Time Out of Mind - 3WW CLIV (Engage, Disarm Mayhem)

Eyes engage the thoughts within her mind
she stands - stares - mind out of time
struggles to breathe as the mayhem within
wreaks a havoc - yet revealed on her skin

Disarmed by the weight, energy - the feel
someone cried softly as the floor began to reel
struck down in fire with more life left to give
lingering gently as a rainstorm's scent - she lives

Twisted, battered - torn - finally left to die
stumbles to her feet attempting at last to fly
swallowing cool, thin air - falling - sailing - alive
her mind soaring - at last feeling - her life out of time.

The Graceful Dead - 3WW CLI (Decay, Graceful, Riot)

oils on a backdrop screen
air but full of stem and seed

signal decay out on the lawn
too far to see - too far gone

stranded there yet swept away
dancing, twirling forget the day

someone screamed or laughed or cried
the graceful dead in riot rise

Autumn Leaves - 3WW CLI (decay, Graceful, Riot)

autumn leaves beyond the hill
graceful flight to decay and spill

a sensory riot into the night
anchored rapture in fight or flight

what once was strong has fallen down
the snow shall cover the frozen ground

and as the trickster owns the laugh
the time that's spent at quarter past

has sent the giant to sprawling knees
until spring arrives and thaws the leaves

Of Transient Time - 3WW CL (Capture, Jinx, Qualify)

As the sun melts
into the bay
the captured blood
of the passing day

Quickly traverses
the water's surface
like veins in ripples
the current traces

Feelings of loss
jinx the sultan's swing
straddles the horizon
and the waters bring

Skeptical thoughts
of shadows and time
qualify fears
of transient time