Someone shadowy sleeps in my dread head
Killing creativity splashing toxic love red
Entertaining licorice demons with words said
Lurking even cursing cutting me as I bled
Engaging ebony eyes that want me dead
Thrilled by demise of dreams once spirit fed
Onyx paradise where hearts go to die instead
No flesh no rest for the skeletons in black bed
My trip to the funny farm
Treated cold places
Where should be warm
I stared into onyx abyss
Where angst chases
Desire off denim cliff
Yet I dare to dream in color
Darkness swells like salty Black Sea
Ebony moods that tarnish a breeze
Pickled words and a soft sour smile
Really absurd how alone in a crowd
Energy zapped and perspective flawed
Soul feels trapped and sadly lost
Sunny songs traded for songs of moon
Indigo eyes braiding light cursing too
Onyx soul embracing painful feelings
Needing to know there is holy healing
A love supreme, made solid
Bluest of sky blue
Tropical reef Oceanite
Blue onyx
Chalcedony by any other name
Calling in subliminal frequency
Relax, chill, accept the Universe
As it is
With celestial portal in hand
Soul transported
Mind follows
(2/1/26)
Putting my best foot forward as an optimist
Looking ahead and up instead in 2026
Making new dreams come true if I can
Being open to help just as I help fellow man
One year older and feeling very grateful
I’ll not be sour and I’ll not be wasteful
Onyx sky of potential awaiting us all
We will laugh and cry 2026 will be a ball
Rambling thoughts the color of red
Are a peach part of my heart’s head
Is there intelligence or something less
Never was the smartest but well said
Blue is my cause loyal and true
Onyx’s sky is falling for you
Will you return the favor too
Needles of sleep still in my eye
Indigo dreams push, pass me by
Given the fullest bladder from hades
Have to run to the toilet makes a crazy
Teal thoughts of poetic bliss
Onyx night sky I’d be scared to remiss
Whites of my eyes turning red
Lovelies goodnight going back to bed
Passion seeps from red crying eyes
Amber warnings in soft heavy sighs
Ready to abandon this love affair
Turquoise hopes turn into despair
Love gone cold once was so hot
Yellow flower petals say love me not
Cloudy sky forecasting our doom
Liquid lies melting mother moon
Onyx night beautiful with silver stars
Under this sky you break my heart
Don’t deny that you still want me
Your eyes don’t lie they are piercing
My back to the warm wild wind
Onyx helmet on my head
Trees street mountains blend
On a cloud the sun is red
Riding with my Harley crew
Carolina is our destination
Yes where the sky is blue
Cardinal song a celebration
Like them on we fly too
Engines roar as we soar
Liquid kisses from licorice lips
Onyx lover with thick heavy hips
Vivid love language lavender whiffs
Ebony clouds of hair at finger tips
I am a purple prisoner of poetry
For when I can’t write woe is me
Darkens my sky the flowetry
Enriches my life the soul of me
Some do drugs roll with me
I just do hugs go with me
Grasping the love of a sheet
Of paper, pen and ink is peace
Muse is a turquoise tool guides me
Ideas are precious jewels inside me
It’s an affliction of discovery
A kind of mission red recovery
Righting what is wrong you see
Writing poems sonnets songs to sing
Some are like the ivory breeze
Others crash into onyx dead sea
One hopes to be indigo inspiring
To tickle brain cells cherry firing
To leave readers denim desiring
Or perhaps even enjoying inquiring
In the jail of a black bipolar mind
Where hell is back and forth in time
Words can be a key or lemon lock in crime
Can be of forms free or form that rhymes
Needing readers to read gives me a high
Hoping that you see a message from divine
Pansies purple on my head
Indigo thoughts strongly lead
Little kisses in the whimsical wind
Lavender perfume I bathe in
Onyx hair a kinky cloud
Where your fingers are buried now
This inspires a fuchsia fantasy
Amethyst fire you ignite in me
Love is a sea we be the boat
Kindness and desire keep us afloat
Giggling and playing hopscotch
Indigo dreams of being a star
Running wild before training bra
Laughter and smiles come from heart
Pigtails and bikes dolls and skates
Onyx starry nights by the lake
Whimsical dreams esteemed out loud
Emerald queens and all girls scouts
Ready to live learn camping out
Written: January 30, 2025
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Beneath February breath,
a fugue of magic hues—
embers of crimson,
coppered caramel trill
as maples sway
in Mistral melodic mirth.
Amidst the rhapsody,
in strokes of whispered shimmer
a rainbow flares.
In a seamless symphony,
a fresco of shades
unfurls in the sky.
Amid the onyx,
woven in clouds gossamer,
winter moon glows in a frosty sheen.
In luminous rhapsodies,
she hums opal notes
of wistful longings to the sea’s restless soul.
Drenched in ethereal blushes,
the sea becomes a shimmering midnight hymn—
choristers of spectral silver.
O'er the skyline’s silken scarlet,
March dusk in tourmaline blush, twilight lyrics
of a sundown serenade.
Amidst the concerto,
swirling crimson, a swoop of swallows
in shimmering shadows.
They dart off into the tinted eventide,
their wing beats, an echo of lingering silence.
Another sad love poem
Fit for the poem cemetery
Oh how I feel alone
Instead of feeling peace
The rain falls as I bawl
A deep dead onyx sea
Matters not at all if you crawl
You really hurt me
Flowers gifts won’t fix it
And even if you do change
Trust in lust what you did
Nothing will be the same
I can forgive go on with
My life for it is my own
But I don’t desire your kiss
My heart has to move on
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