All Of It, All At Once

All of it

All at once

Again

Please

I’m greedy

Forgive me

My hunger

My lust

My thirst

But

All of it

Again

Please

Without

Delay

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

Eleanor Someday

Aimed for Teddy

Ended up as Elliot

Fought back to Franklin

Hoping to elevate to Eleanor

Someday

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

Elated Joys and Sorrowful Lamentations

I cannot ease your pain

Include suffering in your expectations

Conscious existence in full contains

Elated joys and sorrowful lamentations

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

Summer A Boon

Summer a boon

Before you go

A warm wind

A late sunset

A last flower

A blue sky

My mind distracted

By comfort

Instead of cold

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

Reddit It

Reddit it

But first edit it

Trying for a meme

Choose from options

Of pre-approved themes

A world of blackblue sadness

Bursting at the seams

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

Memory’s Lapse

Humans come to the same revelations

Throughout generations

Across nations

Then timely forgetting

Consistently regretting

Their memory’s lapse

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

Melody Memory

Melody memory

Bring me home

Personal history’s

Tides and foam

In search of something

Long did I roam

Indivisible

But

Revisable

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

My Voice Is Weak Tonight

My voice is weak tonight

Burned by the sad black flame

I see attribution

Words I seek to blame

Its simply dissembling

The fire knows my name

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

Thunder

Let’s talk about thunder

The sound that it makes

Earth’s palpable fear

When the storm wakes

All living things pause

As the sky quakes

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014

Achievements Paths

Achievement through force of will

Cannot chase away

Restless ghosts

But

Achievement through curiosity

Can make peace with them

Gene G. McLaughlin 2014