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Instructions For Walking Away

...feet tracing ruts
softened by the weight of others

the path was worn
    polished
not by insight
but by generations
unquestioning the same direction

a weed split the sidewalk
where my foo...

Staircase

...

Shadows
clinging to steps,
grain worn by years~
voice drifts between each tread,
pausing where the past often
hesitates




Vignette...

After the Last Word

...When I set out to write a love poem,
I imagine you as the crack before thunder
finds its voice, your breath
breaking the laws of gravity between us.

You are no angel—
but something that makes ...

When comfort comes at cost

...Time was money was when a mindful mate
That gave me time enough to feel its feel--
The touch of grain and texture of its state,
How one hesitates ere part with the bill--
Crisper the notes harder...

Pray without end

...
I do not ask You for light, O Lord,
but for the shadow that remembers it once was light,
that darkness with memory,
trembling in the corners of being
like a wounded golden memory.

I do not a...

The Butterfly

...


As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew  
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
 
Lifting her wings she lands o...

The Ink Speaks

...You ask me—
how does it feel?
This slow bleed of words…
This quiet magic
made of pain—
and ink.

Let me tell you.

It feels like this:
The pen… hesitates.
Just for a moment.
Then carves i...

Serpents, Scorpions, and Owls

...What do you look for in a man? 
I usually say wisdom.
An owl that is respectful,
Thinks with his head,
But still acknowledges the heart.
As much as i pretend to love those birds,
Who flock to y...

Ways of the Heart

...

whispers of light fall against the naked breath
erasing the shadow who hesitates, beneath the calm
stilling the gentle tears who linger in the heart
pouring out the blessing...

Behind Closed Doors

...Intriguing thought begins to waltz, 
With baby steps, timid and coy, 
Twirling into a master ploy -
It hesitates and then it halts…

The thought is tamed, the game is on, 
Fervid, wild word sea...

Justified

...You got your gun there on your hip.
You got your tin star pinned there on your vest.
You got your hat pulled way down low
Yet your heart beats fast there in your chest.
Because before you stands ...

In This Moment

...

Resting against his shoulder, 
Where I feel blessed by my soul’s respite,
With a wonderful that can’t be spoken
My heart assumes you will just know
What it is to feel like this –
Yet, if you...

To Frost: Regarding The Diverging Paths

...“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood….”

Robert,
You let the split remain unresolved,
and while we stand in awe,
staring at your crossroads
etched in gold and shadow,
do you ever wonder
what ...

A Kiss In The Dark

... 

He heard her weeping from another realm,
and he was determined that he would time travel;
all he knew of his life began to unravel,
and no matter the dangers he would journey to h...

God's Will

...

While my heart breaks,
here in this unsteady silence,
before the first snowflakes
the gentle autumn light fades…

while my spirit abides,
here in the turbulent stories,
before ...

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