Once I Knew... Series #18... -end-

What Do We Know That We Don't Already Know?

what we take for granted...

what  we don't hear...

what we don't remember...
and why is it that retention is so damn important?

why indeed...

who will test us?
who will measure us?
who will evaluate our shortfalls?
who will rescue us from salvation if
we have not paid our dues?
who nurses us back when our mind goes
on its own little journey without warning?
a private eye will not find the location
if the other eye doesn't want it to...
so, what can you deduce
from all that you know,
since you already knew
all that you needed to know?

20Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #17

 

I wish my heart were free again

to choose or not choose as the case may be,

to hurt or get hurt or seek revenge,

instead of displaying passionate obedience

to whom I have grown tired long ago.

16Feb13

 

 

Once I Knew... Series #16

I am yours as

you are his as

he is another's;

yet, I cannot bear

to tell you who as

it would destroy

the shielded barriers

that we all enjoy.

16Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #15

 
 

 

 

 

 

harmlessly I scan the pages of reason

looking for the rhyme that has escaped,

wishing it were me left between the lines,

a victim of your choices, not mine.

16Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #14

closer behind I walk,
my footprints loud upon the sand,
waves of uncertainty
wash clean my trail of doubts.

16Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #13

The night conveys a mystic dreariness

permeating my senses,
a rapid pulse ascending,
shadows lurking, hiding behind each other
an environment of reluctance,
an attitude of concern…

protruding like an appendage
that has no body from which it broke free;
evening flowers bloom our of fright
and into the night I journey,
continuing my path of recklessness, hoping…
to regain sight without eyes…
to regain touch without feeling…
to regain control over that which you stole;
an evening of pretense and pretext,
as the darkness oozes out of you and,
I once again embrace the likeness of day.

16Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #12

My heart can be found

on the pages of the book

I never read since my

soul is lost on the ideas

of the poems I never wrote.

15Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #11

We build castles to

fallen empires
while people in
remote villages
starve from our
precious ignorance;
but, it never changes
the level of pain
that most of us
finally feel when it
come time to starve.

9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #9 & #10

We are typical

are we not
of that which
breeds but takes
no ownership.
9Feb13

 

Take me into your

confidence
but do not take me home
to meet your parents.
9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #8

Velcro straps hold me in place as I

limp along the uneven streets of doubt;

my world no longer laughs nor does it cry

out for the joys that were inescapably taken for granted;

snow in droplets of rain cover the ground with

puddles in which no one plays for more than

an hour or two, yet thousands migrate to



the Ganger for communal baptism;

Arabs sit in trees eating their succulent dates

while others have no dates at all for the prom

and silence offers no endorsement to those who will

continue to limp along in protest of bearing arms.

9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #7

Your truth lacks

conviction it needs

to survive, while

my truth lacks the

motivation to die.

9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #6

If you forfeit your mind...

I will forfeit my soul...

leaving us both another opportunity

to forfeit our hearts

to which in the past, we

most desperately have clung.

9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #5

there is a reef of silence
just below the surface of
our flowing memories
that oftentimes leaves us
stranded...  as it gives us
another chance at redemption.

9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #4

if you have the knowledge I seek,

why despair...

since the revenge I seek is saved

only for those who offered hope

without providing me any clues.

9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #3

A warm winter breeze unlocks
some of the flowers deep within
my mind, while others remain
deeply planted in a clay-like
substance found only along the
boarders of my rational thoughts.

9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #2

behind the curtains of our

carefully crafted illusions,

we stand poised and ready

to defend any challenge to

our reality that we forget

bears no reason to care.

9Feb13

Once I Knew... Series #1

Who am I today?
no more,
no less
than you want me to be;
but,
who are you to ask
since,
I hardly know you
when
dressed like this?

8Jan13

Playful Gardens

Playful gardens of delight

Blossoms our fantasies

Sweet nectar drift through senses

Heightened by exposure;

Dark desires decrease inhibitions

Flutes of feelings filter

What finger delightfully play;

Relaxed and reclined

We journey together into

Ecstasies and orgasms…

2Feb13

A New Look

the curtains of time
have hidden my
past from you, but
a legacy of truth
offers you the currency
you need to buy new ones.

2Feb13

Holes

dreams shelter me
from the horrors of the day,
in which reality
burns holes of depression
into the rites and
rituals that dictate my
meaningless life.
2Feb13

Silent Cries

a light sprinkle of

rain-like recollections

puddles into my thoughts

and the grimace of

pain returns to my

consciousness and seeps

into the nerves of my

eyes as tears hold back

a stream of silent cries.

2Feb13