Feelings stored

in words

the letters revive

 

Time rudely

halted

— the moment alive

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

To a hammer

everything

looks like a nail

 

To a writer

everything

looks like a tale

 

To a hunter

everything

looks like a kill

 

To a prophet

everything

— unto his will

 

(The New Room: September, 2024)

 

 

Have you built

a cathedral

with language

unblessed

 

Adopting an

Angel

your spirit

redressed

 

Have you

filtered the

verbiage

with water Divine

 

The Savior

within

you

— still waiting to find

 

(The New Room: September, 2024)

Once the fire goes out

it never comes back

 

The heat dissipating

all light to retract

 

Tomorrow in darkness

the future untold

 

To wander inclement

— left out in the cold

 

(The New Room: August, 2024)

Without our dreams

we sit naked and alone

Imprisoned by doldrums

adrift from our home

 

In fits of depression

we unstep the mast

Awaiting the storm

— of futures long past

 

(The New Room: August, 2024)

Hearing

my thoughts

I considered

again

Last chance

to refashion

What time

whittles thin

 

Word after

word

They pass by

in refrain

Assuaging my

doubts

Repeating

— my name

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)

The coincidence of

 opposites

attracts and repels

 

Polarity of motion

where  

all paradoxes dwell

 

Conjoined in their

distinction

 negating the either/or

 

Essential

singularity

— both after and before

 

 

(Eastern College: September, 2024)

Dodging a bullet 
the Pet Scan loomed large… 
results both good and bad 

“Nothing today 
to panic about ” 
 tomorrow left unclad 

The moment secure 
the future unsure… 
prognosis under siege 

The lights of the O.R. 
calling his name 
— with hope the last reprieve 

(University Of Pennsylvania: September, 2020) 

Deep in the forest

of a wanton tomorrow

two virgins sullied forth

One but a temptress

from loves inquisition

the other devil sourced

 

Together they exit

where fear is incepted

to course on different paths

 

One a diversion

distracting our vision

— the other Queen of Wrath

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Deficit of

wonder

climbing

the walls

 

Deficit of

verbiage

the message

forestalled

 

Deficit of

promise

the future

on hold

 

Deficit of

time

eternity

— shoaled

 

(The New Room: August, 2024)