Poems

silver white stars

I love you more with each passing hour I love you more than I can say I love your beauty and your power from the night unto the day if only you would understand the need to bring my love to light and hurl misfortune out of sight to hold your hand tonight under a…

silver white

a quiet heart calls to you in mending fences before you go into greener pastures where dawn and dusk meet married to the land never suffer again most notable noble friend the farm without harm holy destiny dawning soulfully finding the way solely pitching the hay tending the day catching a ray till the night…

she smiles

she smiles at her own jokes gives out a guffaw actually serves up a cup of cheer just don’t cross her she’ll actually walk away walk off the set walk out of your life without you and your cigarettes oh how she’s tried to turn the muddy into pie once burned twice thrice the marriage…

she colors the night

my witness my liege in a leotard her regard for carrots in the broth she is my brotherly bard my mushroom & barley soup like a shooting star she colors the night ablaze across a perplexed sky to shed her light to find her way as Heaven helps her gather strength a courier at best…

sandy beaches

brown speckled gull perched upon a pole crashing waves meet sandy beach white foam surging to and fro gray water hurls tremendous swirls in cold and vigorous splendor in a tempestuous temper from coldest ocean floor in early september insight for several miles at a stretch coastal scenic indian wells a place in autumn to…

red fairy

red fairy flitting through the autumn mist every whirling swirling sound consecutive expletives in seconds falling down tumbling to the ground pensive memory happens fantastic a last past chance is found perceive a leaf adrift in wind of seasons lifted spin dear spirit where you been? is solitude a sin? you lose some some you…

real icon

in a world draped in black a glowing moon is waning back nestled in a negative sky hard to see her reason the round diminishes slowly from sight the night-time long from daylight bright. iridescent moon so old she knows no time tolerating poets telling of her beauty in verse and rhyme still the question…

purple grapes

a source of the scarce variety fresh organic fruits were meant for you hand picked from the orchard, bowls of red and gold apples lends sweetness, my weakness for autumn firm purple grapes as big as God’s thumbs red juicy plums as spiced as rum pies a mile high as they are wide the 3…

ponce de leon

driftwood breezes takes him out to sea to see the sky as blue and white as clouds, humbled amid humid dense soaked to the skin sand sticks shells seaweed kelp winds bring waters forcefully- raw unlawful tides- press forward waves shattered on the shore flooding foam foolishly found from thickest fathoms waves rolling in a sullen lull like…

oh for the love

trust the walk through a dusty earth rust the mighty metal melds and burns held two hands she wears his engagement band an inconsistent temper a bedside table seems an uncommitted decor like leaves upon the grass, as a wave upon the shore and never will he ask for more delicate as a war surrendered…