Poem: either / or

we do not always (read: seldom) have

choices or

opportunities to call

chances for how

the outcome arrives

alive in expectations we

genuflect gyrations to

promises unkept and either swept or

wept away

you swept me off my feed all

enthusiastic and smiling (a smile that

feels endless) ending

spending our hearts ration of

rational being

beating so out of tempo either

two hundred beats per minute

or paused to a stop

--- douglas brent smith

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Do The Work

Love only begins to start when the easy part is over. -- douglas brent smith

i went shopping for a pumpkin ran into a Christmas tree instead of seeing orange and black i saw red and green scary Halloween, scary Halloween i got stuck in between Christmas and scary Halloween i went looking for Frankenstein and monsters to fill me with fear but instead i found Santa Claus and his flying reindeer scary Halloween, scary Halloween i got stuck in between Christmas and scary Halloween tried to find my favorites at the grocery store but they're hard to find so tucked away things aren't where they usually live everything is there to give attention to the holiday display scary Halloween, scary Halloween i got stuck in between Christmas and scary Halloween i don't like to complain too much but why are we in such a holiday rush? with so many days between now and then but here we are counting down the days again scary Halloween, scary Halloween i got stuck in between Christmas and scary Halloween -------------------------...

photo: light like saturn 2

(c) 2017 douglas brent smith you may use this image for creative or illustrative purposes, in any way that doesn't harm anyone, if you will please credit it as "light like saturn 1 by douglas brent smith"

poem: patiently

i want to read every book touch every flower, breathe in every mint aired aroma, laugh at all of your jokes over again see all of your faces trace the years between us and smoothe the bumpy gaps i want to bake a cake so big it takes a lifetime to eat and create a life so long that all the cake is gone i will have it, i will eat it. i will treat it as your appetizer for better (much better) days to come and what you can't see now in you in me in us in eternity eternally waits, patiently for your discovery. (c) 2017 douglas brent smith

Awkward Climb

"Must be January." "Yep." "That's when you work on and think about collages the most." "Correct." "Good times." "Indeed." I look out the window. Snow. Not Chicago level snow, but still snow. Colder than usual. Later than usual. If life is a collage, the picture is still forming. It will be there even when we're not looking. Even when we're not there." Awkward Climb -- collage by Douglas Brent Smith, 1997

More Than One Set Of Books

More Than One Set Of Books -- collage by douglas brent smith

Heroes Sketched Lightly

Heroes Sketched Lightly - sketch by douglas brent smith

Invite The Whole Crowd

Invite The Whole Crowd - collage by Douglas Brent Smith, 1997

intermittant

there were chance meetings distributed miles and months touching us taunting us locking us into a long tight wire of vibrating nuance you knew this, and kept on dancing i knew this, and...what? what did it mean? how would it turn? oh how we would yearn...oh how we would learn.

You Can Be Positive

You Can Be Positive - collage by douglas brent smith.

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