splashing home from school
in yellow raincoats, children
laugh under dark skies
-- Rod Drake (Votes: 11)  |
Unpredictable:
The chaos of streaming years,
In a moment's time.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 9) |
Opportunities,
Diminished in passing time:
Our lost narrow years.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 9) |
Ordinary talk,
The squirm of conversation:
Nothing much is said.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 9) |
Inexplicable:
All the sensory data
Of a brief lifetime.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 8) |
a murder of crows
sit on a rickety fence
waiting for something
-- Rod Drake (Votes: 10) |
broken line of geese
high in the gray autumn sky,
fly on despite loss
-- Rod Drake (Votes: 11) |
hungry sparrows flit
on the empty bird feeder,
light snow on the ground
-- Rod Drake (Votes: 13) |
clouds sit still above
mountains stir a placid sea
nature's beauty glows
-- gianne (Votes: 10) |
to him beautiful
lived, loved, cared, raised family
she forgets his name
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
pheasant regal on drifts
strutting he oversees all
sometimes he breaks through
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
small tree by big house
days weeks months seasons and years
small house by big tree
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
snows force elk downhill
farmer drives elk to mountain
no place left to starve
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
neighbor shot my dog
claimed he killed all his chickens
today they came back
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
leaf rides sutumn stream
trout regrets its slow passing
hungry wait til spring
-- tieton (Votes: 10) |
sunrise gray to white
midday black limbs shadow snow
sundown blue returns
-- Tieton (Votes: 9) |
Unfathomable:
Our empty day of language,
And thoughts for the night.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 13) |
Dissatisfaction:
The yawning stretch of worktime,
In afternoon space.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 8) |
