Poetry etc. Thread for Creativity

One for 'Flapjacks' and this morning's 'Flour power' thread :)




'Entitled' was a fascinating read, Otsana. It's not often I find myself lost within a reading and having to finish and then return to seek out clues on how to piece layers and images together. Quite the taste of my own medicine, I would reckon


"Find a Clue"

Of life that's left to give
Gift beckoning to sieve
Sits full a glass to own
Oft empty has been known

Has been is what I am
Lost sight to write a sham
Shed hope for what's to come
The solitude I've won

Sheltered behind the walls
Denying none of falls
Owning all of the self
To shield me from the wealth

Of lights flashing here, there
I cease to show a care
For questions never end
Answers they never send

Special or not I've fought
In others' eyes been sought
What ought be seen within
Not in recycle bin

Flushed away, discarded
Facing the day I dread
When all I have to be
Is what they think of me

Fingers enough to count
The ones left to dismount
To be rid of this void
With me too long has toyed

Honing skills worthless task
Nothing more left to ask
It can't go on like this
Giving of self remiss

To reckon a time come
To see inward wholesome
Without a mirror there
For another to care

So little work to do
Why can't I find a clue
How to sit, be at ease
Without my little trees

Shaking leaves down on me
Endless colors to see
And purposes to be
No emptiness to flee

Into words wove not heard
Absurd silence of bird
That knows not it's own call
Nor which flock to bear pall

Holding reflections tossed
A life's thoughts be the cost
To lose myself in sound
So that it might be found