Bane of indifference

Posted on December 20, 2021 by aperture

Apathy betrays me on regular bases
So long steaming upriver
Now tidal flow pushes back
Downstream to ocean
Where were we going
Into heart of darkness?
Comrades join in singing
Whistling through evergreen
Sleepy villages lie
Smoking signals 
Green leaf envy
Flying high the sos
Invisible by night
Jungle hearth glows bright
Still no competing
With our cumulative 
Night lights
No spreading of anything
When living beyond
The fringe of existence
Life abounds on the edges
A catalyst for hiding minds
To grow and light fires
Just to stay alive
This is the way to meditate
With a flicker in the eye

Life

Posted on December 20, 2021 by aperture

But not as we know it
Unknown

Magnetic north

Posted on December 20, 2021 by aperture

No room at the inn
For fair weather friend
It is rarely so fair
So close to Antarctic
Even in Bermuda 
Smooth sailing unlikely
When a meteor
Millions of years ago
Can still mess with
Direction finding
Compass swirling
While land locked ones
Hang around in bars
Drinking Sunrises
By the glass
Why is the needle
Always pointing South
Where the shadows are cast
By the winter sun?
To those in motherland
We are indeed upside down

Sound bites

Posted on December 19, 2021 by aperture

Peering through the gap in the fence
Seeing glimpses of movements
Shifting my weight on my haunches
Ears picking out prominent sounds
Out of the loudness of wind, grasses, cicadas
Talking fluently in the language I feel 
Most comfortable in my skin
Waiting for an eye to appear, an ear to receive 
Only darting birds believe
What nature knows to be true
Our senses of self flow unkept by the tide gate
Words carried away with wings on the breeze
Warm air rises to meet
All the waves from all the ones
Who agree

Heart

Posted on December 18, 2021 by aperture

Patiently beating away
All the years
Percussive maintenance
For flaws and foibles 
Of what I do to you
Loving my body
Choosing to care
For me first
Symbiotic relationship
One to another
Heart to brain
Recall my strength
Of resolve to love
When all else has
Forgot

Stars

Posted on December 18, 2021 by aperture

Looking up to you
Taking time to realise
We all revolve
Around one another
All drawing each other
Inwards and collisions
Unavoidable

It took a while 
Of sitting in
The darkness
Taking time to realise
How bright you are
How steady and constant
While eyes are distracted
By satellites
And falling stars

Mesmerising centuries
Defying human theories
The seat of source 
Of all things
Green on earth

Stardust fingers
Billions of years wide
Hold us all our lives

Love like

Posted on December 17, 2021 by aperture

Haymaking
Sunshine and rain
Brave one who
Hops onboard
Riding forward 
While others gather
Receiving stores
Bailing and loading 
Sundried piled high
Wheat and straw
For each living thing
In community
Out of rain
Hoping greenness
Had gone away
Save spontaneous 
Combustion

Meanwhile few
Content with
Love's gleanings
Slim pickings
On the fringe
Taking only
What they need
To feed or bake
Wheaten loaf 
For family roast
Horse or goat
Stave off hunger
Together
For one more day

Pleiades

Posted on December 15, 2021 by aperture

Dancers in dusky streetlight
Seven forms converge
Reflecting blue
Evading the darkness

Superceded by 
Spectacular collisions
Supernova sky

In the millions
Years of stillness 
Like one looked 
In the mirror 

Saw the other
Longing to look within
Each other
Forever

Live like
No tomorrow
Casting stars
Into orbit
For a hundred thousand
Tomorrows

Light years end
Replaced by dark nebula
Crash course time and again
Pressing upon the moment
Tales trail behind

A particle of dust 
Floats by 
Miniature universe
Beyond our eyes

Did I?

Posted on December 12, 2021 by aperture

Did I enjoy that moment then?
When turning a ginger cat out of bed
To sit sublime and write stories
Sip tea and reminisce that moment when

A merry go round of accidents
Incidents, coincidences
Wishing away the minutes
Until another one happens again

Sit steadily, observing
All the people, things, moments
A blade of grass, a couple kissing
Lights flashing, red and blue

Actions shots 
Still life 
I crawl into my den
Soaking in moments when
In revelry 

Devotedly, the afternoon sun
Casts a warm embrace
Over my arms
Shadows dance on black and white keys

As my fingers touch lightly
An enchanting unity
Nature has the key
Buzz pollinating in B minor

Like a moth drawn to a flower 
Love is not dangerous
It laments to carry a sting
Used if love is not our best intention

Flow

Posted on December 12, 2021 by aperture

To have words trampled
Beneath the cart wheels
On the streets 
of old St Petersburg 
Crimes a mystery
Hung backlit
By brazen streetlight
Broken, worn, blue
Time it takes
To decide ~ are they done?
Will they heal?
Slowly drip feeding
Stew of broth
Building marrow
Until the shine 
In the eyes returns
Upon hearing 
A chorus 
Seeing a glorious
Image of affection
At mere mention
A novel moment
Produces a turrent
Cascading into
Rivers winding
Bringing life 
Bearing it to sea
Setting free