Light Reflections

"a short poem for my mother."

The memory flashed in the mind, Glimpses of the truly sublime. The trickle down sensual effect, As recollections seem so perfect. If memory serves correctly, Time and place was a problem indirectly. But the perseveres kept them fated, As they...

I have to learn how to let go,  unwilling to fade away with you, if this is how we'll scream,  pull the air from my lungs. I'd rather just be left alone  in the enveloping dark to no longer carry...

Listen closely for the sound of my name  passing through your lips,  you are every note,  every thread holding me in place,  unraveling would only turn me into  a shadow and locking doors. If you look close enough you'll eventually...

Why is the Coffee so Bitter

"Its sometimes hard to decide to re enter into that relationship isn't it."

Why is the coffee so bitter, Morning light so very stark,Why do dust modules dance and flitter,And the dogs do that morning bark? I look across my empty bed,No sign of weight on the pillow,Not a hair from your handsome head,Only...

Because of spark

"The way you love"

Spark that's what you call it, Strange it's what I feel So it is true Between you and me, we have that And yet you chose to be with somebody My world brighter with your smile Warm with your hug...

There are terrible ghosts in you and I,nameless specters that learn how to wear our facesand relinquish interlaced fingers in the night's most silent hour,the one where nothing but the essence of our dreams and wandering anonymous spirits Stalk a...

The paths of love can be most hard to find When hearts have lost fidelity once known.So many routes have hindrances unkindThat trip you up and turn your trust to stone.Each person wants the sureness of love's touchThat leads the way...

Sleep, my love, for you do not yet know the storms gathering just beyond the shore,  the sweeping violent tides that are oblivious  to flesh and our fragile ties. I can see the clouds reaching,  joining one another like disfigured...

"Here be dragons."Ancient maps lack these words.One globe contains the words In Latin form. From the sixteenth century Of the Common Era.But what a great descriptor Of the unknown And the mysterious.Of the dangerous And the treacherous.These words came to...

I stumbledThrough the cobwebsOf unforgiving darkness.WrithingUnder the full moon,I slowly awokeFrom a deep slumber,Finally alive under yourSearching hands.With you,I soared onHeated breathsAnd whispered words.Feathering kissesLit my hunger,As your voiceLured outMy dark secretsAnd forgotten desires.You shattered meWith understandingAnd made me acceptMy...