poetry
-
fallen leaves
hidden in the winter woods bare and swaying in the breeze she looks down upon the ground as if to beckon fallen leaves sweetly shy she shivers blushes red with every dawn till her lover comes with spring to slip her new dress on
-
second story
in the spring another fall for the stubborn leaves that cling to the now new budding branches life pushes death out of the way fluttering, twisting, fighting bearing it’s own memory these lonely strangers fall once blessed with such a view they gather in corners and whisper tall tales from the elusive past they wander…
-
abandon my hope
1-15-01 —– oh yeah i’m feeling the burn alright the soft ache of a silent night it’s not so much that i’m lonely it’s not so bad that i’m me i’ve got a stack of distractions waiting for me to take action but i’m stuck on the maybe you might want to waste some time…
-
i am winter
1/4/2001 i am winter come to ruin the promise of last spring with freezing rain on window panes i am death of everything there is no guilt or sadness for summer’s come and gone each has had their day i am dusk for every dawn
-
at the end of december
12-31 —– every person in my universe has something better to do than to just check up on me before the year is new every tear that i have wasted every tear wiped on my sleeve is all from beautiful lies i tried to believe too old to feel so fresh why does the pain…
-
pardon
12/16/2000 spotlights stroll the prison yard i’m stuck back in a shadow fifty feet from the closest wall watching dogs alert with my fear a tug of a leash and it’s clear i start out slow, unsure of the plan they’re looking for reasons to kill a man cheek to the wall, grabbing at brick…
-
trepidation
10/25/2000 God, if i give you what you’ve earned the sacrifice that is meant to burn what will become of the world i know shallow laughs with lies below trepidation, face of fear as Your promised land draws near what if i can’t handle being real what if i break what time can’t heal but…
-
arizona rain
10-10-2000 —– inspiration like arizona rain falls on the sand it abandoned flows life through the land like veins i’ve never been to arizona maybe a clue to what i’m missing a lifevest thrown from a passing plane ‘we won’t be able to save you, son but we’ll send someone you’re way’ oceans are deserts…