Category Archives: Poetry

The Poetry of Brian Paris

Week 12, Day 81 – “Goal”

Goal

Direction
Choose the Path.

Skill
Know How.

Focus
Never Stop.

Week 12, Day 80 – "Hold On"

Hold On

It’s going to be a freak show tonight
three painted ladies
and a jug of booze.

Only thing left is to dance, dance, dance.
Spin around ’til I’m too dizzy to stand,
and then fall in love where ever I land.

Week 12, Day 78 – "Multiple Personalities"

Multiple Personalities

Twenty-three emails,
eight different blogs,
seven myspaces,
and a few facebooks.

Different identities.
Each compartment of my life
serving separate interest.

It’s not that I can’t do anything,
it’s that everything is possible.

Just need to decide what I want; and do it.

Week 11, Day 77 – "Feeling Better"

Feeling Better

Sweat drenched forehead,
light headed, fever.
Hopefully, I can feel better soon.

Typing so long
my fingers are numb,
Hopefully, I can feel better soon.

Week 11, Day 76 – "Redo Machine"

Redo Machine

Today I built a redo machine.
I can redo any thing in life,
but I am not sure where I should start.
There are a lot of things in my life
that I would miss if I redid them
accidentally out of existence.

Maybe I can just go back in time
and build a party machine instead.
You can’t go wrong with a good party
and having a machine only helps.

So it’s decided, party machine.
Expect invitations in the mail.

Week 11, Day 75 – "Looking"

Looking

looking through old photographs
when I was a kid
looking at the camera
or maybe just mom

looking now at a photo
my daughter same pose
looking at the camera
smiling at me

looking at my past
thinking about her future
looking through our time

Week 11, Day 74, – "Funny Money"

Funny Money

Funny colored money
to pay my bills.

I feel like buying some property
and setting up some houses and hotels
maybe a train line or a utility.

It is all funny money.
Still not used to the conversion rate
so it all seems like guesswork.

Week 11, Day 73 – "Soul"

Soul

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. ~ C.S. Lewis

feel my body
soft, warm, gentle, but please don’t
try to touch my soul.

Week 11, Day 72 – "Father's Day"

Father’s Day

Heard the young one on the phone.
She’s jabbering up a storm.
I’m her long distance father.
Doing the best that I can.

Week 11, Day 71 – "Road Home"

Road Home

the snow was blowing
covering our tracks
quicker than we walked.

worn out already,
Lita, looked to me;
what should we do now?

miles to go back
but how much farther
I hadn’t a clue.

we could just stand here

surely freeze to death
or move on forward
and hope for the best.