Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Fledgling



One's life to another might look
As if a dream.

The reality is the rose colored lenses
Looking at the other side of the lawn
Is just as green.

If not more.

With depth and illusion

So easy to peer through the lense
And see past  the fence.

Pink tinted and peeling.
Belly swollen and purging
With the whys and wherefores.

A different dimension

An empty nest

Lies in the awakening of another.

Yet for years.

Captured by schedules rigidly the days flounce by

While she beyond the garden
Longs for the days of young.

The pitter patter
The loud and clatter

Become swallowed up
In the solitary noise.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Author's Voice August 2011


My apologies for neglecting this blog.  Summer has been fast and furious, and I have been enjoying time with my children while they are home from school.  I just returned from this lovely place, Sunset Beach, North Carolina, and I am heading out this week to Pennsylvania to visit family.  Writing has been on the back burner, but I'm sure it will sprout its wings once again.  To all my followers I hope you are having a fantastic summer.  I'll be in touch soon. May the lull of the oceans and the dawn of the tides speak to each of you...

Peace to you.

Lorely

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Liberation




We are the divine among the divine
Lion cubs separated from the sheep
Refusing to succumb to the bleating
Somehow buying into the manifold
That we belong to a lesser god.

A different royal sanctum.
I will not bow down to the utterances
The berating and the bashing
My mane will sparkle in multi-colors
In the speckled, the matted, the unshaven
I will speak  and others will listen.

And slowly and softly
On the distant shores
I will find my roar. ..

Friday, July 1, 2011

Periphery


The spineless backbone
Of ignorance and tolerance
Lies waiting in concentric circles.
Empty air tickles an empty ear.
The meddlesome mind lost
Rustling within other's egos.
A yolk distant from the edge.
The sacred heart remains bound

With a slight tear in her eye
A passenger in a propeller
Flounces about
In paralleled frustration
Spinning a whirlwind
Of adhesives and scars.

The third wheel
Wondering when to reclaim
What was rightfully disposed
Remains on the sidelines.


Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The Corrupt One


Oh how the mighty has fallen.
Illinois.
A cold day in history.
Pride cometh before a plunge.
The vulture unleashes from the sky.
Finally.

One of many taken down.
Down. Down. Down.

If one could hear the blackness seething in our brains.
The overthrows.  The seductions.  The take-overs.

We would be shackled too.

What can you do for me?!
Me! Me!
After all, isn’t it always about me?!

Shaded eyes. Mirror of the soul. Full head of  painted dark hair.
Elusive. The need for power and control.
Passion.  
How many people has he trampled to get his way?!
In secret rooms.
All of the makings of desperation and disaster.

As the grey  pelts down…covering our world in gloom.
Attempting to hide the hidden.

“Your deeds done in the darkness will be exposed in the daylight.”
Angered at this deception, this fraud; yet aware…

Expletives, profanity, a definition of character of morality.
What morality?!

Where does it exist?
Those who have. Those who have not.
Who gives a damn?!

Economies are collapsing.
Children are hurting and starving, yet “Give me that Golden Parachute”
I’ll turn my blind eye…and watch another rot in the dust.

Pad my shelves. Upholster my furniture. Burn the papers and turn them into shreds.
Interior is important. Or is it exterior?
Arrogance creeping in…

Leads way to utter failure.
“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”
Blagojevich…Who will even remember how to spell his name?
“For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul?

“There but for the grace of God go I.”







Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Damnation of Eternity



Peering through my gold rimmed spectacles

A gentle wind escapes through the panes of my office.

Entertaining thoughts which lead to doubt.

He stands accused.


Feathers blowing in the mist.

A thin wispy air.

Rosy cheeks and dimples.

A child’s innocence led by a weathered manicured hand.

To the rectory where no one sees.  No one hears.

No one whispers.

Nothing.

The task is done.


Incompletely torturing another’s soul.

For eternity.

Raging truth must be set free.

From the fires which choose to burn.


Flames flying.

An old steeple with tarnished crosses.

What is there to believe?

Where is the truth?  Wherein lies naivety?

Refusing to capture the pangs, the pain.

The psyche of one’s being.


Shall I escape from the ruins?

To other gray stagnant days.

Fog laying all about.

Attempting to consume.  To cover.


Foolishness attempts to hearken another’s vow.

At the expense of one so bright, clear and young.

Causing questions which will last throughout the centuries.

No time to ponder.  Only to walk away.

And begin again.

And doubt.




The Query

Amongst the rooftops I sit in a query
as to the meaning of life.

A lone flag rustling in the breeze
if only…it’s patriotic call.
A young woman falls
another maintains.

Symbiotic rhythms and waves,
a myriad of quandry,
listening to the quibble of far off folks.

Carolina sun upon my skin
and here I sit once again,
waiting for answers…

Realizing as each day passes,
they’re immersed within…
the very fabric of daily syncopations,
universal oneness, and
the simple, yet profound…

The query, the quandry and the quibble.