Wandering Poetry

2013-11-07T15:40:00.001-05:00

Wandering Poetry~A collection of thoughts and images

"The Silent Horse"

2012-12-08T22:43:00.001-05:00

I hear the sound
Of the Merry Go Round
Off in the distance
In the silence of the cool night air
Long ago when the music would flow
In the midst of the rag bag fair
An owl might hoot
An elephant might roar
The chug of the train that waits
It carries with it the many hearts
Of those who sleep upon crates
Stinging fingers that cannot penetrate
What is lifted as a great weight
I only listen to the merry go round music
For I know not of my own fate

~Moses
© 2012 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Little Mommy"

2012-02-26T05:05:00.001-05:00

"Little Mommy"

In contemplation I take notice
Of how the dew gives way
To the rising sun
Except in places
It lasts awhile longer
Before it's finally done
But then there are flowers
That dance because of winds
Their swaying petals
Although at times motionless
As in such that which rescinds
Great spans of time
Bonds which still hold true
Another day-another sun
Another morning dew
Whether under moon and stars
Or muddy colored clouds
The sky will always look upon us
In care of gentle shrouds
~
Yet there is the path of wonderment
That I have traveled greatly
To know their heart
To share their mind
They are so,somewhat stately
Verily even death
As I know it
Shall not break the connection
Far beyond what is on earth
Beyond the last formal breath
Beyond the final Resurrection;

~Moses
© 2012 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"In the Moment"

2012-01-13T04:57:00.001-05:00

Confrontation as clouds rattle
Abandonment on the road
Wandering through life
Where I had been
In and out of strife
The puzzle now completed
Yet the questions still arise
On the road
Under the clouds
A settling voice
Which is much more wise
No words have yet been spoken
For which there are no words
I find little comfort
Except to watch the flight of birds
Which carry me with them
Beyond the clouds
No more further weeping
By those who walk with shrouds

~Moses~
© 2012 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Eagle in the Sky"

2011-08-06T01:31:00.000-04:00

On wings of
Eagles
I dared to fly
In open skies upon the plains
In search of flowing waterfalls
To cleanse me of my pains
Powerful talons enough to hold me
To never let me fall
From dusk to dawn
From moon to sun
To heed the distant call
Underneath the many stars
That conceal my open wounds
My multitude of scars
Upon the eagle's wings
Those winds that carry tunes
Like voices in my ear
I am safe from all that beckons
For there is left no fear

~Moses~
© 2011 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Into the Ether"

2011-06-02T12:59:00.001-04:00

Upon the psychedelic moon
I rest upon it's crescent
My crystal ball only allows
Insight into the minds
From those who know...

My place in the vastness

Of what exists

~Moses~

"Ode To My Muse"

2011-05-20T08:32:00.000-04:00

Her heart's been broken many times
They don't hear her inner voice
They shake their heads and pretend to agree
In other things they want to rejoice
Her mind is such a lovely thing
She has a song to sing
I hear the melody in my heart
It pulls me like the reins upon my steed
As the hart enjoys sounds by a brook
It fills my inner need
I have not said so as of yet
In all these years I've known
A day will come when I will speak
To reap the seeds I've sown
I dream to carry her in my arms
To reside in her heart
And she will know that I will stay
Never to depart
For I know the pain she's felt
I've cried my tears for her
And sat alongside while she slept
To see if she would stir
I counted all the breaths she took
Each one precious as it was made
The image of her in my mind
Could never fade
For she is beauty of all that flows
Her gentle caring ways
To wipe the tears from her cheek
To spend my ending days

~Moses~
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"Vortex"

2011-05-14T02:24:00.000-04:00

Enfolded within myself
As the world around me thrives
My sensitivity
To the incoherent sounds
Everything that surrounds
From the many in the street
Who have such lives
Feeling the pain
As well as their joy
Like a stray dog who lives
From day to day
Surviving on scraps
From sympathetic passers by
The visions I have seen
Feed my heart
As I live within my own self
Upon the hardened sidewalk
In the jungle of concrete
Amidst the weeping skyscrapers
That hover above
~Moses~
© 2011 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Mummification"

