Standard bearer,
above the fray
Others follow,
trackless fields
Trailing echo’s,
dead and gone
Then tomorrow
—tomorrow then
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Standard bearer,
above the fray
Others follow,
trackless fields
Trailing echo’s,
dead and gone
Then tomorrow
—tomorrow then
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Clothed in fraud,
his disguise supreme
Frightening listeners,
confusion schemed
His world inside,
a caldera waits
Armageddon trembling
—the hour late
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Maintaining his distance,
Dylan felt safe
A musical drifter
not born for one place
His words once released,
to live on their own
The road calling windward
—far from his home
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Bridging the gap…
hate falling away
Into the chasm,
fate tightens the stays
Forging two armies,
to now fight as one
Entreating their union
—Saint Michael has come
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Looking down,
I’ve been so lucky
Looking up,
still more to know
Fortune smiles,
the road still open
Steeper yet
—but blessed to go
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
What you first come to learn
when emotions are raw
Bakes time eternal,
old men to recall
Before holy baptism
and the mirrored decree
Lasting impressions
—of what’s meant to be
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
You once gave to me something,
you now want to take back
But its cord is umbilical,
my soul thus attached
The title to the future
in invisible ink
Bleeding free your reluctance
—inextricably linked
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Behind on my rent…
the door slamming behind
A beggar of memories,
doomed to remind
Last boxcar of hope
on a railway of dreams
From here to tomorrow
—trapped in between
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Betrothed within,
making love to ourselves
Pledging new vows,
to seal every tryst
Promises buried,
a marriage unseen
Wedding bells ring
—ever silent and deep
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Chasing after the flame,
in spite of the heat
To bathe in the light
—everything else is dark
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)