Questions…

the measure of uncertainty

 

Answers

—divine masquerade

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

Love is incapable of honor,

desperation of all that’s unfair

 

Desire unleashed to roam and to prey

—tomorrow for others to bear

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

Dogs obey,

Cats defer,

the difference something grand

 

Loyalty wags

its loving tail

—as purring hides the fangs

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

Anger is the last thing to go

—as memory fades away

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

-Only a Poet-

is envious of the dead

 

(Amtrak R5: June, 2021)

An image recaptured

in meadow and field

 

Her fragrance escaping

–to wander and yield

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

Where would we be without the matter

of emptiness

What space would we reside in,

all things by degree

Emptiness as real as the matter

it contains

Perhaps even more

—as it first came to be

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2021)

When the final act of courage

is gone

—all you have left is hope

 

(30^th Street Station: May, 2021)

She took her pain

and wrapped it around my heart,

tying us together in a misery

—from which we would never part

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2021)

The riff smiled first,

as the raff smiled back

 

Each knowing the other,

the white from the black

 

“They’ll never accept us,”

they both would exclaim

 

“The ‘grays’ have the mantle,

defiled and profane”

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2021)