Written fragments

Broken songs

Stepping stones

To hope beyond

 

Music absent

Long at bay

Vagrant notes

  —last wish to play

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Remembering my Grandfather,

  forgetting my Dad

 

Wanting to be near him,

  paternal influence bad

 

He loved without question,

  his smile blocked the sun

 

And without his embracing

  —my life on the run

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Stopping just short of judgment,

  his mind took a leap

 

Whose soul rose as substance,

  now ready to speak

 

Words before never uttered,

  or spoken in vain

 

This acknowledgement followed,

  crying out in refrain…

 

“The joy in the brotherhood

   all torment by choice

 

 “To share in celebration,

   we alone can’t rejoice

 

 “The critic inside us,

   the judger of sins

 

 “Is best left in silence,

   till it targets within”

 

As time will remind us,

  and these words will recall

 

All biting reprisal

  —the coward’s downfall

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

Journalistic integrity…

  give me a break

 

Your lies are on fire,

  there’s hell at the gate

 

Journalistic integrity,

  the wages of sin

 

All truth has been twisted,

  your speech has worn thin

 

Journalistic integrity,

  oxymoron disclosed

 

Two words now in conflict,

  their corruption exposed

 

Journalistic integrity,

  death by your own hand

 

All blame you relinquish

  —your lies to withstand

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Are you a conscious Poet

 with unconscious beliefs

 

An eternity of verse

 crying out from your sleep

 

Are your dreams more important

 than your waking hours show

 

Do they tell the true story

 —of all there is to know

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Do I think I believe,

 or believe that I think

 

Are they both the same thing,

 a pen with two inks

 

Does one include faith,

 and the other just mind

 

Or are they conjoined

 —symbiosis sublime

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

Can you be conscious

 without being self conscious,

 philosophers disagree

 

Being aware of your

 awareness,

 seems logical to me

 

But logic has its

 failings,

 as we pierce the inner mind

 

Perception,

 the most elusive ghost

  —and hardest to define

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

Death at its zenith,

 the other side of life’s goodbye

 

Eternity waiting patiently,

 to welcome us inside

 

Always the dark misnomer,

 we hold in dread and awe

 

When really it’s an open door

 —to all we’re searching for

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

He climbed the edge

Of uncertainty,

Ever upward

The fall so high

At the height of his

Desperation,

Plunging into regret

And sorrows tide

Hitting his last

Tomorrow,

Broken feelings

Left to drown

One last hope

The flow would wash him,

Into the pool

 —of knowledge found

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

 

 

The deeper we get into

 the idea of what’s real,

   the further away we become

 

Trying to put our formulas

 into a box,

   is folly zero sum

 

Like the horizon before you

 that you see but can’t touch,

   the truth forever disguised

 

Its costume to change

 with every reason we claim

   —only the search bringing meaning to the wise

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)