Full of force
Full of life
Life loves lust
Life lifts laughs
Laughs over tears
Laughs off the pain
Pain paid prophet
Pain predicted poison
Poison on the mind
Poison in our food
Food foreign fragile
Food forever fake
Fake news is real
Fake family fun
Fun is limited
Fun uniquely shattered
Shattered dreams
Shattered heart
Heart full of ice
Heart racing
Racing against time
Racing against humanity
Humanity has to fight
Humanity stripped of rights
Rights to free speech
Rights to vote
Vote for peace
Vote for proper protection
Protection from our government
Protection from our citizens
Citizens above the law
Citizens who had enough
Enough flags being raised
Enough evil evidence
Evidence we shall ignore
Evidence says Jesus wept
Wept for the dead
Wept for the living
Living organisms fail
Living God heals
Heals heaven's heart
Heals harmful hail
Hail stones freezing
Hail holy history
History unfrozen
History rewritten
Rewritten heroes
Rewritten villains
Villains
Heroes
Hold your fingers around my soul
as we tightly embrace our love
held as an eternal truth
where death has no meaning
and neither does time
for love's bond is stronger
and will last beyond the measurable
though we are suspended through eternity
it does not hold us
we are the holders of love's existence
the guardians that grace the faceless emotion
that we give a face
as we hold firmly onto each heartbeat's cadence
even as our flesh dries
and our belted arms grow tighter
merging us together in perpetuity
sealed and impenetrable
held in an armored manifestation
of love portrayed as permeant lovers
encased enduringly, frozen in time
never to be unfrozen
Heart’s desire, our mind translates,
soul’s intent, in the void states,
thus shaping our fate chosen,
life’s dance, in time unfrozen.
through snowflakes adrift
sunset remnant rays filter…
broken dreams enshrined
these morph into leaves
cradle rose in frost’s silence…
yearning sapling still
blush of winter rose
dances to arctic wind’s tune…
cold fire not yet doused
thorns in iced lattice
mesh of promise for lone rose…
pink hope unfrozen
in pallid sunrise
fading shine clings to petals…
wilted form complete
from crypt of winter
bud returns from cold in spring…
rhapsodic rose blooms
Stuck to
myself
the glue starts
to lift
Exposing
my nature
a soul
frozen stiff
Letting
me go
the dermis
strips off
The sun
rushing in
melting
the frost
Open
to light
new Angels
take hold
Rebuilding
my past
the future
remolds
All dread in
the mirror
now turned to
the wall
My essence
unfrozen
and prescience
— rethawed
(The New Room: July, 2025)
To be just like him, smiling as he fell,
we set out to make void-centric soul’s stance,
assured that with God within, all is well,
so melding head with heart, we took a chance,
to turn toward love, our platonic glance.
With mind unfrozen, once heart was open,
magnetism manifested as chosen,
suffused with bliss heat, our vibrance upbeat,
we savoured soma nectar ambrosian,
our soul’s presence surrendered at God’s feet.
When I seen creeks flowing again,
My frozen heart was found unfrozen.
A shining example, when shattering insight becomes deleterious
Mindless, yet finds itself turned out inside; all along mysterious,
I paused, reflecting; seeing past times, versions of delirious,
Roaming across unfrozen ice, I can't take the vision so serious.
Relevant; for it shows pains that resemble being a human Cereus
Overshadowing, my most lonely introspective moment of Sirius
Realizing sadness by finding it powerless; internal happiness is propitious
A few seasons ago
My heart began to melt
Thawing from ages of isolation
Allowing me to unearth how I felt
Discovering depth
In the layers buried below
Emotions that were stored away
Now put on display to help me grow
Still chiseling away
As the journey will be long
But boldly forging a new frontier
With my heart unfrozen and strong
Approaching the lexicon
of what’s still unsaid,
My words beg acceptance
now silent unread
Inside there’s a freedom
once crossing the line,
unspoken confessions
—unfrozen in rhyme
(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)
Last week mostly bare
Buttercups now share
Tulips here and there
Rodents taking care
Near the foxes lair
Spring has woken
Ground unfrozen
Parks reopened
Rivers swollen
Butterflies
In the sky
Multiply
Wildlife
Is rife
Be
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It wells up inside me,
but words will not come
I reach for them desperate,
the mood zero sum
My insides are shaking,
all peace is recalled
The rumblings foreboding,
complacency falls
My mind is locked down,
my speech has gone mute
Like a great locomotive,
the first word breaking through
The dozens that follow
keep me pinned to my chair
As voices I know
start consuming the air
My brain is on fire,
my will starts to melt
Time sacrificial,
what’s heard and then felt
My pen has unfrozen,
in timeless delight
Directing this journey
—from darkness to light
(Rosemont Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Wrestling with time,
an illusion supreme
Its trinity empiric,
three masks to deceive
Past, future, and present,
our dreams undefined
Outside of their stricture,
new presence unrhymed
Rejecting convention,
short sighted and slight
Imprisoning our vision,
with capture and fright
In seizing this instant,
its moment sublime
All truth flowing freely
—unfrozen in time
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)
She is whipping winds.
Salt,
washing over my hair, eyes, skin.
Numbingly cold waters,
as if just unfrozen,
spilling into, refreshing
the Bay.
She hosts,
An eroded map
Of webbed and pebbled paths.
Barnacle scattered
grit.
Rolling fields of green low tides.
A fisherman’s daydream.
A meeting
Of core and sun.
She is
an awakening,
a renewal,
a provocation of adventure.
Each time when it almost mattered,
it mattered not that much
Old feeling’s hijacked and held for ransom
memories cold and stuck
But the day when it really mattered,
my heart was set on fire
My will unfrozen and left to sear
—in a burning hot desire
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
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