Kit Kelen #756 - anniversary poem

756

anniversary poem

30 years home

wherever we are

but happens to be here

as built with much longing

and salting away

our four hands

and many hired

and finally unfinished

as in

what would you expect (?)

the vision was an argument

continues to this day

30 is nothing

the metal not invented yet

though there'll be asteroids to mine

or are all elements known already?

our weight will never be atomic

yet we have that glow of finding

five years past the silver

shine without the polish

who would have thought that a sun

could be charmed so high, so still?

would we have believed this now

the Easter of the rain?

(and thought there was no end of it

so we made forays from, collected)

you drew

and I was scribble

first blissed

and knew this view then

let it grow up and out

all that was portable in the picture

long since to the tip

except of course for us

we made tracks

and thanks to carbon footprint

gathered the trinkets of far

all these healing years to a workaround

ever hard at it

made a maze and we came out

I love the idleness yokels see

we taught a way to here

and emulate their pace

it's not a place this moment

except for in the sense you see

take turns to conduct breezes and trees

to water and to sweep, wash up

you build a home to hide away

all gorgeous in the tower

and goes around in seasons

dark and light as well

an ant makes me a mountain

and I quake to shake it off

undug

we wave legs and arms like crazy bugs

desperate with what soon won't matter

there'll always be something more to frame

crows' feet for a good hard look

kiss to show you care

the forest we have grown around us --

just by not being here

death is a fire

is a roof overhead

is a tune to whittle away

you pull the blinds down to dream

I draw them up of a morning

and the ungendering goes on

we play

until the webs come sunlit

and a very important question

okonomiyaki please!

to office then, and easel

and swim between the flags

at a certain stage easier just to keep going

that's when one needs a good shake

kind you can only give yourself

it isn't heaven nails us here

hello in another day

look to the blue's eternal now

and character for rust

30 years

whoever we are

where the young us must beam for pride

with big ticket items

like here we are

if I don't remember the last things

then something next is on my mind