You have existed now

 —forever

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

How quiet are the closing moments

 of Winter

 

Its final lingering shadow

 passing over your soul

 

Days lengthening into night

 beyond all protest

 

What ended in shades of red and brown

 —beginning again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

 

 

 

There’s nothing less,

  there’s nothing more

 

As time repeats…

 —once evermore

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

An extravagance of leisure

   —exploiting the time

 

Beyond the reach of my Grandfathers

   —the joy and the pain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

From life’s final dissertation,

 logic must be barred

 

A blueprint of our limitations,

 its legions burned and scarred

 

In that last final closing moment,

 transcendence kindled bright

 

The strictures of its failed excuse

  —left victim to the night

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

The deeper the words

  formed

 

The meaner they

  became

 

       ‘now free and alive

         and stirred from the bottom

 

      ‘once buried and denied

        in moments of pain’

 

Taking on new life,

  they glare and they scowl

 

Staring back from the mirror

  —a damning refrain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

 

 

Is God a deficiency in

  our character or makeup

 

Do we fill in the vacuum with

  almighty tales of beyond

 

Is the salvation we yearn for

  there buried deep inside us

 

Do our sermons lay unwritten

  —last devotional unsung

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

 

Wringing feelings

Like a sponge…

The words dripped down

My lips

Onto the page

  —staining my soul

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

Poetry…

Conduit

Of the truth

 

Speaker

Of the almighty

Silence

 

Last synapse

Of a feeling

Lost

 

Nerve ending

Of a forgotten

Dream

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

Becoming totally involved

  —keeping your opinions to yourself

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)