Romance No Man Poems

Waves of knives piercing through the barriers, 
their judgement infecting the defenses built up over time... 
claiming that's what they see, unknowing the backlash it...

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Such is a sorrow sculpted of sunstone,
Immortalised with studious refrain,
Tragedy, still, in beautiful atone,
Exuding light from a languish of pain.

Young Venus, I be, suspended in...

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The girls look just as good today
as they did at age seventeen
You still long to ask them for date
the desire every bit as keen.

But now...

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There was a self pinky swear that I couldn't forget,
"Enough of looking for a boyfriend after my 30th."
And that pinky swear has been obeyed,
Though I...

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My work is identity
The axe in my hand
No blisters to bother me
As for years I just stand

The weeds and the flowers
Call me back down to...

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I’m with you,
I’m without when not.

That’s how much you’ve become.
Plastered fabric enmeshed into me.
Like drywall, yet to crack, but firm and white.

Bare bones make us...

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The sound of those horse hoofs in surround sound, I have never forgotten.
Or the twins, who were not speaking – Harrison living in high cotton.
Spur,...

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somber handsome Marlboro man on a painted stallion
a mirage has appeared in the dust bowl wearing chaps
his worn Stetson is pulled low,
he outshines the cover...

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You kiss me ablaze with that beautiful mouth
Sing to my skin as you’re traveling south
Hold me and mold me like clay in your hands
Grasp grains...

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I am in love with the one who walks as if the world he ventures is his to take

I am in love with the one...

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On the other hand,
The evening is growing,
My bedtime is calling;
My body to rest. 
The stars aren’t pleasing,
The moonshine is missing,
And there’s a thunder;
Afflicting my head.
At...

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There are a few things you should know about me. 
Firstly you must work to earn my trust, I can no longer hand it out...

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You are as beautiful as the stars my love
Comely as the lights in Paris
Awesome as any banner an army may carry
Turn your eyes away from...

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"Doughnut Man Seeks Insubstantial Woman of Substance"



Doughnut Man 
seeks ghost whole 
to fit his missing peace

Chimeric Dream Girl
seeks holesome man
who has her back


(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)





“Perfect”...

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She was a throwaway girl
who lived in the background
like a low humming mélange
of laughs, tears, and breaking glass.
I smiled, nodded, or frowned--
mostly at the right...

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