Sunday, December 31, 2017

Sunday



we live by the bells
we die by the bells
we work by the bells
we love by the bells
and if we are lucky
we hear them from
the steeple clanging
as if each day of our
lives was Sunday.

16Sept17

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Actors

actors and actresses
walk and talk
and bend our thoughts
to their liking as
we succumb to their
gentle verbal caresses
and manipulations,
being someone else for
a time and doing it so
well that we believe,
at least momentarily,
that they are not who
they really are anymore.

14Sept17

Friday, December 29, 2017

Retrieving

being at the beach
or in the mountains
or in the desert
or in the rolling grasses
of a lush valley,
life catches us by
surprise as it unfolds
time around us and
our youth fades away
more quickly than it
had arrived, leaving
us wrinkled and wise
but unable to retrieve
any of what's gone.

14Sept17

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Dirty

the carpet of life
that lays on my floor
is in need of cleaning
so I must forfeit
all so that life
continues to lay
on the floor forever
undisturbed
and unremoved
and uncleansed
as it collects the
dirt of sin that
all of us leave
behind each day.

14Sept17

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Suspicion

night falls
daylight rises
in between is sleep
and perhaps
a dream or two
that takes us
into the realm
of dimensions
so close that
they touch us
with all their
alternatives
and suspicions
of no life
other than more
of our own.

14Sept17

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Making Fun of Life

gross stillness betrays my
sense and my sensibilities,
these last few years of
my life as I squander
moments of joy in favor
of opportunities that are
in possession of little joy
or sustenance save the
fodder they provided for
my continued discontent.

14Sept17

Monday, December 25, 2017

Death to Thinkers

unshaved and hair uncombed,
I sit in a cushioned chair
under a gazebo
on the back deck of
that which is called the mind,
sharing fantasies of illumination,
sprinkled with rain showers of regret
coming from a cloudless sky in
the imagination of another that
I borrowed no so long ago,
but kept for a needed diversion;
and, in this process of self-deceit,
I have come to see what has never
been visible to my imagination
but which has been on the tip of
our father's tongues for centuries:
"cast ye spells while ye may or
be dead within the hour for a
thought that deserved to die
before being realized."

13Sept17

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Valor

uncommon valor
is rather common
in the cinema these
days as we flex
our imaginations
and offer what is wanted
rather that what is feared
even though it may
be the absolute truth.

13Sept17

Saturday, December 23, 2017

Home Sleep

rain trickles in
sun disappears
clouds cluster quickly
fog covers it all
we crawl around
to our destinations
like animals working
their way home for
supper and sleep.

13Sept17

Friday, December 22, 2017

Older








robust living fails
when the climate of despair
is upon us all.

23Sept17

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Air Vessel

green grass grows in the fall
red leaves in the mountains,
molasses oozing out of trees,
stone fences divide lands,
virgin witches preach the gospel
as strong as any believers while
the skies open up defiantly,
taking us all up to heaven quickly
and quietly as if we were asleep
in our own new sleek air vessel.

13Sept17

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The Aftermath

innocents and ignorance views
are prevalent in the west;
insight and intelligent attitudes
are prevalent in the east;
east meets west in war of words
smashing the efforts of collaboration;
whimsical and satirical comments
and thoughts lay on the ground
like dead suffocated animals;
black beasts roam east and west
and in between scouring the earth
for signs of life to destroy, and
we live our lives in desperation
learning to acknowledge nothing.

12Sept17




Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Re-examined




images from the past
haunting and bizarre
roll down the red carpet
of thoughtful negligence
as they surround the present
with a serene glow of
unhappiness and foreboding.

12Sept17

Monday, December 18, 2017

Freshly Started

we turn our attention to summer
leaving spring behind and forgetting
winter altogether as well we should;

life begins in warm weather as
cold is left for dead and dying souls
and we have been freshly started;

for a few months, we have the
advantage of both the day and
the night but soon over it will be;

then, fate our destiny rests for we
are the ones who have altered
time and space once again here.

27Feb17

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Figments

morning is a figment of my imagination

or, at least that is what it seems to be,

since my thoughts have been stolen by

the very aspect of old age, leaving me

with a presumption of innocence from

not being able to protect them so well.

27Feb17

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Cat’s Tail

a cat’s tail lays across the floor, its
head points in an opposite direction
and we have left to wonder why it
is the way it is and not some
other way since we arrived in
this new dimension, adjusting
when we can to these illusions
of life being another way from
what it is when we are asleep.

27Feb17

Friday, December 15, 2017

Only Moments

how many years have I wondered in and out
of someone mind just so I could hide from
my responsibilities and obligations, given to
me at the time of my death and only retrievable
the moment of my rebirth into your new world,
forever losing my individuality and all of that
which made me who I was to oppose you and
and your insatiable need to control my life.

27Feb17

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Haiku Two

forever and a
day passes us by hoping
for something newer.
27Feb17



begin with the end
in mind and your rewards shall
be ever after.
27Feb17

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Nightfall




night clings to the darkness,
darkness clings to the sight
of something new and bold
while preventing the innocence
of light from contradicting
night’s source, leaving the
blight to continue until a
new dawn is fully announced.

