Running off with tomorrow

divorcing today

The moment is orphaned

— all time left astray

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

Camels in the

brush

Memories in the

fire

Voices in the

wind

Panic in the

mire

 

Messages

conflict

Enemy

conspires

First shot

breaks the silence

Last shot

— lights the pyre

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

Future horizons

tomorrow in embers

 

Sparks in the distance

— time set on fire

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

Adding together

numbers and colors

red + 7 sku’d

 

Living in another

event horizon

yellow + 1 = Q

 

Orange + 31

sweetness defined

Euclidian paradox

 

Counting + feeling

the universe prime

— nth truth outside the box

 

(Villanova University: February, 2024)

 

 

Sands Of Time

 

Memories in the hourglass

  tumble and fall

  feelings receding

— meaning recalled  

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

 

 

 

The timid

find courage

in the well

— of another’s fear

 

(Valley Forge Park: February, 2024)

 

 

Call Me Ishmael

 

Mediocre writing

spawns editing

The Great Works

— born unchanged

 

‘Thoughts of: Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, John Lennon, Steve Winwood, Kris Kristofferson’

(February: 2024)

Poetry

secured in beauty …

carved high in a tree

Branches

spread and offer cover

of your history

Winter

comes and bares the promise

Spring will shade anew

Seasons

in the bark awaiting

— progeny to view

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

Real poets don’t make lasting friends

they shun fraternity

Their truth like gritty sandpaper

abrasive when intoned   

The reader may be gratified

with what the words uncover

More likely though the pain involved

— will cut them to the bone

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

No matter how many times

you set the world on fire

Never forget

— where you store the matches

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

One More Day

 

Always amazing

how well this life

goes right on without us

New images tread

where shadows have fled

old memories in the dust

Nothing left behind

but words to remind

we chased the Tiger sure

Out of the jungle

into the light

—hoping for one day more

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

 

 

 A Finer Point

 

Simplify

and clear

 

Simplify

and clear

 

Not many

years left

 

— simplify and clear

 

(The County Line: February, 2024)

 

Trapline

 

Could — Would — Should

poetry’s triumvirate oxymoron

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

 

Goodbye

 

Walking the wasteland

tracking the miles

rumpled old notebook

pain has compiled

 

Closer to yesterday

lost to today

Voices of promises

I shouldn’t have made

 

Trouble ahead

troubles behind

Providence follows

in only my mind

 

My pen almost empty

eyes nearly shut

One word to write only

— midnight has struck

 

(Villanova University: February, 2024)

 

Free Given

 

It matters least

that when I die

What strangers say

what ladies cry

 

It matters more

the ink run out

My words free given

— whose passion shouts

 

(Villanova University: February, 2024)

 

 

A place though small enough to write

— still big enough to dream

 

(State College Hotel: February, 2021)