2011-04-20T20:08:00.000-04:00

Forgivance is a hidden treasure
That abides within
My gaze into the valley
Seeks out unfinished pyramids
Muted in time
Solitude upon my platform
Within the mercy of isolation
Is a tolerable thing
Over such horizons
Where I have gone
Seeking out what may seem
Distant to all others
What is within my grasp
A spark within
The flickering flame
Cloaked upon me
In it's ancient form
It rests until called upon
In my own due time
~Moses~

© 2011 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Where do I go to Now"

2011-04-20T02:43:00.002-04:00

Fluttering in the leaves
Under the bow
Feint whispers from the past
Clouds lurk in the quiet
It blots out the noise
As the sun deserts
In the wind
Revealed tears
Concealed fears
Time has quickly gone by
Raising my fist towards the sky
Though it may deny
It rises like steam
Dissipating into the ether

~Moses~
© 2011 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Danilova"

2011-04-19T11:50:00.002-04:00

Nobody sees past my surface
Behind a veil
Upon my wall
Past the inner most spark
Within the dark forest
That lives within my mind
It is beyond my gaze
Lost in the darkness
In the vortex of delirium
Unstoppable juggernaut
As a curse unto myself
What I reveal is a mere pittance
Compared to the plateaus
Which I conceal within my heart
~Moses~
© 2011 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Edgar"

2010-11-19T02:58:00.001-05:00

"Edgar"

He dreams of flying
High in the sky
Soaring in clouds
Asking himself why
Does the horizon seem
To never end
The sun seems aloof
As boughs of trees
Which seem to bend
His heart is upon the wind
On warm days amongst
Other fellows
Whose feathers seem
To kiss the wind

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved
(Dedicated & Inspired by Edgar the Hybrid Raven)
You may visit him at:http://www.facebook.com/edgarhybridraven

"Consumptive Invasion"

2010-11-19T02:29:00.001-05:00

Within the world
Long forgotten words
In the expanse of all that has happened
It's significance of greatness
Overwhelmed me until
I could contain myself no longer
It then reduced me to tears
Then in all my fears that I might forget
The words appeared
Then faded quickly
Beyond redemption of my grasp
What was left were all the memories
Their intricate inter twining
Until I realized
I could not live without
For this was the true meaning of love
For me

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Shadow of my Former Self"

2010-06-07T04:17:00.002-04:00

We walk in the shadows
Of our former selves
The earthly bonds
Of days gone by
In remembrance
Of all we have seen
Those innocent days
Which now magnify
Time is the only part of the essence
That cannot be recaptured
Part of our dreams
Or so it seems
Only in memory is enraptured
In the shadows
Of what we once were
To the sound of the tinkling brass

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Triumph"

2010-06-06T01:30:00.001-04:00

Victory comes from within oneself
Deep beyond the shadowed eye
Amidst the tugging of hallowed emotions
Looking for position as they vie
With no disturbance in tranquility
Influences work towards the center
At the end of each day it is the way
Mutterings of yet a dissenter
Yet victory within itself
Will rise to meet the occasion
Removing doubt from the voices
Who flee from their own persuasion

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Milford"

2010-06-05T03:54:00.001-04:00

He has always been handled
With gentle care
Milford the duck
Who I won on a dare
Last summer down on the beach
I ran a race for the fuzzy fellow
Now he lives at the house with me
Where things are pretty mellow
Mr.Perkins my old tomcat
Naps with Milford each day
On weekends he goes to the beach
With always something to say
Pelicans fly and Milford watches
Although he has never flown
I don't think he knows he's a duck
As he mutters in monotone
He's a pretty cool guy if I say so myself
Showing off to get a few laughs
Quite a celebrity in his own right
But he can't give out autographs

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Involuntary Servitude"

