Keith Parsons Poems

In this life like all the rest
I’ll learn my lessons well
By suffering or dominate
Personality
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I remember she noticed
How I looked at my date,
“They are in love, ”
She said,
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The caterpillar’s suctioned feet keep him on a twig
If one should slip, the other feet, hanging there with him
But mossy river rocks I walk are slicker than the dew
If one foot, should come undone, the twig is under too
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Cloudy skies close around you
On just a winter day
And the weight seems too heavy
To carry all the way
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I’ve always liked a Weeping Willow
Her hanging skirt enshrouded me
I’d pull the leaves along the bark
And throw them to the sharks I see
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Alas, this body is so weak,
From pushing out the life
Transitioning from form to thread,
Tied to the other side
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Oh jealousy- a feather lighter than air
Buoyed high by the breeze
Soar and sway as you slice the sky
And write comments on the clouds
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I remember you, curly haired, baby hair
Tee shirt and pull-ups and your sippy cup,
Standing in front of the TV pronouncing 'Bid-bir'
The best you could while I wrestled with Toby
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Scissor cut-out camels
Strung wide in caravan
Set against the mountains
Of neatly-piled sand
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A semi-opaque translucence
Permits the shadows through
Save for my identity
Inside this cozy room
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