Projections
We don’t have to try to be eternal
We already are
Our legacy is today
She tries to write poetry for legacy
She is sick and afraid
She wants a legacy
He tries to be profound
He tries to show off
Being ourselves is profound
Being in the moment is love
When we impress we are fake
Emily Dickinson had no fame
She had no audience
She was real and true to herself
Real art needs no mirrors
When we project we are lost
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You're Such A Treat
Can’t we talk with grace?
Expressions embellished with history
With myth
With lighthouses and castles
Can’t we kiss with your black stockings on?
Your belts to a garter
Your pedicure like an exotic treasure chest
Romance makes your eyes into the moon
Metaphor with golden jubilation
Swarthy debonair lines of Renoir
Ballet dancers with poise
Innuendo bright with humor
Darling you get it!
You’re such a treat
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Caligula
Some share darkness together
Black marble busts
Creations sheer like polished claws
Jeering mobs desiring blood
Burning night of lost lovers
Self-contempt hides under pride
The greedy concern with oneself
Disguise your dressed up elf
Chrome as silver as a mirror
The mirror of Dorian Gray
Unnatural affections
Violent delights with violent ends
Slit throat of Nero
The hour of the vile
The damned soul of Caligula
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Out Of A Deep Sleep
Cypress trees, magnolia moss
Flowers in the blessed moonlight
Your soft voice like an angel
Search the world but only love satisfies
Love makes the stars shine bright
Darling your eyes bring me joy
How I long for thee day and night
A friend to kiss good morning
A lover and a fire in the night
No lust can conqueror my heart
For you my dearest have won
There you are a dream and a gift
Out of a deep sleep I have come
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Stars and Angels
Softer than rain drops
Broken hearts learn love is real
Embrace the gentle morning breeze
Something pure is priceless
Someone real with no guile
Time withers edges of dreams
Legacy and biography
Eternity
Leave the political man
Leave the world
Take a right at the white light
All our hostilities are trivial
We have such a short time
I do like walks at dusk
I can feel my self leaving
Some are stars some are angels
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A Dobro At 2AM
No one at the station except the wind
Your lights off
I walk away with my suitcase and guitar
No traffic in the snow
No trains leaving tonight
Time like a stranger without a dime
Stranded in the mirror
Can you hear that bottleneck guitar?
This town ain’t no friend
I gotta wait until the train whistle blows
Goodbye babes
Have you ever heard the blues played for real?
Open your cold heart and hear
A dobro at 2am
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Walk the River
I shall lie in green forests
Where rivers traverse the soul
Divine days roll like the tide
Heaven comes closer
Clover and begonias
Purple sage in fields of warmth
Doors have been open
No man can close them
Stay on fire
Stay fervent
Read and believe your Bible
He is coming again
See beauty and rejoice
Praise with a grateful heart
Walk by faith and not by sight
Our hearts burn in his presence
Walk along the river with joy
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Separate Bedrooms
You are the vulnerable horizon
Cliffs stretch across the sky
My dearest your tears are a sea
Caves of vertigo tenderness
Until death they will not part
How the clocks chime
How life goes by
How we hurt one another
The wind howls freedom
We can never return
She sleeps alone
You know who you are
I know who you are
We shrivel without love
She goes through the motions
Dreams are hard to live without
I would hold you forever
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Our Ruins
Copious lips brazen with sea shore
I have hurt you
Now you heal and I see
I see you in the sun
I see you in the moon
You stood with silent tears
I seen the ghost leave
I knew you were deep
Now the jade wind chisels
Resolute hearts entering the narrows
We walk together again
Mercy has found our cove
Your flowered dress of joy
My intellect no longer protects me
We dance like seagulls
Our ruins brightened by another world
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Satin Sheets
Shelley sighs like the dying wind
You are the mind that remembers touch
Your scarf of Ithaca green
Vernal longing for touch
Your garden is velvet ire
Youth never dies on your bed
Do I feed your wounded heart
Do you still read my broken heart?
I need you off in the distance
Leave the bedroom silk on
I still visit and you like it
Tangled in unrequited life
Only love reads poetry
I am no ghost
Let this poem be satin sheets
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