Still Following Her Scarf through a Crowd
Swimming with Cindy
Magical summers lost,
Bike rides through the city
Laughing beneath autumn trees,
Dreams of parks and tennis courts
Still hurt my heart,
Paul Verlaine and Rimbaud days
Innocently writing poems
And singing songs…
I want to love someone
In an astonishing way
But all I embrace anymore
Is my darkness and obscurity.
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Sphinx Tattoo
Entrancing and pale
Like the autumn moonlight,
The young girl with blue October eyes
Dances in the sidewalk leaves
Offering inspiration
To furtive midnight deities.
After a sudden explosion of love,
She will float butterfly-like
To a downtown apartment terrace
To reveal her soul and Sphinx tattoo
To a perplexed but efficacious lover.
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More Deeply Than Intercourse
Strange,
The weird, illogical way
Of friendship.
Sometimes,
There is jealousy and rage
In the pursuit of a woman,
Sinister calculations of murder.
Sometimes,
An unshakable brotherhood ensues
After sexual relations
With the same woman.
Maybe,
It is merely the dark, feminine magic
Penetrating the soul
More deeply than intercourse.
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Along The Resurrection March
Time is the baby cradle
Turning into a coffin,
Teenagers making love
In the backseat of a car
Becoming an elderly couple
Holding hands in a grocery store,
Time can be a terrible distance
With an incline more steep
Than a mountain peak
Unapproachable by explorers,
Time is the poetry
Of melancholy memories
That must vanish in the grave.
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A Departed Lover
I no longer recognize
The flowers of summer youth
That bloomed in the dawn of my innocence
When love was like sunlight
Gleaming on dewy petals.
Cherished kisses are forever gone
Like fading memories
That sink into the soft soil
Of freshly dug graves.
A departed lover
Never returns
But her spirit lingers
In ghost shadows
That consume me.
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Walk With Me
Walk with me through a cemetery
With old knotted trees
Where the wind whispers
Through the leaves
For eternity.
When I’m gone,
It will be a long time
Without kissing your hand,
Hearing the melody of your voice,
Or quietly watching you stand
Beside flowering garden plants.
If there is no reality
After this one,
I’ll still miss you.
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Hang Flowers from Light Posts
I tremble
In the midnight rain,
Shiver on solitary streets,
Dream of poetic ladies,
Welcoming nudity,
Perfumed beds,
Kisses sweet as plums,
But only see stray dogs
And abandoned newspapers
Too depressing
For even hustlers
And cutthroats to read.
I wish the civic authorities
Would hang flowers
From light posts,
I’d pray and go home.
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Bedroom Candles
Bleak city in the rain,
I’m as sad as an evening
Without a sunset.
When hopelessly
Staggering in despair,
I read the little letters
She left for me
When I knew her heart
And her capacity to care.
I withhold my tears
If anyone can see me,
If anyone is near;
But the bedroom candles
Often see me weeping
In the lonely hours
Of the night.
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Butterfly Tattoo
Allow me
To push back your hair
And kiss the butterfly tattoo
On the nape of your neck
As we walk in the summer rain.
We may face death
By tomorrow dawn,
But today we have
Excited breaths
And yearnings
That cannot be suppressed.
If you fail to grasp love
In the heat of this moment,
Nothing will matter later
If you’re unhappy and alone.
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Eternal Healing
Darkness and tragedy,
Happiness and light,
Wealth and plenty,
Emptiness and poverty;
In the end,
Only kindness survives,
Only the love that is genuine.
Everything gradually disappears,
Our fondness and our fear,
Our dreams and our disappointments,
But our sympathy for others
Remains alive in the universe
And provides eternal healing.
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