Caprice
The right moment
at the wrong time
The right rhythm
with the wrong rhyme
The verse oft hidden
between the lines
The Muse abeyant
— till prescience shines
(The New Room: January, 2026)
In Plain Sight
You can hide
in the open
when you’re
somebody else
No need for
a mask
with your image
indwelt
You can hide
in the open
when nobody
stares
An orphan
in training
whose devils
— may care
(The New Room: January, 2026)
Alone
I hope that
you die
before
the new morn
The night holding
captive
your future
forlorn
I hope that
you choke
on the words
you profane
A prisoner
convicted
alone
— in your pain
(The New Room: January, 2026)
Darkness Calls
Temptation rears
its ugly head
Deception hides
beneath our beds
The Angels
of our nature shunned
As darkness calls
— perdition comes
(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)
Richness of mind
the money no matter
A visual feast
uncountable wealth
Conceptual bullion
perceptual bitcoin
Intuitive treasure
— a fortune indwelt
(Dreamsleep: August, 2025)
A master of time
the true lord of himself
Eternity on hold
the moment indwelt
The world at his beckon
tomorrow recalled
This instant his present
— forever enthralled
(Dreamsleep: August, 2025)
Self-Owned
Remember
the day
you became entitled
to yourself
No debts to pay
no last charade
the circle closed
— indwelt
(Dreamsleep: May, 2025)
Reflection
Do we just recall
a memory
Or its cause
and its effect
Is consciousness
a chain of links
To front load
— or dissect
(Dreamsleep: May, 2025)
Beatitude
The deeper you question
the more you constrain
God’s true existence
to never explain
Loosen your grip
on what holds you back
Surrender to glory
— Divinity’s tack
(1st Book of Prayers: May, 2025)
The Only Thing
Winning is always
undefeated
Score
to tell the tale
The victory plum
is zero sum
With glory
— to regale
(The New Room: May, 2025)
All Is Now
Unplugging tomorrow
recharging today
Conscripting the moment
— inside which we pray
(1st Book of Prayers: May, 2025)
When Christ comes He'll bring real life
gone for good, the sting of death.
His power and peace cleanses the strife,
Life eternal with His Holy Breath,
pluck the day while it is ripe; get engrossed.
All unmerited on our part,
by Christ the victory is won.
His death and resurrection starts
a journey with the Holy One.
Seize the day, live life from pillar to post.
Life that begins by our free choice
indwelt by His Spirit holy;
we listen daily for His voice
which leads us to gates of glory.
Smell the roses before they become toast.
Heaven is real, I can hardly wait
until our good Lord's will is done.
God's calendar will not be late;
timing revolves around His Son.
Carpe diem, live life to the utmost.
A simulated consciousness
beyond our will to choose
Defying Einstein, Bohr, and Hume
where logic stands defused
The matter at hand can’t matter
when rules unwrite themselves
An order once thought preordained
—entropic and indwelt
(The New Room: August, 2023)
INDWELT
I sense a voice on me descend
The Holy Spirit alongside me resides
These thoughts and words I now sift
Through this glass as they darkly drift
Verbal paintings to show You care
messages channelled from thee to share
O let these moments never cease
Submitting stalwart under Orions belt
Asking for more, what's given forever svelte
Feeling any hotter, my soul would melt
Emotional depth, of ardent eyes I've felt
Holding the best hand, life's dealer ever delt
Fully of flushed hearts, two of a kind indwelt
As my will forever folds, in and of you it knelt
Engraved the word forever, in the gold I smelt
Did time predate matter,
unto itself
Alive A Priori
—wholly indwelt
(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)
Bless-ed of God-
indwelt from without
Traipsing off to the cave
with my feelings and thoughts
A Hermit I’ll be,
my last battle now fought
Alone with my memories,
together indwelt
Eternity reckoned
—transcending myself
(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)
Can our spirits pray
without God at the center
Can worship pay homage
to self
Can divinity reign
in each person ordained
Revering what’s hidden
—indwelt
(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)
Faith is stronger than its outcome,
an end unto itself
Where souls enmire in hope afire
—to light the dream indwelt
(The Book Of Prayers: November, 2019)
In the twilight rain
In the crimson sun
A cute valentine chain
The love lyric is spun
You are the pink Aster
The rain is beautiful
In your city centre
The hibiscus bugle
You are a red flute
I can row a boat
You lend me the arrow
With a wave I shoot
You are the Sunshine
My icy prose I melt
In the peaks intertwined
A nirvana indwelt
In your gray dusk
I seek the blue stars
In your honey musk
I travel at the mars
In your dew-drop dawn
My scent of frangipani
In it I am withdrawn
For a scarlet anarchy
My river of the day
Your sun keeping warm
In the twilight bouquet
A violet thunderstorm
A shaft of sunshine
Fondling the thirsty lips
My golden valentine
A pink pearl on the rose leaves
Stay well my sunshine
With the golden hay
My lilac valentine
On the pink day
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January 29, 2018
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