Fleeting Moments

Passes swerve, a shadow up a mountain.

Snow valleys litter.

Like strewn blobs of paper,
a writer's infinite attempts at free verse.

A mountain trail here
and an eager stream there,
the recluse makes an appearance.

Closeted in hearty laughter of a jocund company,
hidden in mindless banter.
Not anymore.

The mountains engulf. They fill a void. 

But like lonely caves in a forgotten civilization's past,
they create another.
Hollow, but deep.

Rivers move on, like a clock's hands.
They ebb and flow as they please.
Upon meandering paths, up mighty peaks,
down crooked crevasses. 

Tales weave themselves in and out of a distant mind.
Lost, bipolar and ecstatic.
A puppet, stringed in nature's game.

Fleeting moments, like a lightning's streak,
flash and fade. They flow with a river's song,
they rise like a mountain's pride
and fall like a stream's humility.

And then, out there, in the real world,
plains gather dust. Concrete jungles tempt a living.
They are on their own trip.

But that fleeting moment,
is it really over when it ends?

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Star Gazer

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In their millions, they shine, 

Some gleeful, some whine 

She sits, cross legged, soaking them in. 

The noises in her head, a loud din

Then a shooting star lights up the night.

Those troubled noises fleet, put up a vain fight.

She smiles to herself, wishing upon a star. 

The star smiles back, so near yet so far.

They weave a blanket and sing a sweet song. 

That only she can hear, all night long. 

Why wonder what shapes shimmering stars make?

Why trace back time, for whose sake?

You're a mere speck, in a mammoth universe.

You're an accident, a result of a Big Bang, for better or for worse.

The stars shine today, as they did yesterday,

They will shine on, here, there or away.

She looks down, her neck sprained.

Stars call her back, desires restrained. 

She looks up one last time, she tells them, she misses him. 

The stars shine on: He can see us too, don't be grim.

She smiles, a lonely star gazer.

As twinkling stars chide and chase her.