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I mustn’t dare to elope With such fleeting Wide-eyed notions Quell the eagerness Of your juvenile voice And bar the flurry Of wayward hopes Clipped wings Line my domain As an ominous warning A shrill, beckoning threat So my dreams may gorge Upon bountiful despair Deterred with ease At the first glimpse of slaughter I…
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The young fool Cartwheels through his prime Propelled each day By the plumes of imbalance Chemicals displace And on he rolls The perpetual reeling The unrelenting loop How he’s swift to revel Quick to despair Without sparing an instant To savor each wave Faster he wheels Through his fleeting prime Retaining the grit The earth’s…
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All boxed up In a den of misanthropy My hallowed cave Of simmering discontent I drift sullen And greet reveries with fervor Grateful to the abstract The weightless Out-of-body twirl Far away From slow burning kin As they shrink day to day In their agonizing refrains Gracious solitude Blurs my perceptions Shredded to bits Into…
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Amidst the dry heave This ancient scourge I yearn and implore For the trying winds of old Amidst present strife I turn away For the frostbitten days That unmerciful cold For the beckoning sway Of a wind chime’s refrain Their resilient toll Is sure to remain I’m swift to recede Quick to recall The timid…
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The predawn moon Slightly wavered Before my early treads The rays poured With stern resolve As they do with fervor In the coils of night Assured by their vigor I pressed on, intrepid Faithful to the glimmer That waned, inch by inch Yet darkness crumbled In the proud hoisted dawn The swarm of clarity I…
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Fever dreams delude Protrude into my frozen days As staunch routines waver And slip from my iron grasp The earth falls away For the spectacles of old The surreal acts of slumber That erode my solid ground I strive to cope Before mayhem’s deathly swarm The lurching of shadows The ghouls in quiet wait The…
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The night is a furnace Ever festering with anguish The unyielding misery Behind every bead dispatched Sweltering I am doomed to recall Of cooler days squandered So thoughtlessly and swift Many turn A flame with the same dismay Yearning to retreat Into the caring winds of yore Blissfully Vacant Merciful emptiness The bountiful waves Of…
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From the heart of leisure I exclaim with fury With hollow dismay Unfulfilled and barren From the lowly flicker I grew with hunger Into the monstrous inferno Bereft of all reason My lonely motive Is to cleave and burn To mindlessly revel At desolation’s loom Luxury Has become my dismay A spell I must shatter…
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May the fairest winds Court me along To glide on dignified Remains, my primal wish To blissfully linger In the coils of certainty Replenished each day Beyond, timid nights May the honest yearnings I carry within Urge me along In their caring wisp Defiantly soar! Refuse to remain! Never take root! And sail away unfazed!