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Rain and Shine

Write a poem about the rain in the woods.


Course is the rain that pulls the teeth of mountains down.
Pure and dark it collides
The sky delivers the sea to earth.
A frenzy of trees sway in defense.
So they stand: silent obelisks pushing their weight into roots.
But rain is infinite and it is messy,
Outside, mud mutes the distance into drowsy browns.
Puddles share staccato songs with themselves
as they gather raindrops in wet holes.

Through the brave lungs of the rock now pour the silent wet.
Rain does not bleed from wounds or wet punctures.
Rain digs and curls without brain.
The trees lean into a rotting retreat with no whimpering.
The clouds scowl with misery as their crown sails the sky.
The drowning push of the moon.

And this is when it reaches the beginning again,
with nothing moving.
the sun returns.

And Strong is the light that releases pain from stones.
The boulders roll,
shedding their drowsiness
-a series of crashes no one hears.
Somehow, disaster folds with gentle strokes,
brewing the breath back to the mountains.

On Sunset’s Doorstep

“struggle”


I can weave your pain into vines of pills,
but it will tumble you into a numb slumber
on the Sunday sloping downward to melancholy,
like the meager pinecones that drop effortlessly.

 

I can show you more than chemical collapse,
so you can sharpen the eager daylight
-slipping upward through branches beyond
into the rainbows of an uncaptured nature.

 

Let loose your hand from the door
and walk with your heart ahead,
to the sightless brush
that paints us in our lost element.

Massage or Torture

“I am a massage therapist. I hurt my finger a month ago, I finally got it looked at today, and although it is not broken, I did something to a ligament that is going to take a long time for it to heal. Write me a happy poem please.”


Some days are harder than the last,
especially when we feel more and more
than the days when pain was fast
and not so tameless.

Luckily, my pain does not move
from me to patients,
but while they groan with thanks,
I may gurgle with white pain
which I subdue with sweat
and a liberal amount of music.


 

Bridge

“A man is down on his luck, cast out from his home, cast out from his family, his job. He seems to be at the bottom of everything, the very pit of despair. He is ready to kill himself, he’s got a bridge picked out and everything.

And then along comes Mephistopheles, offering him another chance at life… for the single payment of his eternal soul. <3″


 

Bridges are meant to keep us
safe from the ravaging waters.
But when the waters look safer
than the concrete cruelty above,
we weigh our pain on scales
and set sail to somewhere deep.

 

But what if the world could flip?
When the bridge and waters change,
and the second chance beckons,
and a handshake begs for mercy…

 

Then the life is reborn,
in a form of something odd,
but alive in some way different,
like a shadow unthreaded.