Ease after torment
delight for a time
Pain as a stranger
more fondly in mind
Absence entrancing
when courting a knave
Sweetest the silence
—where screams did pervade
(Las Vegas: July, 2022)
Ease after torment
delight for a time
Pain as a stranger
more fondly in mind
Absence entrancing
when courting a knave
Sweetest the silence
—where screams did pervade
(Las Vegas: July, 2022)
As figures don’t lie
but liars can figure
Right is still right
—and wrong is still wrong
(Ronald McDonald House: July, 2022)
It’s definitely maybe possible
that she hated to love me so much
Her affection found everything missing
—and distressed her elation nonplussed
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)
I sold my memory
for a present reframed
The past in revision
—the future in shame
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)
If you ever get to look into the light
—don’t ever look away
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)
Wannabees always seem to know
who the really tough guys are
Their carriage indefinable
though marked by every scar
The pheromones of conquest
carried by the chosen few
Who rumble through the tallest grass
—swallowing what they chew
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)
Where does insight come from,
where do answers lie
A mockingbird to mimic truth
in streaks across the sky
The echoes of tomorrow
retreat into the past
As crumbs from where it all began
form a new repast
The light belongs to no one
all live within its glow
To claim its brightness title banned
—and lease what can’t be owned
(The New Room: July, 2022)
Adventure,
pursuit of awe
—celebration of the unknown
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)
To never change a mind that’s closed
or stroke the lion’s mane
With fate embedded, etched in stone
you’re left with what remains
In tunnels dark and burrowed deep
you hide from nature’s wrath
Whose last denial, truth reviled
—reseeds the garden path
(The New Room: July, 2022)
Making love to my memory
each tryst redefined
Perfection recaptured
reenvisioned sublime
Forever unwavering
all pain reconceived
The future rekindled
—my heart’s reverie
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)