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dEVASTATION Blues

Oh, devastation, you’re a wrecking sight,
Tear me down, I’m high all night.
With your crooked smile, got me in a trance,
You drag me deeper in this twisted dance.

Your eyes, like scars, they burn so bright,
Reflecting my pain, and it feels so right.
Time’s a blur when you’re around,
Everything’s spinning, I’m lost, I’m bound.

Yeah, love, sweet love, how it kills me slow,
Like fire and rain, I just let it grow.

Devastating love, it’s what I crave,
A love that drags me right to my grave.
So burn me down, darling, with all that you are,
And we’ll crash together, never too far.

:: 08.12.2024 ::


Ode to The Infinite Sky

Behold, the heavens blaze in light,
A symphony of stars unite,
From distant realms where spirits fly,
Their voices lift, the world awry.

O Joy, thou radiant flame divine,
Unfurl thy wings, O spark benign!
In every heart, a beacon gleams,
In every soul, a thousand dreams.

O boundless sky, eternal sea,
Thy waves of joy enfold the free.
In harmony, all nations rise,
Together reach the boundless skies!

We sing as one, the hymn of man,
No walls, no chains, no borders can
Divide us from the light we chase,
The glory of the human race.

Thou art the thread in time’s great loom,
The stars, they dance, dispel all gloom.
O Joy, thy power makes us whole,
Unites the world, each living soul.

From dust to stars, we dare to climb,
We conquer both the earth and time.
In Joy, we find our strength reborn,
A dawn that breaks the endless morn.

O brothers, sisters, raise your voice,
In boundless Joy, we shall rejoice!
Through every storm, through every fight,
O Joy, thy song brings forth the light.

:: 09.20.2024 ::


As I LaY MYSeLF TO SLeeP I PRAY THE LORD MYSeLF TO KeeP

AS I LAY MYSELF TO SLEEP
I PRAY THE LORD MYSELF TO KEEP

go to sleep little one
go to hell where there’s no prayers
go to heaven where no one hears you

Exit –> life
ENTER –> eternity
(we walk alone)

I TUCKED YOU INTO SOFT ETERNAL SLEEP

be in the never-never land
be in a dream so deep
be – come a shadow of yourself
(i walk alone)

ESCAPE –> self
ENTER –> recycle

One eye open
One eye closed
One night fades, forgotten, decomposed
(my shadow my only friend)

go to sleep little one
go to the place where time dissolves
go to the silence where all resolves

EXIT –> fear
ENTER –> forever
(love always beside me)

:: 09.19.2024 ::


A HUNDRED POEMS – LXXXVI

MY LETTER TO YOU

Dear, speak not of the storm that weeps in feelings deep,
The butterfly endures the deluge, the fire’s keep.
What flower doth bloom in dreams, serene,

life burns a fire in souls
never forgiving good deeds

In visions, still, where worlds convene
A burning bush, its flames, they soothe,
Embracing souls, in passion’s truth

seeking for a heart of gold
and we’re getting old

I dined upon your essence, pure,
Touched the soul, a love so sure
In ships of dreams, I sailed the night,

how i’ve sailed the ocean
been to hollywood
and now getting old

Fell into love’s soft, endless light
You, my golden molten grace,
In your love, I find my place

lived in Jean Lafitte’s house in the 70s
and walked the wood he lived
a house now burned down

Time’s eternal clock winds not astray,
I’m yours, in love’s unending sway.
Once upon time’s delicate thread I soared,

Through space, my wishes, like stardust, poured.
Wayward, I carried dreams in flight,
Masked wisdom, veiled in the night.

In the cacophony of life’s design,
I became words, where voices entwine.
Those who loathed what I conveyed,

I devoured, their echoes frayed.
In the tapestry of spoken song,
I found my voice, where I belong.

:: /\ ::


A Morning Delightful

Awake! My eyes—
opened to you, casting off sleep,
to find heaven nestled beside me.
Oh, what grace, what gentle skin!
An angel’s presence in soft repose.

I never dreamed to witness
what my mind dared not conceive,
yet here you are—so real,
with lips still kissed by slumber’s breath.

I am smaller now, a speck,
before the vastness of your beauty.
Surely, I fell through a rift in heaven’s sky
to land here,
where you sleep, where you snore,
so perfectly angelic.

