False Guise
I'm under no false guise
That somehow reaching out now
Will permit more of a hearanle sound
As compared to before
But please
Just know
That for you I reach still
Even when so close
As this life has allowed us
To be
I still do and am
For you and me
Justify, a tanka
We as humans do
Justify ourselves to be
More than anyone
Or anything else on earth
As just in this our being
Life is breath (some advice)
If you're not careful with life
You won't live it at all
But instead
Permit yourselves
To breath out everything
And take in nothing
Until all the time around you is exhausted
And everything you ever did
(That final day)
Was your last
My advice to you
Is to be more aware of now
Of its impermanence
And to not
Do that
Myself, All The Time
I never thought I'd need
Permission to be
And think
Away from this newfound me
Even for just a few minutes at a time
But I can and do
And am and most greatful
Not for intimacy
(All the time)
But for time to simply be
(Myself)
On occasion
All Stretch
Muscles skin
Fat, flab, or fair
Bright glowing in soul
Or in a coffee enduced stare
Dear world
Written from me
Know most sincerely that
Nobody
Truly ever
Other than looking
For the sake of look
Even, ever, or will
Care
Lol
Complex Breaths
Simply put
Between complex breaths
The knowledge is known
And only you I seek
For only you know the silent circles I speak
Do you see?
A freedom of care
Caring can be
More free and unbridled
When you yourself
Are untied and untamed
But being so
Kinda sucks
Because such freedom
Is almost always too free
Full of nothing but potential
Whereas now
There is beyond mere promise
Now there is life
In its most purest form and actuality
Pacing, a tanka
People pace around
To see what life can bring forth
When really they are
Down the same paths just walking
Round and round in the design
Silent Moment
A silent moment to seek
Is not due to any sound of you
To any noise of harp
But instead
Such silence
Is meant to bring me back to me
To a place where I am no longer
Not even tempted to speak
In short
And that is why
I seek out the seat
Where time drops like rain
And the only storm left hovering above
Is the words to fall
Most honestly
Down
Glancing keep
Any glances now
Turned my way in the least
Are at most not about me (at all)
I know
They are about you
As my keeper
As my soul lover
You my chooser now known
Any such compliment is for you now alone.
Which is ironic as we are in fact
Together
Busy Intimate
Busy and progress
Forward and sorting
These are the drugs
Of a mind
Most organized and
In it's group ways of thinking
Pulling towards one aim
In visions and sight now
Together we are
Almost.... cavorting
Mind Alone
Alone
Is the first time
My mind has been
Truly left
To it's own devices
In days
And that is ok
It is just different
It is
To suddenly explode into being
More fully than ever before
I am full, and unalone
New Wisdom
There's a really interesting relationship
Between respecting self
And yet humbling self
When new wisdom occurs
And your guilt is found
How then will you respond
When it's when
And the time is slipping fast
And everyone most negative is there
And close, and bare, and all around
A weak man leaves
Or complains
Or refuses to grow
When such a change
Is actually ordained
And is truly a gift from God
How will you be then?
Where will your future self be found?
A tanka about tankas
This method is so
For myself and for others
A succinct feeling
Of knowing rivers have flowed
Even if only to streams
Aims and the aimless
Aimless minds
Can be so hard to respect
When you yourself
Have aimed often so high
Or so it feels
Sometimes
But there are those instead
Who see smoke as joy
And pray away all prayers
Claiming not to care
When really an aim
Is a good thing for which to try
Truly so, not low
Instead look to the sky
Humanity and time
Human life
Is just time
Unstopped
A constant reminder that we
Are not earth or sky
Neither stone or sea
We are something else bound by concept
And in constant opinion of others and noones
We are humans
We are free
Kinda
A life capable of thanks
For this protection
And sense of self (aware)
I am most happily thankful
Because life, any other way
Would not be wrong
Necessarily
But to be as I am
Is to bw self aware enough to see
That I actually like this version of me
And that is protection manifest
From so many other unpleasant selves
Which could've been, but never did
Thankfully
How men fail to speak, a tanka
Men know not how this
Beautiful sky has become
Erupted into
Brightest colors full and blown
As the day is long we don't