first snow
white oblivion
whispers
to sleeping earth
hush…
let go
frantic mind
surrender
hush…
forgive your past
your sins
your separation
hush…
a blanket
of serenity
hush
white oblivion
cuddles me
in love’s eternity
first snow
melts,
drips
slowly
down the face
of my soul
hush…
Tio Stib
2014, 2019
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in the muck of news’ day platitudes
I’ve lost my cheery attitude
midst hate and anger screamed and spewed
what happened to beatitudes
but past these ugly, mindless feuds
beyond behavior simply rude
there is another world that can be viewed
in Nature’s holy latitude
in this world outside our doors
flowers dance, birds sing, and oceans roar
a world that heeds not human news
where souls soar high on gratitude
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Tio Stib
2016, 2019
as comets streak cross galaxies
I dance down a puddled street
splashing through a sea of stars
reflections wet my feet
I walk past lamp lit skeletons
their leaves now lost and drowned
and wonder on this winter night
where can truth be found
Tio Stib
2014, 2019
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has love been worth
the silly fears of youthful years
the agony and sobbing tears
rejections, dejections, emotions tossed
plans and hopes and dreams now lost
has love been worth the unmet wants
the emptiness of sensual haunts
the births, the deaths
the final breaths
the agony of cried regrets
all this for a glimpse of bliss
the rapture of a secret kiss
a sudden smile
a soft caress
the eternity of souls confessed
and so I ask a broken heart
as time tugs our love apart
was it worth the cost
the moment’s flame?
ah, yes
sighs the sent
the sight
the memory
of a single rose
again
tio stib
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walking through a cloud of grey
the beginning of a quiet day
I felt a tickle on my face
a soft caress, a moment’s grace
and smiled
as I was gently kissed
by the tender morning mist
tio stib
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I pause and know
they come
demons of darkness
black clouds
in this season of storms
valkyries
naked
my soul is lashed
bashed by fear
drowned in disappointment
chilled by frigid failure
stunned by thunderous disapproval
stumbling in the cacophony of screaming doubt
lost
I pray to survive
this weather system of the mind
tio stib
2019
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there are moments when
I dream in peace
a mind released to roam
then others when
the clock grinds on
and night becomes a tomb
I lay now in eternal night
awaiting mindless deep
a craving need to somehow get
a decent hour’s sleep
tio stib
2015, 2018, 2019
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in winter stillness
ancient aspens watch
a chickadee flitting past
feathered music
bouncing
over infinite blue
alone
atop the buried meadow
a man paused
turned
looked back at the trampled snow
the trail of footsteps
each print a shadowed testament
to sweat falling from his brow
all he could see was white
reflected memories in a sea of snow
light’s harsh truth
stinging weary eyes
a deep sigh
a gasp of icy air
a hesitation in the heartbeat of being
a smile
he chooses life
again
tio stib
2016, 2018, 2019
for fifty years they’d each returned
back to the same cafe
gathered round the same table
these small town knights
slowly sipping coffee
reviving the Camelot of their youth
alive again
in a breakfast of memories
stories swirled
more smiles than scars
the pranks, the mindless adventures
girlfriends real, love imagined
mountains climbed and races won
friends recalled and gone
they talked of how they’d loved this place
had never thought to leave
but life and time had swept them off
to chase their separate dreams
not one head turned to watch them go
the gray men and their ghosts
and silence roared to fill the void
of legends lost to most
tio stib
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rocketing through a cacti forest
past towering sentinels frozen in moonlight
night air and music blasting through the cockpit
singing with Cat Stevens
Riding on the peace train
I’m speeding into wildness at 3 a.m.
crossing into the unknown
road tripping
on the loose
Fall has called me forth
to a season for adventuring
ghosting through the morning mist
as day slides from gray to gold
I’m pulled by hunger into a small cafe
cradling a warm coffee cup
I spy the famished hiker beside me
demolishing a plate full of pancakes
he turns and smiles
Fall is freedom
the work is done, the harvest in
I’m on the road again
mornings are cool now
Fall brings a sharpened awareness
a time to wipe fog from my glasses
as growing sunlight melts shadows from the river
cold water swirls about my shivering thighs
I cast to a distant riffle
the line lays out softly
the fly disappears in a splash
lost in the sweet perfume of pine sap
following a dusty trail of memories
the buzz below me sounds familiar
Jeez!
Damn! Helluva rattlesnake!
all those blue highways
all those maps, long before GPS
all those little country stores
all those stops to buy a soda, asking directions
where the heck is Boggan’s Oasis?
and the magic of those unexpected moments
chasing wild horses through a sea of purple sage
eyeing eagles falling from heaven in their mating aerobatics
cresting a final ridge to discover Shangri-La
an azure lake sparkling in an alpine meadow
immersed
alone
in a hot springs pool
steam rising into nothingness
feeling forever in all directions
soul steeped in gratitude
as sky slips from gold
to pink
to gone
I will not travel these roads again
but they will haunt my heart when
once again
Fall calls the vagabond
to a season for adventuring
tio stib
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