This poem is from 2014. It’s out of the archives. I finally have pictures to match…
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I’m hoping and I’m confident for the
Future, hanging by a thread and still safe
My dream was on hold and subconsciously…
I left it like marigolds to be saved
For the spring, to dry in a newspaper,
Headlines reading: Drastic change is needed
And a waft of earth mixed in with pungent perfume,
A sharp joy familiar from another life,
Seeds in time need space – In some sense starving,
For rebirth, like a continental drift
Driving plates of earth into new mountains,
Necessity for action altering
The landscape, dangerously alone with
Unavoidably complicated results,
It is not that I’m crazy or even,
Secretly in love – it is that my world
Would flip with some unknown consequences,
Yes, for all moments satisfying – Even
After a long while and at once broken
Off, pieces of another life hang like
Uncertain segments of sidewalk dripping,
Off the edge of an earthquake, Could it be
Consumed – an edible shoelace of cheese
On the pizza of life,
Real sustenance,
Or would it be wasted and shrivel up,
Prepared to spend time covered in food wrap,
Forgotten in the far back of the fridge,
To spend its eternity alone once
Again, without the earth and teaming road,
That once made it whole?
Delivered with maturity, its value
Could really be reclaimed,
New roads paved, an emptiness
Filled, satiety of scenario
And the landscape once again level, Night
To follow, but awakening to a
Content system: Business- thoroughfare
At once resuming – It is a vision,
Or is it just simply the winds of change,
Enveloping a tired world, swiftly
To be swept right up, forcing the divine
Action of a society? – Invoke:
Swarming feats of brilliant engineering,
And eventual, and still quick triumphs
For the ones previously thought to be
Left behind,
Strong…
Now: Does she inspire me?
Truly and without isolation – One
Possibility with the infinite
Similarities to every other
Love, real and imprinted in time, Surreal,
Once drawn into my creative current,
Unusually focussed, yet correct
And productive state of mind, for which I
Would change a world in hopes that I could find
The best way possible to carry on
And still perpetuate our existence,
Orange flowers blooming with centuries of
Genetic change curing previous flaws
In the stems of our garden, a hybrid
Strain, and pick up where we left off today