Gather Dust to Build a Mountain

"Gather dust to build a mountain." This is my attempt to stop gathering dust and... gather some dust.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Painful Foray Back to Poetry on a Rainy Day


It’s always damp but never storms
Trees in such abundant forms
Greens in shades I would have sworn
Were never born.

From such great heights I cast eyes down
At this ever-breathing town
The Earth, I think, is not so round
This edge I’ve found.

Parasols march in shades of pink
With endless minutes paid to think
Flowers twined to interlink
On ocean’s brink.

Characters that I cannot read
Alone, at last, and finally freed
Illiterate, afraid to lead
A newborn creed.

Words that float like dandelions
A belt that could not be Orion’s
With calendars by ancient Mayans
Charging ions.

And so the flat world still revolves
‘Round puzzles better left unsolved
I listen hard to hear the call
And miss it all.

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