Two Dreams
The dreams are swift, she leaps, lands, throws her skirt In bed adrift, unconsciously alert I shut my eyes, I don’t cease to live Embrace her thighs, smell her smell, forgive Seems vague, yet I can tell –- there is...
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Poetry
233 works
The Visage
I saw a face, you see This face I saw today It dwelt in yesterday And they looked out to the world Looked out, the eyes in the face All is still there, yet sans grace But no, no, it’s...
Read More →Silence of the Books
And still, cameras or no cameras, even libraries close. As the P.A. system announces fifteen minutes to closing, we instead steal stealthily toward the back of the huge room, the scent of history permeating the aisles and lingering onto our...
Read More →Masquerade
Faceless Flaws That line in place Nowhere to escape These feathers mask it all Glitter on the floor But I can't ever be sure Of who I am Thoughts that start and break Body trembles as it shakes Quivering breath...
Read More →Close your Eyes
You close your eyes, look at the ground Where the clowns sprinkled the clouds with glitter Your ears are keen, head on her mound Feel her pulse, read her verse, sniff her, sip her Her eyes are loud; around, no...
Read More →Drunk, Sinking
I once drank wine so sweet My heart sighed, filled, replete Happily the town drunk For well over a year Sinking in sweet quicksand Sunk in the wellness here And I loved to love you Your gaze, never tired of...
Read More →June in September
It happened one time One Friday in June The night was the day The morning the moon Stunned, in awe, by chance Serendipity Gorgeous, lovely, fun One, two, trinity The heat was tonight Tomorrow, the beach I look in my...
Read More →The last chance, we rigged
America the beautiful, at night & in the hi-def tv. set like the love of a whore in the distance untapped like a gazelle before the hunter's breakfast, is desired
Read More →Epoch
Allow me to breathe your last breath as a still born unknowing you deprived of pain to be missing nothing jealous of uncome My plea is yet to be fulfilled as later, virile and untouched I wish you were alive
Read More →REMEMBERANCE
With your name called I could touch the sky, Remember days And remember nights. Thirsty now, your lips Are nowhere to be drank In a desperation Of sand. Solitude. No other breath will make mine Tremble again, no other eyes...
Read More →MOMENTUM
Let's talk from where you are In silence and at once. Don't be afraid of distance I'll hear you! Let your voice go smooth In a cry of wish, Our echoes will sense each other And touch In the essence...
Read More →At dawn, again
Bayonets smothered by dew Sighs coagulated by vagrant veins hope for the sunshine, unseen Ramparts of anthems, of hymns a mumbling anthem drooling into the mud from a missing tongue at dawn dead tired of being slaughtered by inevitable
Read More →Explosive Kisses
The Kiss of Life To kiss as in those days holding in an embrace; wondering sweet nothings nothing is forgotten. Just live life to the full do not waste your time; deep in sweet ol' abyss quality stands primely. Oh...
Read More →The Lone Warrior
There I was, sitting in a corner of the cold dusty room The dusk falling, the angry clouds gathering Casting shadows across the sky; Laying in wait to unleash their torment As the sun goes down And the moon rises...
Read More →At dawn
I’m late at dawn Among the rotten dew Near the slaughtered love, in sight Glued on the hooves of the migrant herd Going with the flow Going The intersection of the other steps, brought to a halt by mundane Watered,...
Read More →Earning A Living
I live to work and work will pay In rain or shine or boom or bust To earn my crust and live and play I live to work and work will pay My college funds have had their day My...
Read More →Autumn Haiku
Fleeting summer warmth Golden rain of falling leaves Harbingers of frost
Read More →The Fairy Encounter
Stories of a fairy fort That were told around the camp fire Blazing in the summer nights Set aflame fear in Dan's heart Dan was but a boy of nine Too young to know and too young to question Overpowered...
Read More →Sammie The Dog
Sammie the dog was thought to be clever Cleverer than one ever did see He could switch on the TV with his paw And seemingly study all that he saw.
Read More →LETTER TO MY DICTATOR
Thanks for throwing me out, old man! It was a pleasure to meet you; Pretence to a normal life, Forty years of praying and hoping in vain Without voice, without sight. That December the cold stopped at the border; Three...
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