Poems

He being such a gentle soul and a lover
of fine words ..
Once took it upon himself one early...

In the deepest educated corners of my mind
I paint a very dark picture
but not for you to...

“Our souls are connected,” we said. I smiled. “You are my other half… I love you” you said.. The years...

April 21—Salient Image (poem based on one concrete thing you remember at day’s end)

Image of My...

Green Trees Don’t Make It

Everyday
I look out and see

The ugly green trees
...

The scavenger crow limps upon his infested feet, Plucking his Stained feast from the waste of man....

Falling deep
Falling hard
Falling fast
How long will this last
Short distance...

In the garden where we played,
where the apple trees grew thick and twisted,
where the grass...

Empty
packages.
Life’s
lessons
arrive
like a
package...

Timid and grotesque
a bird without a nest
spotted in the little forest of Ostend

...

ELEGANT DUSK
At the standstill of an elegant dusk;
With the daylight, covering the mask,...

MAYFLOWER
In the heart of May's sweet bloom,
A love resides, untouched by gloom.
From...

I see spring this morning
I welcome her in
she is soggy, bedraggled and
piteously thin...

We are only broken my love when
they look at us hard ..
The rest of the time, we are whole...

And as the rain
pelts the cypress trees
their pins vibrating
against the soft, yet...

The glass
in your eye
cuts through
muscle
of the heart

The poison...

Tonight was like the moonlight
When I saw you for the first time.

The moonlight falling on...