pop's poetry

Category: Mood

  • morning walk

    the view inside my thoughts is clear
    even in a cloudy world
    walking the true path calms me
    the sound of my steps
    through wind-swept leaves
    may I always be this present

  • chaos and order

    chaos and order

    order and chaos
    you may not see
    the pattern behind the chaos
    you may not know
    a reason behind the order

    there is a universe of order
    in the garden spider’s web
    the spiral of the stars
    the center of the galaxy
    a star warming the solar system

    there is a universe of chaos
    in the black widow’s web
    odd connections in the beauty
    the repetitions in the quantum
    the vibrations of string theory
    a black hole devouring space

    i am both of these
    order catching the strays
    chaos trapping disparate thoughts
    the wrapping of ideas within ideas
    the taste of clear and present moments
    a messy spiral of joy

  • seeing in the dark

    I long to be just like one of them,
    those few amazing people
    who, when faced with the darkest night
    can still see a far-away light
    though impossibly
    dim


    I yearn to, like them, believe
    that though my eyes be weak
    I can somehow know there is a light
    even in the darkest moment
    and in that knowing
    see

  • loss

    we don’t lose
our people who move
into the next adventure
there’s nothing lost
they brought to
our lives, our world
everything is here
available everywhere
contributions remain
it doesn’t end
presence extends
moments remembered
memory embraced
legacy retraced
death isn’t final
life is eternal
the physical may burn
the spiritual will churn
we never lose
our loves that move
into the next adventure

  • abyss

    I leapt into an abyss
it swallowed me whole
and the dark was just too deep
to see
falling
took away my sense of direction
the hole was just part
and what I missed
was not what I thought but what
I felt
when
I hit the bottom and collapsed
there was only up
But I couldn’t see the sky