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Her Eyes Are My Camera
With the world out of focus
Life seems more contorted
As truth becomes distorted
I am disfigured; sight is aborted
Her eyes are my camera
Focused on the ground
Your eyes are my camera
How can I fall down
How can I fall now
Lost, confused, direction gone
A soul again lacerated
People appear more perforated
I am dismembered; sight is obliterated
Her eyes are my camera
Focused on ...
Sunday 18th November 2018 11:38 am
Three Witches Brew
Watch out, over there! No over there!
It's time to be alert, it's time to beware.
Time for Ghosts and Goblins and fear!
Look for witches who take to the air.
Time for monsters, spooks and storytelling.
Time to see who'll scare first, who'll be yelling.
It's Halloween time the best time of the year,
For ghost stories around a fire which crackles and sears.
Be leery of the p...
Wednesday 21st March 2018 6:15 pm
I Run to Your Garden
I run through tall grasses
that outline your garden.
Allow passage through your gates.
Run over me with shear silk waters
so I can taste the bud of your flowers,
swaying in the warmth of the sun.
I climb to their top
so I can get closer to your moon
and set my soul free.
Tuesday 20th March 2018 8:11 pm
Crush me with love
Crush me with love
Never lost but never found.
Push me down from above.
Overwhelm me.
Thrust passion upon me.
With sensuality, seduce me.
Enrapture me and trap me.
To your cadence, excite me.
Tuesday 20th March 2018 8:06 pm
The Path of Life
Find time to stare.
Stare down all the paths that lead from here to there.
Take time to read the labels - be aware.
Distinguish the ones that are easy
from the ones that have no air.
Read the signs for every care.
Warning: hazardous conditions - BEWARE!
Maybe you should take that path over there.
Now imagine, throw seed to the air
Let the wind lay them where.
Removing...
Friday 16th March 2018 1:53 pm
Write me to Right me
Right me thus.
Write me this.
Write, to right a wrong.
Write me a poem.
Wrong the line of a song.
For I am forlorn (and want to be adorned).
Write it down.
Right me now.
Write me now.
Thursday 15th March 2018 3:17 pm
Paper Mache’
I glue on paper faces
Painted paper emotions
Youthful expressions
Air brushed lines
That time erases
I look at my faces
Paper crayon images
Counterfeit impressions
Hollowed traces of me
Through bits of torn canvas
Paper-cuts in deeper places
Finding it is no longer me I see
Dog-eared moments torn away
Pages of pulp fiction
Shreds of emotions
Confetti to...
Wednesday 14th March 2018 3:01 pm
I am Fish
I am raw like fish
Kill my heart to feel your best
Have me on the table
Be my guest
This is your wish
This is your wish?
And I, so foolish
Being dinner
Being fish
Am raw now
From your lies
Attracting flies you tie
Trapped to the hooks on your lines
Tied to your string
This is your wish
This is your wish?
And it's OK to eat me
I don't have any feel...
Tuesday 13th March 2018 2:30 pm
Ethereally Here/There
If I am to be There
I must have a reason to be here
If there is a There to be.
If I didn’t need to be here
So I could be There
There I would already breath.
So
If there is a There
And There I am meant to be
My focus there should be - eternally
But
My focus is here
With no time for thought of There
Where all the focus is monetary
Friday 9th March 2018 2:26 pm
Fairy Tail Feathers
The man in the corner
The girl in the wall
The man on the moon
The girl who ran to far
Dogs and swans and honeymoons
Homes of wax
Mouths made from silver spoons
Lines drawn on folded maps
The time cantilever
The weight from the dying
The stone wall of forever
The furrows made from the lying
Fairy tales with Insects
Books filled with worms
Pa...
Thursday 8th March 2018 2:24 pm
Cry on Moana we could use the rain
She's so tired
Saddened and uninspired
Looking through her shoe-box of memories
Trying to find out what happened to her desires
Well
Cry on...Cry on
Cry on
Moana
we could use the rain
Cry on...Cry on
Cry on
Moana
who knew a shoe box of memories could carry so much pain
A new Morning will dawn
Love will come to find you
Love will come walking u...
Wednesday 7th March 2018 1:33 pm
An Offering (Proposal) to My Teacher
Becoming bitter,
I learned to suppress my hunger.
