So Perfect
January 31, 2022
I have gazed upon city skylines
Cloaked in sparkling glass
And evening shadow… … More So Perfect
Tag: 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
Stars Beyond the Void
December 9, 2021
Once we embraced
With fire and fervor
And eyes like stars beyond
The void… … More Stars Beyond the Void
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
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
The Eastern Light
September 25, 2020
A starless night stealsAcross the sea,Where I stray, half-sunkIn the boundless, black brine.Arms weary, I thrashAmid the violent waves,Whose frothy peaksPush me far from shore. But in the eastern skyDawns a hopeful glimmer:A radiant girl wreathed in lightWith smile beaming,Shadow fleeing. Like holy fireShe burns awayThe night. And as the churning seaLies still with a … More The Eastern Light
Every Road
August 5, 2020
Every road has an end,
Or so they say. … More Every Road
He Who Wanders 