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)

Decisions that last forever…

choices made every day

 

To commit with our hearts,

our heads in the wind

 

—the difference for Poets to say

 

(St. Mary’s Montana: August, 2020)

The first casualty of war…

truth

 

The last casualty of war…

death

 

Truth fighting death,

beginning to end

 

Questions unanswered

—gravestones contend

 

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)