Hello, folks! Here's a new one, freshy minted! It's just a few days old, and you are the first ones to read it. Awwww, don't we feel special? Anyway, let me know what you think. Oh, and be sure to point out any mistakes, I haven't even had time to proof-read it all that carefully yet.

(Titleless, any suggestions most welcome)

What do you do when you can’t go back?

What do you do when the future is dark?

When every path stretches never-ending into shadow

When you no longer have any way out

How you deal with the darkened silence

When all the world seems gray

And sunlight, though it rises, is hidden in the mist

When your steps are not your own

And you’re too tired to go on

But if you fall, you fall forever

So don’t trip

What happens when you realize there’s no going back?

How do you go on when you can’t see tomorrow?

And worst of all you know,

It’s your fault that you’re here.

And you are the one person that can’t help you get out.

When day and night mix, lost in the gray,

How will you sleep?

And when will you wake on the morrow?

Ok, this is an...interesting one. Bear in mind that I am not, in fact, insane (I can hear you laughing). Ok here we go. Oh, one more thing the title is the filename I picked for it, any suggestions for a real title would be welcome.

I Have No Idea.....Don't Ask

Endless riddles full of rhyme

New beginnings star points of time

Laughter filling the still night air

All love found or lost who’s to care

Nightly rhymes to cover the pain

Adrenaline rush straight to the brain

Lyrical thought in a mindless hush

Words running over the page like slush

Not clean and pure like whitest snow

But then again, this the wind can’t blow

Not as smooth as water o’r the parchment to fly

But slush never blocked the moonlit sky

If these thoughts make no sense to you, I’ll understand

These words skip my brain, from my heart to my hand

They don’t make sense even to me

How interesting.

Ok, this is def. going to take some time. I'm really having trouble deciding where to begin. So I figured I'd do the mature thing and...close my eyes and pick a random one. So here it is. Although I always liked this one's title better than the poem. Oh, well. Tell me what you think.

Tears for Sunbeams

Floating in this uncertain limbo

Tired beyond tears

Cast adrift on this unfathomable ocean

Constantly surrounded, yet ever alone

Hope, the bright sun on the far horizon

What to do, and which way to go?

Land must lie in some direction

And if I stay here I’ll tire and drown

Ah, but which way to swim?

Let's see...first post....always exciting. So this is my spiffy new blog. Well, it was created for a purpose and I suppose I should explain it. I write...a lot, but I almost never let anybody read it. I dunno why, I just don't. But at the urging of my friends, Bill in particular, I'm going to change that. That's what this blog is for, to house my work, be it good, bad, or indifferent. This is everything, so I'm not just posting the good stuff. Some of it will be downright bad, and I feel sorry for those of you I subject to it, but there you have it. So my purpose is to put my stuff out there where someone other than me can see it. I would greatly welcome constructive criticism on anything and everything. Although positive feedback might be nice too, occasionally. So please, please, read and comment. I would greatly appriciate it!!!

Well, ok, that's done and I will begin. This is a poem you may have read as it lives in my profile and has for a while, but I might post the longer mess that it was born from as well. But ok, here is my first poem.

Inkblot World

This is a world of dreams and shadows

Of light and myriad shades of gray

Of boundless color and endless blackness

All combining in superb contradiction

Sweet nonsense, a resonance to the ear

A splash of color defying form

Here you see is what you want to see and only that

What you are is what you choose to be

So don’t tell me my vision is false

Don’t tell me my dreams cannot be real

Don’t tell me I can’t read this inkblot world as I choose

I am who I choose to be, no other

And no one to blame but myself

Let me know what you think.