Inspirational Myth Poems

They both ate dates from the tree of gnosis 
Froze the whirling wheels in place by their might 
Crushed the cherubim’s heads with bliss 
White...

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A flash of light,
Yes, in her eyes
Was the only gesture
Of a sign in the first
Adam when he met her. 
Time of his manhood
Glows like moonbeam
That...

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My thoughts drift...back 
...to days-long ago...
like faded photographs...
the sun is
bright... 
the day is brilliant and crisp...

I stand among the forest of lost moments
like, dear, that...

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I sabotaged my eight-millimeter childhood.
I never knew Sartre
But I contorted my latex face,
Burying my nothingness in family films.
My child was scripted to be ugly, skipped...

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Destroy your Christ 
your god 
your idols fall all apart.

Lay bare your mechanical heart 
rebuild it with gears 
wire electric fire to curve 
your craving...

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Amber moon over endless seas
warm breezes caressing
Green sweet grass nodding into the brisk air
gulls nest, fires dot the beach
figures rushing hand in hand
Along the reach

the...

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WINTERS HOUSE 
Black, bare in despair 
alone to nowhere 
On a corner crossroads to everywhere
Sits a house half-forgotten 
a house full of itself and memories
Dark...

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I was little
My dad called me
Medusa
I owned
Feral hair
Curls 
Snaking
Untamable
Fierce
Growing independent
In any direction
Like me
He said

He said it 
With pride
And I believed him
Why wouldn’t I
He was my...

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A god mended in string and wired corsets, armature. 
The blackened police the striders in the dark… 
a crippled plaything, 
a hymn of the tourniquet...

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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD...
WE SIT IN REIGNS
OF ONCE GLORIOUS DAYS.
A RULE OF RIGHTEOUS RAGE,
BUT THE KING IS DEAD
LONG LIVE THE PAIN.
WITH A BLADE...

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Only an echo is left
in the halls distant in the falls
void for trapings and all
drifts through the moments like shadows
awaking dreams 
the razor of reality...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal
of awakening that leads to enlightenment?
May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery.

Nearly forty years ago...

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As with most folks
I find the sea fascinating;

its vastness and depth
alone enough to make
the largest man feel quite
small by comparison--

Standing on the shore, looking off…
or...

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which nights of lovers are we?
that these days are
 restorations of days past
then we relate as people to be lovers
to be loved and in love...

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