Poetry

The table sits empty

The table sits empty. Chairs all stand in place. Sun streams across the room. Unused.....

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Patchwork

I heard you could calculate the night's temperature by the chirps of a cricket...

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Unlatched

You’re like a warm rush past my ear, ..just out of sight; faint whispers and.....

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Like a droplet on dry grass;

Like a droplet on dry grass; like some lonely remembrance reborn from the past; love.....

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She said there’s no poetry in the dark.

She said there’s no poetry in the dark. It seeps out in pieces and handfuls.....

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Aftermath

When you’re in pieces on the ground it doesn’t matter that the missile was blue,.....

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Let me wake before you

Let me wake before you. Let me have this single handed moment of solitude. Let.....

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Archaeology

We live on the crust of the earth that is constantly heaving and flowing and.....

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This Moment

Turn every timepiece back to 5 minutes before. Fix every star in place and close.....

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Personal Effects

a scrap of lace; …unfolded grace; a pocket watch with rusted hinges; that measure love....

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Reality hangs

Reality hangs on the limbs of bare trees; truth-tellers once covered in leaves, slowly....

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We really have no idea where life is going

We really have no idea where life is going; Only where it’s been; only where.....

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Natural Forces

Light strips away the secrets of night like some rival dimensional twin. And even as.....

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We shared an argument

We shared an argument all through the night, on who was the intruder and who.....

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Haiku-esk

As your breath persuades the air, wind and calm are one.

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Haiku Youku

The space between frost bitten limbs, and the first glimpse of green.

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Cherish

I see you; not aware I’m watching; not taking your gaze away; from the sunbathing....

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Idolatry

We machine our love with wires and grace, precision passion without any face. It sweetens....

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These visions lie in wait

These visions lie in wait. Skillfully catching my eye. Calmly walking me back, with the....

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She said she loved flowers

She said she loved flowers, as she plucked them one by one. Her excuse a.....

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Giving In

You misunderstand my plight, as you shelter me from sin. I’m not one for resisting......

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Down here

Down here ….in the row, next to the line. I try to catch your eye......

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Witness Confession

I’ve been staring in short, measured glances at the way you lean over your cake;.....

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I lost myself

I lost myself in the accompanying light of your smile. Finally, and on time; like.....

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As my words grow old

As my words grow old, they drift into dreams of sonnets

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Colors of the sun

Colors of the sun; simple shades of autumn, fall on everyone.

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You are a cool desert memory

You are a cool desert memory from another time, that calls my name and leaves.....

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