<![CDATA[DAK - POETRY]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:11:38 +0100Weebly<![CDATA[Tribe]]>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:31:08 GMThttps://www.dougkarson.com/poetry/tribeUpon weary shoulders
Joints that speak of time
Does the merry hourglass pour its tear stained sands

Upon tails of triumph 
Failures and never was
A phoenix rises with rainbow wings to burn away what came before

This is the now
Not then, not when, not thus
Assemble forth champions to face what comes together

That is what’s learned 
That is how we thrive 
That is how we’re strong
That is our tribe
]]><![CDATA[Trust in Love]]>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:36:00 GMThttps://www.dougkarson.com/poetry/trust-in-loveInto the unknown 
Holding head up high
The jabberwocky nips at soft heels
He’ll be there till I fly
Enthroned upon a thorned step
Entombed by the final breath
A gasp for air as past lives cry
This will not be the day I die
What next
What now
The pin knight asks
Their king a wall of silence
His crown long lost on another quest
The queen gone to the islands
This land anew to sally forth
This seaside, sun and sand
To follow upon life’s new course
Is all to be a man
Trust in me I hear the call
Trust in me I will not fall
Trust in me from up above
Trust in me and trust in love
]]><![CDATA[Building]]>Fri, 03 May 2024 11:26:05 GMThttps://www.dougkarson.com/poetry/buildingThat was a building last week
One we could keep
With memories stored in concrete
Stone
Steele

Rubble now
Piles of dirt piled high
Waiting for the next building to sky
Scrape the best of our spaces
Fill them with places 
That are investment ready
Foundations not steady
A shaky rock
Built on assumptions that might be false futures

The chaos is coming
Upending what we thought we knew
Make way for the new
We can feel it
We can see it
We can’t control it
That scares me

Right now I am free
Listening to the birds and the trees
Here and now
Take a breath
Listen
You can hear the machines whirring
Automatically purring
Till they all
One day
Stop
]]><![CDATA[Hail the Moon]]>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:39:22 GMThttps://www.dougkarson.com/poetry/hail-the-moon
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Hail the moon!
October sky
I wake to greet you
You held the rise
The rising song
Of a new age come
Of letting go
Of becoming one
One with self
Your pale white face
Future written
Past erased
A bath in present
Moonbeams the soul
The moon is full
And I am whole

]]><![CDATA[Catch Me]]>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:41:57 GMThttps://www.dougkarson.com/poetry/catch-me
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Catch me please
In your arms made of glass
They will not shatter I promise

We will dance till the islands sink in the sea

Let me fall into you
To find out the truth
Behind those eyes

We will dance till the last supernova goes dark

Embrace me now
I want to feel your warmth
Your sweat

We will dance till it all falls down

Then
We will catch each other
Only to dance again
]]><![CDATA[What Else]]>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:49:51 GMThttps://www.dougkarson.com/poetry/what-else
There's a sandpit,
With infinite potential.
What else do you need,
When you're three.

Sunshine and slides,
Ice cream and apple juice.
What else do you need,
When you're three.

There's a monster truck toy,
Many aged girls and boys.
What else do you need,
When you're three.

I'll take some of that simplicity,
That joie de vivre.
What else do you need,
When you're free.
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