poem &mdash; updraft https://updraft.writeas.com/tag:poem a small selection of personal writings Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:24:00 +0000 updraft https://updraft.writeas.com/updraft?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[About updraft and its author Just what the world needs: another blog, right? #about Thanks #about Poetry Freedom #poem #freeverse #humor #truestory Delivery #poem #rhyme #humor Dance #poem #freeverse #transform Misteaks #poem #freeverse #political Old Glory #poem #freeverse End #poem #freeverse Dreams #poem #freeverse #horror Balance #poem #rhyme #humor Reunion #poem #freeverse Seen from Space #poem #rhyme Who is she? #poem #rhyme #horror After midnight #poem #freeverse #shape Dolls #poem #freeverse #horror Rejects #poem #freeverse #political Salt #poem #freeverse #horror West #poem #freeverse The Ballad of Za #poem #longpoem #rhyme Prose What New Direction? #prose #story #longstory Rain #prose #story Tunnels #prose #horror Dusk #prose Space Pilot #prose #story #humor #horror Eclipse #prose #story #humor Bones #prose ON AIR #prose #story #transform Escape #prose #story #horror #transform Donkey #prose #story #zen Pet #prose #story #humor Representative #prose #story First meeting #prose #story Hashtags Note that clicking a hashtag will return only the 10 most recent relevant posts. about #poem #freeverse #rhyme #longpoem #shape #prose #story #longstory #humor #horror #zen #political #transform #truestory Cook roasting chestnuts outdoors with steam rising. updraft logo. Blog and author description.]]> About updraft and its author

Just what the world needs: another blog, right? #about Thanks #about

Poetry

Freedom #poem #freeverse #humor #truestory Delivery #poem #rhyme #humor Dance #poem #freeverse #transform Misteaks #poem #freeverse #political Old Glory #poem #freeverse End #poem #freeverse Dreams #poem #freeverse #horror Balance #poem #rhyme #humor Reunion #poem #freeverse Seen from Space #poem #rhyme Who is she? #poem #rhyme #horror After midnight #poem #freeverse #shape Dolls #poem #freeverse #horror Rejects #poem #freeverse #political Salt #poem #freeverse #horror West #poem #freeverse The Ballad of Za #poem #longpoem #rhyme

Prose

What New Direction? #prose #story #longstory Rain #prose #story Tunnels #prose #horror Dusk #prose Space Pilot #prose #story #humor #horror Eclipse #prose #story #humor Bones #prose ON AIR #prose #story #transform Escape #prose #story #horror #transform Donkey #prose #story #zen Pet #prose #story #humor Representative #prose #story First meeting #prose #story

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]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/updraft Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:29:33 +0000 Freedom https://updraft.writeas.com/freedom?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[today was freedom day for the water in the pipes!--more-- in the apartment just above us and it poured right through our ceiling with a joy of liberation and who could really blame it if you saw where it had come from but i caught it and corralled it all with buckets and with towels and with photos for insurance and the handyman came over and complained about their plumbing and the moral of the story is be careful that your freedom may have unexpected consequences #poem #freeverse #humor #truestory 2018-09-11]]> today was freedom day for the water in the pipes in the apartment just above us and it poured right through our ceiling with a joy of liberation and who could really blame it if you saw where it had come from but i caught it and corralled it all with buckets and with towels and with photos for insurance and the handyman came over and complained about their plumbing and the moral of the story is be careful that your freedom may have unexpected consequences

#poem #freeverse #humor #truestory 2018-09-11

]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/freedom Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:56:02 +0000 Delivery https://updraft.writeas.com/delivery?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[When Montague got up to speak, I felt my fortitude grow weak.!--more-- With wit and charm, and richly dressed, His audience was full impressed. He struck a pose upon the stage In front of lovers half my age, And thus regaled us with his power For slightly more than half an hour. And when at last he took his bows, To such applause as form allows, I sat composed, demurely plain, And felt myself go quite insane. #poem #rhyme #humor 2018-09-05]]> When Montague got up to speak, I felt my fortitude grow weak. With wit and charm, and richly dressed, His audience was full impressed.

He struck a pose upon the stage In front of lovers half my age, And thus regaled us with his power For slightly more than half an hour.

And when at last he took his bows, To such applause as form allows, I sat composed, demurely plain, And felt myself go quite insane.

