Flight and Thought

What to do, what to do
We’ll see liberty through
For, to fall for The Fall now, will simply not do

Let’s recall every Spring, every Summer of Days
Let us loose our lost fervor, and our gen’ral malaise
As we move with a grace in a number of ways

We will walk, not as pawns, but as kings and as queens
We will castle, together — ‘tis what unity means
This, and, when needed, forming unlikely teams

The time, seeming plenty, is deceivingly short
This is urgent, as each soul’s not yet found its Fort
We, for Truth, serve as Knights, here on this Earthly court

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com

No One Cares For Poetry

I saw green-grey mountains in your eyes
I saw galaxies
Where lived my best friend
Places no one had been to
Places I longed to travel within

In rushed the moment I had to decide
Betray myself for wanderlust, or
Say goodbye to the wandering eye
Goodbye, mountains
Goodbye, friend

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae; FieryPhotography.com

Math & Physics

What colossal wind
An unpredicted and confused gale
Battered about by its atmosphere
Choosing to crash to and fro

I stand in this lighthouse of a heart
Timing the thunder
Praying away the destruction
Wishing The Port would beware

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com

Welcome Home

To touch — though trembling — my own regret
Or the parts of me about which I wish to forget

To steal back words I spoke from my unknown fears
And the squandered minutes that turned into years

To give only love to places that feel most hated
But allowing no ground when boundaries are debated

I sealed my yesterdays with fervency’s kiss
Then woke up tomorrow and carried out this

Kamala

Oh, I do
Hope
May The Flowers read my thousand thoughts
My apologies for the thistle, I allowed to crowd
Forgive me for the invasive vines, that strangled your sunlight away

As I stayed grieving lost ground

There, at blooms edge, sat I

Dreams began to die

But for a mid-morning,
A cool sunlit day, then, did I decide
To pause and prosecute, with an, “anchors aweigh,” a finally-freed echinacea
With my accomplished call, did the butterfly bush become tall

“No more…by the grace of God, no more”

Of a Feather

Fireflies try
And, so do I
To simply fly
And not ask why
Of the days we get stepped on
Of our glow from dusk to dawn
Should our days feel underground
Should the answers stay unfound

Fireflies know
And, so do I
Our wings and light
Will end the night

“Precept: A Haiku”

Question: What one or two precepts have served you well?

==> Short vid gazing above the clouds at 14,000ft from behind the wheel down Pikes Peak Highway to inspire and thrill you….

“Precept: A Haiku”
One hand on the wheel
One hand reaching for the sky
Life requires this

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