indulgences

So I have this habit that hasn't been so constant as of late, but it's one I hope to make more permanent; I like to freewrite poem-like snippets and other fancy, to me, stuff. I thought I'd post some of them for your (whoever you may be) perusal. Feel free to offer scathing criticism, warm praise, or anything and everything in between. I really want to know what you think. The two I'll post tonight are pretty much as I first wrote them, off the top of my head.

So here goes with no titles:

#1
Shadowed by tree branches' shapes,
You crouch at the path's side.
You look up through the criss-crossed silhouettes
Till your gaze meets the sky's.
"How blue," you say.

I nod.

Paused, though still standing, at your side,
I nod for all the times the sky's blue
Has stunned me into speechlessness.

You don't expect a reply,
Simply an affirmation.

And I agree--
How blue.

It could wrap us up in one lick and comfort us for the rest of our lives.
It could whisper truth to our hearts and make our eyes ache to cry.

It could,

Thus the cause for your utterance and my nodding.

You unbend your legs and meet me in standing,
Then walking,
As we continue along the trail.



#2
You once were a hand raised in darkness.
You once watched as the sun melted snow into drips.
You once were eyes searching the sky.
You once knelt in grass as damp soaked your knees and forehead.
You once were a heart beating in sleep.
You once felt no defeat.