Thinking of Today

Today is not cinco de mayo. Or a momentous day of liberty. 

It is not a day where the leaves might congress.

It is not a day out of a dream.
Today is the fourteenth day of May. 

A day where I seem to circle around like a tethered moth. 

Unable to escape and only the fire promises any hope of liberty.

How happy is it to be free of recollections? 

I would not know. Not yet. 

Today is not a day of many things.
It is not a day of waking up with nouns.
All I have left is a verb and a past tense.

Today is not a day in which I can hope 

to hear your voice or make promises for tomorrow.

It is  not a day to write "before you came". 

It is a day of sifting through the past with a fish net. 

In a sea where many ships lost their way 

and went down to seek comfort in its bosom 

with their small cargo of hope and tiny masts. 

It is a day where i abandon a poem 

and look out of the window to the grasshopper green trees. 

It is a day where I want to relive a past and fail. 

And I return to fulfill this poem hurriedly 

to write that 

today is a day that smells of an old newspaper

in which both of us had a home.

Reviews

[Corset]

Am I the only rereiwer on this masterpiece? unbelieveable. well, let me be the first to day this is magnificent, especially the last two lines, not because they are better than any other lines in this poem but because they hold the most meaning to me on a personal level. I think "abandon" is spelled with an a though, not that it takes away from what you have penned in the slightest.

[Abhra]

Thanks so much! I do realize there is a typo in abandon now that you point it out. I wrote this poem on my iPhone and did not realize it until now.

[Corset]

you are welcome, your poems are wonderful, you should hit the read request so they get out there, you have a magnificent talent, it needs to be shared.

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

I echo the earlier review...you do have an amazing talent. Truly, your work is worthy of being read and read and read again. It is full of feeling and stunningly expressed. I don't even know what to say anymore. My reviews are heartfelt and I hope that is enough to communicate the fact that I can't get enough of your work.