#oldpoems

Mountain dandelions are different than ones back home.They make fluffy yellow flowers look like housecats. Not lions at all.Yellow fringed and orange centered with green eyelashes all around.Roar pollen in the wind. Dig in the leftovers of a billion years.Root like pigs. Deep into hard gray lichen coated ground.Creep throughout a lawn and launch on eyes like preywhere they mindlessly…

I’m a poet,

what about you?

Do you have trouble 

with your words too?

Oh, how I stumble,

and do I fumble!

for I’m a poet

Hold on to this,

No making a wish

Will ever fix this,

This isn't a gift

.

It's more a curse

Drug from a hearse,

I'm not the first,

I'm not the worst

.

Should I just let it all fade away?

I can't just forget, I'll fade away

This living in regret won't just go away

Captive I can't forget those days of gray

.

Where's the good intention

In this lost prevention

If there's no direction

In this puzzled reflection

.

Home's no longer home,

Rooms empty and alone,

Every shadow's my own;

Nothingness wins the throne

.

They say the silence can drive you insane

How does the silence cause this deafening pain?

They say once reliant you'll follow the grain.

It's too damn silent my sanity can't remain

.

Still there's no comfort

In constant wasted effort,

Hoping I'll be triumphant

In escaping this discomfort

.

I'll escape these bars,

I'll remember these scars,

Mend this broken heart;

Remember the rosemary plant I kept trying to save? Day after day, you told me to just throw it away, it was a lost cause. You made me feel dumb for even trying. And I let you.

I finally threw it away today.

So I found an old notebook of mine. This notebook contained ancient writings of mine from two thousand-six and earlier. Like OMG, I was shocked to see how little me was so emotional. I imagine that is a typical response though, right? I mean we grow and mature over the years, most anyway. I thought it would be cool to share some of these things with you. Over time we should get through them all…