I feel just like a map -
all longitude and lines -
The time between us
ascending
Inside the grid, you mark me,
all attitude and latitude —
but here we are,
descending
You must think
I'm invisible,
for I am a man,
barely peaking
But I'm waiting on
the sunrise
for this world
to begin speaking
for OpenWrite with https://www.song-lyrics-generator.org.uk/
On an empty field
of baseball's brightest diamond,
two kids tossed a ball
for Algot
Upon reflection,
I wonder if my words
got angled, tangled up
in emotion and syntax,
the facts of what I was saying
obscured, for surely,
if I had been clear enough,
if I had been articulate enough,
if I had whispered loud enough,
with passion, in a fashion,
he might have listened;
instead, he just upped
and walked away
for OpenWrite
My old classroom was drenched
in cold, isolated silence;
Now I'm bathed in songs of joy
rising from the playground
a Naani poem for #openwrite
Looks like scattered bones;
black stems and tangled vines that
pumpkins leave behind
like that part in the music
where it still sounds like snow
used to
— from 'That Part In The Music' by Carl Phillips
slipping dripping rhythms
of the air, falling, in places
where our ears barely hear,
our thoughts disappear,
for only a moment before
her voice comes calling us back
Original poem: https://poets.org/poem/part-music?mc_cid=a96c9b334c&mc_eid=ed9c8bae96
Driftwood, bobbling
on constant ocean currents;
high tide brings it home
A moon, known by some
as Harvest, Song or Barley,
takes the stage as Corn
Hardy, but hardly
sleepy, these Chrysanthemums
bloom brightly, daily
Nighttime's slumbering,
like a weary teenager
waking late for school
for Algot