day laced with regret

And pounding snow

 

Voraciously Free

Take it all in

The sense of free

One man free

Doesn’t have to be

Yours

In hours and moments

We define freedom

Consume freedom and spread

The letters tied

Down

In my head

 

Slow and Smooth

Write slow and smooth

All the unused phrases

Coming out in time

Hit the pen

Feel the rhyme

In coping with emotions

Happy and sad

Move the pen through feelings

Alive and dead

I hope that in the end

Finally

These words are read

 

The Medical Scatter

The medical scatter

Over the mountains and

Through the woods

Holding our health

While they could

Medical scatter

From denial chatter

Hope reservoirs pumped with dreams

It is true

Nothing is quite

As it seems

Let It Run

Arrogant yet animated

Release the coils

Of a foiled sofa

We all have our moments

But let it run

Alternative facts

Alternative sun

My life is mine

Yours

Your own

What we do

How we have grown