One day in January

I borrowed a day

A day from late June

I have to repay

 

The temperature rising

the sun high above

Birds are returning

as thoughts turn to love

 

As June then approaches

the bill coming due

With summer winds blowing

and everything new

 

I reach down in sorrow

obliged as I am

To clear my account

—the snow to begin

 

(Wayne Pennsylvania: January, 2024)

Lost within

the writing

Found

with each retelling

The universe

at my command

Time and space

—unveiling

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)

For Papa

 

That monster inside us

devouring the past

Our memories hunted

most recent to last

 

No mercy is shown us

as darkness creeps in

Today and tomorrow

—lost into the wind

 

(Tribute To Hemingway: January, 2024)

 

 

Lakota Buffalo Prayer

 

Shooting

today

Killing

tomorrow

 

Targeted

fortune

Lost

—to the wind

 

(The New Room: January, 2024)

 

 

 

I don’t write for

you … or you … or you

— I write for YOU

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)

 

Baiting

a feeling

 

Passion

is tracked

 

Luring

the moment

 

Setting

the trap

 

Eyes

look upon you

 

Cage

set on fire

 

Death

in the ashes

 

Preying

— desire

 

(The New Room: January, 2024)

It wasn’t fate

— it just was

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)

What proclaims

to save our souls

is killing its believers

Religion worse

than nuclear war …

born again deceivers

 

Breaking every

moral creed

stealing zero-sum

Ashes left to burn

and rot

—Yahweh on the run

 

(The New Room: January, 2023)

 

We share the same silence

we think the same thoughts

 

We have the same daydreams

not rented or bought

 

We live in the spaces

of a lost inbetween

 

And wander through moments

that time hasn’t seen

 

We care for each other

we live for today

 

We treasure the quiet

of nothing to say

 

We give without taking

our well never dry

 

And smile ever meeting

—never saying goodbye

 

(The New Room: January, 2024)

Power

Over life

Gives

Power

Over death

 

One

Dictates

The other

In joy

And regret

 

Each

Beginning

And ending

Brings

More of the same

 

Our

Destiny

Married

To both

—in refrain

 

(The New Room: January, 2024)

 

It’s not the steps that you take

— but the footprints you leave

 

(Ithan Pennsylvania: January, 2024)