Living Boldly: Poetic Proof

     Living to Improve is about building the life of your dreams. I won't promise you'll ever achieve it, at least not in all aspects, but you can take steps to get closer.

    For me, that's writing. Whether on this blog, or short stories, start novels I'll never finish, writing another poetry collection... well, suffice to say, there are many writing mediums, and I enjoy many.

    In this post, I want to show my readers I'm doing my part when it comes to Living to Improve. To prove it to you, here are a few of my newest poems:

The Glory in the Ruins

Growing, stretching, enveloping
Covering in deepest night
Blanketing under leaves of darkness

Stone crumbles as wood rots
Pillars collapse and stairs decompose
The foundation cracks and the ceiling shatters

Thieves pillage and vandals work
Spiders spin and birds nest
Dust lays thick and the sun bleaches

Walls shorten and warp
Decor fades and lies broken
Floors weaken and corrode

And the beauty intensifies.
And the ugly and dull withers
As nature consumes

The artificial trembles
The glory of the natural
Tears down the imitation

As the Tree Falls

As the tree falls
The earth quakes
Does she know she died?
Has she yet cast
Enough shade
Turned enough carbon
    Into oxygen,
And stood strong
Providing good homes

And even yet
Has she spread
At the minimum?
Has Ms. Aspen
Missed out on
Her life's true passions
    Her goals and dreams
Simply to
Be material?

Did you ask her
Or thank her
For her sacrifice?
Or simply just
Cut her down
For the benefit
    Of your own self
   And value
Her at, for, nothing?

Winged Mammoth

Winged mammoth

Why do you stare?

    Where do you look

O, robin-bird?

At the sky

Do you so solemnly gaze?

    Have you a somber glare

For the blackening heavens?

Does your life's horizon

Seduce your attention?

    Are you intent upon

The divide between life and death?

Or do you look

At the task at hand?

    Do you just build your home

And care only for what is known?

Well, my readers, that's a preview of my poetry collections. If you liked them, or want to request a poem on topic that's important to you, feel free to leave a comment, and I'll try to get to it in a timely fashion! 

        -Living to Improve,

            Benjamin

P.S. Thanks for reading 😃