Misperceptions Poems

what a palette

...
he liked it black and white with no greys in between
even when cracks appeared so strikingly evident
strictly speaking he preferred pink purple and orange
yet when life gave him lemons the brush...

Yesterdays Have Already Passed

...The rich green leaves of Summer die in Autumn
like a love that is no more
both defenseless to the currents of change
tumbling toward an unfamiliar stream
flowing out of a sea
where yesterdays ha...

Inner Conflicts

...I never thought about being here,
Merely as an option.
To someone, I can’t adore
But also to the one I can’t bestow.
These waves of misperceptions,
Creates a sense of insecurity,
As I juggle my...

Heavenly Marks

...On his robe and his thigh he has this name written:
 King of kings and Lord of lords.
Revelation 19:16
You shall have no other gods before Me.
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or ...

A Fathers Immortality

...Upon waking up this day, a single tear
Father your eternal immortality 
Still proves wise and gracious
I haven’t been misled by popular opinion
Which should be taken with a grain of salt
You sho...

A Stony Place To Sing

...Eyes in a half-opened gaze
Catching their breath after hacking up sea water
Reflections of the sun bouncing as they bob 

'To sing' clearly defined next to my name
I embodied melodic movements a...

When We Are Healthy

...If we are not,
is this always the opposite of
when we are?

If we are negative,
is this sometimes appositionally
in creative tension with
when we are becoming more positive?

If we are a not...

Tabernacle

...And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
                                                     ...

Summer

...
“SUMMER”



Where 
has Summer 
gone?

The world 
has lost 
Summer

Sweet 
little 
dream

missing 

all those other 
beautiful  
small dreams 

seen as toys...

Unusual

...it was her normal state of affairs

she smelled the cacophony of blindness

touched an overflow of drought

listened to audible brightness

tasted a crescendo of palpations

until she was s...

Ground To Pieces

...‘Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces’
                                                        				John Ruskin, 1853



they had crushed the bevelled mirror of his life into a tho...

Dust Had Gathered

...dust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps

had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations

the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stic...

It Is What It Is

...the personification hurts the reasoning of an untrained apophenic

cacography ensues as the computer throws a spell check wobbly

the poet scribes on because everything is not what it seems to be...

Dear Daughter

...Avast emotional gulf manifested; courtesy
series of unfortunate events; sundered
biologically accorded, cherished, enshrined
paternal bond; resultant dereliction defies,
justifies, ratifies...dis...

Mental Illness

...MENTAL ILLNESS
Darker clouds appear more so near,
spirit sympathy and mind in empathy ponder,
thoughts a haze of past future days,
a mental candle aura, flickers 'n' wilts in wonder.

This shad...

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