Whispers in darkness
Hellos in absentia
Photographs of smiles
And remembered tears
Make up me
Alone not lonely
I’m like a
Tree on savanna
Offering just me
To those that
Need me now
Shade or habitat
Your use of
Me defines me
And my life
Month: January 2021
SeasonalIntimacy
And with each
Spring comes each
Fall that time
When summers warmth
Is deckle edged
With the crispness
Of drowsy chill
Slowly moving into
The winters dream
Sometimes affection turns
The same way
Attraction blooms and
Slowly shifts like
Late October winds
Cooling almost everything
Overlook
There we sat
Tiny and frail
As unimportant as
A bug at
The runways end
Or beginning I
Suppose depending upon
Which direction seen
Are we landing
Or taking off
Just the start
Or an end
Yet unlike airplanes
Which thunder overhead
A simple quiet
Kiss on lips
Has taken us
Both someplace else
From somewhere else
CautiousAbandon (to Cricky)
Then in your
Eyes I saw
A moment a
Second of hesitation
A pause in
Thought a burp
A hiccup and
Yet you continued
In cautious abandon
And made your
Musical melody live
Skating and sliding
Like leaves on
Thinly iced ponds
Kettle (to Cricky)
And now we
Have quieted like
A kettle taken
Off the boil
Still warm capable
Of steeping but
Silent and simmering
Wondering here what
If anything our
Purpose is was
Except to whistle
Be noticed and
Now sit still
Warm to touch
Waiting waiting waiting
For our chance
To be something
Besides what we
Appear to be
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 