The Poetry Challenge has now become a weekly. And so here goes. The first theme for the group is “Water.”

WATER

by Yuri Kageyama

You’re instructed to do less

Be invisible

Although no one is watching

You’re a threat just by being you

So be quiet and be still  

Pretend you don’t exist

Don’t even breathe too hard

People can tell you can play

By just hearing a note

People can tell you can write

By just reading one line

And who needs that from you

When you aren’t even there

James McBride wrote “The Color of Water”

But you are neither white nor black

So you just aren’t there; OK?

And already totally forgotten     

Midnight

by Yuri Kageyama

A sliver

Of a crack

Dividing

Tomorrow

From

Today

Slip through

A free fall

The other Side

Invisible

What Death

Feels like

Long lost lovers

Wait for you

That’s why

Midnight

Has that eerie feel

The moment

When eternity

Hits

A whisper

A breath

A nothing