Is time but a reference

to prey and confound

 

(while)

 

In memory eternal

—enlightenment found

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

There are strange wanderings

in the souls

of the most common of men

 

Where willpower and intellect

come together

—pointing the way

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

He said what he had to say

to tell the story

He did what he had to do

to rescue time

He paid what he had to pay

to bribe the jailers

He gave what he had to give

—per Gertrude Stein

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Language

is required

to go insane

 

The beasts of

the forest

politely refrain

 

Words

ever forming

into a net

 

Trapping

insanity

—the tighter they get

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

 

The night shift…

working in anonymity

semi-detached

Finding a hidden

emptiness

blinding daylight always hides

Tying up the

looser ends

of conscious dislocation

Bringing you back

inside yourself

through darkness circumscribed

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

The gentlest soul

springs from the hardest heart

—when the fighting is over

 

(Stonehenge: March, 1981)

The world is becoming

impossible to govern

Each person that island

Donne warned us about

 

All sense of belonging

in mirrors bespoken

The strength of shared values

—our vanity flouts

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Questions

Unanswered

The Heart

Of Existence

 

Wonder

Unbridled

The Key

To Within

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Enter me

like a cathedral

Turn all my pillars

to salt

 

Love me like every last

pilgrim is watching

Empowering

—passions assault

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Trapped in the moment

escaping with rhyme

Words to my rescue

—time after time

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)