A Life Too Long
A cold day freezes
My desperate thoughts
In a lonely place.
I can hear
A sad church bell chime
In a forlorn corner
Of this miserable city.
I never want
To live long enough
To forget
Kissing your lips
Lovelier than chardonnay
Or the intoxicating
Lightheadedness
Of seeing you
In your white sweater
And being swayed
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Butterfly Beauty
I’ve never lived
In the valley of the sun,
I’ve never slept
In a magnolia bed,
I’ve never brushed
My loved one’s hair
On a Saturday morning
Or kissed her eyes
After she’s wept.
Life is butterfly beauty
Flying away;
The essence of joy
Is only momentarily sensed
And impossible to possess.
I must be grateful
For every heartbeat of this existence.
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Heart Or A Languishing Flower
Great men and despised slaves
All close their eyes
And bid farewell to tender sunsets
And the glorious sunrise,
Neither the great nor the insignificant
Are eternal, everlasting.
The best a poet can do
Is weep beautiful tears
In the midst of ephemeral life
Colored in hues of joy and sadness
And then hope those tears
Fall upon a heart or a languishing flower.
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The Female Poem
The female poem
Saunters through the autumn leaves
Among the secret deities
And the drunken trees
Making metaphors and myths,
The language of the goddess.
She carries within her
Infants of epic imagery,
The children of ancient tales
And the proverbs of truth.
Listen to her speak
In the mesmerizing songs of eternity
That open the heart
And reveal the soul.
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Melody of the Rain
Ancient friends appreciate
My ghost-like face
That has weathered loneliness
And the melody of the rain.
Spirits offer me the wine of dreams
When I fall asleep at dusk
With a tattered heart
I can no longer trust.
When I awake,
I hear the cry of the wind
Breathing upon weary chimes,
I know, I must abandon everything
And no longer consider
Anything as mine.
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Magical and Angelic
Sailors’ voices
Cursing and laughing,
Beautiful girls
Walking in the gloaming,
Temptation’s winsome smile,
Adoration and affection,
Joyful and blissful expressions;
Life has a strong heartbeat cadence.
I run excitedly
On the path of desire
And impossible dreams;
I don’t mind failure,
I’m happy with every attempt
To attain the magical and angelic.
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Kiss Her Photograph
Her eyes confide to me
Inexplicable mystery,
Like time travelling
Through the corridors of history
To discover an ancient goddess unseen before,
Something wonderfully simple-hearted
But also exuding pride and contempt.
Did she understand
What I meant
When I told her
I could kiss
Her photograph?
The joyous vicarious experience
Of touching her face in a dream!
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Flower or Glass of Water
If you have a gun and hurt someone in America,
you gain fame and notoriety,
they may make a movie about you called
the adventures of Bonnie and Clyde;
If you give someone a flower or glass of water
you will be overlooked like a dusty book
on a library shelf;
give someone a flower or glass of water, nonetheless,
it is a kindness that can transform the world.
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Heavy Moral Burden
There's a park in this city
Where my soul can dream that I'm happy
And that she remains with me.
I've been lost like the meaning
Of an ancient hieroglyphic
For innumerable years.
Once there was silence
Undisturbed by words
And there was consolation in her eyes.
One day, after I've buried
My self-deceptive lies, I'll find a way
To say I'm still in love with her.
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Sweetly Drunk and Always In Love
When you dream
Of a lovely, long skirt
And a soft, white blouse;
When you’re mesmerized
By feminine eyes
That turn their gaze
Away from your face
Until you become
Child-like and sad;
When the slightest words,
Even of consternation,
From her bird-like voice
Is the greatest music
You’ve ever heard,
Then you realize
You’re sweetly drunk
And always in love.
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