Anxiety attacks An anxiety attack comes like a... ...stab in the solar plexus...punch to the palette...tightening of the torso...a feeling of fear An anxiety attack leaves me... ...desperate for deliverance...eager to escape...hoping for heaven...numb to what's "now" An anxiety attack disappears when... ...its source surrenders...I surrender...time progresses...a heart collapses An anxiety attack can return if … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #124
Memories Blue skiesNothing but blue skiesAll my lifeDaffodils and hummingbirds Who am I kidding?! Dark cloudsHeavy rainBeating down My window pane That's all my lifeThe memories I RememberOr I should sayPrefer to forget Give me the sweet lifeThe chocolates and the ice cream conesRemove the grey skiesThe misty airThe ochre polaroidsThe dusty recessesOf my childhood … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #123
The Dolphin Song When I first heard his callIt came from a secluded bayEchoed off the cliffs like a whisperWhile stars twinkled off each sea spray Grandpa didn't hear itNeither did my momMaybe I dreamt it upYet each dawn I hear his song Every day a little closerTelling me about the oceanSometimes uplifting WholesomeSometimes sorrowfulDespondent … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #122
Life is not just a promise Life is not just a promise, It is what each day we seek. Our footsteps, not merely a stumble But how we progress or retreat. The lies we often say, In opposition to truths we think. Our legacies, all but stolen Never floating, only sink. But I want to … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #121
Drilling All day longLike a swarm of beesOne retaining wall awayNo "don't mind us please." When you live in a nationIn constantConstructionDeconstructionReconstructionYou gotta expect unending periods ofConsistentDisruptionsFrustrations But when it's one wall awayOver ten hours nearly every dayThis endless swarmOf unending humdrumStays well in one's mindEven after the workers' Knock-off time Oh why oh whyAre … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #120
Free from our past Can we ever be free from our past?The mistakes. The wrongdoings. The scars.What if we were Fuhrer Hitler orMussolini reborn?Would we immediately be taken to task? Will the past forever control us? Tarnish our means to live a normal lifeIn the here and nowAnd ever after? I've wondered about this for … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #118
What does a life of happiness look like? What does a life of happiness look like? Puppies frolicking in a fireplace's glowStardusts a-falling like flakes of snowBlanketing the land in pure silver and gold What does a life of happiness look like? Blue unicorns prancing in rainbow fieldsWind whistling through my window sillsNewborn whippoorwills calling … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #117
Words Words on a lineOn a pageOn a napkin Words thumbed downOn the go On my iPhone (how weary!) Words suddenly floodOnto my brainOnto my conscience Seize the daySeize them wordsFor like breath they quickly become air For words they fleetLike bees from stem to stigmaGone in the blink of an eye Never to return … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #116
Crimson poppies There are days I think I'm about to reachThe end of a long, rickety jettyThat's how I feel on many-a-dayIn this month of January I see there is refreshing That's sorely needed nowYet it seems oh so far awayLike a ship's stern is from the bow I long to set sail right nowTo … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #115
Sonnet: One step at a time Every mountain is climbedOne step at a timeEvery ladder rung mountedOne foot over the other That's what I was toldA thousand years agoYet this new year I'm stillAt the bottom of the hill So what's a man to doAt the bottom of a hillBut pick himself upDust himself off … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #114
