Diametric …

art and commerce

Twining symbols

colors adverse

 Yin & Yang

divergent segues

Each stigmatic

 bloddy payday

Fraternal image

Louvre / Montmartre

Black tie bidding

cobbled heart

A poor man sings

a rich man vies

On bartered canvas

 —truth defies

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

In spite of all your riches

you eschew what prophets do

Basilicas you build to self

with time but empty pews

 

Wealth deadly suicidal

when wielded as a gun

Whose target sits between your eyes

with one shot zero-sum

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

 

Born on the moon

one sixth of earth’s gravity

Reentry approaching

would your skeleton hold

 

Bones forming soft

g-forces awaiting

To welcome you home

—or break the new mould

 

(Listening To Mindscape: November, 2023)

The older the day
the sweeter the memory

The sweeter the memory
new reasons to find

New reasons to find
tomorrow unmentioned

Tomorrow unmentioned
—the present Divine

(1st Book Of Prayers: July, 2018)

Losing my mind

to capture my soul

Memory repurposed

—unbroken and whole

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

You cannot surrender

passion

Kill the seeds  

of a new dawn

Silence

a word bespoken

Or finish

—what can only start

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

 

Outwriting

insecurity

each word

tears down the wall

Endorsing

his humanity

thoughts into feelings

fall

The truth

beyond the shadows

unspoken

in the light

Waiting

for a voice set free

that makes it

—through the night

 

(The New Room: November, 2023)

Wandering alone

atop Mount Nittany

his claws long retracted

his teeth filed down

 

The last of his breed

once reigning so proudly

his lair far distant

no food to be found

 

Strange noises he hears

far off to the West

in the canyon of beavers

a struggle beset

 

He knows that this Winter

most likely his last

the future reclaiming

—a glorious past

 

(Lemont Pennsylvania: November, 2023)

Old

not outdated

germ

still in the wheat

 

Not as fast

as I was

 

Faster

than I will

ever be

 

Mind

over matter

horse

pulling the cart

 

Intention

still deadly

 

Blade

forever

sharp

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

The envelope

unopened

addressed

to himself

Inside

unspoken

old hopes

and dreams

Lost

and rerouted

the stamp was

foreign

Its port of entry

still

—unforeseen

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)