Maya

Stone on stone

Moss on all

Ages gone

Jungle crawls and creeps around and on.

Tomb in air, crumbled

Rot and ash

Flies buzz, grass

Grows and spreads

Bird calls cackle and

All alive the stone

Calls, warm. I lie

Spread-eagle atop acropolis and drift:

Hear trades and lives

Families, wars, and eons

Of life amid this jungle

Stone of fire.

Club

rhythm. tock ticka tick tick
boom boom
thump the floor
shake - Move! Don't know the
words or the steps or the flow, just
Go! Dance! Be!
Strangers sweat in sync sway
to melody's harmony
Twist! Turn away, exhaustion
finds its way to stumble home
still trembling to the beat.

Rest

Ohm aside, drink in wind's face,
hear secrets of night crackles.
Find solace in shivers of lone:
tremble and treble and Gone!
Song of misnom, song of lack,
Song through wake of waves that
Splash! And attack lonely bring
Empty to self and echo alive.
Found steady a beat as I quake
and let go at last of the angst.

Smitten

Crooked smile for me

Slipped out untried

I love to see the way

I’ve made your moment

In this moment I

Have won this play

And if this moment’s all

The magic I can make

I’ve made it full of wonder

For you, and so, for me.

At the Party

A past repast apart aside

I sat alone amid the crowd

Of conversation not imparting

Mindful eyes appraising, darting on

To visit hence and thither, yon round

Cheer and vigor, wishes well,

Soft words spoken, whispered

Tell me crackling log-fire fables

Carry on.

Death Valley

Devil’s art to glide

smooth desert-path astound

masses rise to wonder

as knowing few glower

mask informed opinion

and proud. Bent on preserving

Fickle favorist deception

Mid agonized self-spite.

But having explanation

Un-expounded breeds contentment

As devil’s race, march on!

End In Sight

Wrong again
Want you out of my head
I thought I'd think once or twice
Then token paid, advance
Think I'd be alright
Everything fine

Messed up again
Shake me loose!
Fling caution aside
See you again! And again.
Now I am whole, home
More than one.
A thing so right
Everything fine

Don't understand
Figured out again?
I left and hurt you
And you returned for more
Now we're ours
Perfect blend
Everything's fine

Scream and rage,
Crash against the cage
Hurl insults, shout curses
Do all to make it worse and
I love you
More than I want to
But that's fine
Everything's fine

Junction

Mine or highway
So it be
For you, her, me.
Life bites -
Make it bleed!

My limit's reached
Not by your push
But I won't pander,
Follow your lead

Hang in longer
Let it slide,
You want that I should?
Yes, but not for hire

Be rave, maniac
Argue none
Tread on me and
I may flatten
or soar:
grasp ever higher
or embrace this floor.

Quail

Can't.
Because she asked?
Too humbling, to fill a request?
She asked for need: she's empty
Do it!

Can't say.
Because he's hurt you?
Can't put feelings on display?
He must mean something: he hurt you
Risk it!

Can't be yourself without apology
Fear how the world sees?
How does the world see?
Notice your quirk and passion?
No, the world moves,
You lose.

Midnight Muses

Exhaustion creeps
Withdraws as terms and epithets
and Flaws abound around the
Synapses impounded mid endorphins
all encoded double helix showed
A tentative assumption to be
Right and know exclusion of devotion
In a less enchanted sphere.

Inhale

Brush
Touched
And I spin through
The center of all
Sagittarian-bound fall
This warm find,
Close
And hold me
Tonight

More Haiku Again

Hillside covered with
Swaying grasses in the wind
Looks like a ballad

Ever my only
Sweetest and bitterest dream
How should I follow?

When truth only hurts
And there is no right answer
Don't ask the question

What is gone is gone
Fading in the distance like
Sirens in the night

Crisp and shiny fruit
Tart-sweet juciness tempting
Downfall of mankind

Comfort when I cry
Do you want to understand
Or just hurry by?

Here's My Delilah

As Sampson let himself be shorn
For you, these locks of love, I've worn
Savaged mane of Aslan's how,
Gold-tinted glory, given now
So run, Delilah, sing and play
Defy in joy this players' stage!
On which without a glowing crown
And twisted face in sodden frown
You wilted, caught by dripping Line
Within ward's cheeriness confined.
But turban-gone, now flaunt your crown
That, oh Delilah, love cut down.

Liberi Non Sum

So perfect
If I dream you
And don't make you
The world won't break you
And they can't take you
Away. Hey
I love you
More than I could show
By anything to say
And games to play
So I don't say hello
Won't let you cry.
I refuse.
I can't let you
Hurt. Hey,
I love you.
More than I could prove
By any show of passion
Anything imagined
So I don't say hello
Won't let you fall
Can't let that happen
I won't make you
Hurt. Hey.

Just One Dance

Slowly holding me, leading me
Somewhere to stay for forever
Over so suddenly
And I have yet to sing
Is there a song in this moment?

What a wonderful gift and a dream
Something to stay in forever
This can't be meant for me
And I have yet to see
Ignorance is my bliss it seems

Again to your self and your silence
A comfort to feel for forever
Over eventually
But I have the memories
Trembling and fearing: they wane.

Fading and slowing
The music is going
And I finally sing
It is ended
This dance to last forever: over
Done.
And I am changed.

So thank you again for this slow dance
Thank you for filling forever
With a moment so serene
Something I have never been
Thank you for that safety.

Broken Song

Lyrics rhymed, flowed
melody inspired beauty,
hold fast to mast or line
let follies fly - cast sorrows overboard!
Sang of truth, hope, healing
Of
Song breaks
Wrong note struck
a few times many
Who listens? Empty sighs
a breeze?
Air, a call
Clamoring. Who hears?
Broken verse to my broken tune
Dischord and down, away.

Adrift

you turn and the world
follows along
riding the wave so high
i tumbled in
now flail in your wake
mid wreckage strewn
and cast-off
and the world turns
away.
you spread and spin
and the world loves you
without your approval
as you spin, and ruin
and add remorse
as the turn loves you
as i do,
left behind.

Can't Have

Slow to heal,
Each sight a sore
Some bittersweet
and some wound fresh
A slap atop the pain
kick fallen form
Tears unbid
choked in
wait for that shoulder
warm embrace
that walks away.

Can't Take Back

dare rescind so
a gift given meant
to stay gone?
presence of present
to lighten and lie
in the light of the eye
given on.
But not long
ere abandonment irks
this forsaken find
of a gift offered freely
and given, and gone
yet left in the memory
of gift giver's gone.

No More!

Bless!
Feline comfort
Lounge in sunbeams
Grooms awash so zen
And be
Tranquil fountain
Run cross stone
and cycle through
Lilt
The way
I
Lie facing leaves
and breeze
Forest heals
Trees hold
Moss knows
All.