Daily Poem

15 minutes. 1 poem. Every day. For as long as I can.

1. A book on this table,

   A movie for my eyes

   A treat in my mouth,

   A smile for this maple,

   
   

   A ring on my finger, 

   A pencil in my hand, 

   Glasses on my head,

   A purposed place to stand, 

   
   

   A jacket made of sunshine,

   A shirt made of warmth, 

   Shoes on my feet, 

   Protection on my seat,

   
   

   Friends on the beach, 

   Friends at my home, 

   Friends to see at parties, 

   Everywhere for friends.

2. Sleep

Peaceful, graceful, sublime,

Sleep.

A break from the world, a break from the stress, 

You fall to bed quickly, you wake up a mess,

But perfection is not clean, 

And so isn’t your hair, 

So you clean up a great deal,

To show that you care,

The irony there,

That we need something more,

After we wake, 

Just to walk out the door 

3. I talked to her last night 

I thought it was alright, 

We texted just like normal,

But she then was so formal.

I’m a little frustra-rated 

I howled into the night,

The air so full of spite, 

The world became a washing bowl, 

For Bitter’s vague delight.

I’m a little frustra-rated

The river crashed and churned,

The dam it oh so spurned, 

Human made creation, 

Pattern of sublation. 

I’m a little frustra-rated.

4. A lot comes from chemistry.

And a lot from biology,

The impulses in my brain,

To the muscles that I strain, 

Even pain, and happiness;

And joy and fear and guileful jest,

If all that cannot be seen, 

If the world spins round because of quarks,

A million seconds and a million forks, 

A million things I could do today,

So many ways to do and say 

So how can you worry, 

and how can you grate, 

When the line of true choice is so muddled by fate?

5. I love my bed, 

A place I read,

The place you create,

Before you’re dead,

People, dreams and inspiration, 

Magical, mystical, incantation,

Moving, masterly, projects of pace,

Where the world evolves the human race,

A hundred things are said and heard, 

A hundred people lost for words, 

A love connection, 

A new direction, 

A sickly body, 

A doctor’s mention,

A crying child, 

A worried father, 

A boy’s first kiss, 

A smiling daughter,

A comfortless frame,

A world of shame, 

A 5 start resort, 

An army fort,

The bed unites us, 

In what we do, 

In what we need, to get us through, 

In where we’ve been, 

And where we’re going, 

A check-in point, for human sowing,

We build in life, 

Throughout the night,

Because of love, 

Despite the strife 

6. Took a test today, 

Kinda rough today, 

Didn’t know what where why and who was going on,

Throwing on, 

Everything math symbols kinetics formula and algebra, 

An enigma, 

White paper sheet full of ink stuff, 

Mindless fluff, 

I took a test today.

7. Wholesale black beans,

Full season green garlic,

Avocado french toast, 

Momma’s favorite chuck roast, 

A garden full of tasty fruits,

A garden full of vegetables, 

All these things I like to eat,

The ground beneath becomes my feet, 

The world alone will change and move, 

The dirt will live and the sun will smile, 

You and I are but one earth, 

Eternal, maternal, without guile

8. 24 hours, 

That’s the time it takes, 

To reach a new day,

Tick, tickety-tock. 

2 minutes, 

That’s the time it takes,

To hold a plank,

And start to shakety-shake.

5 seconds,

That’s the time it takes, 

When you see her face 

Wake, wakey-wake.

75 years, 

That’s the time it takes, 

To live a life, 

To reach your fate. 

4 billion years, 

That’s the time it takes,

For the earth to exist,

For this moment to state,

That every second is a living relativity game 

Religiously lame, 

Until the beauty and the love come from one and the same, 

Relativity flame

9. Fish go swimming 

Can’t you see, 

Flicking, dancing, in the sea

Stripes and shades and polka dotts, 

Darting, dashing, with no thoughts

Up in currents, 

Down on rocks,

Walking, playing, 

Running around,

Some are sunny, 

One’s a clown

Talking, hoping, 

Dreaming, being,

Fish are people all worth seeing

10. DiscoMfy, 

discomfort with the Laugh

discomfy with the w o r d s,

discomfy with the vibe I Get,

Don’t You know? yeah you know what I mean 

I Mean 

discomfy like an itch,

DiscoMfy like a Bug,

DisComfy like the way you smile when YOU see a bad performancE,

dISComfy in your stomach, 

DiScOMFY in your stance, 

DiscomFY  in the way you fLOw, 

iN the wAy that yOu daLLy 

11. Flat tire,

On the road, 

In the rain,

Not the snow,

Flat tire, 

On the road, 

Where I went, 

Is not where I’ll go.

Flat tire, 

On the road,

Going fast, 

Now going slow….

12. In the stormy night, 

There came some rain, 

Through the hills, 

All the same, 

Dark and wet and angry and mad, 

Lightning clashes and all seems sad, 

By the cozy fire you knit, 

Aware of all the thrashing and fighting,

A hundred rain drops flying and dying, 

By the window they dash in a fit, 

In the night they see you sit.

13. It came like a fire, 

It came like a flame, 

A man his hopes his dreams his work always insane, 

Always so impossible,

Always so improbable, 

Always so unbelievably inconceivable,

He owned what he could though, 

He knew what he could write though, 

Every word every letter a plank unto his ark no 

Not everyone saw, 

Few people understood, 

Most thought he was crazy and his ideas absurd 

But his pen met paper 

And his brain fought Cain, 

His vision became what could not what would not be restrained

And the life that he saw, 

The beauty that was lame, 

He gave it legs it walked it ran it traveled without refrain

To the ends of the earth,

And back again, 

It brought joy it brought life without 

preferation.

