Modern Poet

Rain and snow alike
Tears and smiles alike.
Blankets of wet and white
Pillows that fall fast and slow
A bed soft and bright
Dreams without an echo.

Poems
In a way
Are like keys.
They're only as good
As what they unlock.

Early morning,
Café de Flore,
Paris.
She looks up in my direction
Sometimes,
And from here I can smell
Her perfume.

Fast heart,
Slow kiss.
Cold day,
Warm kiss.
Hard times,
Soft kiss.
Short life,
Long kiss...
Problem,
- kiss.

Light makes a temple
As it falls
In columns
Through the branches
Of a young Sycamore tree.
And when the sun sets,
Stretching the columns on one side,
In the darkness of dawn,
The temple
Falls.

A homeless man
Asked me for change.
I apologized
And he smiled.
I apologized again
But this time
I felt it.

Space Typography xkcd.com/2863

The sun rises
And the scared remains of night
Hide behind the big trees.

Pulling on flowers
Doesn't make them grow faster.
- about people.

Merci Nicolas 🌞

A mustachioed man looks upward and shouts, "...STOP THE FLOW OF TIME!"

#MondayMorning

Sometimes on the highway
I see beautiful houses
That I'd like to live in.
Then I remember
They're close to the highway.

I turned on the fire
And the wood blushed.

To be or not to be,
That is our freedom.

Not that I don't want to work,
But even my chair
Yawned
When I pulled it.

The tiny flame
At the tip of a candle
Wobbles & I wonder
If there's anything I can do
To help.

Music lingers around us
Hiding in silence
Waiting for someone
To turn on a radio.

The crackling of a vinyl record
Reminds me that
Silence too gets old.

A butterfly
Stumbles in the air
Like a drunken man
Towards Heaven.

At a café, a girl is writing something down.
She has one shoe off.
I don't know why but that makes me very curious to know what she's writing about.

Black and white photo of an older middle aged white man leaning over a bar. Encircled in his arms is a small white and black kitten. It seems like a tender moment between them, the man's head drooping forward toward the kitten as it sits calmly and also looks down.

Man at the bar on Saturday night. Craigville, Minnesota. 1937. www.flickr.com/photos/libra...

new habits i want to adopt in 2024:

- plagiarizing
- littering
- shoplifting from small businesses
- swallowing my gum
- watching more regular season baseball games