Artist Unshored

Poem....Artist unshored

Blue and Green
The art machine
Spinning a mist
Soon to be seen

Purple nails
And long lashes
Walking across canvas
Leaving hot ashes

Abstraction adored
Painting colours galore
Wrapped in a passion
An artist unshored

Endless Night

Poem.... Endless Night

That endless night
Sure to come
Counting of joys
And not of regrets
Did I do
All I could do
To make life a smile
And prepare for that time
In her coming years
Of joyful memories
Instead of tears
I will reach for her hand
From that endless night
And hope she can feel
As I hold on tight.

Sweet Delusion

Poem ....Sweet Delusion

Sweet Delusion
You set me free
To be that pretense
I have wanted to be

To fly over oceans
In planes that I own
To live in castles
To sit on a throne

You have given to me
Things only I see
For in the world of delusion
The real world cannot be

Snow falling slow

Poem...Snow falling slow

Snow falling slow
A white covering on my soul
A slowing of what must be
A blurring of what we must see
A chance to back away
From what we must say
And put off those musts
To some other day
A layering of white
Thickening overnight
Saying slow yourselves down
Things will be alright

Unintended Regret

Poem...Unintended Regret

The silence
Cold dark silence
Spreading it's wings
To blot out the Sun
You look for words
That never come
And stretching ahead
That long dark road
Of unintended regret

Red Prayer Beads

Poem ...Red Prayer Beads

I look out at blue
Streaked with purple hue
And building clouds
Of towering white
At yellow shapes
Skipping their ropes
And red prayer beads
Chanting their hopes

Patriarchal Poem

Patriarchal poem

We had our days
In many ways
We played at this
We won at that
We shot at those
And now no more
They've gone extinct
To heaven's shore
But we press on
To get our way
And not give up
To dawn's new day

Polka Dot Skies

Poem....Polka dot skies

Suits and ties
And polka dot skies
And tall buildings
With many glass eyes

Buy this and sell that
Corporate profits in the fat
They produce it cheaper
Tell the investors that

And so we charge on our merry way
Directors and investors in our sleigh
Shiny shoes, suits and ties
And fat briefcases full of lies

Intent

Poem....Intent

And in the end
When our triumps are counted
And our trophies are displayed
And diplomas are hung
What matters in Life
Did you help someone else achieve
Did you help save a species
Did you share your knowledge to help others
For when you say your last goodbye
You live on through your Intent

Raven talk

Poem...Raven talk

Oh listen humankind
You can be so blind
We speak in throaty chirps
Warning of times to come
We sit on fences and tombstones
And gather for darkness fall
And you sit by your fireplaces
And look at the tube
Ignoring our cries
Of extinction for us all

Ice

Poem...Ice

We rush into the future
As if we have a grasp
On the games this Planet plays
Of limitations on things life gives
Of Gods to rescue us to streets of Gold
Of things to burn and life to conquer
And when the Planet has had enough
She will cover us with ice
For another million years

If

Poem ....If

If we were bees
We would love the trees
And spread our glisteny wings
And fly into the breeze

We would fly with butterflys
And share the gold and red
We would befriend the plants
And help their pollen spread

Can we come together
Like those wonderful bees
And finally find our place
Among the birds and the trees?

There is great hope
Stirring in the air
That we can all come together
That we can all care

The Portrait

Poem.....The Portrait

Red I said
More red on the head
A tilted look with purple and blue
A likeness soon to ensue

An eventful day
Painting with gray
With black on her back
What else can I say

Maybe a touch of sienna
Where hair touches skin
And yellow folds nicely
Up under her chin

Fluff

Poem...Fluff

Life experiences exist
On the edges
And in the cracks
Everything else is fluff

Wait to be told

Poem....Wait to be told

I looked out across golden fields
Backed by mountains of purple
Where once long wagon trains
Inched toward deep blue skies
Opportunity swelled their hearts
Along with tinges of fear
They took their place
On the new frontier
And forwarding to today
When new challenges arise
Those old wagon train days
Tell us to be wise
Will we listen to days of old
Or sit on our sofas
And wait to be told

Colours Talking

Poem...colours talking

Black and White
Seem alright
But Brown and Red
Swirl in my head
And Blue on Gray
Doth make my day
And Purple on Red
Need More be said

"Here you find Love"

I opened the door
Into dark sky blue
Dare I step out
A thing I must do

A dark red path
Stretched out ahead
An urge emerged
It's OK it said

Colours swirled in yellow streaks
Circling stars up above
Letters of purple against dark trees
"Here you find Love"

Dark Branches

A tale to be told
Of dark brances
Reaching toward a cold sky
Awaiting their time
To burst into green
And another branching
This of mankind
Sharing the sky
But no intended green
Meant for man's machine

Shadows of yon day

They moved slowly in 
Shadows of purple and red
Grays intersecting blacks
Playing games in my head

My steps chosen carefully
So as not to descend
A blanket of fog
Obscured vision to rend

And what of those colours
So vivid and bright
Soon they will fade
Into darkness of night

They are not lost
Shadows purple, red and gray
They simply await
The dawn of yon day

New Expression

Poem ......New Expression

Canvas vertical
On paint splattered easel
Waiting to express
It's feelings of colour
In my mind purples, grays and reds
Peering through black
Sqeezing paint into my hands
The canvas and I become one
A dance of paint without purpose
A door to the Universe
For some to walk through
To a new understanding
To a new expression through colour