2010-06-04T02:54:00.002-04:00

Origins of life
Flocks gather
Migration makes its demands
Departure to other places
Where once were welcoming hands
Places of solitude
Close to extinction
Unable to be saved by grace
Unrelenting pace
Thriving within the insult
Of waste
Poured upon the land

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Black Crown of Death"

2010-06-02T00:49:00.002-04:00

He knows his world has changed
Covered in the pitch of tar
Black death until his final breath
Upon this scourge
That defiles the land
Caused by the hand of man
Until his final breath
He floats upon the sea
Folded wings with open eyes
Behind him a world dies
Celestial bodies shine down
He only questions why
In remembrance of
The blackened royal crown

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Invasion"

2010-06-01T23:20:00.000-04:00

Giant Anaconda coils
Sucking black blood
From peaceful lagoons
Rest upon the banks
Constricted in the deluge
Brought on by the ooze
That engulfs
Drawn by hands
Stretching out
Over wetlands
Upon beaches
Into the far reaches
Poison flows
Into what it blankly bestows
Crushing what remains
In the wake of blackened days
Far from the cities without pity
Instead of feet pounding
Upon concrete pavements
Intaglio engravements
In the once golden sand
Where quiet bliss engaged
Life fluttered in the moment
Alas the invasion begins

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Inertia"

2010-05-30T11:10:00.002-04:00

Velocity abides in sanguine motion
A disposition of characteristics flows
Throbbing pulsations within the vein
Concealed in the outer barriers
Of the androgynous city
Stamen and pistil thrive ambiguously
Alongside of each other
Untagged emotion within heartless objects
Stifled in the temporal moment
From the blazing yellow eye
Like melody that flows from the violin

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Birth"

2010-05-29T13:13:00.002-04:00

Blower of the horn
Such was the day
Mass exodus of all life
Sowing of seeds
Ripe for planting
In search of its own midwife
Before all signs
Or the meaning of symbols
Sweet music freely flows
Teeming with life
Electrified energy
Truly the show of all shows
Primordial ooze upon the place
Surrounding ether above
Such is the Horn of fruitful compassion
In likeness to the pure white dove

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Menace in the Clouds"

2010-05-28T21:32:00.002-04:00

There was a school of angel fish
Only three remain
It looks as though they will not make it
Before the coming rain
That big crocodile waits patiently
For them to come his way
It looks as though he's going to have
Those angel fish today
But wait here comes a gust of wind
As I sit upon this log
The crocodile is changing
Into a harmless frog
It looks as though the fish are smiling
Maybe all along they knew
The crocodile would not get them
The magic wind had told those fish
And calmed them with a clue

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Silent Friend"

2010-05-28T02:00:00.004-04:00

Bare limbed trees
October days
Auburn leaves released
The crow sentinel ponders
On quiet coldish morns
Sloughed flowers
Blankness in its stare
Such are the ways
Visitations from the corvid
Deep beauty
In the silence
Upon the window pane
From that which must refrain
Bent boughs pose
Posterior limbs reach out
Grasping in their hold
Gentle winds in cold rain
The sentinel observes
In that which remains

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved

"Rain"

2010-05-24T02:20:00.001-04:00

Beneath the folding hands of Heaven
Underlying provocation within the sky
Anticipation of the revelation
Within my own disguise
In realization of wanton
To dancing in the rain
Celebration of joy and sorrow
The bliss of knowing pain
Crows invade my inner mind
Along the Oregon coast
Where trees speak only to me
My sight of a shadowing ghost
Solitude a cherished thing
From childhood dreams
Not yet realized
In such things concealed
From whence it had materialized

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved
(Inspired by IsaacLonetree)

"Friends"

2010-05-22T05:37:00.002-04:00

He merrily washes her every spring
Never missing a stroke
They've been friends since childhood
Since their eyes had met
On warm days they slumber
Under the rays of the sun
At night she sleeps by his cage
A friendship that's never done

~Moses~
© 2010 Moses Lestz - All Rights Reserved