:: 09.17.2024 ::


The Library of Life

When eyes awake, where do they rest?
Upon what bed of sky?
Do souls retreat where flames have swept,
Or wings of Ashes, fly?

I met a heart — a hollow deep
And fell within her Sea
A Woman who wore novels plain,
Like Poetry set free.

Where shall the tender hearted go
When Shadows press the Light?
I saw her weep a tear aflame
Through mist of Smoky Night.

A Lady from the distant Shelf
Of Records kept, unseen
I read but one and knew them all
The Volumes in between.

Where do we go when curtains fall
To Life’s own Library
Where Heaven’s Books contain the World
Not Flames but Memory.

:: 09.15.2024 ::


THE PHANTOM STRINGS


I’ve none to tether me to Earth,
No thread of pain, no weight of birth,
Once bound by threads, but now unspun—
I dance within the shadowed sun.

Hi-ho, the grave doth sing,
A solemn hymn, a somber ring,
The world shall know my spectral glee,
For naught can ever burden me.

No strings—so free, I drift alone,
No lover’s grasp, no heart of stone.
They writhe with chains that bind the soul,
But I am ghostly, dark, and whole.

Your arms, they yearn—but free they be,
To touch me near the hollowed sea.
Ah, yes, should you pursue my shade,
I’d snap my bonds in twilight’s blade.

No strings to break, yet still I’d sever,
My fate entwined with Death—forever.
Between us whispers fade to dust—
For you, I’d cut the ropes of trust.

Upon the Volga’s winding sweep,
Where shadows coil and secrets creep,
I’ve met with Ivan’s mournful cry—
But to your side, I’d rather die.

No strings remain, I drift unseen,
A soul unmoored, a wraith serene.

“I’ve got no strings to hold me down
To make me fret, or make me frown
I had strings, but now I’m free
There are no strings on me…”

:: 09.13.2024 ::


THE HOURGLASS VOMITS DREAMS

I born.
mouth full of dirt,
crowned with worms,
called ugly
by a sky that bleeds clocks.
I begged the wind for mercy,
for the crime of breathing,
and love—love hid itself
beneath the rotting leaves.

KEEP YOUR DREAMS HIDDEN
(never
spill them)
like marbles
into the hands of ghosts—
their fingers rot,
their eyes burn holes
through time itself.

and the ears,
dry as desert bones,
curl inward
like paper shriveling in fire.

the tongues twist into serpents
and vomit
not words, but sand—
millions of grains
in an hourglass that spins,
spiraling faster, faster,
dissolving the moon’s reflection.

time is not a thief.
it is a snake devouring itself,
until the night becomes a shadow’s shadow,
bleeding stars.
aborted dreams
are all that’s left,
tangled in the sky’s black veins.


The Imperial Robe

I see the Night – lit up by Day
Some name it Life – I say – Okay
The World – she wears a starry Cloak
Upon her Collar – Time’s soft yoke

A Seamstress – stitched with subtle Thread
Where Life – and Death – together tread
And in her Garb – from Waist to Knee
Lies all we are – and all shall be

Between the Land – and Ocean wide
Between the Dream – where Shadows bide
Between the Life – and Death’s deep Breath
We dwell – within the Robe of Death!

:: 04.28.2015 ::


A KISS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

WHEN delirious dreams, full of fever, etch across my forehead

communication with ghosts and effervescent spirits 

become the mainstream news within the veins of life

Now my senses are dull ~ delirium is the frosting a top dessert

and my skull is delicate, and enticing for fingers.

While dreaming (is what this brain does) i see a workshop

with a child in a baby seat bathing blue air in a mass of flowers

and its hair is flowing overdrive where dew falls

but in my mind (here we go) a taste a pungent honey 

and my lips dissolve with hissing interruptions, saliva

wishing it had one more kiss from Emily Dickinson

i hear lashes softly strike

Within the scented air—

And fingers, fine as lightning’s flash,

Do secrets swift declare—

In languid ease, i half forget

The world in murmurs small—

While ‘neath their regal nails there snaps

The hum of creatures small.

here’s to the wine (of sloth rising

in him) the breath the sigh of a harmonica (tuned to delirium)

and a child (who knows)

each slow caress— surging dying

continuously like

some small longing

to weep (to weep and never know why)

:: 09.12.2024 ::