Dogs howl for something more
I saw them in the yard
My drink went warm
I’m not sure but I think animals are happier alone
I watched them together in their own crowd
Much happier without us
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I was alone when the party came to a close
Everyone decided to leave at more or less the same time
No one was drinking and everyone could drive
I stared at the blank canvas
It waits for me
I mixed the paints
Trying to find that surprising color
I used the pallet knife to get an edge
Slowly the white void grew into a host of colors
The texture would change with each touch of the brush
The beginning of an enigma
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Overlapping pages of my thoughts
It’s okay we saw the play
We understand that the book is not the same
A touch of tragedy
Unidentified I exist
Alive
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This pavement
This car
I’ve driven my emotions
Power switch on
asphalt hypnotic blackness
I watch the reflectors
Fast in my trance
Asphalt is forever
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A cloud never finds peace
though it thunders
though it dissolves
Forever pushed
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The capsized boat didn’t float nowhere
the current did what it could
I watched but sometimes I can’t understand
the Universe slowed
the tide came in
the wreckage disappeared
the sun scorched everything
the clouds wouldn’t dare cover its’ fire
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The colorful dance of twilight waltzed across the hood of my car
The FM stations faded in and out
Then she drove by
There seems to be something else to everything you want to do
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You never had dreams before today
Always searching, wandering, jumping from shadows
Afraid of every false prophet with a poem
Maybe you should have stayed home
you had to be a roller
one night stands
groupie for a band
you wanted to be lonely
Independence never fails
But there are no friends out here on the perimeter
you found out
To caress your loneliness you made friends in you mind
What a fine cell you have built
for no one to enter
and no one to leave
Some nice images here, Henry
Thank you very much.