Abstruse

Always wanting the remarkable
Believing, too, in the impossible
Striving for perfection every day
Truly chaotic in every way
Undeterred by another's ambition
Seemingly propelled by self volition
Ever a mystery to me you will be

Cat Toys

Lizards, birds,
garden snakes,
crickets found

half alive
or dead,
sometimes whole,
mostly not.

Madness

What can you say about madness? The varieties of it are endless. Most people are afraid of it and some relate it to genius.  Some just enjoy reading about it as a form of entertainment. Maybe madness is equal to an unquenchable boredom. A restlessness that refuses to roam. That is madness. What if the key to regaining peace of mind is simply to stay continuously busy? Leaving no time for thinking, one would be a machine and wouldn’t have the time or energy to malfunction. Are we all machines left over from a more primitive world? Maybe madness was born with sentience. The more introspective the person, the more insane one is likely to be? An idle mind can be torture. Has the human race been programmed to always seek entertainment? When entertainment is lacking, there are always pills.

            Madness is boredom and boredom is misery. Is this is why the insane commit suicide? They are locked into a miserable existence. The only way to quench boredom is to find a new obsession. Always seeking something new that stimulates enough to get obsessed with it until gorged, then sated, it’s tossed away and one becomes mad, or bored, yet again. So boredom is hunger. A hunger for something new.

Falling

you fall over yourself anew
anew to your senses you
jump over the moon with a bump
bump in the night with a jump
of fright as you fall in love
love being you a part of

Karma

look the mirror through
what a horrid sight
wicked and blue

karma says to you
think before a fight
good souls are few

ugliness, who knew?
is now a birthright
a stone you threw

will come back to you
what a bloody bite
karma pays your due

keep a vigil and brew
a beautiful light
a special hue

because karma does accrue
either way, day or night
she will get you
and she bites too

Face the Day

there was a time

i was fearless

nowadays i’m

just cheerless

life has thrown

a few curve balls

blindsided me

and made me crawl

i’m gun shy now

don’t ask me how

to face the day

to make the way

but there’s something

that gets me through

and undercurrent

of courage too

and laughter finds

it’s way to me

on rainy days

it helps me see

but I’m gun shy now

don’t ask me how

to face the day

to make the way

i’m just a bit gun shy now

i don’t know how

i face the day

and make my way

Waltz

inside my brain a dozen doors

swing open before me

as the pain of birth lingers

words waltz across my body

endearingly passionately scarred

disappointments on fingers

words waltz across my body

as the pain of birth lingers

confusion reigns while sounds

with hope bleed happily

as the pain of birth lingers

words waltz across my body

a pattern tapped into my flesh

with the sharp end of a stinger

words waltz across my body

as the pain of birth lingers