Off into the sunset …

12.          Insanity

A calendar with hour-long meetings
Separated by hour-long gaps;
A To Do list that has three things added
For every one that is completed;
A software upgrade
Worse than the previous iteration;
A workplace that wants exponential growth
In a place with static population;
An inbox of 12000 items
2000 of which have not been read;
And a preposterous idea to write
A hundred poems in […]

11.          Memory

Just lately my mind has grown hazy,
I’ve taken to making a list;
I don’t want to drive myself crazy
Because there is something I’ve missed.
Whenever I find I’m recalling
A task that just cannot be late
I quickly start typing or scrawling
The job on my list, with a date.
But this is not all that’s disturbing —
This need to write […]

1o.          Breathe Again

Will I? Won’t I?
Can I? Can’t I?
No pressure or nuthin’!
Waiting, waiting
Time slows and hastens.
Pulse pounding
Tension mounting
Braced in readiness
Then
A fleeting eternity
And it’s done.
The pressure fades;
It’s only now I realise
That all along
I’ve been holding my breath.

29, 30 April 2013

Comments: Hey, I’m 10% of the way through this 100 poems challenge. I’m not going to […]

9.          Drive

Some days the destination is all that matters,
For others the journey itself,
But for most trips it’s both.
It’s a long way there and a long way back
For meetings shorter than the drive
Bringing its necessity into question;
But I go, sometimes alone,
Singing along to favourite tracks,
Harmony my coffee substitute.
Vistas change: the verge a blur,
The further hills move slower
But […]

7.          Heaven

Fun with family,
Relaxing with friends,
The sounds of peace,
Rugged alpine views,
A waterfall in rainforest,
Sunset reflections,
Moonlit starry night,
Sweet and fatty foods
With no consequences,
And no bureaucracy.

26-27 April 2013

Comments: The company of good people and beautiful outdoor places would be sufficient for me, I think.

Themes to come: 8. Innocence; 9. Drive; 10. Breathe Again; 11. Memory; 12. […]

6.          Break Away

Just another attempt
To get a higher score;
Just another update
Of a trivial status;
Just another mouse-click
And a web page turns to two
Just another email
Lands with a Pavlovian bell;
Just another feeble try
To leave the thing alone.

25 April 2013

Comments: Yeah, I’m having issues at the moment: far too easily distracted by certain pieces of technology.

Themes to […]

5.          Seeking Solace

Last night
I cried
Like a child:
Silent sobs
That made me tremble.
I tossed
And turned,
And took deep breaths
To calm me down,
But still I screamed out
Quietly
So as not to wake anyone.

That’s why
Nobody came
To comfort me
And stroke the hair
Beside my ear
Until I fell asleep.

I slept anyway
And the sun rose in the morning
As it always does.

6 February 1991

Comments: I […]

4.          Dark

I know cloudy days
And momentary gloom;
Drifts of foggy haze
Where faint shadows loom;
But I do not know
The advancing grim,
Its relentless flow
As all light grows dim;
When a pitch black wall
Full surrounds the soul
And threatens a fall
Down an endless hole.
Where the brightest light
Shone by caring friend
Is consumed by night
And the world will end.
As this darkest threat
Smothers all […]