Poetic-Asides on A Geek's Life

What It means when I step into the shower with my glasses on...

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:38:00 +0000

Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash. For The Poetic Asides prompt #554

Sometimes I think

that my sight is leaving me,

the common, quotidian comfort

of seeing the world that touches me

slowly slipping away, taking flight

but not yet gone; only a little less close

the next time morning rolls my way.

Maybe it is my mind forgetting

where the thin discs

of shimmering glass

that bring the light end,

and where my rods and cones

Where I Am

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:52:58 +0000

For the Poetic Asides prompt 530 Where You Are, Photo by Reiseuhu on Unsplash

** Here the sun hangs like a weight its heat like a curtain, dense, wrapped around itself like thick clouds keeping out the light.

Dust clouds swirl around hardy rocks, each peak a monument to defiance, to aeons of resistance, to heads held high against the ravages of earth, sand and time.

For a season this, this barren space which survives against the odds is home, reluctant as it may be

Silence, For C...

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 12:15:41 +0000

For C, and the others 2020 has taken. A response to the Poetic Asides prompt, Pandemic. Photo by Marina Reich on Unsplash ** Where the patter of your footsteps once roamed silence reigns, the joy of breath and thought and sonorous song subsumed by the frailty of things.

Death lingered at your door, too long and then snatched you. In the silence that you leave we remember the things we planned tomorrow.

A Novem For Starlight

Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:53:44 +0000

For the Poetic Aside Prompt #516 and the Novem poetic form. Not strictly interpreted though… \\\* Come bask beneath the starlight. Yield yourself to Time’s

gift of colour splashed across night’s canvas. Come here,

Hear the whisper of nature’s song. Ponder in awe.