Tag Archives: Legacy
Evidencing hopeSubatomic Somethings
Family left longing
Tables for one
Festing less festive
Appointments to love
You missed
Less of your legacy
So much alone you left
I asked electrons keep me company
Come to my rescue
Subatomic somethings, surround me
No Gown
Are we okay with being alone
With no other soul to hold the ladder
To stand by us, tasting, in the test-kitchen that is life
Allowing, for once, after all the illusion
Reality
When we release our grasp and find no one but ourselves
Need we ask why
What mythical stealth robbed us here
Who climbed into this tower, cat-like, to gleefully take
What will we make of it
This secondhand plan that has nothing to do with the tales we were told
A finer legacy, perhaps
Nana
If there be a legacy
Decidedly mine will be
Silver not white, though all it’s worth
Afro-bold, in spirit, for, I’ll keep good company
Down with brushing shifting shoulders at all times, Day or Night
Upswept, if it serves a proper purpose
Shouts The Story everyday
If thinning it becomes in my end days
May it be that others gathered to pass on the baton
Queens that came before me, know this: You did your job
Tailspin
Untouchable from on high
Come from the edge of space
Mock me at Mach 3
Leave your fingerprints everywhere
Your stealthy bones, museum-bound
Your legacy, my tale to spin!
Legacy
All the truths
We wish would leave
The lack of regard
Despite all the reasons
We gave them to care
Let us walk forth
Shall we walk forth
And let legacy
And abandonment
Have its way with us
“…like looking through treasure.”
The book of you
Is long since written
Dreamily illustrated
Published
Perched on the shelves
And of the lists?
Waiting
To be found
By posterity
The brightest eyes
Will smile and say
You are
Like looking through treasure
This Haiku: Legend
If there is a man
Who thinks he’s not made his mark
I ask: Think again
Teaching the Next Generation: A Haiku
Tell them your story
As they sit atop your knee
How else will they grow?
Artist Credit: Musician unknown, Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI
