Sometimes
Words together
Sound good
To the ear
Devoid of meaning
And homeless
In a notebook
They hum
Waiting for your pen
To guide them home
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
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Resilience Is a Skill
Bad rolls down hill
An unseemly fact
Change is a force of will
All throughout our acts
Resilience is a skill
The thoughts we don’t enact
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Just Bend
Evidence
Isn’t the Enemy
Failure
Isn’t the End
Reaction to
The game is
Friend
The goal is
Not to break
Just bend
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Within
Sometimes
I think ahead
Or dwell
In the past
Only in the now
Can I hear
The quiet hum
The nameless song
The beloved echo
Within
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Only Slow Recognitions
You’re self contained
Nothing else is missing
Any loss or pain
Don’t take to dismissing
The are no gains
Only slow recognitions
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
The Best of Song Is About Surrender
There is nothing wrong
With giving up
The best of song Is about surrender
That for what you long
Has ever torn you asunder
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
I Take No Stances
Hunger knows your name
I can see it in your glances
Starbuck watches on
As Ahab and the white whale
Dances
I take
No stances
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
We Told Stories
We told stories
They became our religions
We repeated actions
They became our decisions
We found were wrong
Then we made revisions
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Open Heartedness
Open heartedness
A trickling stream
Obscured by fog
Difficult to view
Slowly opening
Into a river
Burning like
The will of love
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Stores We Tell
A damsel in distress
A knight striving his best
A nautical tale
A huge white whale
Imagined realities
Fight life’s banalities
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
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