These fleeting lines
Disappear before
my mind
Can convey them
to my pen…
Author: Makar
Stephen Sutherlin is a designer, poet and musician. He writes poetry about life in the southwest and enjoys metrical lyricism.
Categories
Prophecy
Nothing supernatural is required for Prophecy…
Intuition, history, social psychology —
It’s easy to predict the patterns of human beings
Convey it in clever predicate
Let them presume just what you mean.
I need no Godly insight or flash of epiphany
To monitor the moving flock
And call out their destiny!
My little Butterfly
with wings out to soar.
Don’t be afraid to dive
into the mystery where there’s more
to be discovered
once of the Air
You’re Born!
Your beauty and your radiance
Light smiles where e’er
you go.
Your presence is always
Welcomed and your wisdom
helps us grow.
So fly, fly little butterfly
to see the world unseen!
Go soar amongst the flowers
Go dance with
The Beatles and the Bees.
for Gwen
Categories
Dark Arts
Creatures of darkness
Holding the Flame
Harshly contrasting light
Illuminates lines up the arms
And the globe of the head.
Everything about us is darkness
without light
fear, violence, brutality, hatred, dominance
The first fire
Was in the mind
The first light
Ignited the Soul
It matters not if we are divine
We are either creatures of light
Or creatures of the darkness
In between
Lies
Betrayal.
Categories
Landlord
This is my land
………….I am made up of her soils
…I am filled with her waters
………………I bleed
………….And make clay
………………With Fire
………………..A Vessel
…..To fill again this body
…………….with the soil
……………..And the water
……………………of this
…………………………My Land
Categories
Tiny
Little tiny
….Tit Mouse
Standing in the Cedar Tree
Has ceased his sweet little whistle
And is keeping an eye on me.
Here is a whole family
Singing Sweetly…
Looking for a morning meal
And a little bit of company.
–Chama, NM
Can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me sing?
Could you, would you, love me?
Care for our offspring?
If you would only have me
I could be complete!
So, this song I sing
Incessantly
For you to find
Me sweet!
May May
The best of months!
Spectacular int the desert
Before it warms up.
The temperate days and
Cool Spring nights make
Flowers burst open from the Earth!
She provides gentle showers
Nutrients from the dirt
Then metabolizes into Electricity
Light from the Sun.
Categories
Humanly
This condition
…………Humanly
All my skin falling off of me
All my hair sticking out in
Odd places
Or Not growing at all
As if it Gave Up
on its status (gave into stasis)
My deeply vetted grooves
around eyes and mouth
That have dug in so deep
as I have worried and frowned!
Or that gray hair growing out of
My Third Eye
As if reaching to heaven
to absorb the light.
We call it a pixel
on the top of my head.
I am all too quite sure
that it comes from my dread.
But it’s OK, cause even though
I’m getting older and it’s starting to show
–We regenerate every 8 years or so…
I’ve entered my last 3 cycles
Where it all starts to go
(To Hell…)
Categories
Overcome
Harken ye
……Trepidatiously
To the sounds of your own limiting
……Thoughts
…………..Overwrought
with Disparaging Plots of yourself
……and others
will you hear?
…………….Can you see?
Past these trappings of humanity?
That consume your mind
And make you blink with blood
Red Eyes and heart attack
…………………..Drives —
…..While you despise
…….Everything
………About
…….Breathing
….Until you stop
…Harken ye
..Breathlessly
SHAKE OUT YOUR DRIED UP LUNGS!
Take the plunge
Of Cool Deep Breaths
and a return to oneness
where you’ve let yourself go
and stop your judgement’s flow
As you let the river run
And Everything is Overcome.