Clayton Medeiros's Shared Poems

Freedom duels with determinism
Requires a rational being
To understand causes
Consequences
What's seen heard and done
In stochastic efforts
Of noisy human life
Ever emerging in birth
Ever receding in death
Articulates its timely presence
Among mischievous complexities
With freedom of expression
In irrational exuberance
Apparent among the words
Filled with wants and needs
A struggle for formulas
To sort things out
In revelatory wonder
Existential responsibility
Indifferent addiction
As Monday's probability
Comes once again

Chimes frightened by the wind
Turn Bach's tuning to clatter
Skittering across back yards
Perhaps heard by islands
Hidden over the white capped bay
In lumpy gray comforters

The day moved from concave to convex
Who knew it would be so random
Although I should have remembered
Robert Burns best laid schemes
Often ending in grief and pain
In equal measure for each and all

I am Walter
I have always been
Always ready to be
Inescapably me

Alarm clock buzz
I am Walter
Singing in the shower
Waiting for my tea

Here and there
Everywhere
I am Walter
Consistently

In the car
On the train
At every turn
I am Walter

I am Walter
Can't you see
The fun it is for me
Each and every day

Ever grayer clouds muffle sunset
Evening's night comes with no stars
Island shades soon dissipate
Leaving specks of human light
Unknown in time's corridors
When nascent stars interviewed
For inclusion in this universe
Or another universe
With interactive resumes
Including disappearing galaxies
Shared black hole secrets
Nebulae bursting into being
In the middle of serious meetings
Of cosmological consequence