Submissions by dmcdonald
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Jun 2020 7:45pm
6th Jun 2020 7:45pm
A Mountain
Enormous and round rose the great mountain
Gray-green with pine and oak and granite.
Towering, a huge tortoise shell hides its hot heart within.
Static? Hardly. Just slow.
No human can grasp its growth;
Too slow to catch the eye and
So great it becomes background;
Yet it has survived fiery summers and has weathered ages of wind and waters that scar its surface.
It grows and moves, and it will survive man and all surface life.
It’s hot rock blood will flow for eons, far below, beyond our reach.
Gray-green with pine and oak and granite.
Towering, a huge tortoise shell hides its hot heart within.
Static? Hardly. Just slow.
No human can grasp its growth;
Too slow to catch the eye and
So great it becomes background;
Yet it has survived fiery summers and has weathered ages of wind and waters that scar its surface.
It grows and moves, and it will survive man and all surface life.
It’s hot rock blood will flow for eons, far below, beyond our reach.
#earth
#environment
#nature #mountains
#nature #mountains
338 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Apr 2020 3:16pm
29th Apr 2020 3:16pm
Stones and Sand
Rigid white stones, which once stood tall as a white tower
Overlooking the world from their distant perch,
Are discolored with age;
Dissolved into yellow sand squeezed between the toes of a toddler by the sea.
Overlooking the world from their distant perch,
Are discolored with age;
Dissolved into yellow sand squeezed between the toes of a toddler by the sea.
#Taoism
#LifeChangingMoment
350 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Apr 2020 4:11pm
26th Apr 2020 4:11pm
Her-Sized World
First, you became my world.
The whole universe pressed into the size and shape of you.
Your gravity grew and I fell into your orbit.
Birch branches became your arms dancing like a dryad in the breeze,
Your soft leaves soothing me
Every breeze became your breath,
The air that inspired me,
The warm inhale of you that became me.
You became time.
The stream of seconds between each Wednesday after work.
Entire weekends just watching each other's' hands move around and over each other
Impossible hours-long phone calls.
...
The whole universe pressed into the size and shape of you.
Your gravity grew and I fell into your orbit.
Birch branches became your arms dancing like a dryad in the breeze,
Your soft leaves soothing me
Every breeze became your breath,
The air that inspired me,
The warm inhale of you that became me.
You became time.
The stream of seconds between each Wednesday after work.
Entire weekends just watching each other's' hands move around and over each other
Impossible hours-long phone calls.
...
#love
#breakup
#universe
#TimeHeals
#MovingOn
375 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Apr 2020 9:04pm
19th Apr 2020 9:04pm
Pyrrhic Victory
For three and a half long days I lay under siege from my loneliness,
Reinforcing my walls with words -
Stacking stones of Spanish lessons layered with mortar from memorizing poems.
But always there are gaps,
And depression is deadly accurate.
The slightest interstice is a gaping vulnerability, and this foe lies in wait in the darkness.
It sees the slightest hint of exposed light where the inner heart fire glows
And that is where it’s fiery dart will fly,
It’s soft metal accumulating where it strikes, weighing down the worker.
How much longer can I...
Reinforcing my walls with words -
Stacking stones of Spanish lessons layered with mortar from memorizing poems.
But always there are gaps,
And depression is deadly accurate.
The slightest interstice is a gaping vulnerability, and this foe lies in wait in the darkness.
It sees the slightest hint of exposed light where the inner heart fire glows
And that is where it’s fiery dart will fly,
It’s soft metal accumulating where it strikes, weighing down the worker.
How much longer can I...
#depression
#hurt
#emotions
371 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Apr 2020 2:37pm
19th Apr 2020 2:37pm
Open As The Sky
Those clouds in the sky
The sky does not contain them
Free to come and go
The sky does not contain them
Free to come and go
#sky
#clouds
#nature
#Taoism
#MovingOn
422 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Apr 2020 1:59am
19th Apr 2020 1:59am
Thou Art That
Bees buzz the bladderpod
A large fly lands on my knee
I snack on a cashew
A large fly lands on my knee
I snack on a cashew
#nature
#haiku
#bees
343 reads
0 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Apr 2020 1:59am
19th Apr 2020 1:59am
Woolly Desert Dandelions
On sandy soil light shines,
Woolly desert dandelions
Welcome Father from Mother's breast
Woolly desert dandelions
Welcome Father from Mother's breast
#earth
#flowers
#sun
#environment
#nature
385 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Apr 2020 4:41pm
18th Apr 2020 4:41pm
Three Sounds
Three sounds fill my ears
Humming bees, chirping sparrows,
And growing mountains
Humming bees, chirping sparrows,
And growing mountains
#nature
#mountains
#haiku
#bees
#senryu
428 reads
0 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Apr 2020 4:35pm
18th Apr 2020 4:35pm
Winter and Spring
The longest night has come and gone,
and days will slowly lengthen
until the days of early dawn
when sunlight's power will strengthen,
to warm the earth and seeds below
and wake new life from sleeping
there underneath a quilt of snow
from winter's icy weeping.
New growth begins, in spite of cold,
Forgetting frosty darkness,
Then flowers bloom and spring takes hold
Adorning winter's starkness.
For now, the nighttime comes too soon
And morning comes too late.
It's barely bright even at high noon,
So I will rest and wait ...
and days will slowly lengthen
until the days of early dawn
when sunlight's power will strengthen,
to warm the earth and seeds below
and wake new life from sleeping
there underneath a quilt of snow
from winter's icy weeping.
New growth begins, in spite of cold,
Forgetting frosty darkness,
Then flowers bloom and spring takes hold
Adorning winter's starkness.
For now, the nighttime comes too soon
And morning comes too late.
It's barely bright even at high noon,
So I will rest and wait ...
#flowers
#sun
#winter
#spring
#nature
362 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Apr 2020 4:56am
18th Apr 2020 4:56am
Dandelions
Strewn along the path
Lion's teeth lie unheeded
A wild man's fair boon
Lion's teeth lie unheeded
A wild man's fair boon
#flowers
#lion
#nature #haiku
#nature #haiku
421 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
18th Apr 2020 4:32am
18th Apr 2020 4:32am
Transparency
When I'm clean, no one sees me
No one remembers I'm there.
When I'm clean, I become an invisible threat to the unobservant who run into me and rebound with shame.
It's only when I'm marred with smudges smeared across my face that people tend to notice me -and with disdain
Dirt collected over the years in all possible corners and edges.
Scratches and scars visible to all unless my face is kept veiled, or is replaced.
Thinness and thickness analyzed and commented upon as if that were the most important quality I had to offer.
I bring...
No one remembers I'm there.
When I'm clean, I become an invisible threat to the unobservant who run into me and rebound with shame.
It's only when I'm marred with smudges smeared across my face that people tend to notice me -and with disdain
Dirt collected over the years in all possible corners and edges.
Scratches and scars visible to all unless my face is kept veiled, or is replaced.
Thinness and thickness analyzed and commented upon as if that were the most important quality I had to offer.
I bring...
#identity
#SelfReflection
421 reads
1 Comment
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