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In Perpetuity

...Offensively defensive posturing
No stopping in sight
No reflection in view

Poisonous to everyone around you
Syphoning greed at record speed
Unchecked unseen
Hollowing the land

Blindly defe...

It Never Quite Heals

...Each and every day, I see her,
my Wife.

She looks out at me,
her image captured,
confined to the boundaries
of a golden frame.
A snap shot in time,
when life, us together,
held such promise...

Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration

...Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration

American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen origin...

Repristination

...Extolling rebirth, dreams pristine cajole,
Resurgence to tranquility of frozen knoll,
Longing verdant-realms to enliven its soul
Where wintry-decay exacted dreary toll.

When warmth glistens avi...

Who Am I

...I knew my ancestry and my dad was a joiner,
But verged on disowning my mum for labour,
Not married in history yet throbbing with spark, 
Love, truth, kindness fibered the gelled dark.

A stunner...

The Pub

...Leather and oak
Whiskey and smoke
Exhaled in a languid defense
Of an evening that’s spent
In a mist of ferment
That eventually lifts all pretense

Quietly tight
As you sip through a night
Of...

Shame Full Travesty Regarding Fourth of July Celebration

...Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration

American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen origin...

Near Or Far

...Everybody’s looking for Christ
Everybody wants salvation
And everybody pays a price
For the bigger situation

Everybody tries to conceive
Of a Paradise somewhere –
It’s at the end of history –...

Characters

...Characters.

I have these characters I created
I wake and see them 
I know how they think and
I know their hopes and fears

One’s a father, alone with his priority
For the last ten years his ...

The Price

...Yes, I danced with the devil
And I never got away, there is no escape
I played the game, although I believed it just
But there was a price, now it’s over 
Exacted from me, stripped from my heart
...

The Monster Mine

...When looking into the mind's mirror
All that's found is fear there

Peering into that dark place
Not recognizing the face

Lurking there's the daemon, the monster
Yet some still see what they ...

A Fellow Came Round

...A fellow came round
  120 years old
I inquired of his health
  He said, Good as gold

I asked him to tell me
  of the life that he'd led
He chuckled a bit
  'You mean, 'fore I'm dead'

Then...

Gender That Confirms

...Affection of the female kind
just the friendship finally found
is the salve for the questing heart
coming from a former self

without confusion that the meek
is the state for woman’s grace
jus...

Water

...The waves are coming in
The sound of the water is all but familiar
I would let it touch my skin
I would let it wash me away from the world forever

As I held my breath and sunk into
I was swall...

The Litigator

...Gnarled and twisted, gangly, forlorn,
the mirror encompasses the product of scorn.
A large withered beast, the scourge of the earth,
stands in view of himself without mirth.

Heavy of heart he's...

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