nantuckee

Kentucky upside down
A ways from Nantucket
Over the blue mountains and single wooden shacks
Down the branch to Chattanooga
On a left past Roanoke
Atlanta in red sky
the sun’s last stand
before the winds of Panchotarain
brother arise , we are in Texas


2011

Average Frustrated Chump

Somewhere in the songs
That grab my ears every twilight
Your memory collared me

And buried in my quietness
Is a daily vision of you
My anger of small matter
Has been trumped by desire

how to hide the words
That herald
the heart’s uncontrollable bursts
That I am in love



2011

to where we came

We have come
haven’t we
To were we looked to be
Using the March rivers
We looked for the right tide
Hatchets to find your treasure
Hidden in our yard
And after the tail spin
A new order for the eyes




2011

Darling

Within dreams lay
my taint
through Eyes that betrayed me
To a loss more than ever
blue roses
Lilac streams and bougainvillea
The heart of jack
I played my ace
On a table that was rigged
With my defeat
From the start


2011

Lament of Smith

Are you sure that
Mr Smith.
Your life has been one of despair
But whose fault was that
to enter each instant unaware
blindness leads to tear drops
Well sir, in this hour
At this
even for the briefest of time
impregnate
each morsel of your existence
with hope

2010

A way to cope

A way to cope
With the dryness of the earth
Is in the search for water

A way to cope
With heartbreak on earth
Is to permit the tears

A way to cope
With the joys of the earth
Is in the giving

A way to cope
With the wonders of the earth
Is in the look of a star

2011

A sight of Scarlet

Boy, is this the sun
close your eyes
it shines through the Red
The wings have finally come
What, after the wait
We have earned, co-joined spurs
But, as in the dream
To where do we fly


2010

the thoughts today

Why are we having a joy-joy day
Because we sat and struggled with them thoughts today
So now one feels like rolling in hay
I now can sit and watch my monkey play

Why I am enjoying today
Because I seem somehow above the fray
Of beliefs that default and betray
My sad box has an empty tray

To whom do I owe this day
To the one gave me this gift of Clay
I would mould this treasure without having to pay
For the bliss of breathing everyday

2011

In the end

Hmmmm !! my man
How do you love your torture
On roasted cakes
With a touch of primrose
So she didn’t return the call
That you placed with your heart
Her silence stabs your hunger
She is simply not there.

2011

An Aries Bumblebee

The ram female is full of spunk
The ram female, hard head
But, in Arian fashion, you never complied
To what was written, what was said

What do you seek in poetry instead
A beauty for the sensitive
crafted words for your uplift
a place where your gentleness can fit

Will the hunger that burns
from the burrows of your heart
find the time, to engrave itself
in the language of the sublime

2011

Agape

To complete the circle
you begin
where my left arm ends

an ounce of honey?
my oil from the sun ?
joys intermittent burst

of the endless sky
Glass ships in the air
That sail in my slumber

Do arrest my words
Oh Agape

2011

The Raw

How I miss Thee.
So desperate for thy voice
yet part of me knoweth
The futility
I goeth nowhere with you in the end
I tried to hold you
Squeeze thee, but
I could not, what else but to flee
and weep for what never was


2010

A little wisp of Blue

In the hum of the fan, waiting
For the heart to confess its picture
For a little wisp of blue
I borrowed your eyes
to look up from under

my invisibles leapt, dancing
to the tunes of stillness
Didn’t you know
The words leave when you touch

Therefore I pause, in the measure of this moment
for this air to find
in this union
the wings for our soft landing



2011