You stimulated my pallet with your sweetness
and I hungered.
Walking without purpose
I stumbled over myself.
You took hold of my hand
and I was steadied.
When attacked by the cold
I would defend my residence.
You showed me to open,
embrace the cold and warm it.
When lost and confused,
I rushed a...
Monday 5th March 2018 2:44 pm
Staring at the Concept of a Word
If, I were standing in the snow
Would I know it, if it was pure?
As it could. As I should.
If, I was alone on the shore
Would I know it, if it was fine?
As it could. As I should.
If I swam in the Sea
Would I know it, if it was deep?
As it could. As I should.
If, I was lost in the woods
Would I know it, if it was dense?
As it could. As I should.
...Friday 2nd March 2018 3:34 pm
Woulda - Shoulda - Coulda
I know
I woulda - shoulda - coulda - done better
Could of been a better man to you
Oh baby, for this I am sorry - sad but true
But you know as I know - as everyone else knows
You - shoulda - coulda done better by me too
And if you woulda - I just might have been a better man for you
Oh
We both shoulda known better
And yes
We both woulda - shoulda - coulda done be...
Tuesday 27th February 2018 7:05 pm
Because I have the Right
Here I stand with the air in my hand
Wanting to ask a question I’ve held for so long
It was important but now it’s gone
And I can’t seem to remember why I wanted to be called on
An opportunity to touch the world
My opportunity to reach out with a word
An opportunity to be heard
I know I wanted to say something profound
To say something that has never been said
Or ju...
Monday 26th February 2018 2:47 pm
Normality a cultural prison
(Idea 1)
Normality a cultural prison
Trapping idiosyncrasies inside
Only allowing familiarity out
Until it becomes an idiosyncrasy
Less idiosyncrasies become the norm
(Idea 2)
Normality a cultural prison
The shackler of growth
The farmer of prejudice
And the creator of injustice
Friday 23rd February 2018 2:42 pm
In the center of your calm
A midsummer Louisiana rain fell on a hot tin roof
The steam drew away - by a shearing wind that blew
The thunder growled - as the banshee howled
The dancing rain pounded and groomed the ground
And we lay together
In the center of your calm
While I lay, quieted in the shelter of your calm
The storm rages on
Friday 23rd February 2018 2:36 pm
Creating Another Shakespearean Tragedy
Where art thou?
Post is the day,
With the night almost spent.
Where is my love light?
Without it, I will surely become unsteady,
And am apt to stumble in the night.
Where is my love who has taught the stars to shine,
Which have guided me on such nights as this?
Foul is the northern wind
That would snuff a candle
While it is being lit!
And what of your absence?
I...
Thursday 22nd February 2018 7:43 pm
Abandoned children
See the needy
Abandoned children
Knocking at you door
Begging for your attention
We know no ones home
Waiting, longing for caring people
Wanting a little charitable affection
Donations to be dropped off
Contributions to the lost and found
Casualties of economic wars
Wednesday 21st February 2018 2:19 pm
A walk in the garden with Juliet (How many Romeos have you killed?)
Hey, Juliet, your time has come and you’re alone.
All your childhood dreams have grown and your still standing in your sequins.
Reflections prompt so many questions while loosing your religion:
Maybe you shouldn’t have listened to your mother?
Could Romeo have been disguised as another,
Simply passed over as just another lover?
Always searching for the ideal partner…
...
Monday 19th February 2018 2:40 pm
It’s raining rose petals from the sky
It’s raining rose petals from the sky
There’s no one around as the town walks by
Blossoms on every tree on a treeless city street
It’s raining rose petals from the sky
I walk around love struck
With my head so high in the clouds
It’s a wonder I can see anything at all
It’s raining rose petals from the sky
If I'd wrote of all of my feelings
From a sea of Ink on ...
Wednesday 14th February 2018 8:36 pm
Reverie
Post the day to rest and I.
Gentle night come lullaby.
Whisper to my ear and kiss my eye.
Set free the stars to reign the night,
And wash away the day’s goodbye.
Cover me, let my dreams take flight.
Bring to me my love rejected
From my night reverie selected,
For days love dejected.
Entangle my cataleptic bed,
With visions of life that I’ve corrected.
Let her kisse...
Thursday 1st February 2018 3:01 pm
Love should always be fashioned in pairs
Love must never be an alone accessory
Love should always be fashioned in pairs.
