Let it Float [Lyric Poem]

Sans fear of dying,
The angst of trying
Is felt and left
To float.

“Before I got my eye put out –” (336) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

Before I got my eye put out --
I liked as well to see
As other creatures, that have eyes --
And know no other way --

But were it told to me, Today,
That I might have the Sky
For mine, I tell you that my Heart
Would split, for size of me --

The Meadows -- mine --
The Mountains -- mine --
All Forests -- Stintless stars --
As much of noon, as I could take --
Between my finite eyes --

The Motions of the Dipping Birds --
The Morning's Amber Road --
For mine -- to look at when I liked,
The news would strike me dead --

So safer -- guess -- with just my soul
Opon the window pane
Where other creatures put their eyes --
Incautious -- of the Sun --

Killing Bliss [Free Verse]

I found bliss.

And cooked it on the
simmer setting
of my soul --

That vacant hole that
I let swell with color
and light.

My only worry was that
it would flash fry all
that I am.

But one worry is enough
to kill the joy,
to kill everything vibrant
& reckless within.

The bliss was quenched,
and it steamed & sizzled,
and all I could hear was its
deafening sound.

Solid Ground [Free Verse]

sole to cold earth:

it's the only way i know
 the limits of this world.

feet pressing into this globe
 are my tether to reality.

any other way, and the world
  could stretch forever.

the feel of my weight,
 popping to heel or ball:
  pronating & supinating,
  rolling & reaching,
   in dance or destruction --

 feet leaving the cold earth
  always reorient to the planet.

World Windows [Haiku]

the world we see
 is framed and bounded.
  what lies beyond?