#poem #rhyme #humor 2018-09-05

]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/delivery Thu, 06 Sep 2018 06:02:45 +0000 Dance https://updraft.writeas.com/dance?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[i have cracked my own inner shell!--more-- and find a dance chaotic unfathomable a choice to stay the observer calm and detached like a lotus risk becoming a lotus eater or abandon self to dance only within the dance mystery gives way pattern emerges meaning forms intense enough with faking the sage i am swept high and low my feet hurt mind aches breathless alive! #poem #freeverse #transform 2018-07-15 Chaotic whirl of fiery light with faint radial blur ]]> i have cracked my own inner shell and find a dance chaotic unfathomable

a choice

to stay the observer calm and detached like a lotus risk becoming a lotus eater

or abandon self to dance

only within the dance mystery gives way pattern emerges meaning forms intense

enough with faking the sage

i am swept high and low my feet hurt mind aches breathless alive!

#poem #freeverse #transform 2018-07-15

Chaotic whirl of fiery light with faint radial blur

]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/dance Wed, 22 Aug 2018 01:37:49 +0000 Misteaks https://updraft.writeas.com/misteaks?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[The weather doesn’t make mistakes But it didn’t always do what they wanted!--more-- So they invented gods and demons To blame, cajole, and bargain with And somehow they felt better about it But nothing changed And the weather still didn’t make mistakes So they invented things To take their minds off The gods, and the weather Like coal fires, aerosols and plastic But the old gods got jealous And the weather did change But it still doesn’t make mistakes #poem #freeverse #political 2018-08-03]]> The weather doesn’t make mistakes But it didn’t always do what they wanted So they invented gods and demons To blame, cajole, and bargain with And somehow they felt better about it But nothing changed And the weather still didn’t make mistakes So they invented things To take their minds off The gods, and the weather Like coal fires, aerosols and plastic But the old gods got jealous And the weather did change But it still doesn’t make mistakes

#poem #freeverse #political 2018-08-03

]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/misteaks Fri, 03 Aug 2018 21:18:30 +0000 Old Glory https://updraft.writeas.com/old-glory?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[When you return and find an empty field,!--more-- the harvest long gone and the first fall winds bringing a prescient chill, look for us in halls and taverns, nursing ways to forget, remembering old glory. #poem #freeverse 2018-08-01]]> When you return and find an empty field, the harvest long gone and the first fall winds bringing a prescient chill, look for us in halls and taverns, nursing ways to forget, remembering old glory.

#poem #freeverse 2018-08-01

]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/old-glory Fri, 03 Aug 2018 21:14:23 +0000 End https://updraft.writeas.com/end?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[in the end everything!--more-- will all fizzle out #poem #freeverse 2018-07-31]]> in the end everything will all fizzle out

#poem #freeverse 2018-07-31

]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/end Fri, 03 Aug 2018 21:12:07 +0000 Dreams https://updraft.writeas.com/dreams?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I saw a dream. Actually saw what it looked like.!--more-- From the outside, not the inside. Then I started seeing them everywhere. In bars. On street corners. On trains. Anywhere there were people. Not anymore. I take my net with me. Catch as many as I can. I can sell one back to you if you like. Reasonable price. Choosing what sort is extra. Unless, of course, you prefer The dreamless sleep of the dead. #poem #freeverse #horror 2018-07-04 / 2018-08-03]]> I saw a dream. Actually saw what it looked like. From the outside, not the inside.

Then I started seeing them everywhere. In bars. On street corners. On trains. Anywhere there were people.

Not anymore. I take my net with me. Catch as many as I can.

I can sell one back to you if you like. Reasonable price. Choosing what sort is extra. Unless, of course, you prefer The dreamless sleep of the dead.

#poem #freeverse #horror 2018-07-04 / 2018-08-03

]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/dreams Fri, 03 Aug 2018 20:53:52 +0000 Balance https://updraft.writeas.com/balance?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[A unicycle mistress Once rode into my life.!--more-- She pirouetted regally And said she’d be my wife. Her perfect sense of balance Allowed her to gyrate. Her rotten sense of timing meant She was ten years too late. #poem #rhyme #humor 2018-07-06]]> A unicycle mistress Once rode into my life. She pirouetted regally And said she’d be my wife.

Her perfect sense of balance Allowed her to gyrate. Her rotten sense of timing meant She was ten years too late.

#poem #rhyme #humor 2018-07-06

]]> https://updraft.writeas.com/balance Fri, 03 Aug 2018 20:52:16 +0000 Reunion https://updraft.writeas.com/reunion?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[When the time comes to move on I cling like seaweed to a rock!--more-- pummeled by tides when floating off would be so pleasant currents carrying new beginning There's a home for discarded weeds somewhere, I heard, in the ocean why not go there nothing to lose but isolation join the cast-off reunited #poem #freeverse 2018-07-09]]> When the time comes to move on I cling like seaweed to a rock pummeled by tides when floating off would be so pleasant currents carrying new beginning

There's a home for discarded weeds somewhere, I heard, in the ocean why not go there nothing to lose but isolation join the cast-off reunited

#poem #freeverse 2018-07-09

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