Poetry
This is the poetry section. It includes a sampling of my poems, which are generally about life, romance, and nature. I have been doing poetry for over 25 years. The poems are dated by year.
CRYSTALLINE
Through enchanted marshes in cedar time
lie emerald plains and castlescapes
petals, ponds, and autumn rain
and daydream walks in crystalline
where the elfin princess glides
with wisps of wind
her hair spins in gold
over a softening skin of pearls
2003
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​A QUESTION OF REFLECTION
Why I see this way, question not
for no reply shall come
instead, I'll sit and simply thrum
what fog this night has brought
like you past times I've often sought
(rapt heavily in rum)
theories many in thoughts benumb
and temper so distraught
instead, I set my mind adrift
within the starry sky
I worry not
my mood is high
your silence is a gift
nothing remains now to uplift
yet still you wonder why
2001
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RED GLOSSY
Last night perhaps
I left my footprints on the moon
under false skies
I cried for her
I feel a red glossy inhale
intake perplexation
See, vibrant dimensional pathways
were my idea, and we discarded the rest
the crystal gateway waivers
while the parallex decides
but we hide from the rain
and so the story continues...
2005
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THE GREENEST TREES
The roots were fertilized
and then sterilized
by the sunshine
under many, many vine
the trunk was made of the strongest wood
where ancient moss once stood
the leaves were the greenest of the green
surely a sight to be seen
2016
THE GOLDEN STINGER
The cold air began to creep
for the woods were deep
the silver bees lulled
in the middle of the fall
with a golden stinger call
2016
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AUTUMN
The sun declined into the horizon
yellow, titian, and even gold
for the season was old
The pumpkins strewn about town indicate
the grandiose festivities that are about to ensue
meanwhile, outside the window
the wind plays a haunting melody
2015
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TO DREAM
I slowly wake from a dream
opening my eyelids slowly
to slowly let the stream
of sunshine in slowly
to let the sunshine in slowly
I'd much rather live
in a world of fantasy
I'd rather be in fantasy
I’d rather live in fantasy
Presently I bring to mind
the sweet memory of her kiss
if only once again to find
the memory of her kiss
to lull in the warmth of her kiss
But I must wake from my dream
where daylight throws a shadow
across a face where tears do stream
for life is a shadow of memories,
a sullen shadow
2002
MY SOUL DOES FINALLY SLEEP
I currently remain preoccupied
softly singing sad songs
Down, deep in the abyss of wrongs,
my happiness did hide
when dreams of love eternal died
sad whispers would not seep
a sepulcher so deep
within a grave of loneliness
my soul does finally sleep
I wonder if the angels cried
when they heard me singing
over the funeral bells ringing
or did they all decide
to speculate and just abide
The folly of freewill
merely dictated still
by beings of malevolence
and things that like to kill
Woe, woe to those who chance to see
the frightful frown of fate
a destiny of silent hate
can creep up quietly
a demon chuckles beside me
delighting in the doom
of my desolate room
no ray, no ray of precious hope
can penetrate my tomb
2002
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WE ARE LITTLE GODS
Black holes, brain folds
eternity of an equation solved
we are little gods
trapped in the physical realm
love that
yin and yang
2004
TO DANIELLE
Hark! In thy flesh angel doth grow
enchanting gift has Thou bestow
a stunning form of pure beauty
No dove wings form beside thee?
Ah, ‘tis mortal nonetheless
though gifted with a spirit-bless
impossible magnificence
without divine interference
Emerald eyes easily cajole
though your smile my stolen soul
and now to thee I shall impart
perfect they romantic heart!
But oh how far, how very far
from me lingers this avatar
entwines finally cease
so, in thy thoughts ye finds peace
…counting fragrant daffodils
endless summer thy instills
glistening eyes give way to vision
awake, my love, day has begun!
1998
ODE TO A PUMPKIN
Now, open up you spirit-filled gourd
oh mellow child of autumn sun
within patches blessings amply poured
earthly riches in glad life begun
but now ye pluck’d from thy garden home
though dark green arms deplored disembogue
and unsheathed the ghastly hardened chrome
Oh orange mortal the blade hast gored!
what awful demons will e’vn release?
1999
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THUMBYKIN WITH HONEY
Maia,
My body has grown weary
from a hard day of sours
please bring me your flowers
then we’ll sleep for six hours
2006
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WHAT WAITS
I dwell inside the mists
of a tragic wretchedness
where my consciousness subsists
on thoughts of my own death!
What waits for me
on the other side
when I breathe
my last breath?
2003
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LONELY TRASH CAN BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
Container of emptiness
lonely by the street
Container of emptiness
silently you remain discreet
Container of emptiness
people passing by
Container of emptiness
rotting you disturb the eye
Container of emptiness
the day was long
Container of emptiness
holds time until sunshine gone
1999
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THE TIMELESSNESS OF EXISTENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BEING
A vagrant woman spies a daisy along an open road
in the year of our Lord, 1874
A homeless man spies a daisy under a stop sign
in the year of our Lord, 1999
They both paused for a minute, and then said,
"surely this flower, as delicate as it may be,
can not comprise to the importance that is me."
The woman and the man, then crushed the flower in their hand.
The man died a year later, the woman a grand twenty-three
but the daisy still lives on in the everlasting timelessness of existence.
1998
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THE GROUND IS COLD
Sad garbage burns
as the concrete trembles
from under the broken apex
The moon shines above
as the puddles ripple
from under the broken apex
The ground is cold
and I'm thinking of you
from under the broken apex
2005
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NEPTUNE HAS FISH
The ship skimmed over the horizon
the air was cold and so was the sun
as the waters parted under the disc
it soon became clear
that the ocean had fish!
2017
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BUTTERCUP
The small, spring like flower
it grew in a few hours
scented as butter
abundant with powder
I will utter the nuance of the fragrance for much time,
and with power!
2013
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I ONCE PURCHASED A POCKET WATCH
I once purchased a pocket watch
it was made of silver, and 7 jewels to match
it had a chain made of sterling
and lay comfortably in my stash
so I took it with me downtown
without a frown
in my trenchcoat brown
2012
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BUS RIDE
The shrill humming of a steel machine
resides within my ear
shelter from the piercing noise is anywhere but near
so I decide to calmly wait while sitting in the rear
daydreaming of fantastic places
anywhere but here
forgoing my destination
but still my biggest fear
is shrill humming of a steel machine residing in my ear
1998
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ECHOES
The night sky
Turned darker
As the sun had faded with the land
The people hid in their
box-houses
the redfish swam
about unnoticed
by it
The shadowed echoes resound
the dark echoes resound
The night sky
turned even darker
as the shooting stars
appeared and then disappeared
The people hid in their
box-houses
as the sheep-head swam
about unnoticed
by it
The dark echoes resound
The dark echoes resound
2022
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MOMENTS
The ideas flowed
adjacent to the mind,
-and yet still fell
Fully upon the paper
Which I seemed to find
Enthusiastic and enriching
The idea of
“short-bread” came
from above,
and left me
with complete understanding
and of brilliant cognition
The idea of
“repast” came
from behind
and left me
without a yawn
and a pillow
2022
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