Hallway to Nowhere

Tag: temporary

  • Give Me Shelter (Poem-Feb 5 PouncePunk Art Challenge)

    Where do I find my home?

    If external and anchored to a particular place, persons, or circumstance,

    I always live in a temporary abode, a shifting unstable shelter.

    Eventually I will be homeless, as will we all.

    If internal and built with sturdy foundations shored by constant reinforcement,

    I have a much different type of dwelling, a flexible steady residence.

    If you place your happiness in that which can be taken from you,

    You will lose your happiness.

    Love where you are; love those around you; love what you love, in any way.

    I do so and find comfort in all of these.

    They will change and even pass away,

    So I cherish them for their fleeting presence.

    My hearthstone is placed in another realm,

    Connected to all around, until it crumbles also,

    Impermanent as I am.

  • Geographical Luck (Poem)

    The rains have arrived,

    Remnants of the hurricane.

    If I go outside and lift my face,

    Will I taste the salt tang of gulf waters,

    Hear the faint sound of Parlez Nous A Boire drift on the wind,

    Catch the tantalizing scent of my father’s gumbo?

    Or will I find the salt of tears cried by all who’ve lost,

    Hear the shriek of a roof as it is torn away,

    And smell the smoke from fires that cannot be quenched?

    Nostalgia is easy for me,

    For I am in the mountains and far from this devastation.

    I am geographically lucky at the moment.