Posted in Poetry, Starts, tagged Life, Poetry on January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I count seven heads
eyes closed
mouths gaping
one drowning in Parkinson’s
cruelty
saliva spewing over lower lip
the doctors say little
one only with his stare
tremors control his body
his eyes sing in sadness
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if a lesser heart beat beneath my chest
the observations my eyes declare
would surely take my sanity
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Doom
if there are no do-overs in life
no immunity codes
to help me pass through [...]
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Posted in Poetry, tagged Life, Poetry on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
idle feet planting roots
stuck in a stalemate
with secondhand dreams
wants playing tug of war with irresolution
id vs ego
racing across the playground
catching hearts and scraping knees
up and down the emotional teeter-totter
like an rickety roller coaster
racing through her life
only to go nowhere
tracking back to the beginning
her world spinning
colors blending through glass eyes
lying on her back
making plans in the [...]
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Approaching my 25th birthday, I am left wondering what I did with the last quarter century? Feeling like I should be more than I am, and further than here I decided to look back on where I have been and what exactly it is I do with my time.
This is what my life has held [...]
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