Posts
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Internal Bleeding
I find it interesting that internal bleeding can be so deadly
Because you don’t even know
Until it’s often too late
No one pays attention to your symptoms
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To love or not to love
To never love is to never lose
But to love is to gain the most
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The gift of life
From the moment we are born
We are given a gift
And at first we don't realize it
As children we think less about the why and the how
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I love you like the sun loves the moon
I love you like the sun loves the moon
The kind of love that only exists in the in-betweens
Between day and night
Because love is a spectrum
And I don't love you at the end of it
I love you in that sweet spot
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When the bluebirds sing
When the bluebirds sing
The grass is finally green
When the bluebirds sing
The children run and scream
When the bluebirds sing
The bears no longer hibernate
When the bluebirds sing
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Traffic Lights
Green
Yellow
Red
Simple
Rules
Yes or no or take it slow
Humans
Nothing like traffic lights
Never what they seem
Or say
Or do
Too complicated
Loves
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Growing Up
She used to listen to the snow and think about how beautiful the world was, how magical.
How perfect, pristine, like a flower curled in a tiny fist.
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You
What if you were
just
a thought,
an idea,
a possibility,
a thing floating
with nowhere to
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I'll try.
I have never been a poet,
But for you I will try.
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Technically...
Technically, I’m an immigrant;
I wasn't born here.
Technically, I’m too young,
just shy of a year.
Technically, I’m inexperienced,
barely know the rudiments.
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To Dance
To dance is to soar
To feel what it's like for the birds
To be free in the air
If only for seconds,
Because in your mind, it will last a lifetime
To dance is to be electric
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everyone has discarded their jackets again
it is finally finally finally
warm - kind of,
sunshine / soft rain / sixty degrees with a brisk step to it
that makes me think nobody but Vermonters who miss the days
of tap step / crocuses / daffodils buried in snow