Hidden in Plain Sight

by t.a. faust

so here we both sit

just waiting for who-knows-what

while this life happens

what are we doing?

does anybody know now?

someone clue me in

permanent gridlock

we're stuck in a damn cat's game

nobody can move

time passes us by

like freight trucks on a highway

horns blowing wildly

life is happening

right now! it is! look around!

it isn't waiting

somebody push me

this swing is hanging limply

i need momentum

these moments of thought

clarity found through instants

i'm running on fumes

you, me, and all this

we're standing on the side-lines

waiting to sub in

Electro-Matic

These pages flow quickly

Instantaneous release

Quickly creating

Just Hovering Above

by t.a. faust

Vibrating air-flows

Holding my corpus aloft

Brushing the surface

I brush my fingers
Through the water below me
It's cool, refreshing

Breathing the air deep
The ancient sea enthralls me
Filled with images

Looming monoliths
Glowing green luminescence
Clouds of pulsing life

Moon on the water
Rolling swells chasing the night
Away towards West

Purple, orange, red
Brilliant rays bursting out
Illuminating

A sudden shifting
Turning me around to see
The world as it is

Forgotten dreams lost
Welling up into my sight
Memories long gone

Summer's always there
Hidden in sight forever
Hovering above

tick... tock...

Creeping slowly by,
the weeks are month-long efforts.
I'm aging faster.

Minutes like seasons,
Moments wax continuous.
This Eternity.

My eyelids drooping
as the afternoon wears on
dreaming of freedom

Sweltering garbage/Infiltrates my poor nostrils//This awful heat wave

Anger, Rage flowing/Spewing into the hot air//Smothering my joy

I crave your newness/Desire is so curious;//I'm driven to know

busy day
t.a. faust

hassle a hassler
give trouble-makers trouble
exhausting myself

Epiphany

what is an artist?

by t.a. faust

being an artist

means many confusing things

hard to understand

what to represent?

what do you challenge to change?

an important choice

trying to explain

give others the chance to hear

doesn't always work

they can't hear your mind

they can't clarify your thoughts

you can't always, right?

some people believe

believe in a better world

a place of freedom

if they could define

explain what that freedom means

they probably would

happiness isn't

it isn't a place of "Free"

it is "Sacrifice"

you must give it all

yourself, your life, your Freedom

to know happiness

happiness is Love

it sure isn't Solitude

life is Sharing

share yourself with all

give others that inner you

that loss is living

Artists must have loss

the point of art is living

and making changes

growth, evolution

these are the truths we all face

this is our Constant

shoestrings
t.a. faust

greasy untied string
holds leather and rubber loose
against my sore feet

eternally handy
usable for everything
can even save lives

scratchy plastic hooks
tearing apart my poor soul;
Velcro's the Devil

idea-monger
by t.a. faust

building ideas
from the ground up to the sky
creative design

Challenging my heart/I fear my own expansion//Hide my head below

words, words, words

by t.a. faust

i can't find the words
to explain my stupid thoughts
not that it would help

elaboration?
i wish that were an option
even i don't know

how can i tell you?
how can i bring myself to?
you are more than i

greater than, less than
where do i fit in this mess?
not where i'd like to

wrong people, right parts
i'm giving myself away
some deserve, some don't

who can clarify,
give me answers, not questions?
my necessity.

utterly helpless
this corporal form is limp
my shapeless 'body'

i see a blank screen
filling my blind inner eye
visions of nothing

now i'm just hiding
behind imagination
a dry, shallow grave

it's time for some change
grow a pair, spread my damn wings!
make a difference

given

by t.a. faust

deep morning rumble

trees dripping with early rain

poetry in life