Category Archives: Poetry

The Farce

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The trick is up my love

I’m found out

But you also gave yourself away,

My hope was

That we could go on

To be more honest

And cease this farce of play.

There was never anything wrong here

Just the inevitability of pursuit

To coincide with the undeniable truth

That you and I were falling

Everything else was mute.

So now,

Across faraway lands

We’ll bury our desire

But we shouldn’t hold fast

To imagining an end to the fire

Nor hold our breath

For promised remnants emerge

And all providenced wishes

Inevitably converge.

We can go and try

To attract kisses

Other than those we yearn for

Caressing other lovers

Different from the one we want more

Struggling in vein

Knowing we are lying.

So we’ll move on

But with the dancing of unconscious streams

Pulling us closer

Consuming our thoughts

And possessing our dreams;

The manifest content

Of adulterous sin

But latently telling us

It would have been worth it giving in.

The Leopard

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Every night

I sleep with a leopard

Golden pale spotted

Aura’s dotted divinity in sight.

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The Sun shone through her

With the vengeance of a thousand spurned lovers

Women from untold generations.

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Not viewing new

What the surroundings hide

Do we blame such surroundings

For accomplicing lies?

Oh the stunning print

Of the leopard’s coat

How we forget it’s for disguise.

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And her lurid eyes

Predation is not alone

Are her claws just for killing

Has not nature set the tone?

Has she asked me to join her

In roaming this great pasture

Believing we’re different?

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I cannot say I saw

Other than what was before me

I can’t say I asked

For anything less

In the end

It was all for joy and rapture

Simply because it was in our nature.

Love Poems

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I Don’t Know Your Name

I don’t know your name

It left me

And I’m without it now

Wishing I knew it

Hungry to speak

And give life

To the fluttering sensations

That drift upon the wind.

You are far away

But if I yet knew your name

I would speak it

Aloud and unwavering

Conjuring up

Through mercurial wonder

All that marks the traveler

Like rain,

Riding the back of thunder

To let you fall before me

That I should meet those eyes

With a kiss

Upon Emerging

Upon emerging from the desert

Did you immediately move through lands

To open men’s sight through fire

And sting their eyes with sands,

If they refused or failed

To see the splendor of your beauty

And give homage to the divine

That lies within your soul?

That you ask for courage to love thee

Is what I expect to feel

Allowing no man your heart

Lest he is capable

To be of the chosen few

Wiling to burn away ego completely

From the passion of having loved you

Making Love

Let flow my vitality

Through and with

The ever moving current

Like a stream before dawn

Birthed from the source

Of the ever living

Never gone

Together lifting

Bodies through soul

This river moving

Flowing through sands

And sifting past time.

Let me flow into you

The ocean of life

Surrender me to your depths

Welcome my current

Let it penetrate and suffuse

And make us free

The ocean in one river

And the river in one sea

Intoxications

What’s this I’m tasting,

Your lips?

Yes,

And more

Something else,

Something I can sense

But not discern;

Something extraordinary

But it won’t be clear

Something I notice but can’t see:

Dimly lit upon the senses,

Inebriated through flooding,

Intoxicated to the limit,

Boiled over and dulled

From a point to a plateau.

I am chasing the source

I am boxing you up

I am trying to comprehend,

But you are endless.

Divine Beauty Please Guide Me

Will the Divine

Guide me across this landscape

The sun barren desert

Parched thirsting for essence

Emanating lights in the distance

Something I’m headed to

Eternity stops in your presence

It comes to an end with you

Time Lapse Frozen

Paradise unmoving

Time lapse frozen

Stillness silencing

And the midnight moon

Your essences exhaling

Birthed from the quieting

Of a mind’s grievances

Surrendered of thinking

Peaceful dispositions

Sent away in love

Blessed in accent

Kissed without motion

The aura of your beauty

Quieting the surroundings

Called in to stillness

At peace from longing

Worship

I will not turn you into God,

But I will worship the divine in you;

Since you are the expression of it,

I worship you,

As the Divine expression

Of all that it is;

The essence of beauty,

Of awe and wonder,

Truth and serenity

The Lioness and the Ocean

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I know you can’t swim well out here

But I am not trying to drown you

Just show off the mysteries of the deep

And the enchantments pulling my soul

 

There’s no one else out here

But you don’t see that

You’re too busy trying to use your claws and roar

Though it’s best if you put those away

They can’t serve you here

Just keep you from staying afloat

 

Amidst the vast and open ocean

Pride doesn’t serve the stranded lion

It’s best to relax and take in the view

And I’ll help you to swim

 

Would that be so hard?

