So Perfect
January 31, 2022
I have gazed upon city skylines
Cloaked in sparkling glass
And evening shadow… … More So Perfect
Category: poetry
Shades of White
January 16, 2022
There lives a man in winter’s midst
With snowdrifts higher than barren
Trees and skies like frosted roads. The stars
Are veiled, the moon a memory,
And the sun a ghost beyond
Reach… … More Shades of White
As Your Heart Passes
November 10, 2021
Ragged, white scars carve
Swollen streams in my skin,
Where once your fingers strayed.
Tender were your kisses. Tender
Now the skin they painted… … More As Your Heart Passes
I Sing Your Praises
October 20, 2021
I sing your praisesOn a flattened tongueWithout grace or tactOr grandeur. Not with the greatestLines from the sweetest lipsCould your beauty findA tune to fit. And mineAre rough, raucous, reachingLike eyes in a starless night.Every lyric is longing, Every stanza strainingIn light of your fair face. My wordsAre weak and wastedOn a woman,With whom no … More I Sing Your Praises
I Dreamt
September 30, 2021
I dreamt of seasThat sparkled in sunWith a salted breeze softOn my cheek. The wavesWhispered in foreign tongues,And beckoned me onAnd on. But in day,The ocean trembledAs a tempest tossed the surf.My boat bent, and my sailsSnapped while the currentEnforced its will.Adrift, alone, I dreamt of springIn a valley glazedWith green. Sparrows sangIn the shade … More I Dreamt
Leaves will Fall
September 19, 2021
People watch with wonder
As they fall
In tumbling droves… … More Leaves will Fall
Silence
August 12, 2021
Half-sung praises
Sound in silence
Where an echo finds room to grow. … More Silence
Beyond the Backwoods
May 29, 2021
Beyond the backwoods,
Where the trees grow tall,
Lies a church inked in shadow… … More Beyond the Backwoods
Let Me Lie
April 3, 2021
In twisted dreamscapes,
We meet most often,
Where the leather sky looms
And the forest shifts
Like tigers in the night. … More Let Me Lie
Still Waters
January 18, 2021
Where now the dark lady
With head of black and dress of night?
Where now the shine of gold
Who in her glance glitters bright? … More Still Waters
He Who Wanders 