After a Second Cup

Cloudy Sunday winter afternoon

Christmas has come and gone

Alone this single afternoon

After a second cup of green tea

Looking out the kitchen window

Watching cars pass the intersection

Thinking about the year gone by

Not really recalling anything

But just a year gone by

Almost a hundred poems written

Many journal pages filled

Spending many hours sitting

In front of  computer screen

Sometimes earning a living

Sometimes just fooling around

'Cause of boredom

Thousands of minutes

In long distance conversations

Through invisible sound waves

Flying through the air into space

Millions of seconds spent laughing

At something foolishly hilarious

That we humans do to ourselves

Correspondences read and written

Good news, bad news, all news

Hmm...

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he stood far

he looked from afar

he saw the war

the war between men

fought everyday

battles won, battles lost

but the war

not one man victorious

Light Buried

the light buried deep inside

flooded my heart

and washed the pain away

the sun sets his eyes on me

gave me warmth

and thawed the cold to life

my mother smiled at me

wiped out the tears

and reassured me who I was

my father hugged me

eased my worries

and told me I'll be alright

the bird sang to me

whispered hope

and I sang with him

a friend just called me last night 

reminding me I was not forgotten

but loved and missed a whole lot

I looked at the mirror

smiled at myself

and remembered why I came

The Ominous Cloud

the ominous cloud comes

from down the mountains

in the valley it settles

all the animals scurry

in the meaningless haste

running everywhere

but not going anywhere

fear permeates the air

the cloud sits there

silently still, not moving

but the animals are not aware

its still stagnancy

that the sun will lift in time