Month: March 2021

LipWords (for Kindness)

~ Harlan Didrickson

No one asks

Me to write

But you did

So I do

Just as you

Asked for kisses

So I did

Aren’t these words

Just like kisses

Taunting and biting

Sweet and soft

Like the insides

Of your lips

Trespasses (to Kindness)

~ Harlan Didrickson

It’s the simplest

Of things that

I take for

Granted a laugh

A joke a

Smile that lights

Me up like

A fireworks display

These things aren’t

Asked for aren’t

Needed but like

The tide they

Help to wash

Away life’s trespasses

Passion (to Kindness)

~ Harlan Didrickson

There is this

Moment of ignition

This flare up

Of emotion this

Boiling over of

Thoughts this moment

Of abandon and

Recklessness this moment

That like a

Match strikes with

Purpose like a

Lightening strike right

Here this my

Dear boy is

The passion that

You ask for

BreathOfGod

~ Harlan Didrickson

Here in morning

I find peace

Rising like the

Sun East it

Grows with time

And covers everything

Like late night

Snow softly and

Slowly blankets landscape

And summer rain

Cools dancing children

Peace is the

Breath of God

StormySun (for jay)

~ Harlan Didrickson

And yet again

The skies clear

And the last

Of rain falls

From leaves and

Eaves as diamonds

Hang as raindrops

Off the peonies

While sunlight breaks

Through warming streets

Making them steam

Like old locomotives

This was you

Today for me