The sweet, lilting songs,
All projecting aggression:
Feathery puzzle
Category Archives: Poetry
Precious Progress
Plans, ambitions, and dreams:
Forces of power and action
Hampered by invisible foes
Like an agency by bureaucracy,
A runner by sand or storm,
An engine by lack of fuel,
And a printer with a broken port.
Cut off from communications,
Slowed by hidden hurdles,
Or immobilized and drained.
Plans fail to be made
Or if made, fade like mirages,
Occasionally visible -
Impossible to touch.
Actions and goals are hard-won
Not only in their success
But in even partial attempt.
Requiring strength of will
Beyond the shallow norm
To push beyond barriers
And fight for each fraction
Of precious progress.
Magnified Regard
A word under a scope
In magnified regard
Becomes wrong, false -
Doubt colors it
And thus taints it
In form and order
Even in meaning.
Yet the word itself
Remains unchanged
With the only falseness
In the viewer.
Unseen
Standing, strident, and visible Somehow unseen, unheard. Unnoticed and unknown. Or simply unremarked. One plus one equals two Can addition be made From digits unseen? From actions unknown? Without fingers to buttons, No results are calculated. Without fingers to keys Or vibrations to chords, No stories are told. Two and two are four, But one unseen equals three. Sets of two is two, and Sets of four is one. Answers change As angles shift. Standing Unseen Unknown Untrue?
Old Expectations
A once-orderly canal: Directing and controlling, Employing the power And might of the waters. Now abandoned, unkempt But still visible, remembered, Becomes more hazardous Than an always-wild river. Old expecations defied With sudden currents And hidden hazards.
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