Selected Poetry by Michael Theroux

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Wet Blue Ball

This wet blue ball we’re riding, she’s tough

she fixes her problems and heals her own wounds

Despite how her critters play outside of bounds -

she could just as easily say, enough’s enough.

We’re sheltered from her nightmares

plagues of Time and Space, dying suns

Forgetting about what the ol’ girl’s done

we fret and fret about what isn’t here.

Ten thousand years since the last Ice Age

whole races of Man migrating back and forth

That’s what’s written on just this last page

yet it holds the sum of Man’s path and worth.

We’re so self-important! So sure and secure

in knowing who the Good and the Bad guys are

It’s Government! It’s Industry! It’s the Dogs of War!

when for she that circles, it’s the life of her Star…

Shatter

In between moments   past and present rebound

leaving a blurred hint:   the fox, the following hound.

Our lives flash about   believing in relevance

We jump, we shout out   in Present Tense.

Life clings to Being   at the water line

eyes Staring, Seeing   mouths speech-blind.

Hung on survival   dragging it under

the weight of it all   wet, flung asunder.

But between moments   reverberating, we know

a perverse presentment:   what is Above, is Below

Clarity comes shatteringly   sharp edged, clean lined

to cut away the absurdity   leaving Living, sublime.

Michael began focusing on publication of his literary works in his seventh decade, following earning an MS in Biology, and enjoying careers of field botanist, environmental health specialist, green energy developer and resource recovery web site editor, and publishing all the requisite technical environmental & regulatory articles. He has now had 100+ poems, short stories and sketches published in the last three years. Some of his stories and poems may be found in City Key, Wild Word, Ariel Chart, CafeLit, Midsummer Dreamhouse, The Gilded Weathervane, and elsewhere.

If you would like to learn more about Michael, you can find his website here, his corporate site here, and his LinkedIn here.