Unshakable
I refuse to make
any apologies for the way you make my
cheeks flush, pulse chase, heart race when
your hand brushes past my face.
—©g.a.meeder, 2017®
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Strollin With Intent
Strollin with Intent
tipped his hat their way
as he took note of her
giggling with two other girls
laden with heavy face paint
strolling down maroon
cobblestoned streets
with smiling faces
glances & nods
exchanged at everyone
they’d greet & meet
he couldn’t help but
notice that nice little quiver
that made her hips shake
giving him the wanton shiver
twirling parasols under
bare assed noon sun
for fair skinned escape
his innards ached
for those soft milky legs
wrapped up all around him
with her he knew damn well
that bed would quake
one way or another
in his rich man’s way
he was gonna buy
that perty girl
with a string o’ pearls
his wife had no say
he’d do so by any means
cause that’s the way they did
many & most things
when in the brothel’s
of New Orleans….
—©g.a.meeder, ®2017
Pack Of Lies
Pack of Lies
i had written the book
cover to cover on
the philosophy
with enough hard work in life
you could achieve anything
but it’s high time
to close that damned book
on American dreams
toss that poorly written
over rehearsed book
into that heap known as
file thirteen
because it’s nothing
but a pack of damned lies
and who would know
the storyline better
than the author
who never once
saw it come true
before her very eyes?
—©g.a.meeder, 2017®
Guilty As Charged
Guilty As Charged
I had to stop the noise
for it had become my failures
from which there had been
no pause for escape
so that I could settle
my scores of ill fate
hidden within human frailties
when I realized who are
we really competing up
or against?
all these imaginary battles
in this hard fought
but easily lost race
other than ourselves
and in that moment
I didn’t even recognize
until I wiped the
condensation off
the bathroom mirror
that it was the woman
in the mirror staring
back at me
with that harsh
judgmental look
upon her face…
—©g.a.meeder, 2017®
Autumn Overture
Autumn Overture
subtle sunrays peek
in between trees sparkling
on fallen fall spun
golden sun drenched leaves, Autumn’s
soft footprints of season’s end.
—©g.a.meeder, 2015®
Mighty Reckoning
Mighty Reckoning
You are a force to
be reckoned with that’s what they
say about the likes
of someone like me when my
tongue is set loose words fly free.
—©g.a.meeder, 2015®
Now that the day has arrived, they cry socialism.—Elizabeth A. Sherman
Sun Shines So Pretty
Sun Shines So Pretty
winter layers us
in white diamond dust
the earth rotates on
her axis seasonally
stirring all things up
finding us here
in this moment
of discovery
that when the sun
shines so pretty it hurt
reminding us that
missing you
would hurt this much?
—©g.a.meeder, 2018®
Dawn of Truth
Dawn of Truth
The splish splash lull of soapy dishwater
pulled her in as her sponge
spun around the bowl’s rim
two small business setbacks
and all those dishes she’d scrubbed
through thick and thin
pondering why is life always sink or swim?
—©g.a.meeder, 2018®
Stellar Minx
Stellar Minx
celestial rocks break free
from intergalactic rides
streaking in their final blaze of glory
across charcoal cajun blackened skies
sprinkled with shimmering stars and planets
giving us pause to marvel
at what we romanticize as falling stars
are nothing short of amazing
but meteors cleverly disguised…
— -©g.a.meeder, 2018®
Simplicity(My Bouquet of Wisdom)
Simplicity
(My Bouquet of wisdom)
tiny seeds of life
that have taken root
give me a
simple pleasure
that only goes
to show
how easy to please
i have become in my life
with the smallest bouquet
of wildflowers
hand picked
for good measure.
–©g.a.meeder, 2018®
“Simplicity is not style, it is a state of harmony.”
Naoto Fukasawa
The Vicious Cycle (The Broken Back Workers Plight)
The Vicious Cycle
(The Broken Back Workers Plight)
strange where poverty leads us
the captain of unwilling vessels
steering us into false mantras
where we are told to dream
reach for those lofty stars
that if we work hard enough
we can get there
with these hands, these feet
this mind, the people we meet
but life throws so many punches
slim curves, kicks in the crotch
that it leaves black as night holes
in our misdirected souls
whereupon we once again
find ourselves back in that place
we’d hoped to have escaped.
—©g.a.meeder, 2018®
“Spinning my wheels gettin nowhere fast!”
The most commonly used & stated
“pearl of wisdom”
from all the truck driver’s
that I came to know & love in my life.
Royalty By Cosmic Design
Royalty By Cosmic Design
lifting her one pale green
and one actual brown eye
to the celestial bodies
that hung in abstract
locations as if
dangling from
black velvet sky
never had she seen
so many stars before
her road weary eyes
that she hung her
head out the passenger
side window like a child
seeing fireworks from
afar for the very first time
if only this were her
very own planetarium
with stars at her fingertips
wistfully released
a contented sigh
whereupon she identified Cassieopia
I’d be heir to the throne
of the Egyptian queen of big sky.
—©g.a.meeder, 2017®
Splintered
Splintered
i remain offside
quietly listening to
others as they
dig up dirt
verbally assaulting
one another for how
they approach issues
attacking them for
opinions that differ
maintaining my distance
by keeping my upper lip stiffer
so that I maintain
some sort of strength
to pick up the remains
when they are done playing
their judgmental games
so we don’t all end up
in the same log splitter.
—©g.a.meeder, 2017®