14. Cold rain in the sky, 

Warm delicious pumpkin pie, 

Thanksgiving huzzah

15. Hot 

A thought 

A moment caught 

A crystal shot 

All failing forgot

Understandable knot

An opportunity sought

Hot

16. Darkness in the air 

Cold everywhere,

Jingle on the street 

Ain’t that kinda neat

It’s the holidays 

It's the Christmas time 

This is sublime 

Hear me see me shine

17.  Wow, the wind is strong, 

Feisty, a fiery throng

Oxygen, nitrogen and CO₂

Cascading, playing, in its zoo 

Always trapped by the world 

Perfectly mobile in its swirl, 

Never ignored

Always seen 

The wind and its fury, 

Forever free

18. A thousand painted photographs, 

A hundred memories 

You and I will never die, 

But love in harmony 

A dozen whispered truths, 

A decade spent in youth, 

You and I will always fly, 

Together in the birdless sky, 

A couple sacred oaths, 

One kiss shared and close, 

You and I will laugh again, 

 With hopes and dreams until the end

19. Life’s too short

To not have fun, 

To know yourself,

Before your done,

To not crack a smile 

And laugh awhile 

And love the night away

20. Here comes the rainbow,

Here comes the sun, 

Here comes the life the love the fun,

The green grass and memories, 

The opulent ocean, 

The sandy beach, 

The sky the dirt a lone black leech,

A leech? 

A leech! 

A leech on me!

Look and see what cannot be! 

It’s flicked off 

Thank god I’m fine 

Now please pass me some cherry wine, 

Some flavor to return the day, 

Some sanctity, to calm the fray.

21. Rain cold, stronger than most

But a lighthouse stands alone and defiant

Shining its light where others are silent,

Illuminating rocks, and the rain too

Reminding the ships it’s just a zoo

That despite the struggle

And a wayward world,

It’s definable, climbable, a hope will unfurl

23.  I’m not that inspired

I’m really just quite tired 

A poem a day 

So write again 

But of what I cannot say 

A poem my friend 

Please write some more 

To keep the trend and make some lore 

A poem--of what?--a poem you gnome! 

Just scribble something, so my eyes can shut

24. Work today 

and work some more 

work like a dog 

I said work till I snore

work till my body 

is nothing but dust 

work till my gears 

become rounded and rust 

work in the morning 

don’t stop at the night 

work for the glory 

rise like a kite 

and then when I’m old 

and then when I’m broken 

I’ll wave all my trophies 

My life just a token 

And where would I spend, 

such a valuable piece? 

What machine would accept

My sweat and my grease

Not one on earth 

For on earth I’ll be dust 

though certainly God, 

For money he lusts 

If work is so nice, 

My payment for life, 

then what did I buy 

But a means for my vice 

So Ill work for my love 

Ill work for that life, 

But if work is my purpose, 

Then life is my price 

25. Up and down the shipping line

    The goods come in

    They are divine

    Apples and candies and horses and geese

    Petrol and gears and a stronger made grease

Oh jeez

What is that

The skipper smiles

A man holds his hat

People ooh and some give an ah

What in tarnation

What is that thing's station?

Why would you ship that?

And who even buys that?

Is that even for sale

I've not seen anything like it

Don't look at me

I'm only the author

I've not a clue

Why someone would bother

But here it is,

Carted over the sea

And shipped off the boat,

On it's way to home

To some good buyer's boast

Why it was bought

And who it was for

I will forever be curious

I will forever implore

26. I am the fire

    You are the flame

    Together we burn

    One and the same

The heat from our light

It brightens the night

A star for the shadows

A sign of delight

27. Where will you go

    What will you see

    Surely the world

    Surely not me

Where will you go

What will you see

Mountains and trees

Cities and seas

Where will you go

What will you see

Girl with the golden hair

Healer with the fragrant stare

28. I hiked so many miles

    Had so many smiles

    I walked with a titan

    Strolled by a bison

    I talked with a girl

    Saw her hair twirl

    I sweated ten buckets

    The sun caused a ruckus

    I jumped from a rock

    Her beauty but shocked

    I floated by a whale

    The strength of its tail

    I swam in the sea

    Turquoise and free

    I stood on a mountain

    A drink from a fountain

    I slurped so much pop

    Three burgers, four stops

    I had so much fun

    Is it already done?

29. Not satisfied,

    with the way it is

    Not done

    Still happy

    Just not content

    
    

    I'm not angry at you,

    But I am angry

    I'm not distraught at you

    But I am distraught

    I'm not judging you

    But I am judging

    
    

    How could I not, when I see the world?

    When a hundred million people suffer each day

    And a hundred thousand more think that that's just okay

    
    

    I'll make a hundred--no a thousand--opinions

    Of now and the past

    Till I've built a little framework to start building a cast

    
    

    My eye will be critical

    And my voice will be stern

    One day the evil and the violence they will finally learn

    
    

    But until that day,

    Because it's not okay

    I will be forever stubborn

    I will have a pungent say

30. Five, ten, fifteen trees

I wonder how many there could be

Ten thousand branches

Ten million leaves

All stacked united

All proudly free

They sing as one

The wind it hums

Together they sway

Together they pray

I walk through their pews

My steps their news

And with their glory

Majestic and holy

I am but an ant

A word in their chant

Of the endless waves of swaying dream

Of the trees whose knowledge we may glean