With some editing.


A shaman stole my shoes

A shaman stole my shoes
as I walked down old yesterday
with its smelly socks
and a forgetful indifference
that makes it so much easier
to abandon old bygone ways.

Now I am caught in an ominous assault
on the shoved aside past
that once carried weight
in what it was.

My nose is rubbed in memories
that once occurred, I think.
I am the remnant of a child,
full of anticipation of a life
that actually turned elsewhere,
a wisp, a spray, a thin mist
just before the sun spoke.

Thus I tell the eagle thorn tare
that meets the thin strands
of my grey, uncut hair:
Go easy on my fields of grey!
I am the soon not here kind of
that will but verbally sound
to the sand and clocks
of fulfillment falling.




Poetry by Bob
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Written on 2009-06-07 at 18:20

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Your meter sings and surprises. Excellent phrase "remnants of a child."
2009-06-08