Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Everyday Table

This is a poem written for the Midweek Motif on Poets United on “Everyday Living.” 
http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/10/poets-united-midweek-motif-everyday.html?m=1
I associate sitting down to a family dinner with everyday life.


A simple dinner
cutting my meat
with a fork
because
I’m too lazy
to clean a knife
talking
about the facade
of the day
so I leave
the house
to look at stars.

-Rob Jackson 

Monday, October 7, 2019

Engines

Well I incorrectly posted a poem to the wrong motif. Here is me trying to make up for it.

When I think of October and Fall, I often think of the harvest and the old tractors used. And I think of family. So here’s a poem:

Please
show me
the rusted engines
of your family
and soul.
Show me
the struggle
to turn
rumbling
on rust
and old fuel
because I know
there is hope
in those metal parts
cast
ages ago.

-Rob Jackson



Sunday, October 6, 2019

Multiverses

This poem continues from the last poem inspired by the Poets United Midweek Motif of Truth:
http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/10/poets-united-midweek-motif-truth-in.html?m=1

But today I’m sharing this one on the Poets United poetry pantry.
http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/10/pantry-of-poetry-and-prose-october-is.html?m=1

Find solace
in knowing
there is a multiverse
somewhere
where everything
that should be true
is,
but there also exists
a realm
where everything true here
is false.

-R. L. Jackson 


Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Truth

Truth

We live 
in the age
of quantum truth,
when the facts
vary
depending 
on who’s watching.

-R. L. Jackson, 2019