Counting Characters - @varipoet

Follow me on Twitter--@varipoet--for the occasional exactly 140 character poem.

Here's my first one:

Counting Characters

Counting characters because character counts,
By the letter or by the ounce.
I commit to use them every one,
One hundred 40, and not 41.

©2016 Bob Mason

Thank the Bard

If parting is such sweet sorrow,

Let me think,

Let me think,

Why this phrasing seeks to borrow

My mind

At such a time

as this

When the sweetness has not settled

And my skin feels only nettled

At impending loss.

The sting

The sting

The itch

The sting.

The sweetness, I suppose,

Is the love we've known

That makes alone all the lonelier.

Thank the Lord.

Thank the bard.

©2013 Bob Mason

I Am Of

I am of the hills

Where division of land and sea and sky remains unsettled,

Where curves define all boundaries,

And the kingdom of plants still reaches for pieces of the sky.

I am of the shore

Where air and water and stone combine in frothy tumult,

Where tides change all the rules,

And creatures must constantly decide to which dominion they belong.

I am of the sky  

Where star and cloud and rainbow tug upward on my soul, 
Where birds negotiate with gravity,  
And I am free to dream on the edges of infinity.

I am of the One,

In Whom I live and move and have my being,

Who is and was and is to come,

And fills my every moment and place with love and meaning.

© 2016 Bob Mason