Preston Hardie Poems

The sky is the color of dirt and night It's burnt sienna and light blue The sun is taking it's time I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive Give to the sky my darkest questions Give to the world my deepest soul Give to change what change will cost Give to empty the right to know Changes moving up the ladder of the day Mounds of fresh earth piled high A question in each head on the street as they pass me by Now the pink sun of the early morning sky Changes sweeping me along every minute The picture goes on without me I want it to stop but it won't I'm in it Love to the sky

Joyous praise Our days are numbered Old and young Our hearts unencumbered Grey birdless sky Occasionally sighs Night is falling Signs around us Gathered in rags and finery Touching power raging on endlessly Homeless streets, temperatures dropping Nothing is stopping joyous praise Crowds huddled as one As praise moves from inside Through heart mended fingers Frozen minds thaw knowing joyous praise Flowing through a quiet heat Beating hearts heard on the street Through alive eyes the vision is sweet People walking on fire with joyous praise Survive to pray another day Giving people the power In this, our finest hour Energy sings electric People start to move toward joyous praise Better days to come Sidewalk sympathy falls like dust But joyous praise brings life Reality reigns through the night All is quiet, God is here We are one The poet falls silent; picks up her pen A song filled with joyous praise

Sky opens up, clear rain comes down Green grass grows, the doubters frown They question their own lies Answers awake To the sound of the love in God's eyes The sun, the stars So what? you say Where are you when the sky turns grey When the night is dark before the day Then you realize the love in God's eyes I don't need your help The suffering is mine Endless failure, endless tries Turn your mind outward Look for the love in God's eyes Violence exists We all become blind Look and see what your mind denies The love in God's eyes You hate your enemies It causes you pain You're at a loss to explain Lift yourself up, stand and rise See the love in God's eyes

I saw my dark reflection in the the mirror of a stream. Water flowed into a crystal river I became the bright blue sea. Just another light sparkling in the bright blue sea Just like me. I found a poor twisted branch On a straight green tree Black branch died and fell to the ground Returning to the earth just like me Ashes to ashes just like me. I felt a threatening storm Raging over my head Red yellow sun came out gradually  White birds flew by, they flew as one High in the sky Silently stunning white birds flew by Just like me, clouds in the sky Just like me; I fly high.

Did you want to mother my eye? Father my child? Move my mountain? Gloss the finish on my soul? I'll find the needle's eye March my camel through Hold asteroids in my fingers Burn my palms Build my own galaxy One small part of my brain is  Spiderman,  Superman,  Wonder Woman,  God.

Ticky, tacky little town The sun climbs high at noon Comes up in the morning Disappears at night Days turn around too soon We pretend we are still in the same place As outer space circulates People running here and there Horizontal lives everywhere Look up at the sky, the moon is still The world is changing if you won't or will Round our orbit the scenery changes If you believe it stays the same Then fly for me, through the sky for me Tell me it won't change your game Upside  down and inside out Insight, failure, faith and doubt Every time your thoughts are blind It may be time to change your mind What if your brain shifted ninety degrees Would what you see please you more If I gave you a reason for Turning another ninety degrees Would what you see look differently Enough to blow your mind In every human kind of way