Lines

Drawing lines in sand

Creating boundaries protecting same

Doesn’t make me mean

It makes me stronger

I have learned this

At my own expense

And another’s wealth while

Leaving hearts pockets empty

It shall be this

And not like that

SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

Strength is one thing

And power is another

Power is taken or

Assigned it is corrupt

It demeans and disgusts

But strength burns in

The hearts of righteousness

It is the flame

That attracts and drives

It will overcome power

Strength is the hope

Taking back what’s stolen

GrowingUp

There comes a time

In every man’s life

When growing from sapling

To tree from trying

To doing and from

Student to teacher only

He knows when it’s

Time to push out

To bud then shade

And eventually fall only

To start over again

Until he becomes something

Else a door floor

Or even a memory

TheseBeads

I find such comfort

Amongst the simple things

Words which mean nothing

Until strung together like

Beads on thoughts string

And then worn gaily

Complimenting even the dourest

Of days bringing color

Poem

Sometimes hermit sometimes shaman

Oftentimes swimmer frequently bather

Always thinking never knowing

I undress each day

And dip myself in

Words languid pond or

Witness dawns day of

Images and imagination conjuring

Spirits of my past

And my present into

These things called poems