Thank you to Patricia Mayorga of Poets Espresso Review  for publishing my poems in Volume 14: Issue 1.

What Will Be Your Dance?

 

No more laws or rules to tell us how to conduct ourselves.

With joy and sorrow, still both present to make us feel alive,

what form then will either take?

What will echo the song of your convictions,

the sound of you achieving goals and dreams?

Would you volunteer the transfer of a few encumbrances

to help unburden another?

Will bartenders still serve advice as well as drinks

to those whose ramblings only seek a tree on which to hang solace?

Without a soul in sight, what shall be your dance?

This act, the definitive test of all your thoughts and feelings,

held deep inside.

I Wish to Absorb the Best Creature Features

 

I talk to dogs and cats, turtles, snakes, fish and

birds regardless of their age or size.

Now and again I ask them burning questions,

then they freeze.  I believe they’re thinking

hard, wanting to give the best answer, the truth,

a reply that I could understand.  There’s no real

discussion that follows this pause of thought, they’re not

really trying to convince me to, say,

change my point of view.  They only want

to teach, how to be in the moment,

show loyalty, to live within one’s means and not take more

than we need, to stick together well.  Not

always planning the last word.  For them, 

perhaps we should learn to ask better questions. 

To them, perhaps we should learn to listen better.