Set in between my black heart and your white lies,
Grey eyed wisdom is overshadowed by extremes,
But I need: Some guidance, some advice,
‘Cause I do not know what is right.
I turn away and you tell me to stay,
I stay put and hate myself for being weak,
I don’t know where to find the answers I seek. Continue reading “Misplaced Missive #203 – All The Colors That You Shine”
Category: Poetry
Haiku Sunday – Bright
“Bright”
After days of gloom,
the first rays of yellow light
make the room glow.
Steve D
Moonlit Musing – Anxiety.
It’s three walls closing in around you and the only open exit is a cliff edge leading to a pit of spikes. But slowly. Creeping death as Metallica would have it. And it’s all the more tangible for being so slow, because you can see and feel and dread it coming, but there seems like no way to stop it without making everything exponentially worse.
So you freeze. Continue reading “Moonlit Musing – Anxiety.”
Misplaced Missive #200 – Liquid Temptation
Liquid Temptation
Seen through the mirror
Disgust becomes clearer,
I only needed to see her
Stumble.
It humbles me to find,
The attraction of the vice,
Was purely in my mind.
A device I deployed,
Wholly to avoid,
The eating void
Of all that I lack.
The impact of seeing you
Stumbling under… Continue reading “Misplaced Missive #200 – Liquid Temptation”
Haiku Sunday – Ambient
“Ambient”
Every molecule
trembles as the air itself
layers and dances.
Another haiku inspired by a song that I simply cannot get enough of.
Steve D
Haiku Sunday – Boom
“Boom”
Booming resonance,
like the rumble of thunder
across the night sky.
This song inspired me to explore the tones of music through this series. I don’t really know where this is going, but I hope you enjoy.
Steve D
Moonlit Musing – Infidelity
A whole becomes halved and doubled,
With a single lie.
A truth more complicated
than math could prove to be.
She escaped a healthy relationship
into the wilds of addiction,
A decision that destroyed
and created in equal unpleasant measure. Continue reading “Moonlit Musing – Infidelity”
Traveler’s Haiku – Appalachia
“Appalachia”
Smooth hilltops dusted
violet and amber – do they
know of our presence?
Jessie and I are passing through the beautiful Appalachians today after a fun night in Lexington, KY. To Baltimore!
Steve D
4.27.18 – Kansas
finite. small.
‘…everyone should feel small at least once in their lives…’
Is that the prize to be found in the heart
Of the Heartland?
Beyond sight in the endless stretch
Of more than out of reach,
But still less than nothing –
To see, to feel, to be –
Perspective is a gift, right?
bite-size. tiny.
…we are just a speck in the infinite…
Is it only by being little that we can try
to be big?
Powerful beyond measure,
Rest assured, it’s more
A fear than a present. Continue reading “4.27.18 – Kansas”
Traveler’s Haiku – BBQ
“BBQ”
Spicy barbecue
to help the plains of Kansas
roll by until dark.
Apologies for the late post. Jessie and I are currently in Central Kansas, trying to knock out the longest leg of this trip in one shot. Did I mention that we’re moving Jessie from Denver to Baltimore this weekend? Next stop: St. Louis!
Steve D
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