Tag: poetry

home (archives)

we had crashed

on an alien world,

our ship was

beyond all repair,

and though we had

prayed for our rescue,

we knew we weren’t

going anywhere.

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long after we’d

made this our home,

a scouting ship

spotted our lair,

and though we had

prayed for our rescue,

we knew we weren’t

going anywhere.

–photo/art by me

perfectly lost

upon the inspection

of his own reflection,

the gull was impressed

and called it perfection.

with no explanation,

he deserted his station

and followed his image

to an unknown location.

sometimes self-promotion’s

a powerful potion,

and soon the gull found

he was lost on the ocean.

–photo by me

tangled

the whole day you’ve been on the go,

and you really just want to lay low,

but the lines someone said

are still stuck in your head,

and your all tangled up in them so.

i beg you to please call on me,

and i’ll give you my love tangle-free;

i’ll help you forget,

and we’ll watch the sun set

together–the way it should be.

–photo by me

star girl (archives)

starlight falls out of the skies

and settles in her upturned eyes

she peers into the jeweled vault

until the sun begins to rise

an amateur astronomer

she knows the moons of jupiter

orion’s belt and saturn’s rings

she loves the stars like i love her

i hope someday she’ll love me too

but i will not obstruct her view

or take the stars out of her eyes

my love for her is tried and true

–photo by me