A man clad in mystery,

history would learn

 

His face on the mountain,

immortality earned

 

A man from tomorrow,

reliving today

 

Intrepidly fated

—truth on display

 

 

(Crazy Horse Monument: May, 2008)

 

A hunter

not skinner 

with quarry

so vast

Whose path

through the forest

is first

—never last

 

(Garrett Hill Pennsylvania: January, 2021)

The real nature

in the term

human nature…

Anecdote

of learned behavior

—serving self

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)

Have you climbed to the top

of your little mountain,

only to find others

looking down

 

From heights far above you

that unable to climb,

you turn a blind eye

to the ground

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)

She never kissed you

till she hated you

 

Her feelings deadly

—her motives dark

 

(Aldwyn: March, 2021)

Standing in

baggage-claim,

watching belongings

go round again

waiting for something

that will never come,

an army of strangers

grab their bags and run

leaving me distant

adrift and alone,

as the carousel stops

—my location unknown

 

(Shangri-La Airport: January, 2004)

Dancing out from the shadows,

our spirits release

 

The night from the day,

fresh paint on our cheeks

 

New fires in the darkness,

where drums beat once more

 

As voices call inward

—their whispering roar

 

(Devil’s Tower Wyoming: September, 2021)

Prose gets more from poetry,

than poetry from prose

 

Verse a wellspring where phrases  drink

—whose waters flow and flow

 

(Villanova University: March, 2021)

With cannons of emotion,

heartache was sunk

 

The future retargeted

—joy on the rise

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

What makes you think

you can mortgage a heartache

 

What makes you think

your payment’s unique

 

What makes you think

your indebtedness special

 

What makes you think

—you can leverage the pain

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)