hijacked by the moon
my heart stops trying to know better
and lets the light drive
Posts Tagged ‘surrender’
One Surrender
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged moon, poem, poetry, surrender on June 13, 2018| Leave a Comment »
What Took Me So Long
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, poem, poetry, referee, surrender on February 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »
playing referee
between the sun and clouds,
eventually I take off my stripes
to be a spectator instead—
how pleasant
without all that whistling
One on the Eve of the New Year
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged moon, new year, poem, poetry, surrender on January 1, 2018| 2 Comments »
For Two Hours Beside the Highway
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged confucius, flat tire, lute, poem, poetry, surrender on September 28, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Sitting in the rain
in the dark
with three good tires
I think of Confucius,
who, when arrested
by accident didn’t fuss,
rather sat in his cell for five days
playing lute until his story
untangled and he
was set free.
It is dry in the car,
and though the radio works,
I do not turn it on.
I never learned
to play lute,
but sense that perhaps
I am being played, what
with this long neck,
with my deep round back,
with my body still learning
to open.
The rain keeps
inconsistent time
on the windshield.
It is not deliberately
that the world
throws rocks
in the road.
Or is it?
The dark is only
the dark.
I feel a lessening
of the tension,
a tuning,
and who is it
that pulls
the strings.
Because You Were Taking a Shortcut
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poem, poetry, shortcut, surrender on September 23, 2017| 1 Comment »
Surrender is not like this highway
with its dotted lines and passing lanes
and its well-marked exit signs.
Surrender is more a dirt country road
where you’ve taken a turn
that doesn’t show up in the map.
And then run out of gas. And
get a flat. And then, when you think
it can’t get worse, you start
to giggle, then full belly laugh.
Yeah, surrender is something like that.
One for the Mind
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged direction, poem, poetry, surrender on August 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »
One Afternoon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged monsoon, poem, poetry, surrender on August 19, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Here is his ferocity—
how it opens him like a monsoon
here is your umbrella
fling it in the rain
let the flood rearrange you
Even Though It Seems Impossible
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, parenting, poem, poetry, surrender on August 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I tell myself this is how love begins,
with a grumble. A rock in the shoe.
The flowers dead. Sleet.
This is how love begins, with taunting.
With mud on its feet. It begins
when we can’t imagine loving.
It begins when there is no light.
This is how love begins. When
we’re too exhausted to fight,
and as we slump, a door appears,
and we can’t imagine not
walking through it.
One Acceptance
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acceptance, letting go, poem, poetry, surrender on May 10, 2017| 5 Comments »
unable to hold things together
I open my hands, let everything drop
and feel how the world holds me
Driving to Work on a Monday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, poem, poetry, proof, surrender on May 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Beside the highway,
the willows are beginning
to find their green
and the dandelions
have begun to spell
their golden praise
across the ground.
What more did I think
I needed today?
Some proof that things
do not fall apart?
Let me surrender
to beauty, brief
as it is, the melody
that plays beneath
all other melodies.
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