Poetry "Never and Always"

how thick is the strand that binds thee and thou?

how do you still cling to me somehow?

thick as our world now ripped apart
thin as mere words burned into my heart

as it was in the dawn of our days
as it is today
as it shall be for all tomorrows

unbreakable
tenuous
invisible
obvious

this is human heart
and its hold over the vulcan soul
your body lost to me
but our bond-
still whole

chaos took what destiny started
no time to grieve last hand never clutched
parted from me but never parted
never and always touching and touched.

Poetry "Impaled"

what does it feel like
to feel nothing at all

to not suffer the slings and arrows
that pierce the rest of us
like a thousand cuts
a thousand tiny pains and barbs

and the one
rare
arrow of love
upon which I am happily impaled
for you...

Poetry -Haiku- "Spark of God"

feel the spark of God
compelled to push up to light
breath of the divine

Poetry -Haiku- "Distant Lands"

frost like that of home

hot steel slides across leather
the first of many

Poetry "Memory"

how I envy the rain

that you run to escape

and how I wish I knew its memory
as it kisses your face
and brushes your cheek
before falling to the ground

would that I might be a cloud,
awaiting the next storm

Poetry "Sustenance"

i hear your voice on the wind

carrying me
cleansing me

i feel your hand in the way a feather-
lost-
rides its secret, random highway
brushes past me
fleetingly

i feel the loss
and lack
and emptiness
of knowing i won't see you
until the day is done

but all that really matters-
all that moves me
is your voice
through the telephone
laughing at the cat
and saying that you love me

Poetry "Riddle"

what is it

that lives only when held
but dies whenever clutched

inexplicable
but unmistakable

what carries me off to work
and sustains me as I come home
thinking of you
and dreaming
dreaming

what makes the sun and the stars
and the scent of rain
pale and whither away

just by the realization
that you're next to me when I awake

Poetry "You Are..."

You are my strength

You are my rest and sleep
and poetry

you are my reason and my rhythm
my beat and my pulse
you are my breath and oxygen

you are...

Poetry "Love Means Giving Your Blessings Away"

love means giving your blessings away, knowing that they'll always come back

love means giving your blessings away, for the blessings you'll attract

love means giving your blessings away, and ending up rich

love means giving your blessings away, for life's a tapestry, and love's a stitch.

Poetry "Immortal Beloved"

You who have inspired the notes to spring forth from my tortured heart in centuries long past...

your face, new in life just today-
look upon me with disinterest
because your soul has slept for a thousand years,

and you have forgotten
while I have waited and walked alone
and sung dissonant and discordant songs

-a scream of dispair pierces the night-

waiting with the eternal patience of sure and certain love-
and you no longer know me.
My young face lined and aged

because I have waited in vain.
lips that have given and received such passion-
closed to me now
and forever
sweet delicate ears
once so attuned to my voice

promise of forever broken

immortal beloved no more

Poetry: "Snowflake"

Crystalline Pure
gently flutters and twists and dances
through frozen air
of varying density.

Unique
perfection
that falls unfettered to a snowblind world
of muffled beauty.
Pretty girl
catch me on your tongue
only before I sway and swing and circle
to within reach
I'm crushed by a boot.

Poetry: "Solo"

What is she doing now sleeping

laughing
crying
living without me

Poetry: "Nutshell"

In our tiny little nutshell,

I am often struck by the distance between us...
How far you seem when you leave the room to make coffee...
and how close you are when the phone rings for me at work

Poetry: "Renewed"

I know that he comes back.
Through the miles he travels each day,
he comes home to me.

My heart. My mind. My hands. My body.
Renewed.
Refreshed.
Re-loved every day.

Remarried today.

Poetry: "Reciprocity"

Take

give

love

live


near

miss

touch

kiss


talk

lips

dance

hips


swoon

sway

don't go

away

Poetry: Bound

I cannot stretch my arm
without touching you

I cannot breath
without smelling you

I cannot look
without seeing you

I do not breath without your breath
or love without your heart