Thursday, February 28, 2013

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

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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
 

 

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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

Monday, February 25, 2013

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

Sunday, February 24, 2013

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

Saturday, February 23, 2013

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

Friday, February 22, 2013

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

Thursday, February 21, 2013

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

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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

Monday, February 18, 2013

Once I Knew... Series #7


Your truth lacks

conviction it needs

to survive, while

my truth lacks the

motivation to die.

9Feb13

Sunday, February 17, 2013

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

Saturday, February 16, 2013

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

Friday, February 15, 2013

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

Thursday, February 14, 2013

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

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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

Monday, February 11, 2013

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

Sunday, February 10, 2013

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


Saturday, February 9, 2013

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

Friday, February 8, 2013

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