Layering Poems

Misanthropic Melodies

...Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a docto...

Until Then

...Dear Lord, while we are still down here, please be ever with us…until then. 


The time will come when we’ll never sleep

and ‘You’ will encompass our every view…

where at every turn, we’ll b...

Society as few know it

...Veracious vanity about victories over 
veils shows vain values corrupted by 
vicious volatile villains in hopes for 
votive to vindicate, 
Grossly gluttons gain grains over 
gloomy groups of gha...

SONIC HENDERSON

...JOE HENDERSON’S PROLIFIC OUTPUT AS EITHER A SIDEMAN OR LEADER/

IS SHEAR SONIC VELOCITY OF MUSIC COMING FROM HIS TENOR THINKIN' MIND/

NO HALF-STEPPIN HERE BRO/JOE’S INSIDE-OUTSIDE APPROACH GOT Y...

Kingdom Come

...Such a fate we all share, yes, every single one. 

Set in stone and sealed, awaiting Kingdom Come. 

However you may enter, each differential circumstance, the difference made is none.  

Hands...

Sick

...Tension Spread Thick 

Layering Quick 

Mental Health Sinking And Physically Sick

Sympathy Party

Wounds Pathetically Licked 

The Sores Of My Past, I So Dangerously Pick

Black Cloud I ...

September Falls

...Summer's twilight arrives in September.
Each day the warm weather abates and surrenders.
Placidly, the days follow a pattern:
The hues of autumn emerge with foliage tha...

Ment to be broken

...
They tell you to ment what is broken,
but what if broken is ment to be broken.
They show you a world without flaws
but what if our reality comes with withdraws
A gift of imperfections to shine ...

Gaslighting

...My name is dreaming
as a verb
but I have spent my whole life as an adverb

like a side dish
that prepares you for the main one

and I don’t know 
which paths led me here
or it’s because of a...

Along the Harbor

...It was 29° (f) degrees this morning with a waning gibbous (¾) moon. Still, as we started our run, it was dark enough that the world was rendered in black and white. Lisa was a sepia print of herself ...

The Memory

...The memory of us makes me smile
The memory of us four
The memory of us three
The memory of us two
And yes, I smile.

I smile because when it was four
He was here, the father I cherished
He ke...

Empty Us

...With something gone, with something missing-- 
an empty hole with an empty mind--
There's nothing to fill,
who wants it?

With something here, with something there—
with all knowing eyes
I fin...

Autumn

...I haven't had a smile in a long time
Autumn took my heart and its chime
Serenade gone with its sublime
I see its golden leaves go forth in rhyme

Autumn took my heart and its chime
And stole my...

Dream House

...My dream was to build our dream house together ,
Brick by brick layering with love and laughter.
 Stoke by stroke  painting with  care and affection,
Tile by tile cementing with sentiments and per...

Lux

...forty years late for death
uprisings toppled civilizations without hurting my eyes
at the apex of the vortex and inside this antechamber and shelter
the euclidean dome engine where i move the gala...

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