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Dislike the still

My lungs

Love to run

With a voracious fire

And my feet

In perfect agreement

Dislike the stillness

Of not moving

At least at some speed

Forward

Like good wayer

I've yet to learn

Such a thing as stagnant

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Life, building, a tanka

What comes after this

The building of the seen dream

Most true and truly

Full of life and vision sky

Embodied in walls alive

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The warrior

I just want you to know

That for a few years there

I truly gave it my all

And my all to it fully

In the wind

I was song and dance

I was sword and spear

I was strength beneath the sun

And for moments of bliss

I knew neither self nor fear

With no awareness of tomorrow or self

I was

Most fully

I was

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Influence, a tanka

Know not your own reach

Your own impact on those near

Until you are far

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A forest of princess pine

Once you've walked in the woods

Amongst the evergreen and princess pine

Your feet will never again understand

Why concrete is so cold

And blacktop wears so much and scrapes

On mind, and body, and lovers soul

Saria

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A truly unique

Disgrace has a name

A face, a voice

And the greatest shame would be

Not to have to see

Or to ever have to hear (again)

But to keep your own face

When all about you are losing theirs

To the same disgrace

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Kindled flames

Our electric friction compels me

But lest I move

And spark too much

That kindling into fire

Too soon

Instead I wish and wait and hold

And fast and hope instead

Firmly to a standard of stone

Which encircles us now

Until wildfire consumes

And all at once the woods are in and in need

And the forests cued

Still internally so

In my own forest

And with an each new day henceforth renewed

Just know

With no amount of smoke

But instant combustion

I burn for you

Saria

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Self words

I am an odd mix

Of talent and non-performance

Of ability and desire not to be found

How I now know what I knew not then

How about there was and is all around

Those sensational lights which blink at night

In towers as tall as the seeming sky

And I am just the opposite of they

For I am an odd mix

Of eyes and sight

With feet planted firmly on the ground

Look down, I am not

Though look up occasionally, I might

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For you are alive

There are no ghosts in my past lands

No former halls I'd like to traverse

Which I either dreamt of

Or would rather sleep on

Or would swap you for

My flesh and bone

Your mind unmatched

Now when I dream it is only of you

And cannot sleep without such a wish

Entwined in kind and soul alike

For you are alive

And with me a hope of shall not pass

I believe as surely as you are kind

Saria

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Caffinated haiku

Caffeine burns anew

In this stomach of mindful

Almost waking bliss

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Happy it's you

My young heart knew

Not what a bullet was

Or how cold steel could taste

In a slash of truth

And yet my eyes remembered

Having seen the battles past

Pass by with heavy heart

And a trudging weight about their shoes

Having since found out about it I knew

That those broken hearts sent whizzing past

Were not for me and we happily unfound

I am lucky to be alive, let alone with you

Saria

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Light pollution

As it turns out

Before you

I wasnt a lonely star

But an empty nights sky

In a body of celestial hues

Light pollution

Saria

Saria

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A universe

You are a universe I would happily like to explore for a very very long time, an almost ever more.

Yes please

Saria

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Tuesdayerstion

Be it a reiteration in every way

You know the truth...

That Tuesday's are my least favorite days

Know not my thoughts, or what to say

On such a day

Feel like not much of anything goes my way

Or so I'd say


As I'm inclined to cancel things

And sleep the dreary day away


Or wake myself to go and play

Out in the rain (because contractually it must rain on this day)


But... Instead I am embraced by it

By the agony of yet another workday

Do you think I'm kidding?

Go right ahead, just find an ear and ask away

Ask anyone who you would find

Within a twenty miles of my drive

No way Jose could be OK

On this second waking-working day


How I prefer Tuesdays sister in every way

Would you take me back or forward one day?

Though I aced our ace at least five times

I'm still not a fan of these tEEWWWWWs days



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Your words mean more

Your words are no longer words to me

Like the sunlight unseen

On a cloudy day in May

Your words echo now

Not like light but like sound

In the trees of fall

Only your words stand

Taller than I and memories alike

Saria

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The living

Who am I to say that I know

The direction in which the world spins

The speed at which the leaves sway

The songs which all the birds sing

The location at which the ball will fall

But me and me, of which I know all

Turns out I know quite nothing of at all

For I just spin, and sway, and sing

And see it all as time does fall

Around me and all the time

Alive

Am I

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Days of lost

There are days I can smile back

At the universe looking at me

But alas

Today I cannot see

I am completely without

A path of sight before me

To smile

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Heart Causes


A young mans heart
Bleeds for things
And causes and self
But here
At the turning of centuric tide
Do find
That a true heart beats
For people and faith
For a consistency of mind
Unmatched
Innate

And so some of us do grow to find

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Constantly Constant

My worst enemy

Always presumed

To know me due to me

Having been my own

But now I see

Not that sight or time

Or the lack thereof

Or too much alone

Is what pulls me away

And ails me the most

No, instead most steadily

It is the engine of note

The human heart of hope

Which pulls at my mind

When my time is too much to me my own

Then all of my fears are shown

For I am powerless against an unknown

Me

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Zineas in the summer

Having declared my heart to be one with yours

I can only assume

That much like the zineas in the summer

My own myocardium is in bloom

For it is miles away at present

With you

And as for yours I can say

It seems most happy this day

(With me)

Saria

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