she lived in the shadows of life-
on her ,laughter-lines could find no place
Every
subtle change has beauty
transforming what has been;
Amber leaves fall to snow
budding slowly with Spring;
Perfect
nature slowly refined;
Granules of Summer sand
mix with flower petals
atomizing the air;
Season,
each subject to her
wild benevolent ways;
Whimsical winds just flex,
temperate enrichment.
You’re interested in the idea
of writing
—I just want to write
You’re interested in the meaning
of it all
—the darkness and the light
You’re interested in the idea
of writing
—I don’t have the time
You’re interested in questions
with answers
—those one’s I’ll never rhyme
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Floating on designed time
A poem wondered why
Its words should rhyme.
So it decides to try
Become a wild river
Carry words of heart
In all sizes of boulder
The way it wants.
Some words roll polished
Some get stuck tarnished
Some splinter like heart.
Time carries the sands
To the distant sea
Stratifies emotions in sentences
Layer by layer
Build the unrhymed image
Of the poem of some sense
Vibrating with the pulse of life
On the crest of rhapsody wave
In a lyric I sing.
March 31, 2018.
With verse in debt to time enslaved,
its prophecy of doom
Whose curse to sling like darts and arrows,
destined for the tomb
All words in red, as blood they drip,
from wounded hearts and minds
My breath to scorch with fire and salt,
—damnation still unrhymed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Silver on glass, it interests me not
That you can make judgments on images
I care nothing about recognition
Neither do rank nor hierarchy move me
Do you think you reflect deeper than I?
When she looks at you, what do you show her?
Does she see, in you, her own true feelings
Or just the face that you want her to see?
Me? I see something that's quite different
I see beyond her skin and through her smile
I see her yearning heart and cries within
I see ties that bind and those that fetter
Her real beauty I see (clearest of all)
I see she in whom I truly believe ~
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