aspiration lost
Dec 28 '02 (Updated Jan 11 '04)
The Bottom Line Another really old poem, more prose than image-driven poetry perhaps... but thanks Epinions, for adding these categories.
I was never awake to see the sunrise
never able to see the sun awaken
from its lonely somber slumber
I never saw the milky coral blue
sky that turned a lighter shade of blue
with every minute that passed,
until almost achieving a pure
white light until the first rays of light
burst out from behind the distant
tree-lined mountain tops.
And I never saw the people down on
the street – shuffling about like fire ants
with coffee, papers and quick glances
at watches with hellos and goodbye waves.
I never felt the stimulation of
remembrance brought on by the
warmth of money and reading
words typed on newsprint.
And I never knew what it was like to race
out towards destiny - with people driving
like pinballs in an arcade - filled with sudden
accelerations through prescribed motions
that have the power to jolt you awake
and even kill you or tear you apart.
No, again, these twenty years have come
and gone so fast, and now a darkened sky swallows me
whole as I stand staring out into the horizon from
behind my window, watching it turn colors.
Watching what I had never been awake to see before.
(c) March, 1997, Steven H. Lee
what the darkness doesn't know...
You like me, don't you?
Exponential Silences
aspiration lost
i want you to describe
An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
reflections (3 poems)
Untitled No. 1, 2 & 3
Sara
the circus is coming to town
unacustomed emotional decay
memory fragments puzzles and more
eight headed poems
Last Night
warm wind
a new beginning
i just wanted to let you know
sympathetic memory
Untitled No. 13
Untilted No. 14 & 15
just let
two one two and four
fists pound the air
drunk stumble and lag
love lust music
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