The dawn of
forgiveness
The death of
old pain
The choice that
releases
The end of
disdain
Unwrapping
tomorrow
Regifted
today
The loneliest
moments
Beyond
—yesterday
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
The dawn of
forgiveness
The death of
old pain
The choice that
releases
The end of
disdain
Unwrapping
tomorrow
Regifted
today
The loneliest
moments
Beyond
—yesterday
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
Little streams
make bigger rivers
Words unspoken
hide the truth
Where you start
is where you’ll finish
Fate embedded
—at the root
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
Remembering to forget
I forgot to remember
What leaves in the morning
returns with the night
The past in abeyance
a temporary shelter
Embedded in memory
—the wrong and the right
(The New Room: June, 2023)
The death of tomorrow
rebirthed in stone
Its sculptor blinded
by fear unknown
The future vacant
the past denied
Where carved in darkness
—an image cries
(The New Room: June, 2023)
Rearranging discordant thoughts
memories fall in place
Like keys upon a Steinway
awaiting my embrace
Sharp notes lead, the flats behind
as I replay the past
Chords when struck connecting all
—in harmonies recast
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
East of tomorrow
west of the moon
A moment in time
too late and too soon
Playing a love song
that hides in delight
Calling us upward
through storms in the night
East of tomorrow
west of the moon
Our past and our future
uncouple and swoon
Life in that moment
death left behind
The time and the place
—forever defined
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
The White Whale
Atlantis
or Holy Grail
Avarice and greed
destruction
prevails
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
Unlocking the vault
invested with pain
Its riches long stolen
all value is stained
Each bill tells a story
of wantonness greed
With truth sold for dollars
whose printing now bleeds
Locked up in a winter
of coldness and fear
A traitorous fortune
of all you hold dear
Its smell tells a story
the mold growing thick
Corruption inherent
the air makes you sick
Bereft you can’t spend
what you coveted so
Before the interment
when sinking so low
The cash becomes toxic
it falls from your hands
Its value infected
—insolvent and damned
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
The power of one word
a sentence to shame
Whose meaning suborted
and magic reclaimed
Only one syllable
quiets the storm
Where poets can dream
—in beauty reborn
(The New Room: June 9, 2023)
From my new novel, ‘Approaching Storm’
The winds of war have called again
courage summoned—to befriend
Through evil darkness blowing strong
we face the threatened coming dawn