Surrendering to love

  —an imprisonment of joy!

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Do you have to do something

  you loathe or then hate

 

To finance the thing

  that you love

 

Do you plod to a tune

  out of step and off key

 

To dance freely with what

  comes from above

 

Do the moments you steal

  and those stolen from you

 

Stand opposed or conjoined

  at the hip

 

Are those times rare and precious

  to freely aspire

 

Worth a life lived divided

   —and split

 

(Train from White River Junction: March, 2016)

We do no favors

  labeling genius

 

We do no favors

  channeling the light

 

We do no favors

  defining perfection

 

We do no favors

  —questioning delight

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Hope trumped last

  a prisoner of death

 

A final capitulation

  —devil’s ransom beset

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

My constant companions…

 words reel and recast

 

Like a lady in waiting,

 they clear every path

 

Extending forever,

 to store what I feel

 

My thoughts they intrude,

 my meanings revealed

 

My past they’ve forgiven,

 my future ignored

 

They rest in my prayers,

 hopes and wishes restored

 

I know at the end,

 but one thing will remain

 

A last word to take with me

  —to begin once again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

The world pushes left

 the world pushes right

 

The middle ground deadly

 a trappers delight

 

Pigeons take refuge

 as hawks rule the skies

 

Hunting all charlatans

 —truth in their eyes

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

Too old to be your Brother,

 too young to be your Dad

 

These private moments that we share

 our limbo iron clad

 

You wrap your eyes around me,

 I’m spellbound in your gaze

 

The years between us melt away

 and drift off in the haze

 

Too old to be your lover

 yet young with thoughts aglow

 

Your breath like silk, your touch on fire

  —my heart not free to go

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

Is there a difference between

 judgment and observation

 

Is there a difference between

 opinion and introspection

 

Is there a difference between

 atonement and damnation

 

Is the difference only in the words

 —or is it something more

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

Love yourself first

 before someone else will

 

Feelings vested, spirit rhymed

 attraction distilled

 

Love yourself first

 before someone else will

 

Your beauty self-reflected

 —another’s heart to fill

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

Each new Poem a gift

 as yet unwrapped

 

Its secrets lay hidden,

 its flow untapped

 

Waiting for the author

 to feel the pain

 

To seal the memory

  —to wear the stain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)