Surely you have no intention

Of drowning out of spite?

A Set of Poems

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Is there anything that must exist

Between the height of stars

And the sky who lives it

Cradling what may fall

Into a thousand fading lights?

 

I Wish to Remain

I wish to remain a boy at heart

To play with the miracles

Of life and living

Never too far apart

And distanced from astounding

In the wonder

That forever befriends me

Like a constant brother

 

I wish to be an old man in soul

Conscious of the matters

Of lasting value

To see the bigger whole

From the vantage

Of a high mountain peak

One that pierces the heavens

To engage with its speak

 

I wish to stay a young man in spirit

Willing to challenges

That conquer illusion

And bring contented merit

Amidst the suffering lapses

Potentialing heartbreak

When the doubts of living

Attempt their fate

 

 

The Loneliest Place

The loneliest place?

In a crowd

Without a face

For eyes to meet

And greet the soul of another

No space

Or too much

When silence abounds

And no other sounds persist

But for the kiss you left her

 

The loneliest place?

In a crowd

Without a face

For eyes to meet

And greet the soul of another

No space

Or too much

Where silence abounds

But for the kiss you left her

And no other sounds persist

 

The loneliest place?

In a crowd

Without a face

For eyes to meet

And greet the soul of another

No space

Or too much

When silence abounds

And no trace of sounds

But for the kiss you left her

And no other sound persists

 

The Forest of My Soul

In the darkness

Through the night

Towards the forest of my soul

Past a tree line

Across an open field

Where I walk with second sight

To the holy light within

 

Frozen fog

And rippled banks of snow

Through waves of drift

My steps fall

To footprints

Towards a spirit I barely know

But to a glow that is familiar

 

Something breaks open

To a noise

Both whispered and clear

Through a question

It asks

And I respond with my voice

But my choice is uncertain

 

Come join us

Is the call

From spirits of the deep

Encouraging my leisure

As to wander

Through reaching trees tall

Causing me to stall slightly

 

I know not why

And know it all the same

The ability to see the future

That it’s not my time

Nor the hour

That it’s just a game

With a name called forever

And so I keep walking

 

On a Mountain

Out here in the open

Without an identity

The wind blows by

Lends breadth to my essence

Gives depth to my grounding

Though it seems I am floating

Thought it feels I’m above

 

On a broke lit sunrise

The light shines a backdrop

It sharpens the edge to existence

And highlights the mountain below

For a focus to peel back my eyelids

Casting me asunder

But dark and left standing

Calls it a name

 

Of eyes for all seeing

It opens the sky

As leaves pass and birds fly

Not worrying about foundation

Or a route to see me travel

Or a move to perfect the sound

When there is not such a thing

A Real Illusion

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Does her beauty

Sustain an illusion

Or illuminate a reality?

Between insight and falsity

This gravity

My soul,

Floating through space.

Is she a star or the darkness;

Which of them denotes the eyes upon her face?

These eyes staring back at me,

That appear to see nothing

Yet somehow have their sight

And somehow keep me looking,

Admiring.

This is night viewing night

And Fire heating fire,

A longing that can feel its passion

The yearning of its own desire

It’s own bloodletting

Bleeding itself thin

Like a heart that can’t stop beating

Though it sees the gaping wound

Pumping life

And pumping death simultaneously.

Putting the paradox on display:

Life and death

Sight and blindness

Truth and illusion

Light and darkness

And all I can do is reconcile duality;

To see the actuality of her beauty being

And my being absolutely