Joy

cannot last

Few moments

contain

The unbridled

feeling

Euphoria

claims

 

Joy

but a transient

It comes

and it goes

Resetting

our wishes

To bask

— in its glow

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)

Do you write

pretty words

with a message

unchanged

 

Does intent

leave you vacant

the darkness

sustained

 

Do you ponder

and flirt

in a language

affair

 

Do you kiss

and then tell

without promise

or care

 

Do you vow

to do better

with love

on reprieve

 

Does your heart

leave you jilted

next breath

— to deceive

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)

I made it to

the edge of thought

with consciousness

ablaze

I escaped the fire

but not the heat

all memory

a haze

I just got out

when fate attacked

from inside

burns the past

To leave me orphaned

without a home

my legacy

— in ash

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)

 

 

Poets

who cry

Jesters

goodbye

Alone

in the dark

Old heartaches

to mark

 

Time

closing in

Memories

thin

Whispers

 and tears

Finality

— near

 

(Villanova University: June, 2025)

I’d gladly take

one verse

ill written

Than a tome

explicit

with words

unfelt

 

I’d gladly take

one moon

still distant

Than a sunrise

hidden

by rain

that pelts

 

I’d gladly take

one real

good tiding

Than a score

of praises

that slap

my back

 

I’d gladly take

one heart

on fire

Than a million

minds

no souls

— attached

 

(Villanova University: June, 2025)

 

 

 

The beginning

of the end

The end

of the beginning

To look

and not see

A desperate

path

 

To start

what can’t finish

Destroying

tomorrow

When eyes

remain closed

The future

— uncast

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)

 

 

 

 

 

Politics & Religion

boneyard

 of existence

Power & Corruption

misleading

in kind

Promising & Deceiving

legislation

and dogma

Politics & Religion

deathtrap

— for mankind

  

(The New Room: June, 2025)

A mouthful

of hate

A bullhorn

of lies

Dissected

infected

With terminal

pride

Conscripting

the fledgling

Embedded

in brine

Indicted

convicted

True felons

— of time

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)

Ella sent the invitation

Louis worked the door

to celebrate between the lines

inflection served du jour

 

My heart was given freely

their phrasings lined my soul

beyond the words and melody

goodbye to rock and roll

 

 The Saints Were Marching In

as Satch blew his horn with glee

(and Ella said)

No, No They Can’t Take That

 — Away From Me

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)

 

 

The Pride And The Longing

 

One man’s ‘Old Days’

another man’s ‘New’

Chasing a memory

the pilgrim is due

 

One reminisces

what one only schemes

The pride and the longing

— two sides of a dream

 

(Ardmore Pennsylvania: June, 2025)

 

 

Shades Of Gray

 

Mixing wheat

with the chaff

The good

with the bad

In shadings

of gray

The truth

finds a home

 

Taking shape

from the whole

When shunning

both ends

Polarity’s

vanish

And clarity

— shown

 

(Ardmore Pennsylvania: June, 2025)