1Mar17

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Fulfillment

on the edge of controversy do

we live our lives in fulfillment,

seeing only that which we wish

to see, while ignoring all the rest

of what we do not understand

nor want to understand, since

awareness is the quickest way

to death and death is the only

means by which we can escape

the appreciation of fulfillment.

1Mar17


Monday, December 11, 2017

Voluntarily

there is no cost for doing business
with the devil if one believes that one
or more of them do not exist in this
sector of the mind even though it is
debated on Sundays and afterwards
when eating potluck meals on the
grounds when the weather permits
and those who bring the food are
willing to provide it voluntarily.

1Mar17

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Cornerstones


in the heart of circumstance lies contradiction
          and facts not in evidence are merely conjecture
               that has outgrown its purpose in providing the
                    truth to those who do not want to hear it at all;
                         we are ruthless in our abandonment of the
                              ideals on which truth was built and displayed
                                   for all to see and witness as it became the
                                        cornerstone of violence and put an end to the
                                             peaceful methodologies of debate and arguing.

                                                                                                                        1Mar17

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Two Untitled

controversy lies
deep in the heart of hateful
feelings and disgust.
1Mar17
ordinary is
all we ever asked to be
when not sleeping sound.
1Mar17

Friday, December 8, 2017

Limitations


within the folds of the consciousness,
lies the unconscious territories of the
mind where limitations alter the scope
of reality and provide defenseless modes
of comparison to reconcile that which
is seen with that which is imagined,
hoping that reality will fall somewhere
within the two parameters of awareness
and the limitation of our virtual realities.

2Mar17

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Friends

we extend the arm of help to

who wish it to be so, leaving
those who have no interest in

alliances to fend for themselves,

living or dying makes no never-

mind to us nor was it ever meant

to be anything more than an

olive branch of continuation

with blackberries of deception.

2Mar17

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Finally Alone


on the surface of the carpet lies a
foreign face that stares at me constantly
with no other intentions in mind
other than to disrupt my peace-of-mind
each morning that I sit in this seat,
so, I must amuse myself with the
possibility that if I change my seat
that the foreign face with disappear
from view and I will be left with the
sensation of finally being alone.
2Mar17

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Curse

darkness prevails no
matter how early I awake,
it is always the same… 
the morning light is
nowhere to be seen and
one can only conclude
that it has been stolen
by the darkness and
kept in a place of
concealment until the
time of its awakening,
has been determined
and we must sleep
patiently for that time
to arrive or awaken early
and not be in possession
of clear senses which is
the black curse of the night.

2Mar17

Monday, December 4, 2017

All I Ask

a rocking chair with a good back
a strong bed with a firm mattress
a house with a protective roof and walls
and enough money to live simply
is all i ask these days…
except for a pen and paper with which to write my thoughts;
and, of course, a mind from which these thoughts must develop,
but, do I want or need a companion?
Of this, I am uncertain,
and yet, one has been with me all my life
so, what would i do without
and how would I manage?
but, this is how it’s been and this
Is how it must be…

4Mar17

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Seeing is Believing

What do you see in the mornings when you arise my friend?

Is it that which you would like or tolerate once the makeup is removed?

Is it that which you would allow others to see?


How desperate are you to or perhaps a better question would be to awaken?

And, as your day arrives and passes what did you do?

What did you accomplish… that might cause you to awaken tomorrow?

You live on borrowed time my friend and do not see it or if you did would admit it…

And yet, it is here with you every day,

Every day you awake and journey to the same mirror to acknowledge who you are.

As funny as it may seem to you… but, when you see you believe.

4Mar17

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Available

how silly I am to wonder
as I do these mornings
when alone with my cats
I ponder the universe
and my place within it,
hoping to case purpose
and meaning to my existence
that, in my case, appears
to be a little misplaced;
still, we all have works to perform
people to meet and things
to accomplish resemble a
an answer to our pondering,
but still I wonder in a debating
playful way what it is precisely
for which I am here and available.

4Mar17

Friday, December 1, 2017

Sounds of the City


owners bark out at their dogs trotting around corners
looking for a quiet place to silently defecate,
sirens of police are drowned out by the sirens
ambulances heading on more direct routes,
vehicle horns blast out for seemingly no purpose
as pedestrians walk in between parked cars and
engines growl out their impatience,
walking and talking above the crowd is an art,
especially when talking on the phone,
barkers and non-sexual harassers make ever
attempt to sell you a ticket inside,
drunkards piss in the alleys beside the homeless
who dare no snore too loud and hailers’
raise their arms in a Statue of Liberty gesture
hoping to retrieve a cabby to their location,
doors open and close and blasts of heat
warm those who pass through,
jack hammers tear up concrete right beside our feet
as we tip-toe past the congestion, and if,
if were not for the changing street lights, we
would have no quiet here at all.

23nov17