Impose Upon Poems

Time 

There is the essence of time in space, that we are not aware
There is a quality of time, that we wish we all could share
There may be times when you feel that time is on your side
Or time can...Read More

I wander through the desert of life alone
As if, I were a grain of sand,
And it, a thriving ocean!
I wander through its dunes, letting myself be blown
Going wherever it wills,
Having no strength to impose upon it,
My own will!

Why, like it,...Read More

He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly 
Driving up past the Whitethorn hedgerows to...Read More

I think of you from time to time,
yet timelessly and untimeously
my mind stumbles upon some remnant of you –

You and your lips and all the drizzle of thought
that had littered them…
in jest or mere whisper

And so time-trained you crash
into my...Read More

Dare one impose upon the primitive soul,
Revolving around solitude—a savant hold warmer than the sun
Entranced by every ideal—loving many and no one
Would they hesitate to break the sensational sway…
As petals of tiger lilies fall upon its sunset eyes
Tremulous sighs and...Read More

 The Sleep of Endymion



Endymion, a simple title I must impose upon
He, son of Zeus, fell in love with Huntress Diana
Goddess of the Moon,  nightly she swooned 
about him and bathed him in her light,
She went to Zeus, asking...Read More

The struggle of life is water to the soul.
  It’s taste is no indulgence.
    It’s abundance drowns and rots.
An inevitable tide
  With an infinite, invisible guide.
The body is built of it.
  The deepest mind...Read More

Endymion, a simple title I must impose upon
He, son of Zeus, fell in love with Diana
Goddess of the Moon, about him, nightly she swooned
and bathed him in her light,
She went to Zeus, asking for his immortality- her plight
And thus Zeus...Read More