Shanghai Street

I fell in love
With your black hair, Ping,
But have no real concept
What it would mean
To kiss your milk-white shoulders
And perfect neck.

Mysterious life
Of deities and benevolent ancestors
Will guide me to a Shanghai street
To gaze at women
In pursuit of you.

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Ancient Romeo

In the tattoo valley of dreams,
I find her dark eyes shining
Into my soul.
How many times can I say
The word love
Until my desire bleeds
Into the amorous universe?

I’m the ancient Romeo
Sauntering sweetly beneath the moon
Digging her shoulders
In the starlight.

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Where the Sunlight Flirts with Purple Flowers

World of dreams
Where the sunlight flirts
With purple flowers,
I fell in love with you
With your breath of excitement
And possibilities of love.

And I’ll mourn my farewell
When death looks into
My dimming eyes
To close them a final time
To everything I cherished.

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Joni Mitchell Is A Flower

I don’t know how to walk
From the rusty streets of Detroit
To the sunlight of San Diego
But I appreciate every intelligent lady
Who opposes hate
And is independent!

Joni Mitchell is a flower
Dropping petals
In both our hearts,
Love is a new day
Around the corner.

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Valley Of Secret Kisses

Gasp excited passionate lust
When tender eyes meet
Early summer dusk
In the musical landscape of sea-breeze.

Abandon commitments,
Divorce relatives and friends,
Seek a new identity
And live on the lam with me,
Wild gypsies on the run
In the valley of secret kisses.

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Ephemeral Soul

Grey Detroit landscape
Trying to weep;
Every heart is heavy
With withering love.

I've become
A faded newspaper
Blowing down the street
With inconsequential words.

I'm incapable of understanding
The ephemeral soul
Swimming into oblivion

And away from my embraces.

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Bible and Jesus

We are our brother’s keeper,
That’s the whole purpose
Of Bible and Jesus.

If you accept it with love,
It is called godliness.
If you accept it begrudgingly,
It’s called lukewarm heart.

If you reject it outright,
It’s called selfishness and Darwinian heart.

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Blueprint For Love

Gathering flowers
That grow in sidewalk cracks,
I romantically dream of you.

Send me flower petals
Through the mail.
I’ll place them in a pouch
And keep them close to my heart.

You have lived
With daisies and children,
Please share with me
Your blueprint for love.

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Delicate Beauty

Drunken mystics
Reveal simple truths
Like the fragility
Of child-like hearts;
But if you shun
Broken, street poets
For a penthouse view
And the Arts and Entertainment section
Of the Wall Street Journal,
You will never perceive
The delicate beauty
Of humanity in decline.

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Her Place among the Goddesses

Sometimes you meet
The most beautiful woman
In the world
And you fail to tell her so.

Your own heart breaks
For the unkindness.

Is it wrong
To paint her picture
Every day on the canvas
Of your soul

While you hope
The world will understand
Her place among the goddesses?

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