Paled Poems

the ending re-written

...The Ending

The only tree left in the  whole world
was opening its leaves to welcome
the day to the survivors 
Among extinct animals
the Tasmanian tiger, beside the Hubro
They had been friends...

a magic moment

...A magic moment sonnet

The only tree left in the  whole world
was opening its leaves to welcome
the day to the survivors 
Among extinct animals
the Tasmanian tiger, beside the Hubro
They had b...

Love, Devotion and Other Memories

...I

Between Juliet and me
Devotion thrived . . .
We stayed all day and all night
In dark, hidden places, picking watercress for the moon
Together we lived, Juliet and I,
Among worm woods
Frien...

Gazing

...gold hohlraum................................................Plasma Creation 
      he didn't want to influeunce a generation of people. He saw himself as an entertainer. He used the statistical dat...

Laughter

...

Cackles, snickers, chortles and squeals ease life's weight.
Laughter can completely reset our composure.
Humors random salves of mirth can ease feeling states.
Past times of paled poise we...

optimal object of meditation

...the hermits gathered, exchanging notes
each had searched for the truth but had failed
so they conferred, sharing their heart’s emotes 
dismayed that the light within had now paled 

the first he...

Petals, Once Velvet to My Touch

...
I woke long before he did,
quietly slipped from his side
and donned his warm woolen robe.

As difficult as 'twas to leave him,
to have awakened him—
I'd never have been able
to leave his...

underage

...Underage 

A moonbeam sat on a bough just outside my bedroom window. 
The beam was of the shy sort, and it didn’t frolic about
 in the forest during the happy hour.
I invited it, in the moonbeam...

A Foot Alone - Rondelet

...
A foot alone
tries the water that ocean lays,
A foot alone
on sand placed within God's tears moan,
where the massive skin paled away — 
forgiven in tide's passing spray,
A foot alone...

London

...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...

Bloody Shores of Fear and Ice

...Bloody shores of fear and ice, seldom seen
To be the stringent strangler borne of leaden blight
The barred bastard, whore of the night
Seen so the lowly leers led to fear the fall of life
Stitch ...

a sailor goes ashore

...The sailor goes ashore.

the night in the hallway paled into a yellowish screen
showing a black movie, 1963
A time machine of memories sent him back to the years
to meet people long since gone.
...

New Moons

...
Moon spills over like expresso coffee, 
withheld in a pitch pitcherlike corset —

Where long her skin's lantern once mothered me,
over tonight are but marble shadows,

Craters' paled appariti...

Endless Ecstasy

...

Up the delicate dale 
of latticed life,
at esoteric edge 
of sinking sky,
hermit horizon 
shimmers sensuous,
as paled passion
disappears desiccated
with the setting sun.

In cracked cin...

I Met You In Stockholm

...It started with a handshake,
then a hug, and then a smile;
We’d never even met before,
and still I felt it all the while.
I felt the silence breaking
and the wall start coming down,
and soon I’...

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