Life Rattling Poems

It is night's first light — evening
The world thinks through my mind
The echoes of a bittersweet day whisper
My ears twitch, my heart pricks

A pressed edge...

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Life’s moving too fast
house is trashed
Football, cheerleading, band 
carpooling all over the land 
From here to there and everywhere 
look at the roots in my...

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On an azure expanse without prospect or sail
        the debris of my ship rent asunder from gale
 ...

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In a blink of an eye
a whole year can pass by-
and the older I get,
makes for sadder regret.

Each new calendar page
makes me think of my...

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STORM ELECTRIC

Over there
in the hills
There’s a flash 
Giving birth
To a sound 
Like a pulse 
In the veins
of the Earth

Echoing
From the crags
As a drum 
Beat ahead
The...

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So you took your best shot,
but sadly it rimmed out
Rocket swish arc reached for the brightest star ... 
only to receive 
a missed blastoff launch...

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I fell head over heels loving you, 
and you now say to me we are through! 
How can you be so cruel, make me blue,
after...

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Don’t you come, don’t ever you come to go away
Don’t you go, don’t ever you go to come home back
Always walk with your life on...

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