Tag: friends

  • Auld Lang Syne

    should these times seem like old times
    old vinyl player tunes spinning warmly
    can’t recall an old acquaintance’s name
    for the sake of old times comes to mind

    a face full of kindness and smiles awhile
    for the days gone by spent in odd places
    when in our pint cups yours and mine
    picture between us and a bowl of nuts

    on the radio windows down seawrack
    night out on the town and we run about
    up and around the steep butterfly hills
    wandering waves of sun bleached hair

    lol we post these pics of ours and send
    for tags with names from old contacts
    up into the cloud we’ll see how many
    hearts we’ll catch nevertheless now

    take my hand we’ll cross the stream
    I can’t hear the ocean’s roar anymore
    we’ve been up all night old forgotten
    the moon also falls down the tracks

  • a raft

    my friend sent me a raft
    i guess he thought i was
    drowning and about that
    he might have been right

    but we’re not going there
    yet until we just give up
    underwear under worn
    neatly stacked in closet

    the books i was going
    to read but just gave up
    perfect bound a few
    embroidered sewn

    the poem is a scroll
    down and down and
    under we go silver
    twist threaded flax

    and the songs i was
    going to sing and play
    as guitar sounds waft
    up up up and away

    this raft i’m now on
    drifts slowly by your
    jolly yawls i am not
    not drowning refrain

    the waves i almost
    caught but tired
    of paddling for those
    and this i lost at sea

    my friend gave me a raft
    i guess he thinks I am
    drowning and about this
    he may be abeam

  • Out of Season

    Barely visible
    the cat acting
    like a tourist
    out of season.

    Breeze so soft
    blow & rain shifts
    the other way
    out of season.

    In the grass melan
    choly whose happy
    sound the birds
    squirrels

    coyotes laired
    late in the park
    talk in their sleep
    out of season.

    This too out
    all up to snuff
    toffee nosed
    pretension

    a pretend friend
    bends to expose
    truth its own pretense
    out of season.