Friends …

commitment beyond blood

 diamonds among pearls

—family of choice

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

As we age

death

reclaims us

Stealing

our youth

and then our hope

 

In the ground

where

memories rot

Willing us

nothing

—but the dark

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

 

The only thing permanent  

about peace

—is impermanence

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

Everything tended

to darken around her

The light from the sun

all feelings deferred

 

Her winter foreboding

sucks air from the room

Constant denials

predictions of doom

 

Pawning tomorrow

the price of today

Happiness bartered

her dreams steal away

 

Everything tended

to darken around her

Shadows descending

—the future interred

 

(The New Room: July, 2023)

You never really lose a friend

forever in your heart

Truant both to time and age

their love will not depart

You never say that last goodbye

with feelings much too strong

Memories real as real can be

—eternal they belong

 

(The New Room: July, 2023)

I think a lot of my name

but little of my signature

The letters left bleeding

as they die on the page

Endorsing a memory

in the hearts of my readers

The words free of structure

—immortality assuaged

 

(Dreamsleep: July 25, 2023)

When does pursuing knowledge

become undone

Letting intuition

take over the day

 

Why does raw intelligence

die zero sum

Factually blinded

—last domino played

 

(The New Room: July, 2023)

Time

divorces from memory

Moments

refocused sublime

 

Lost

in sequential detachment

Freeing the message

—unsigned 

 

(The New Room: June, 2023)

Words serve the meaning

and not the form

To awaken the morning

in spirit reborn

 

Each phrase as created

each couplet of verse

In praise of itself

—the structure to curse

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)

People in love

say many things

only lovers understand

Hearing voices

ringing bells

that time cannot command

People in love

go hand in hand

to course the Milky Way

Promises made

as joy unlocks

—forever and a day

 

(The New Room: July, 2023)