For it will then be dressed in loveliness -
and thus be exquisite and most fashionable.
Friday 26th January 2018 3:34 am
Walk With me At A Distance
My Love,
Wanting to be nearer to you
I am writing you
That we might walk at a distance
It is my request
That each word on the page might hold you
(As I have held you)
I write them longing to be in your hold (your occupation)
Where we might breathe a placited, beautiful sigh - or two
Carefully I commission each word to the page
That they might be the ar...
Thursday 25th January 2018 2:40 pm
But For The Dripping
In his life,
Joyous events
Have been like small drops of water
Dripping into a bound persons mouth
Barley keeping them alive.
Whom,
While being further tortured
By common experiences and lackluster events,
Wishing only to die,
Cannot
For the dripping...
Wednesday 24th January 2018 2:23 pm
Oh what express – what
The empty page beautiful, blank like fallen snow waiting for a life to touch it.
(Sigh) The blankness mocks me.
I long so to stain the page beyond the compass blades summit with ideas that encompass more than lands distance.
Oh, to etch the slate with important gravity that excavates through touching everything above and below and without effort imposing itself on every thread that spin...
Friday 12th January 2018 2:53 pm
Aurora Slept for Hours
Showered by the stars,
Snuggled next to Mars,
While cradled in the arm of the moon
Aurora slept for hours.
Dreams attached to comet tails
Run with reckless speed, full sails
To distant shores and pirate tales
Aurora slept for hours.
Away with the days troubles by sword and plank
Where men were judged by the ale they drank,
And the guilty without guilt where ...
Wednesday 10th January 2018 2:38 pm
The Pessimist
A man, a philosopher thought he.
Decided to make a statement, you see.
To proclaim that he was an optimist.
And trying to make a believer of me,
This, simply said he:
"The world has to many pessimists."
I concluded, a philosopher or an optimist -
Neither was he.
Monday 8th January 2018 2:29 pm
Kill the winter - Sun shine on
Kill the winter - Sun shine on
Melt the snow - Reveal the dead
Free the hammer and chisel from the stone
Reveal the ground to free my head
Let me feel - Let me see - Everything stop glistening
Let the melting set me free - Budding branches on the tree
Kiss the world - Breakthrough flowers
Illuminate what’s devoured
Warm the waking - warm the growing hour - Illuminate t...
Thursday 4th January 2018 12:50 pm
Bullets from the soul (New Year's Resolutions)
Dodging and ducking,
Running and jumping,
Spinning down...
Life has caught a spirit.
A moment has caught a life,
A lifetime changed in a moment.
A child who is the man,
The man who was the child.
Climbing and sliding,
Loving and losing,
Falling down...
Bullets invade the man.
A soul is invaded by a bullet,
A bullet that came in a moment,
A m...
Wednesday 3rd January 2018 4:12 pm
Autumn Changes Me
Autumn changes me
I grow stiff as a tree
The falling memories
Are piling all around me
And my color changes
Emptying into grey
I feel broken and cold
As the November rain
Turns into December Snow
Wednesday 3rd January 2018 2:23 pm
For the Longings of the Bard’s Vessel’s Vein
Ghostly thoughts formed from the heart tricking the mind to act on its request.
With filial piety the mind must acquiesce.
The mind does rule the heart to beat,
By the proclivity for the mind to obsess for the longings of the bard’s vessel’s vein,
Seduced by its mistress, the heart does reign.
Oh, the heart, she is a sly coquet.
Flirt as she will, there cannot be a lawful marriag...
Monday 11th December 2017 3:31 pm
Windows into Me
This is a window into me
Look and you may see
Smudges of yourself
And reflections of society
Windows in the form of
Framed soliloquies
Exhibitions for free
Clean my glass chalice
Clean my glass cauldron
Clean my glass coffin
A voyeurs gathering
Windows into me
Take a look and you may see
Smudges of yourself
And reflections of society
Monday 27th November 2017 2:35 pm
Seduce me
Come to me with an insatiable hunger.
Take me with lustful passion.
Find your breath on my lips.
Force me with erotic fervor.
Make me taste your sensuality.
Then I will hunger.
And we will devour each other in our carnage.
Monday 13th November 2017 3:12 pm
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