All I want to be Is the first thing you see As you open your eyes When you can’t disguise That feeling inside As a smile creeps into your eyes As if somehow you’re surprised Of a new romance and I’ve just appeared by happenstance Each day finds a new way You hold the world…
Category: Poetry
Just To Let You Know
This poem’s just to let you know How much my love grows Everyday I’m with you Every day I look in your eyes I see the sunrise Where does the time go Slips away, never shows its face Around our place But the smiles last awhile Anyway-any day All the questions In the caverns of…
Dragonfly
what answers unfold in your haphazard flight if you could speak to me what mysteries might you solve, how many perches must we alight to splash in the Sound and the Light fickle though your flight seems it’s an inquiry of sorts, it learns to be a means to seek a simpler path a way…
Lover’s Poem
When we meet We shall touch the stars The little children will laugh at us And to each we shall teach love And we’ll float on the soft summer breeze I’ll carve our initials in the clouds And in a fleeting moment That which not tangible shall succumb And our love will become inimitable We’ll…
Inhale
Inhale, Slowly, Deeply Feel Your Chest Expand Exhale, Mouth Wide Upon Life’s Windowpane Create New, A Canvas Born From Within Touch, Fingertip, Moist Cold Upon The Glass Begin, Search, For Colors Of Your Soul’s Palette Paint Life, Love, Encompass All Reach, Expand, Your Consciousness
Square Pegs
If all the holes are roundWhy did God make square pegs?If we were all meant to conformWhy are there two genders and five races? Some square pegs, to name a few…Jesus, Buddha, MohammedDaVinci, Rembrandt, PicassoColumbus, Newton, EinsteinThe Founding Fathers of AmericaBeethoven, Bach, The Beatle’s Queen Elizabeth I, Susan B, Anthony, Rosa Parks So as a…
I Never Thought To Ask
Mom and Dad, there are so many thingsI never thought to askI was busy then trying to answer who am INot wondering about the past Now I find myself in my twilight yearsWishing once again you were still hereJust to come back to the feeling of homeThat I’ve missed now for so many years Time…
The Perfect Place
the perfect placeescapeswithout a tracea moment past a moment fastfleeting as it werea gasp…and it’s gonehiding just behind the mind’s eyeallowing justa sneaky peeka peck on the cheek a reminder to dwelloccasionallyin a perfect placemomentarily Published in “The Best Poets and Poems of 2002”
Enchanted Embrace
The first time set the stageBefore I had an ageWhen the doctor placed me in my mother’s armsAnd she took my hands to count my fingers The countless times my mom and dadHeld my hand to keep me safeThe countless times I reached outFor their hand to feel safe Oh that first love, that set…
Legacy
Humans, in our conceitConcern ourselves over our lives’ legaciesIn hopes of what we leave behindMatters for prosperity’s sake I think, like all things temporaryI will fade away in timeBecome a picture on a hallway wallThat is viewed occasionally Like a song that fades from memoryOr a poem that marks a moment in timeLike the autumn…