You need a strong foundation
To build something upon
Whether you build a nation
Or build the ParthenonThis is a phenomenon
That ignores your station
Refuse it and you’ll count on
A life of frustration
– Shaman Romney 2019
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Foundation (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #15) Leave a comment
Wasting Time (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #14) Leave a comment
Wasting away
The hours in the day
What can I say
Do they matter anyway?
It’s worth what I pay
If it shows me a way
From all work and no play
– Shaman Romney 2019
Cyborgs (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #13) Leave a comment
Cyborgs are already here
You and I have become them
Cellphones and headphones appear
Means to a digital endWe are one with Ethernet
Progress leaps so very far
When we finally reach the end
Will we still know who we are?
– Shaman Romney 2019
Beauty (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #12) Leave a comment
What is beauty?
The crimson petals of a rose?
A brilliant sunset on a warm summer’s day?What is beauty?
The blisters from a hard day’s work?
The crowd of people gathered at your funeral?Is beauty even something we can truly know?
Something we can point at and say,
“That is beauty.”Or is it kept in our mind, in our thoughts, alone?
Wrapped up in a subjective thought,
“That is beauty.”
– Shaman Romney 2019
Burn (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #11) Leave a comment
I need to burn off my deadwood
Shed all my unneeded layers
Remove all my “would” and my “should”
Keeping only the needs and caresBurn past my first degree nonsense
Second degree things I care for
Ignite a fire so intense
I burn to my first degree coreWhat’s left when the fires are done
Will be my most critical part
For when all my useless is gone
I’ll have a fire hardened heart
– Shaman Romney 2019
Two Choices (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #10) Leave a comment
Are you insignificant?
Unimportant, on your own?
Just a single tiny speck
In a universe unknown?Or are you instead a node
Interwoven with us all?
Bearing your part of the load,
Sending ripples when you fall?Does nothing in life matter?
Or do all our actions count?
Do all our choices scatter,
Regardless of the amount?Make your choice and live with it,
Whichever one that may be.
For you, either one may fit;
I know the right choice for me.
– Shaman Romney 2019
Chameleon (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #9) Leave a comment
I’m a chameleon
I’m a shade
A faded thought
An empty memory
An illusion brought to bear
By the insanity of one unaware
Of his place among himself
Let alone the world
– Shaman Romney 2019
Too Long (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #8) Leave a comment
Too long.
It’s been too long.
Too long since I last head your song;
The sweet melody of your laughter
Ringing throughout the house.
Now, there is only a melancholy melody
Slowly fading as the distance grows
Too long.
It’s been too long.
– Shaman Romney 2019
Let’s Die Together, Shall We? (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #7) Leave a comment
Suicidal thoughts ought to be shared with those closest to you.
It is what Romeo and Juliet taught us all to do.
They were a comedy of errors, a tragedy of youth.
Let’s die together, shall we?Where I have gotten older, both much meeker and much bolder;
Although I could continue to shoulder this burden with you,
This boulder is too heavy, and I am not getting stronger.
So let’s just give in, shall we?Those who surround us, who don’t understand, would call it a waste.
Haven’t we had enough of life to know it isn’t for us?
We will never aquire from life our life’s aquired taste.
So let’s spit it out, shall we?For it isn’t real true love if I only give you my life
And so I pledge my existence, my story’s ending, to you.
With this final act our love springs eternal for all to view.
Let’s die together, shall we?
– Shaman Romney 2019
Regrets (National Poetry Writing Month 2019 #6) Leave a comment
If you let your dreams be dreams
They will become your nightmares
And you will be caught unawares
In a life that isn’t yours
Your bars are made of your regrets
Your last meal is life untasted
In your haste to live for others
You rushed to your own conclusion
– Shaman Romney 2019
Shame on The Universe 