I am as the candid word,
Passing kindly
In the alleys of the wind,
Adorned with sunlight,
All that a stranger’s
Tongue could sing.
Think of me not
As a lost verse.
This way I am a truth
Forever unearthed,
Sailing past
The shoulders of man,
An Autumn leaf
In a forest
Dancing…
Tag: poet
One Thousand Stars in My Eyes
You’re one thousand stars
In my eyes,
So how can I see?
I have known
The colors of a Sun
And not so many…
And what of yourself
Your fingers dig deep
Into my cold… broken hand.
How sweet is the warmth
That you, this way, command.
Go on and move
My blood around,
Go on, read my bones…
They can’t pretend.
Tie my tongue in knots.
Make heavy my letters.
Leave me with my thoughts,
Stumbling and fettered.
Forgotten eyes
I wonder if
I saw his eyes…
Had they been
With me a while,
Would the devil
Wear his faces
And rest behind
So many smiles.
Two Suns in a Day
Two suns in a day…
One sitting by me,
The other, in her way,
Perched heavenly.
How the universe
Throws me so
The heavens ablaze
And the earth aglow.
How could I doubt
The rising sun?
Oh what a thought
For eyes so won.
Here I was taken
To sit with you,
Found life mistaken
When I saw two.
Rose with Poppy Blood
She’s dancing in the snow,
Don’t know which way to go.
A rose with poppy blood
And a maddening strut.
With eyes that can’t follow
Anything short of a dollar.
With feet that all but holler
And limbs that sway so somber.
I wonder who’s got her
Wearing that heroine collar.
Baby hangs on her arms
Strange fruit on a tree,
Her other arm
On a broken wheel.
She tells me what she wants:
“A wrap, a kit, one Old E .
Got somethin for my baby?
Anything for free ? “
“Honey I’ll pay you back tomorrow
I’ll be working tonight you hear
Just something to borrow
Anything, please?”
“My head hurts
Im a dollar short on three,
Come on now suga
Im good for it sweety”
Baby hangs on her arms
Strange fruit on a tree
Her other arm
On a broken wheel.
His head slumped over
With pearly eyes,
He’ll love his mama
Until the day he dies.
into
Your essence,
A weightless honey,
Covers me
In my surrender
To nothingness,
Into my
Universe…
Hidden within
Your womb.
a night, she looked at me
where will my fingers go,
when the melody of the night,
is so cold.
tell me the stories
trembling
in your heart.
let me hear
in your breath
forgotten songs of the night.
your eyes,
that struck me down,
how do those eyes,
see this town?
dont let me hide
in the shadow of a moment.
pin me down,
and hold me,
just hold me.
Darling, sleep
Surrender
Within his language
Of youth and wisdom.
And sleep
Between the warm
Pages of time.
Let
Your thoughts settle
In a city of lost letters.
And dream
As life kisses you
With a her eyes.
