Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Palming Crops & Soil

 Most seem vague and abstract. It’s appealing.

            We must as aware, the time was mutual

            paved and unpaved, serene and hostile

pictured as souls

deserts we chase

tides we catch, life by no other behavior.

 

By haunt—if unknown.

By hunting—if designated.

 

I was perplexed. Nothing seemed tangible. It

            was a challenge; it intensified.

 

Amazing how we know, and we don’t let go.  

 

            A man will make problems for himself

            relating the issue to the sunrise, never

            to himself.     I know better.

 

            At a point in history (yogi meant mystic

and mystic meant yogi) I experience both are

similar, both expose a given soul.

 

            Out of pain—comes hearts, they weep

            they speak through eyes—much darkness

            bright beauty—more balanced then

observation.

 

Saying it to stars—plight and variance, tales for

moonshine     ways we hurt in silence.

 

            I figure the ink was similar, ink meaning

            misery;

some are right, others are reaching. 

Strumming a Harp

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