Poetry

I wish papers could be torn and fly away, erasing every memory of beautiful days. The days that still slit me, the wounds that still kill me. I still feel defeated, and I wish there were a way to escape this feeling of being so weak, short, dark, and incompetent. I truly wonder if there's a God to answer me when I'm no longer his tenant. I want...

Crystal garden within the grass Rainbow colors strewn around, How I love the way they change Twinkling as I move about, Shining in the morning light A beautiful but temporary scene I walk among the crystals bright Till they evaporate just like a dream

i found you on a rock-shelf coast one bright spring day the thunderous waves so powerful and free i threw the ring as far out as i could and watched you disappear into the sea i found you walking through the trees one summer day delicious cool within the forest shade you touched my neck, my hot skin sudden chill and goosebumps, in that...

And there were sweet singing days When first we left the valley and the shadowed wood We headed west and saw the promise in the sky A pledge of future hope, of love that never dies Collecting every song we could We sang them happy on our way And there were warm piano nights Within our hand-built cabin in the sheltered glade A haven here, a...

Every beginning starts small— a file unsealed, a sentence left unblacked, a quiet decision to stop pretending. Alien. UAP. UFO— names we give the dark so it doesn’t say our real name back. Drip by drip, the pattern forms: a clip, a pause, a witness swallowing light, rings widening until the world remembers it was never closed. Not...

So cold the wind howls like a lost soul searching for the warming fire remembered in a dream it calls to me as I gaze from this place I call home the window like ice to the touch snow turned to sheets on the walk so cold how will I manage until you return to the dream to the warmth to the past

Darkness hidden within your soul Overlooked like that little mole, Metastasizing, spreading rot, You must cut it loose with all you’ve got The forgiveness will help you To heal your soul If you refine it, purging dirt from ore, You’ll shine like gold, of this I am sure.

I keep a spine that bends toward fairness, and every time I straighten it, the doorway shrinks. "your disrespect borders apathy" dictations of trouble scribbled into me. In truth, I notice the weight placed on backs already tired, the hours that leak past daylight, the pay that never learns to grow. So I’m released again— another quiet box for...

Goodbye my old friend, You’ve slowed in your old age You should know, your openness and creativity Helped break me from my cage I may be the only one who visits you now But I hope you wake up Some way, some how, If anyone reads this You’re in the right place Please come here often And quicken my friend’s pace Thank you to all who’ve come and...

Robots of all types work each day In every conceivable kind of way So as numbers rise precipitously We desired to prevent catastrophe One day they began to control Herding us all against our will, Until we devised a plan it hadn’t foretold Our arrogance had to pay its bill Huddled in our massive jail, Constructed by robotic hosts With...

Somewhere in hell, a demon tears at a soul Enraged because no wounds can it behold How can this be, who is this man, The devil explained and this is how it began This is a story of a lost soul, A gangbanger thug, extracting his toll When faced with prison, where he wished not to tary He decided then to join the military Under his chaplain, he...

Autumn leaves do but fall Withering, dropping, do they all Leaving room for next year’s group The old replaced by the youth Such is life in every vein The future born of past years pain Do not despair those drifting away Remember the beauty that came your way When in the autumn of your life Rejoice the young leaves coming alive.