Preparing for Travel

what spell the wizard
we each set off to see
always changes me

3 forms

Follow three stars
I stared ages at the first
but it never moved

Follow 2 stars
stare at the second ages
it blinked and burned
I followed it through dark skies
but I couldn't catch the star

Follow my last star
crisp winter night, summer rain
hope to find a dream

My Queen

Distress of my queen
All my strength useless
And I cannot help
A ridiculous demons
Short plump spirit of envy

It lumbers forth
Weapons of shrew and harpy
I dream my queen
Beautiful wise and serene
Immune to such filth

Amanda vs 1

one immortal
the girlish Amanda
I had to try
can you see the need to be
exceptional remembered

Amanda dying
I killed her by allowing
understanding me
she saw need surrendered
humanity immortal

Only one being
ever really understood why
my life my love
spent on a dead immortal
she was once so beautiful

This is War

Self Martyrdom
proudly live seconds of a lifetime
responsible

hostile

a moment to live
only a moment to die
all my dreams
I don't care to understand
always finding dreams of you

best friend

myself my Armor
I hide the best of myself
is it all symbols

Second Goodbye

last call
our endless nonsense
everything
one last ethereal call
pieces that died together

snakes

twice we bite
incomprehensible our victims
refuse outstretched hand

jealosy

to fear a dream
our imaginary battles
write reality

netherworld

netherworld
sacrifice to find my way
smiling sunny rock

sunlight in winter
nights spent preparing
studying each page

Spring rushes forth
everything easy exciting
in hazy future

the end of the book
the next lesson is doubt
life tests knowledge

an ancient challenge
sees my knowledge and weapons
children of infants

winter in sunlight
freezing at the price of error
so suddenly real

Time

The past is frozen
except these blog entries
pre-dated?

Towering Rocks

towering rocks
our children are raised to leave
climbing to new heights

Hide a bit of Rage

Hide a bit of rage
Hide the ugly bit of yourself
It shows its face
attack those closest to you
they will stay when enemies flee

hole in the sun

A hole in the sun
why does her beauty and radiance
swallow my hopes

day

morning sun
when does the day come
a new day comes

Mind of its own

I make up my mind
get to work, instead poems
my mind makes up its mind

Habits

A gentleman's habit
always hold the door
even in the bathroom

Shadowed

Shadowed
Sitting on the outside wondering
where judgment came from
remind yourself why you care
when you always sat on the outside

Weak

Stand proud Stand Strong
Celebrate a righteous frown
superior to all

ignore the fools
whose weak compromise only
joins hearts and minds

Wonder

I chose to walk away
I wonder where you walk now
do we both look down
for single rows of footprints
on paths we tread together

New Touch

Guarded shattered
a lifetimes experience
lost
touch a new hope a new love
each peculiar intimate

Sun on Rock

Sun on Rock
centuries written in light
on ancient face

First step

Hardest first step
in half finished roof and walls
they teach

Dandelion

Dandelions
Child's eyes wide open
Mourning the weeds

Tin Flower

tin flower
incandescent sunlight
brighter than life

Speak first

I will not speak first
and I will not speak first
we prove we don't care

Peace

peace
an offer to escape
dreams of you
you no longer want
everything you wanted

Butterfly

Butterflies
change one dream another
is it a sin to wonder?

mimicry

seeking inspiration
an aging poet
finds mimicry

Accept

realization
discover your position
drunken indulgence

Star Dancer

Star dancer
music in a young girl's mind
must be beautiful

Mirrors

in another's eyes
these mirrors of ourselves
a prevarication

Pyro

Pyromaniac
A flame grown from claver
scattering laurels
can't your shrewdness discern
how watching this burns me

Filiform

Who would dare derange
a filiform life
string together pieces
try to connect more than a beginning
to a precarious end

Slave

The free man can see
all he has failed to do
envies the slave

4th

4th of July
Candlelight dances
against exploding sky

First

touch in a mirror
spring comes in one
who is first to speak

Crossroads

offer anything
and fail generosity
ignorance

increase

Nocuous increase
Cultivated indulgence
Perceive tiny joys

Again

pass snowy mountains
and sun charmed water
our hands touch again

Float

Watch the moon float
graze gently across the sky
it watches us float by

Summer Rock

The sun reaches out
Rocks warm then burn
Fingers reaching out

USPS

simple automaton
automated its refusal
no human voice

Outside

lay crushed beneath
beautiful rain of rain of stars
outside looking in

Gold Whorl

Sunlight shimmering
gold whorl
gleams under the sea

Mist

Pervasive mist
Surrounds obscures
Life or Fantasy

Hegira

Fulgora's frown
reaches my warm summer day
Aborted hegira

Moonrise

the moon rises
watching
the moon sets

sunlight

reaching aimlessly
through depths of clouded vision
seeking comfort
The sun conjures its challenge
with last kiss we go onward

Drones

The murmur of drones
permeates
blossoms left to grow

Soundly

Sleeping Soundly
miss the minuscule patter
awaken alone

A breeze

whither winter wind
blows remote in summer days
pallid summer wind

a remark

Jupiter's remark
booms over stone pinnacle
a climber hurries

Trust

The mind dare trust
simple cord over great rocks
body cannot trust

table

living breath
sparkling across lifeless wood
shine almost living

Circles

toying with the thread
loops occur through the jumble
Travel full circle
traversing converging learning
why scorn divergent lessons

Believe

A new resolution
Freedom, carefree dalliance
A new revolution
fractures at insubstantial touch
primal nature

Chimney Sweep

Save the children
Puritan Victorian
wounded Chimney Sweep

Letting Go

you won't hold on
the mirror won't let go
awkward symmetry

Enemy

The shards reflect
false glory of destruction
smite thy enemy

Rice Factory

A workers cast
sees hope of wild flight evanesce
changes seem careless
the new die is cast
to clasp the twin staff

Made of Clay

Surrender yourself
clay hardens
call this wisdom

I try

my strength and will
shake not a single green leaf
mocking bay tree

Yew

Newly sculpted stone
Built to worship god's creation
Lonely yew's disdain

In the Sun

Dusky skin offsets
Luna
sky a sea of sparkling glass

A Star

Crystal frozen star
Watching the timeless
with melting ice cream

Exchange

I proffer a trade
for Sisyphus's boulder
my rain of pebbles

A tree

Shielded by brothers
Far from Daylight's living sight
Held long by thick air
In one last silent action
The ancient bole fails

South Loop

Oscillations,
Run from sun baked desert
and darkened wood