child riderfree to follow the light—a seeker of love’s embrace always seeking the sunwhile tied to the earth reader of the codesthat are interwovenin the fabricbetween then & nowbetween heaven & earth seeds that growin the life forcethat surrounds us allto rise above the earthonly …
Read MoreThoughts on Autumn (a micropoetry series)
drifting homewith the autumn leavescolored into the earth a spirit dreamas you walk along the lawnall covered in leaves this spot whereyou stand, moldedlike a statueand chiseled deepinto the earth my spirit laybeneath the autumn windinside a blanketof all your colors thoughts like a netwoven …
Read MoreUnearthed
rewarded onceon sight unseenthis gift’s delighta daylight dream * the beggar barehe seeks his alms—the woman walkshe’s lost his charm * a jailed man richhe sits and waitsin a block cell Ritzwithout a gate * winter barethe dead leaves waitin springtime prayerfor …
Read MoreParticles in Time (micropoetry)
we walk for fifty yearslost in the ice domesof this forsaken land ~ the Queensat highon a throneof clear glass tears ~ carved wood—love letters writtenbefore the dawn of time ~ moon dust moon walks—a lonely planet for far off thoughts ~ a ring around—the ebony stones draw inour …
Read MoreTorn Up (micropoetry)
between the stonesI listen for the sound poisonedunder a treeI hear the wordof mercy wounded I sail through the darkness on the way to a lost continent I tore myself upfrom broken earthto rise like a kingbut fell, burnt outlike the dying sun fallinginto the mudI look up into …
Read MoreAfter Hearing the Rain
wetwith the dewof a heavy rain—the scent of ozonelingering still * a bird criessomewhere in a nest—her shattered child * the gate has opened—I walk throughlooking for salvation * these are the soulswho wanderthe desolate streets—I search their eyesthey do not see * in the streetafter a heavy rain—a …
Read MoreMoments
no one standing—a stone path digging deepinto the woods * warm on either sidebeneath the clouds that loiterin lustful haze * she camein moments when the sunreflected on the glass * water and lightreflected before moving onto another day * stretching onthe rivers render the earthfrom one moment to …
Read MoreSongs of a New Morning
from the shorewhere I can see it allas it floats away to some other landwhere the sun continues to shinefor centuries and treetopssway in the windfilling the grasswith wandering pollen * worn outlike a flag flownfor many years * alone herewhere your lips oncehad left a mark * onceI looked …
Read MoreTogether and Lost
together in timetime on a string—friendship in notesof what lovers bring * storms and fireseons of woodsgrown over and lostto sight in the blindcommunion of one * rust and battle—armor left, foregoneon fields for othersto follow this road * alonein the constant questof folly foregonein others’ arms * one …
Read MoreAnother Day
far at seain the violent turnof the waves and silence—and out there somewherethe shores of home * imagesbuilt in mist—footprintson the journey home * windsand roots torn up—covered in the dressof a fallen queen * one blowand then I’m down—fallen tothe lightless depthsbetween the nowof life and eternity …
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