Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on March 2, 2012
Saturdays I went to the movies
Double features cartoons candy bars
Popcorn in boxes perfect
For flattening to toss across
The camera's flickering light
As cowboys marines and super heroes
Taught invaluable lessons
About life and liberty
A kiss or two but never love
When the hero rode into the sunset
Or shook hands with his buddy
After the evil forces of the wild west
World War II and outer space
Were duly and fairly extinguished
To our raucous cheers and clapping
And might and right seemed the same
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on March 2, 2012
Surf rumbles over the dark sand
Keeper of volcanic memories
As the sun pours through palm trees
Greets the impatient rooster
Crowing the world awake
Insistent that the day begin again
There are beaches to be walked
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on February 29, 2012
Searching the past for the present
The etymology of who we are
Perhaps a hint of why
In what was said and how
To whom to what end
This word versus that word
Carefully chosen in the mind's syntax
Or thrown wantonly into the air
Built from all the conversations
Held with others or in solitude
Maybe it was easier before words
When all the time we knew
Was the sun moving across the sky
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on February 28, 2012
There are moments
We know nothing to say
A child's needless death
Sudden and inexplicable
If despair turned back time
Stepped into the hour's vortex
Grasped the very instant
Before emptiness erupts
To be filled by memories
In place of infinite possibility
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on February 27, 2012
I am surprised it lifts off
From a sterile run way
Into yellow sunshine blue
Stormy gray afternoon
Night dark serenity
Taking me here and there
And back once again
To earth bound existence
Unlikely to my terrestrial mind
Memories of Icarus failure
Our dreams of wings
Unfulfilled for all
But gods and shamans
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