Learn to Fandango

castanet in your hand

Tambourine calling

 its bells to command

 

Dance every Tango

before it’s too late

Death in the offing

— the wolf at the gate

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

 

 

Safe place for the meaning — in couplets of rhyme

 the words taking shelter in moments sublime

 

Their message unfurling — new harbor in sight

 the tempest becalming in lines of delight

 

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

Aperta  

 

All of my life

the window stayed open

The good and the bad

— beginning to end

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

 

 

Verbal Teflon

 

If the message

doesn’t stick

— the words are in vain

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

Courage travels …

 where reason will not go

 

Wisdom teaches …

what intellect cannot show

 

Prescience offers …

what knowledge can’t explain

 

Love transient …

infatuation to remain

 

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

Verbal

irrigation

streams

that rush and flow

Tributaries

far and wide

messages

in tow

 

Watering

the wasteland

Arid lulls

retreat

Freeing what

the silence hides

and reticence

— defeats

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

 

Can a dreamer

be bigger

than the dream itself

a source of hope and pride

 

Can believers

be stronger

than love or hate

when circumstance denies

 

Can pilgrims

make choices

to keep the faith

when stranded in the wild

 

Can orphans

adopted

embrace a name

— that births tomorrow’s child

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

Route 66

 

The death of the road

— the birth of a dream

 

(The New Room: April, 2025)

 

 

Live More

 

If you’re light

on experience

your writing will suffer

 

Like clay

to the sculptor

— or drummer to the band

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

 

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)