You cannot surrender

passion

Kill the seeds  

of a new dawn

Silence

a word bespoken

Or finish

—what can only start

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

 

Outwriting

insecurity

each word

tears down the wall

Endorsing

his humanity

thoughts into feelings

fall

The truth

beyond the shadows

unspoken

in the light

Waiting

for a voice set free

that makes it

—through the night

 

(The New Room: November, 2023)

Wandering alone

atop Mount Nittany

his claws long retracted

his teeth filed down

 

The last of his breed

once reigning so proudly

his lair far distant

no food to be found

 

Strange noises he hears

far off to the West

in the canyon of beavers

a struggle beset

 

He knows that this Winter

most likely his last

the future reclaiming

—a glorious past

 

(Lemont Pennsylvania: November, 2023)

Old

not outdated

germ

still in the wheat

 

Not as fast

as I was

 

Faster

than I will

ever be

 

Mind

over matter

horse

pulling the cart

 

Intention

still deadly

 

Blade

forever

sharp

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

The envelope

unopened

addressed

to himself

Inside

unspoken

old hopes

and dreams

Lost

and rerouted

the stamp was

foreign

Its port of entry

still

—unforeseen

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

Their footsteps returned

as a shroud fell around me

Hiding me from the heels

of their jackened boots

Direction was lost

escape but a memory

Shouting their curses

re-echoing the past

 

(Shadows Of Anne Frank: November, 2023)

The gray areas of conscience

those depths of confusion

That’s where we find ourselves

—that’s where we thrive

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

Reality’s made

of what

it is

Not what

it might

have been

 

The apple

landing

on my head

Bespeaks

of now

not then

 

All abstract

nature

Plato drawn

To live

behind

the mask

 

What’s real

in substance

real in form

No future

and

—no past

 

(Strafford Pennsylvania: November, 2023)

 

 

 

Dancing through

the mine field

deftness parlayed

Destruction incumbent

the future

in play

Each step risks a lifetime

if right

turns to wrong

Tomorrow uncertain

when short

—calls for long

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

 

Armed with the same knowledge

we’re still not conjoined

Intention the difference

no flip of the coin

 

Our substance a mirror

but essences framed

by choices defining

—the praise or the blame

 

(The New Room: November, 2023)