Huckleberry Trail Solitude

And I step into the sanctuary of serenity

My huckleberry trail with her soft path of dead redwood needles and

Dirty bay leaves to carry my tired feet and sighing heart

I’ve been wishing for a padded sound proof room into which I would puke

                My anger poison and beat out frustration

Then simply leave and the whole mess would disappear behind the door

No clean up

No concerns of needing

                To be understood

                Or considerate

                Or polite

The highway 101 hum still reaches the trail and feels that many miles

                Removed

Me and my thoughts

Me and my painful anxiety

Me and my anger

We walk on soft needles

Waves

Watching

                Waves curl

                Like fingers grasping

                And then crashing and melting

                Into the ocean body below

Liquid sand

                Rushes in

                Duney ribbons in rows

                Change, change

                Constant build and erode

                Rushing back out

                To where we came from

To join the sea

Galloping Pages

Pony with ink hoofs

Galloping to keep up

With the race challenge

Of the ghost horse

Poetic ideas delivered

At inconvenient hours

Of the day and night

Be ready to take the bit

And run making ink

Hoof beats across the page

As fast as she can go

In an effort to keep

Up with the ghost mare

Stepping off the curb

Hmmm...hello there.  I've wanted to do this for a very long time.  Thanks to some gentle nudges and encouragement of friends and round two of Artist's Way, I'm leaning forward so far I can't help but take a step.  My intent is to post at least one poem a week.  Since I have over 50 squirreled away where no one but me can read them, this should keep us busy for a year while I write some more.

Ground rules:

1. Be gentle with me.  I said I was a fledgling right up front.
2. Tell me what you like.  I have been known to delete FB friends that lurk only.  Let me know you're there!

I think that's it for now.  I gotta go pick a poem to start with.