BROKEN

public domain photo - credits appear below

Broken

Felt bedrock rumble

credence stumble

footings fissure, fracture

foundation crumple

convictions collapse

chasm open up

crystal trust

trembled, shattered

jigsaw puzzle

jumbled, scattered

faithful fragments

guzzled, gobbled whole

Only muddle remains

tangled wires

knotting

ragged scraps

together

   

public domain photo credits:

Description	Demolition of the partially pancaked multi story car park above the old Smiths City building. Taken from the Moorhouse-Colombo flyover. Close up showing someone's car visible inside the collapsed building.
Date	22 March 2011, 09:02:24
Source	Flickr: Smiths City Car Park
Author	David Collins

 

INSOMNIA

Insomnia

photo by PSC

 

Midnight knelled

before bed was attempted.

One whanged

(seeming) hours later,

Two ticking off after that.

Three thrust itself in,

Four fretted fitfully,

Five waxing frantic.

Finally seduced

by fickle slumber

at 6:30,

then...

Seven

buzzed in

all too soon.

 

HOOKED

Line of fishing hooks on a white surface

daniel jaeger

Line of fishing hooks on a white surface

daniel jaeger

Hooked

Feeling

I’ve been here before

bewildered, befuddled, so

captivated, tempted by blue sky

seduced, suckered, falling

hook, line and sinker

unable to swim away

barb in cheek

tangled in net

thrashing

flailing

left gasping for air

in this thin, foreign atmosphere

caught

 

THE LANGUAGE

 I don’t speak the language

Still, I listen, 

am usually soothed 

by their soft, sweet, 

  familiar melodies 

 

But...
 

there are times,
sometimes 
(I admit)

when I might

imagine it differently:

 

Those twinkling tones, 

chips and chatters

might be merely 

day-to-day discourse -- 

nagging wives, hungry husbands, cranky kids:

“You’re late!  Where have you been?”

“Gathering twigs!  What’s for dinner?"

"Worms again?”

“How come we never get to have crickets

like the other chicks?”

(It's true! )
I don’t speak the language

and, sometimes, I am grateful,

so that I may only

listen

and enjoy the music

  

LUCENT REFLECTIONS (haiku)

photo by PSC

Nature decorates

by beading droplets of rain

lucent reflections

photo by PSC