Best Lifelines Poems

A misty  reflection
in the mirror
of life


a fragile shadow
on the wall
of boundaries


A deep echo
in the tunnel
of thoughts

A  soft whisper
in the voice
of dreams


a broken emotion
in...

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Now that you know me;
I am in your life for a reason - 
I am in your life for a season. 
I may be only...

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When the enchanted 
jailors of life, 
siezed my soul 
and those
sepals unfurling
manipulative
manuscripts 
ceased to 
script a twinkle 
above screams, 
I became a 
slave to my...

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Dwelling in twisted tulips of fate, 
I'm etching life's blackened stars beneath
Vehement veil of thunderstruck twilight, for, 
Obsidian tornados have crushed affectionate shorelines. 
Remorseful roses...

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When cyan night's 
raspberry moon
is dipped in softness 
of the afterglows, 
I gaze at that glossy
first evening star between 
creamy fingers of 
my cherry palm,...

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I gaze beyond 
the sky of sapphires,
waiting for a
spark of sailing light,
listening to 
the balmy breeze~
they kiss the 
rays of silver,
with tales of 
my eclipsed...

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I once was a
sea lavender star, 
soaked in sunsets, 
draping evenings
with soft yarns of
hydrangea haze ~
before you stole
me from those
sangria skylines like
a windswept wave,
and placed...

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Seconds:
If there was a second I didn't think about you
God himself would have to point it out
Because this sample of heaven is 24/7
As the minutes...

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The human synchronized synthetic sympathetic empathy I robot schizophrenic mechanism
My lifelines technological I think therefore I am and showing potential
Experimental experience my influence controls the...

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Hand Puppets


Hard, calloused and dirty, it pleaded with me.
It had no eyes, no face, no soul.  Or so I thought,
or didn’t.  Yellowed fingernails,...

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The great tempter tries, subtly, watching us, lurking to lure.

Preparing, waiting to dazzle us, in times we are unsure.

His flames dance so beautifully, as we...

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The words I speak
The words I keep
Keep the thoughts
Keep the power
Power to hurt
Power to heal
Heal the pain
Heal the wounds
Wounds of words
Wounds of knives
Knives that sting
Knives...

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waterfall spirits rise
dreams drown
under pressure to perform

elders swarm
like naked children at the lake
just laugh at those mistakes

no one really understands
past present we pretend
watchful eyes never...

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Where the Railroad Track Meet 

Grasping, lunging as does a donkey for the
dangling apple leading it forward, I reached
for the ever elusive spot.  That...

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Dear Siblings Three,

I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.

This is a variation on a...

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