Sound Bites 3-27-2026

 Soul’s Imperil

 

Embrace the lost

creative gift

Keep it closest

to your heart

 

Ignore it

at your soul’s imperil

Whose ire tears

— your world apart

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

 

Mistral Wind

 

First

Last

And Always

— say something

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

 

 

Symbiosis

 

Without real freedom

true privacy dies

The right to our secrets

— in liberty lies

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

 

 

 

Echoes Surround

 

You’ve been leaving

since before you arrived

The seeds of denial

 you planted inside

 

To run in the wasteland

where echoes surround

An orphan retreating

— despoiled and bound

 

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

 

Without The Dark

 

No saint

without a past

No sinner

without a future

No faith

without a doubt

No light

— without the dark

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

 

 

 

A Verbal Palette

 

A Poem is but a picture

— painted with words

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

 

 

Leading Us Onward

 

Beautiful

chaos

A wonderous

chime

That rings

beyond order

And seeks

to defy

 

Leading

us onward

Calling

our name

Beyond

what’s endemic

Resplendence

— ordained

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

 

 

Looking Deeper

 

Did you ever love

what’s in the box

But hate

 the way it’s wrapped

 

The politics

of modern life

Repels

— what it attracts

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2027)

 

 

 

Ere Despondence

A garden gate unlocked but rusted shut

evokes what memory plays on stringless lyres

Between the furrowed hedgerows standing witness

there lives a fated wish of heart’s desire

 

Alone unvisited throughout the seasons

to weather scorching sun — inclement rain

The loneliness of what once was grows ere despondence

 waiting on an unkept promise made in vain

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

Blues Poems 26 & 27

Blues Poem #26

 

Everybody wants

to go to heaven

But nobody

wants to die

 

Everybody wants

the mojo queen

Who rides in

on the moonlight tide

 

Everybody wants

to go to heaven

But nobody

wants to die

 

Ain’t a woman been made

who won’t steal your soul

and keep you

— half alive

 

(Tribute To Albert King)

 

 

Blues Poem #27

 

An aging

harp player

trying to bend

the next reed

 

New breath

in the shadows

where servitude

bleeds

 

His hands

old and wrinkled

each note

a new plea

 

And out

of the darkness

his riff

— sets you free

 

(Tribute To Sonny Terry: March, 2026)

 

 

???

WHY

 

Three letters

commanding attention

Three letters

the bone of contention

 

One syllable

bigger than Everest

One syllable

birthing our interest

 

Questioning forward

questioning back

Answering tightly

answering slack

 

Words that fall silent

words that delight

Trapdoor to darkness

— gateway to light

 

WHY

 

(The New Room: March, 2026)