When I Heard Your Heartbeat, I Cried 20/30

#NaPoWriMo Challenge: Write a poem that states the things you know. 

The ground beneath my feet is really layers 

and layers of time.

Stepping softly won’t slow my growing old.

Walking in circles only makes me dizzy.

I know I need to embrace this journey. 

The sun doesn’t choose whose eyes to shine in -

I am here as witness to each glimmer. 

Your spring hydrates my crisp summer leaves.

When I heard your heartbeat I cried,  knowing 

The flood was on the way - and I knew how to swim.

I had thought I knew what love was,

I had thought I knew,

But love is like time,

beneath my feet,

with each step,

I grow wiser.

With This Sunny Day 18/30

With this sunny day,

Collapse onto the first 

Grassy spot you find. 

Sit just for the sake of sitting. 

Take off your shoes, 

And your socks. 

Look closely to find little insects 

Wiggling around under blades. 

Aren't you also wiggling 

Up and over similar blades and bumps 

Looking for something?

Try your hardest not to squint 

When the sun touches your face. 

Don't be chilled by that cooling breeze, 

Instead notice every follicle that is feeling something. 

Let that fly linger 

Just a moment more on your arm 

And see the hundreds of reflections on its wings. 

Aren't you also always landing in places 

That try to swat you away 

As you try to be just who you are?

All The Things Your Heart Is 16/30

Take all the things your heart is

      And all the things your heart isn't, 

Can them 

      Into a jar 

                                  And watch the flickering lights 

                                                                   Blink on and

                                                                                      off like summer 

                                                                                    Fire bugs on a 

                                                                             Dim lit hazy night.

Above stars will play

                                Hide and seek

                                                  With night clouds 

                                                                             And moon-shadows.

When you go to slumber

Your mind will buzz 

With a million thoughts 

Until 

        Sleep 

                 sets 

                         you 

                                 free.

River Won't Listen 10/30

River rushing,

Messing through tranquility,

Upsetting soft grasses 

And still trees.

Calm sky clouds

Stay open for a wide sun.

But river shatters the rays

Upon rocks and edges.

River won’t listen 

To birdsong or deer hooves moving.

Instead, tantrum-ing down mountainsides,

And butting up against boundaries and lines.

Always running,

although towards or away from,

We may never know.

Whirl-pooled and streaming puddles of childish tears,

Crying until they’re all dried up.

A Drop in The Bucket 7/30

Today's writing prompt from NaPoWriMo is: Write about Money

A Drop in the Bucket

It’s in our DNA,

To build upon and build upon.

To multiply, and increase.

To take up more space, 

To be our own. 

To identify what is ‘mine’. 

One penny connecting to another,

Becoming another form of currency, 

Attracting more connections.

The endless becoming of many pieces 

That together represent 

More than the whole.

Culturally the monies display differently, 

But underlying the structure, 

Their concepts, 

look the same.

Like with our own DNA, 

Money buys ninety percent junk, 

Only ten percent for what we need to function.

Often, our wallets suffer from disease and loss. 

Some feel emptiness,

Some are obese,

Some are tainted with bad blood.

Many submit to the God gene and feel all powerful,

While others are stolen

Disappearing into the masses,

Unnoticeable,

                  An insignificant 

                                              drop 

                                                                       in the bucket.

It’s in our DNA to make more.

It’s in our DNA to take over,

As we spend

                              we speak,

                                                                 Through our voices,

                                          we evolve.

Murky Waters 5/30

Murky waters. 

A place to stay away from,

Perhaps a state to beware of.

Or rather something to not get mixed up in. 

It might be too deep,

Too dark,

Unclean or worse. 

Yet, from the womb we emerge

A sooty mess,

All muddy from pure beings blood,

And we arrive full of light,

Having endured the darkest 

Mysteries of life.

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Lengths of Time Like an Inch Worm

Let me know when you take flight.

And how the air is sweeter,

That leaves a bitter trail as you go.

I’ll be watching from below.

How the air breathes sweeter,

Swollen with fertile scents and satiated longings.

Left with the bitter trail, here I stay

Watching from afar in the gap between the twist and fray

Swollen, with fertile scents, to satiate the longings,

The lengths of time like an inch worm.

Watching, from afar, the gap twists the fray

Alone I lay.

In lengths of time

you to will land, tired,

Near to where I lay below,

As you share your sweetened glow.