Choose Another Path

The path to a broken heart

Is short

Straight

Flat

And Wide.

It is no trouble to travel.

The path is

easy to find

And hard to leave.

It is a well-worn path.

And there are many companions

To travel alongside,

To entertain you

As you stroll on

towards heartbreak.

Wish Upon... Whatever You'd Like

Wish

Make a Wish:

Wish for a little more time….

…to linger between the sheets

….to keep them little longer

…to share just one more kiss

Wish for the best of luck…

…that a first date leads to a second

…for a steady voice on opening night

…for a successful tomorrow

Wish for time to fly…

…so that it will just be over

…to finally see her face again

…to finally hold him tight

Wish for good fortune…

…in matters of the heart

…in your professional endeavors

…in good old fashioned fortune

Go ahead, make a wish.

The Leaf

The leaf,

Having given life,

Now gives it up,

Releasing a tenuous grasp

On that which it sustained

For a season or so.

Gravity takes hold,

As does the breeze,

And the amber ember

Floats slowly and serenely downward.

Then—just as the dear ground

Is within reach—

An ominous rumbling

Briefly precedes

A chill, silver rush.

Whipping the leaf upwards,

Whisking it away,

Thrashing it along,

Tossing it to and fro,

Intermingled with leaves of all sorts

And various refuse along the way

All a Little Crazy

This is a poem for the beautiful oddities of the world.

"All a Little Crazy"

What's so wrong with crazy?

Don’t you like my weird?

How can you deny us,

When were here 

and here 

and here?

Who says strange is bad?

No one I'd listen to!

Yes, we are the crazy people,

And you're crazy people too!