SUNSET (Day #12 a transformative poem)

What once was clear blue

Has exploded with color

Pink, purple, orange,

Adorning the twighlight sky

Blending, fading into night.

Caren E. Salas

FIZZZZZZZZZZZZ....

I know a little bit about making plans

And then seeing them dissolve

Like Alka Seltzer in a glass of water

Plop. plop.

Fizzzzzzzzz

Watching the mental masterpiece,

The glorious dream that you've spent your life creating,

Suddenly covered in graffiti, and tossed aside.

Overwhelming feelings of shock, anger, frustration, sadness

But mostly fear well up like an out of control tsunami.

Breathe.

You can try and clean up the mess

You can look at it as a challenge and turn the graffiti into flowers

Or

Fizzzzzzzzzz

You paint the whole damn thing with white, and start over.

Be careful not to dip your paintbrush in the Alka Seltzer.

You're going to need it.

Gulp.

There you go.

Remember, I've been there.

I'm here now.
(and not just me)

I'm kind of...the glass.

Hold on to me.

Caren E. Salas

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COUNTING DOLLARS

My love and I walked along hand in hand

Collecting sea shells down by the shore

Counting dollars half buried in sand

Watching the seagulls and pelicans soar.

Collecting sea shells down by the shore

We talked about all the years we had shared

Watching the seagulls and pelicans soar

Oh, the places we'd been, the dreams we had dared.

We talked about all the years we had shared

We stopped just to listen to the sounds of the sea

Oh, the places we'd been, the dreams we had dared

It all stood still for a moment or three.

We stopped just to listen to the sounds of the sea

As my love and I walked along hand in hand

It all stood still for a moment or three

As we counted dollars half buried in sand.

Caren E. Salas

URBAN AIR (#7 "Urban ---")

You really don't know

Until you go someplace else

And you realize

You can breathe, I mean really 

Inhale deeply, exhale...breathe.

Caren E. Salas

Photo: http://www.umich.edu/~elements/5e/web_mod/la_basin/index.htm