Old enough

to be your

Grandfather

Young enough

to be your

Friend

 

Wise enough

to see your

Greatness

 

Where time

and tide

— depend

 

(University City: April, 2025)

Let’s cut right through

the bombast …

your camouflage of words

And redefine

the essence …

of what you’ve never learned

Your double-talk

pontificates …

to lure and to distract

Whose lies deride

wherein you hide …

 from what the truth exacts

 

(The New Room: February, 2025)

Betrothed

to the moment

Estranged from

the future

Present

to marry

All time

— an affaire

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

Tempests of

inclemency

Cyclones filled

with pain

Tornadoes come

and go at will

With nothing

to remain

 

Caught inside

their whirlwind

Whose spin to wreak

and hurl

A demon vortex

roaming wild

Destruction

— to unfurl

 

(The New Room: April, 2025)

Strutting

in place

Message

defaced

Words left

to spew

Bombast

in view

Worshipping

mirrors

Begging

for fame

Image

debasing

Vanity’s

— claim

 

(The New Room: March, 2025)

Science …

 the bounty hunter of poetic wisdom

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)

Caught at

a crossroad

duality

reigns

Closing

you off

or opening

lanes

That choice

staring back

in the distance

provides

A new

destination

or a place

— you can hide

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)

Try to define

consciousness

you haven’t

the tools

 

Try to define

instinct

the same kind

of fool

 

Try to define

reason

misusing

the words

 

Try to define

wonder

unseen

and unheard

 

Try to define

sleep

when lost

in a dream

 

Try to define

presence

with space

— unforeseen

 

(Rosemont College: March, 2025)

Your words

they fall silent

but your life

is a poem

 

Each motion

and gesture

by Heaven

are known

 

You rhyme

every smile

your eyes

metered guides

 

To love

written couplets

of joy

— from inside

 

(To Kathryn: March, 2025)

 

 

Saying

something witty

while having nothing

to say

 

Is like

spitting in the wind

to stay out

— of the spray

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)