You can carry it
That’s alright
Set it down
If you lose the fight
Use finesseInstead of might
But
Make no decision
Due to fright
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Category: Micropoem
Sibiling Rivalry/Last Piece of Pizza
She was awaken and wired
Silent hidden charged
Believing I conspired
In the room she barged
Me red handed!
Last of pizza I pawed
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Words Like Thunder
Words resonated more
Before they were written down
Crashing like thunder
Confined to only sound
Now they are echoes
Lost and found
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Digital Karma
Digital karma
Swirling in motion
To stay in the center
Requires eight paths
Vigilant effort
A heart ever open
Resilient skin
Nothing is past
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Reason
I was wrong
I changed
Now I’m better
Didn’t know
Was taught
Now it’s true
These are things of wonder
That reason can do for you
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
The Peak of Life
I want to put my feet up
By the river
The sound
Of the flow
Around me
Summer
Coming to life
The peak of life awakening
Once again
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
I Feel Like Bartelby
I feel like Bartelby
The world swirls around me
Preferring not to
Yet doing so
Modernity is a hurricane
Not a gentle rain
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
A Bee in a Flower
Do not abide
A lack of grace
In the world
Find it
In small things
Grand plans fade
Crumble to dust
Yet
A bee in a flower
Can sustain
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Sometimes You Drink Yourself Sober
Sometimes you drink yourself sober
Facing the morning sun
Sometimes you could not be surer
The whiskey definitely won
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Boozing and Tweeting
Beer and tweeting on Sunday
Tossing ideas out at the stars
Should be productive in someway
But I love the sound and smell of bars
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
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