POEM: The Road That Bends

Pushing aside all excuses
Every judgement on the floor
What direction would you turn
To choose and call your door?

After charting all consideration
And mapping out mountains of thought
Recalling past paths of experience
What choice is above things taught?

rising above all reason
your mind can construct all things anew
choosing
to actually choose
the road that bends
is you


Copyright ©2005 J R Hollyday

POEM: Practicing To Be Dead

While you dream your life in the dark
The sun watches you sleep
You return from your slumber adventures
With stories to make the living weep

Coasting past warm waves of people
In a sea of solitude
Opportunities thrown back to an ocean
Of blue apathetic attitude

A tourist in your own quiet life
A traveller stuck inside his head
Dreamer of worlds of no future consequence
Practicing to be dead

Copyright ©2005 J. R. Hollyday

POEM: Skydive

Thirteen thousand feet
I whip a flip
I'm standing on a cloud
Upside-down

I'm a baby bird
Laughing unheard
One hundred twenty miles fast
Coming-down

Patty cake with the wind
One minute waltz with my sky king
I'm falling royal on top of you world!
Reigning-down

Startling sweet silence
My mind in private whirlwind
Under a silk umbrella, peace, seven minutes
Floating-down

The grass and plane clearing
My family stands cheering
A meadow landing revering
Touch-down

Copyright ©2005 J. R. Hollyday