Song Sedoka Poems

Will of Tudela
Whose zeal burned for the white wolves 
Against Languedoc's black lambs 

Nameless soul of gold
Guided by heaven's muses
Pitied the southern pastures 


Poem inspired...

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Good deeds sinners do,
with a view to reach heaven,
bargain for a front row seat.


At an orphanage,
a donation is received;
the benefactor unknown....

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Nature's sedoka
in everything everywhere,
each season a frame around
its heart— its fingers 
through every warm bloom, picking
through every cold cavity—

its face— night or dawn
settling on leafy...

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You want a rock song
but mope and sing of lost love;
Get up and raise the volume! 
Level it all up;
You’ve got to let yourself go...

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London collapses
trains, planes, and automobiles
trapped and flash-frozen emplace 

Christmas lights still bright
If one ventured through the night
ghost carolers in the mews...

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Hot coffee in hand 
looking out the cold window 
I see winter has arrived. 
A white snow blanket 
covers nature this winter 
all sleep until...

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Laughter in the rain
was our last song together.
Waking up is hard to do,
forty winks away.
Oh Carol, calender girl,
love in the shadows for now.
...

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Leave me the darkness and the stillness ~ Sara Teasdale

Stillness envelopes
the darkness at the center
of my soul, creates a void
where you used to dwell
in sweet...

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Live your life with gusto.
Sing a song out loud and cheer.
Lift your hands and clap for joy.

You are now destined
To embrace life with vigor,
To be...

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lined up tall to small —
tailored suit on middle child.
Brady Bunch dress on sisters.
the Hammond organ,
put together by our dad —
the masterpiece behind us.

my mind’s...

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In the forest green
The sun tunnels through the trees
Spreads you as shadow on me
You whistle in joy
Melody ripples through my heart
You’re music in me I...

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Sensual Duet Sung

kisses on her lips
open meadows rise in heat
butterflies set free to sing
tall grass' bristling soft
moon river tearing of joy
song of the wind deafen

connie...

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Songs are like old friends:

savored ones have lingered on,

others want to bring their tears


Drifting in the winds,

voices loved, have long been gone,

somehow, though, sift through...

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The Nightingale

Like a nightingale,
   she sits in her gilded cage.
         So whatever could be wrong?
She...

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Name's irrelevant
It is what we know inside
The unobtainable bride
Postured on the eyes
Black diamond night, I said
Velvet wrap from toe to head

Her eyes sparkled white
And from...

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