I'm tired

my stomach is reacting to stress again

have to worry for so many people

yet never enough

a scare yesterday

followed by one today

aching belly

and a tired mind

connection

to carry me through this night

on the black tide of coffee

I can't sleep wake

to some new scare

better to be awake

read and sit in the bathroom

as legs go numb

25.11.2014

If you can't cry for those

dying now,

don't cry for those

who are but skeletons

in mass graves.

Tears can't revive the dust.

24.11.2014

gaia

in the end

we all shall

embrace the earth

our great mother

and it shall

kiss our crumbling bones

our ash

18.11.2014

in aeternum resonat

all who we have loved

we must give back

to the world

all who we have lost

we must give back

to the cosmos

ourselves in the end

we must give back

to the nature

18.11.2014

mist

above the fields of snow

melting away

winter melting away

for autumn to

stay

18.11.2014

from our hands

the gifts

of life and death

to all

inhabitants

of the world

and to you

of all people

I gave death

18.11.2014

everything coils around it still

mist and remains of snow

among the remaining trees

the clearing hacked

in our lives

the loss forever there

my mother

the un-beating heart

of our lives

your absence

the stumps

of our lives

still here

16.11.2014

A Poetic End

I pitied Edgar Allan,

thinking of his last days

kidnapped and drunk

forced to vote again and again.

But then I read

he supported slavery

and thought

it was a just end for him.

Supporting the enslavement of others

never believing it to happen to him,

I just wonder if he had any regrets

during those days of bondage.

11.11.2014

Ars Poetica

Poetry can be a painting

made with words,

poetry can be a dagger,

it can be a salve

and it can be a soap box

but it should never be

just one of the above.

07.11.2014

kuorevesi

so bleak

these forest roads

on this november

afternoon darkening

the hamlets

half-abandoned

fields on land

that never gave much

the dark waters

solitary

lights

life

07.11.2014