When Push Comes To Shove

Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried. - Thoreau

a lonely scavenger

bathed in jilted, stilted lavender

sometimes i feel like i can reach up, grab the sky and put it in my pocket

stepping cloud to cloud with invisible sneakers

floating in the ocean upon permanent waves

pole to pole

trying to be whole

butterflies and birds at my beckon call

inhaling innocence

exhaling guilt

digesting morsels of truth

upchucking chunks of lies

dressed to the hilt

in this leaking house that someone else built

with its bizarre, skewed, ever-changing tilt

and no foundation

begging to be rebuilt

all there is is love

on the back of a wingless dove

and dilly-dallying pushes

begging for a steadfast shove

Author's Note

“How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.” - Thoreau

Reviews

[Brad Dehler]

I appreciate your approach in this endeavor
inhaling innocence
exhaling guilt
Attempting to rise above. Then there is a heavy element of grounding after all the wisping amongst clouds to find the Leaking house "someone else built". Aint that the metaphor/roof under which we live...

[Pete]

yes, exactly - we all live in such a predicament. as jim morrison sang in 'riders on the storm' -read moreyes, exactly - we all live in such a predicament. as jim morrison sang in 'riders on the storm' -

"Into this house, we're born
Into this world, we're thrown"

[Ken Simm.]

Deep intelligent poetry with multiple layers of meaning. Some of which I ger some I don't. But nontheless I am impressed.

[Pete]

quite a compliment coming from the man who put the deep in depth. thank you ken. glorious day here today.

[Betty Hermelee]

Oh to have our mind wander when things go wrong... "stepping cloud to cloud with invisible sneakers"....ridding ourselves of lies and guilt....and a leaky , tilting house that is in need of repair...
What to do...not to worry about all these matters and live your life with love, "when push comes to shove"
Lovely
Warmly, B

[Thomas W Case]

I love this. It moves beautifully.

[Pete]

i appreciate your thoughts twc. weather starting to get warm, it won't be long 'til summer settles in for its stay.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Wow, what a fantastic read! I really enjoyed the wording and the sort of list form experiences in the write. The alliteration is great here and not overpowering but delivering the mail. Great job on this, a pleasure to read. F.

[Pete]

thanks for the kind share fgf. the postman only rings twice.

[Papaya]

I like the feeling I get from this that the speaker is picking through the good and bad bits of life, navigating their existence, or survival, to make the best of what is offered.

[Pete]

better our cup half full than half empty. thank you for sharing thoughts AP.