POEM - Sips of Soda Water

Twisting in the missing in between of times

Fostering solemn deepening thoughts

Betwixt sips of soda water and lime

The ineffable mysteries bubble and churn

It is this way when we let the moments gather 

Potential energy of fantastic possibilities 

And it forces a daydream 

Wandering thought

A doodle in the margins

A page filled with practice scribbling

Demonstrating contenders for a new way

Of writing the letter ‘A’

For when I am undercover

Spying on the other guys

A perfect chameleon 

Or just closed eyes

Remembering unsuccessfully 

Just exactly how the ocean breezes

Coming off the Pacific 

In late spring visits to California

Felt just so

As they danced across my sun kissed cheeks

Saturated in ocean fragrances

With hints of seaside eateries

In intoxicatingly anesthetic perfection

Teasing out impossible thoughts

Alluring sirens song

Calling me to forget 

Lay here endlessly in sandy Eden

And abandon all pressing matters

Become still as driftwood

Knurled and smooth

Then high tide laps across me

Bumped and knocked

Slowly ocean bound

To drift aimlessly 

Rolling and churning

Sometimes tossed on another shore

Other times dragged back into the fray

Never to act

Only an interesting result

Of wind and water and sand and sun and time

And all of it caught

Between the briefest of thoughts 

An eternity of results

Bubbles in soda 

Slipped slowly 

With just a hint of lime