We are built from memories.
Some are like mist, some crystal clear.
Smell or taste, a pleasant breeze.
Tears, or the song of a loved one.
Forgotten, just as easily.
But their absence is our framework.
– Shaman Romney 2021
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Framework (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #24) Leave a comment
Loyalty (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #23) Leave a comment
Friends' loyalty is important.
Most people better themselves;
Finding they value true friends with virtues.
With friends' true value,
They find themselves better people.
Most important is loyal friends.
– Shaman Romney 2021
Ripple of Fate (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #22) Leave a comment
The ripples
Of all our actions
Crash and break
Patterns form
Beyond the comprehension
Of our mortal minds
The world spins
Twirling strings of lives
Bound firmly
Together
We can't break their hold on us
With our mortal hands
Fate engulfs
Paths already walked
Steps taken
All foretold
Destiny predetermined
For simple mortals
– Shaman Romney
Divination (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #21) Leave a comment
I engage in divination
To find the greatest parts of me
Stuck in endless rumination
Examining the flaws I see
Building up all this frustration
Why can't I find the missing key?
To end my incarceration
And find the will to live life free
– Shaman Romney 2021
Macabre Reminder (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #20) Leave a comment
Memories of suicides
That don't exist, but almost did.
A macabre reminder
Of potential presents and lost futures
With a grin, they all coalesce:
In the final breath of a dying wave.
– Shaman Romney 2021
Holes In My Umbrella (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #19) Leave a comment
Getting soaked on my walk home
Because there are holes in my umbrella
Maybe it’s just a habit
For me to use it whenever it rainsBut more likely, I find it comforting
Even as the years go by
It’s always here to keep me company
As I splash in the puddles
– Shaman Romney 2021
Wishing (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #18) Leave a comment
Wishing I could be different person
Wish I could just become somebody new
However it seems I only worsen
Change comes so rarely, and choices so fewAnd yet every day I keep on scheming
And yet every day I try once again
Battered but not broken I keep dreaming
Goading myself to work past my disdainAnd nobody knows who I am inside
And nobody knows how I think and feel
I push my feelings and troubles aside
To conjure a face of iron and steelSomeday I hope my wish will be granted
And I can become who I want to be
Another tree who’s roots have been planted
Wish I was a stable and happy me.
– Shaman Romney 2021
Afternoon Nap (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #17) Leave a comment
Energy evaporates
In the afternoon sun
My head hits the pillow
For only a little napThe day passes away
As I rest peacefully
Now I’m fully rested
In time for a good night’s sleep
– Shaman Romney 2021
Essential (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #16) Leave a comment
I’m the stop gap, the bottleneck
The pack mule of this future tech
The domino you shouldn’t flick
The golden one, the crucial brick
The dam who holds the torrent back
The jar without a single crack
Or so I hope, but worst of all
No one knows I’m about to fall.
– Shaman Romney 2021
Fear, Hate, Self (National Poetry Writing Month 2021 #15) Leave a comment
We keep ourselves safe with fear
As we run from what we hate
In order to save our self.But in preserving the self,
Must I hide within the fear
As I succumb to the hate?Will I now let all this hate
Corrupt me to a worse self?
Is it now too late, I fear.I fear I’ll hate my new self.
– Shaman Romney 2021
Shame on The Universe 