September in October Series #10

I see a

    Universe

         In front

Of me

     When I

        Walk

           Outside

       Full of

Large and

     Small

         And

             Infinite

                 Both ways;

                         But,

                            Which is

                                   Insecure

                                         In its

                                              Insecure

                                                      In its

                                                           Own

                            Omnipresence

                                    Because

                                It is

                 Oftentimes

          Ignored.

28Sep12

September in October Series #9

Who lives inside the bowels

of your discouragements to

convince you that attempts

are the worst kind of failure

and sacrifice is not the

proper foundation for success;

and, more importantly,

at least to me that is,

why are you listening?

28Sep12

September in October Series #8

Abruptly, do we begin our journey

staying the course as they say until

the end is in sight so we can abruptly

end it as well, recording all we have

learned or experienced while it un-

folded around and within us like some

ceremoniously wrapping and un-

wrapping of an experience cloak,

protecting us as well from hidden

dangers of enlightenment and change,

never again being who we really are.



28Sep12

September in October Series #7

Will you have me
free and clear today,

a marriage of friends,

no distant relatives will attend

and we will take the seeds

of our crime and populate

the world with all the

misfortunes brought about

by happiness, staying clear

of doubt and those who see us

as too sarcastic to be real.

27Sep12

My eyes bend to the future

more often than I can imagine

while my talents live inside
a dormant mind that has
become fixated on the past.

27Sep12

September in October Series #6

I am uncommon

in a common way

but only you would

understand my dilemma;

I am unfriendly

in a friendly way

but see in you the friend

I will never have today;

I give no love

in a loving way

only to discover

that you have accepted

me for who I am.

27Sep12

September in October Series #5

We are not the same
you and I
no longer, although
at one time
we were but
separated by our years,
our ideals
converge; yet

when heard

were never listened to
as when
each other served;
our seas were never red
and never parted
as were for some; so
on opposite shores
we stand
and know we will never
sit together again.
27Sep12

September in October Series #4

a dark night camps

on my doorstep as if,

in a vain attempt, it

tries to rescue me from

the perils of sleep that

come too quickly without

the dreams or the

purging of inevitable

opportunities sometimes

made available to

me each day.

27Sep12






give me the liberty
my forefathers had
or take away my
instincts to retrieve it.

27Sep12

September in October Series #3

distant thunder from storms does not arrive

but from tensions persisting in bands of thugs

carrying empathy like our old crosses and

hope is delivered with each rising sun;

echoes of rippling waters flow true

and pure towards destinations that claim

to take no prisoners with heads no longer

fearing the oath of their sacred fathers

or their trite rituals that to them are dead;

rumbling thunder tumbles into our ears

but some do not hear nor listen to the words

spoken by our elders since they are as vacant

as the lonely memories that seem to have depleted

like oil reserves our desire to really care.


27Sep12

September in October Series #2

On the outskirts of my imagination

I proclaim the futility of lost innocence,

blaming those who sit in rockers while

young men and women go off to war

to fight battles of ideologies that are

neither right nor wrong but which share the

common crime of being different than our own.


27Sep12





I am too young

to bargain with

the devil and yet

that’s what I

do everyday,

hoping I will

somehow get the

better end of

the deal if I

appear to be

cooperative.


27Sep12

September in October Series #1

We move in circles,

small and large abound;

we dream quiet thoughts

of peace, love, and harmony;

we equip children of the night

to fight our territorial wars;

we scream out to elder Statesmen
to adopt the new order;
we steal the day back quietly

from its innocent captors;

we sift through claims of disloyalties

while sitting at unpainted desks;

we live life too quickly while

learning there is nothing more;

we remember and forget

simultaneously all our fears;

we move in circles

that close and open at will.

27Sep12