Seascape

Seascape

by dan ankers

What is a poem but scattered sea foam

collecting at the foot of the waves and the tide

the extras you find when great things have passed by

redolent of of everything high

but lowest of things

you can find

Where along the beach and among the crashing of the waves

and the breeze through the sand

Where people like I can collect it, direct it

till it subsides

and it’s bubbles are gone

and no more

That is what poems are

and that is what

dreamers are for

to see where the people see nothing

and are lost among the sea

and the roaring tide’s rushing

Why

Why

by dan ankers

Why did I get born

Why did the sun rise today

does any of it mean anything at all

So that simple cause and effect meanings

do not convey

the only way?

I mean it’s all cause and effect in the end, but I hope you know what I mean

Is there more than a mere cause and effect

hot pocket universe dream?

Did we all get borned in a microwave

Did the universe just leave it on too long

and is it all one day just going to collapse

to be reborn again

repeating this song.

Evermore, Evermore quoth the Raven

and with her talons she did improvise a dance

But is that dance merely all that there ever was?

or is this world a much greater

thing, that it needs to be cherished?

This universe immortalized

These days Counted

Diamond

Diamond

by dan

This little diamond is not “in the rough” by any means

She holds her own

And she’s tough

And she’s clearly much more than she seems

And in a million sparkling ways

though she chooses not to expose

she gleams

It’s all in the eyes

And as you get closer

you realize

She is not a mere diamond at all

no

This little powerful cat

is much much more than that

she is the stuff of

dreams