Child's Play

I want an Iron Dome
System
To keep me safe
From assholes.
Unwanted opinions
Loud noises
Bad music

You have the right
To be an asshole
Have an opinion
Make noise
Listen to bad music

My Iron Dome
System will
Protect me

I don't have to
Retaliate

You in your
small corner
And I in mine

Child's play
Israel

Buck Moon

July 12 2014.

Buck moon 

Thunder moon

Silver dollar

Super moon

Light my night

In silver white

Serene sentinel

Over Canada

I wish i was at 

The lake

Any lake

Double or nothing

Look up people

Look up

The world is 

Not so small 

Or large

 tonight

Serenity

Magnified

Problems

Nil

Gratuitous Contempt

Gratuitous contempt
Is what it became
Well before the
Dousing of the flame

The man i had become
Bent beyond recognition
Unable to comprehend
Or withstand her hatred

I, who was blessed
With an enormous
Capacity for love
Trapped in a vortex
Of need and greed
The appetite enormous,
Ravenous
Never sated
Cursed like that Count

An emotional vampire
Depleting the well
Devouring the hand that feeds
Leaving Sere the land that feeds

Reclaiming the desert
Rebuilding the garden
Refilling the well
Getting well
Leaving the serpent
To devour it's tale.

The One

The One

I met her on the net
A cheesy start and yet
She didn't go out much
And neither did I
But something about her
Caught my eye

She thinks it was the Telecaster
But it was her hair
I'd look each morning
For her posts
Like waiting for the dolphin
To come and play

One day she was gone
something was wrong
She'd disappeared
Forever I feared
How do you trace
A dolphin?

Heartstruck, I searched
Until I found her
and I knew
Even before she
turned around
I knew,
my senses keen
My nose, my lens, my filter
Her hug familiar,
soft and snug
I knew

I stepped out
And in
in the moment
It was the place to be
The thing to do
She is the one
I knew, i know
She knew, she knows
Each new moment
We share
The glory of finding
The one

Tick Tock Echoes

In the tick tock echoes
Of my sullen mind
I see what's ahead
And those left behind

Frozen images without sound
Buried, sleeping, underground

Why this passage?
Why this night?
Why this whispering?
Half moon light

Alone with tapped out
Airless pause
My faceless mirror
The hapless cause

My yoga mind
My mindful breathing
Ease the pain of
Shadows leaving

Empty but for
My soft hum
Relaxed, relieved
That rest has come
(July 2014)

My Physio

You put an oh so human face,
Tender words and grace
Between the system of power
And the powerless

Shared hopelessness
Better than false hope
Empathy better
than sympathy
Everybody matters.

solstice

Again my sleep is robbed
and gathering in my head
a senseless angry mob
Demanding to be heard
Demanding to be heard

I hear a throb the dissonance
Of patterns unresolved
And scattered puzzles that remain unsolved

A vista of roofless rooms
And endless walls
Of prison yards
And cattle stalls

This shroud of solstice
Darkest night  Lie the tricks of
shadowy muted sight

I wrest control by even breathing
All those fugitives are leaving
The scenery of peace unfolding
Eyelids finally closing tight
they're finally closing tight
on the darkest night


December 23d 2013. adaptation by Nilia Berkin