A Woman’s Jacket

She thought that I
Was a simple servant
To hang a woman’s jacket
When she enters a room,
To remain downcast
Despite the aroma of her perfume.

I had no desire to undeceive her;
I happened to be there
To visit her husband,
A friend from a former life,
But once I saw his wife,
I had no intentions
To become reacquainted with him.

I gazed at the splendor of her hair,
The majesty of her shoulders,
The elegant way she walked.

I then took her perfumed jacket

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Dream of Reincarnation

Words become strange creatures
Swirling through my head
In the black night
As I’m thinking about
Some unidentifiable flying object of despair,
A lonely maiden with soft hair
And wings like a bird
Always in the motion of departure.

I’m lost to reality and walk through fantasy
When her bracelets smell like perfume
And she mouths my name
And leaves a flower in my room.

Our life is a single day
Where we wake in our mother’s arms;
And as the clock keeps time,
We journey through several stages
Until hours after dusk
We close our eyes in the grave.

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Incessant Thoughts of Her

Midnight city in the snow,
I wander with the lonely
Who have no place to go.

I reminisce the avenues
And Christmas streets
Where love was shining
Like starlight or the woman’s eyes
That I followed through a dream.

Incessant thoughts of her
And the poetry of tenderness
Have marked me like a tattoo.

Romantic destiny has caught me
Like a snare,
The bracelet on her wrist
Is more than I can resist
When I know she will never wait for me
At the secret place of rendezvous.

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The Sacred Shrines

Turn back the clock 1977
When we were children
Who liked to rock and dance in parks
On the 4th of July.

Turn up the Ramones real loud,
Sex Pistols in the city,
And it was So Easy to Fall in Love
FM radio afternoon.

There were so many bands
And I remember the hour your mother
Told us Elvis Presley was dead,
It was a sad end to the summer.

No more county fairgrounds,
No more swimming at the lake;
In time, everything disappears with innocence
After the heart begins to break.

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Dark Beautiful Woman

Days are consumed with passionate fever
Pursuing a dark, beautiful woman
With tantalizing storm-concealing eyes
And a proud face
Undaunted by youthful suffering.

Following the sway of her dress
Through crowded streets,
The mind is dizzy with desire
And the heart is filled
With desperate sighs.

The appearance of some women
From a far-off distance
Can reduce a man to tears
As he pleads to unknown deities
To be beside this mesmerizing, feminine essence.

There is obsession
Frighteningly all-pervasive

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I’m Not Your Lover But that’s A Minor Detail

Let’s write poems upon our skin
And make unique t-shirts to wear in the summer.

I’ve got a lion’s heart and want you as my prey,
Tell me that you’ll stay and enjoy the nature design
Of this desire.

Is it such a wild idea to fall in love at first glance?
To banish loneliness and learn to exist
In someone else’s essence?

I want to escape into a dream at the amusement park,
Every fiber of my being is crying to marry you
At the gazebo decorated with flowers.

Saying hello is required in the sunlight of positive thoughts,
Let’s kiss at the concession stand waiting for our favorite movie to begin
At the eternal theater of happiness.

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Gorgeous Conquest

Assured of invitations
To the moonlight dance
By the hidden lake shrine,
The young girl with mystic eyes
Smiles like a pirate
Making love to another man’s wife.

She is the attractive daughter
To a cocaine importer from the east,
Her perfume is exotic flowers
Flown in from Japanese gardens.

Her father tries to rigorously exclude her
From the sordidness of the family business
But her mesmerizing beauty
Makes her sought after by the powerful.

One day, she will make secret deals
With spies and kings and extravagant cutthroats
To bring the world humbly to her feet

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Destinations Worse Than the Grave

Say prayers with candlelight
To lead a quiet life;
Meditate beside gentle lakes
To stay off dark spirits of desperation;
Gaze upon crosses and icons
That you don’t spend your nights
Sleeping in fields or hustling on cruel streets.

People are judgmental
When they watch someone fall;
Ideas are hard weapons of destruction
When they curse another human’s choices
Or fragile constructions.

Kiss somebody’s wounds
In this lifetime,
Never believe you’re immune
From suffering or degradation.

There are fates worse than death,

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Reincarnation Highway

I’m older now,
So much older now
That she has found me
Than when first she sought me.

I’ve drifted through centuries
Like a dream returning
Night after night,
I’ve made my way
Through landscapes of innumerable days
Along the reincarnation highway.

An ancient priestess at the temple
For a wedding of a friend
Offered me a perfumed handkerchief
With directions for a rendezvous
With the mistress of my soul
In the secret night.

Destiny was distinctly calling

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Melancholy Ghost Terribly Obtuse

I walk through river mist
Remembering the feelings when we kissed,
Too many days forlorn in a foggy past,
Abandoned and tossed away.

Churchyard cemetery with broken gates,
Certain circumstances simply refuse to wait
But I’ve scraped myself through corridors
Of the destitute and the abhorred.

The things about you that I once adored
Decay like relics in ancient tombs,
I’m a sealed-off crime scene with empty rooms,
I’m a dusty bottle of wine two-thirds used.

I’m a melancholy ghost terribly obtuse
But I’m slowly learning not to insist
On keeping the old memories impossible to relive,
Slowly making it to the grave and learning to forgive.

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