Leaving tomorrow

starting again

Moments resplendent

 free of the din

 

Touching a sunrise

kissing the rain

Hugging a moonbeam

— joy preordained

 

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)

The thing

about rhyme

is you can’t help

but read it

 

The glue

in the verbiage

whose tonic

is needed

 

Uniting

each line

with the magic

of sound

 

Melding the

moment

as phrases

— surround

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024) O/L 9-23-2024

 

 

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Staring into

a crystal gaze

 The throng is burning

purple haze

 

Music blaring

notes on fire

Crescendo glaring

demon ire

 

Staring into

a crystal gaze

The faces foreign

 voices bade

 

In unison

their screams demand

Encored tribute

— to save the band

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)

How will you ever

afford yourself

the cost

beyond your means

How will you pay

the price of longing

financing

your dreams

How will you leverage

the cost of hope

interest rates

on fire

How will you love

your heart

in debt

— bankrupting desire

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)

Beauty and truth

forever embark

Born of the moment

together apart

To mountains unclimbed

and oceans unsailed

Beyond the horizon

— where prescience unveils

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)

Sometimes

they reason

  sometimes

they don’t

 

The meaning

 implicit

or lost

in the notes 

 

Sonically

free

of all

cogency found

 

Truth

in the melody

harmonically

— sound

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)

The eyes

of an eagle

the heart

of a lion

 

The soul

of a poet

the wealth

of a scion

 

The pain

of a martyr

the joy

of a smile

 

The love

of another

divinity’s

— child 

 

(Ist Book Of Prayers: September, 2024)

Live in

the jungle

Exist

in the zoo

 

The cage

all consuming

When captive

… adieu

 

At risk

in the wild

Or safe

through the glass

 

All life in

the difference

To roar

— or to gasp

 

(The New Room: September, 2024)

Truth

not a dictum

of majority

 

Credence

more pointed

abhorring a crowd

 

Its tenets

relentless

called from its slumber

 

To censor

the many

— its voice zero sum

 

(Villanova University: September, 2024)

When quenching

the silence

alone at the well

 

One ladle

awaits me

and loneliness quelled

 

Tomorrow resurgent

all thirst

fading fast

 

My shadow

refilling

— the emptiness past

 

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)