History
Fell in love with
A faint recollection
Like a broken jukebox
Stuck on one selection
An unspoken request locked
Inside of her rejection Continue reading History
Audrey
If I said you look Like Audrey Hepburn And I like George Peppard Would my advances you spurn Would it now be my turn To swing on your dance card Did you suppose When the band members rose When I … Continue reading Audrey
Greener
Risks you avert Chances I convert Routine is your game Adventure is my name But the grass is always greener At my house Greener than the green unseen Gardeners tend not pretend Growers grow not put on for show Weeds … Continue reading Greener
Squirrel
She squirrels away a place in her heart
Where she keeps a nut like me Continue reading Squirrel
Transfix
Pour that elixir
I know I can fix her
The aroma
That’s what tricks her
Mocha Java
I will mix her
Thick stir will transfix her Continue reading Transfix
Easy
Prayer is the Easiest and Hardest thing to do Absent I have no direction Talking I have the present Listening I find correction Obeying I learn a lesson When there’s nothing I can do The something I can’t do is … Continue reading Easy
Fetched
Forever bound Tightly wound Heart engraved Soul saved Mind caged Body engaged Love found Memories etched Future sketched Notes embossed Fingers crossed Arms tossed Wings lost Angel fetched Continue reading Fetched
Sticky post
Align
Autumn breeze
First freeze
Brown eyes
Gasping sight
Hands slender
Clasping tight Continue reading Align
Talk
Long conversations Now distant memories Wrong motivations Now listen in misery Relationships feed on hearing Ears gone to seed lips quivering Hands on hips eyes on swivels Nose sifts sniffs ayes only civil Self-imposed cone of silence Shelf life of … Continue reading Talk
Humility
Humility is a measure Of your opinion of others Thinking you are the treasure Or they are your brothers Let me see your hands Are they washed and clean Or covered with stain Do they hide the unseen Or freely … Continue reading Humility
Tongue
Many a man’s tongue Has broken his nose Many a woman’s lips A token of what she knows Like a campfire flames a forest One utterance turns to chorus What pollutes minds fumes from lips Contempt consumes relationships Control the … Continue reading Tongue
Art
Stumbled through the door of your heart Velvety vocals tuned my tension Bumbling, fumbling soul found art Brush brown eyes brewed my attention Simple smile pursed lips beckon Nubile thoughts paint hues of passion Nimble strokes caress the cotton The … Continue reading Art
Silent
Sitting silently nary a word Nothing to say No need to be heard While broken people snap nearby Help unspoken Life sapped They cry Not I Standing silently without speaking Not my place Not my brother for the keeping While … Continue reading Silent
Doing
What are you doing? Building a monument or a movement Holding a shield or sextant Faith without expression is depression Acts without devotion is commotion Spiritually ill sitting still all inside What evidence where is the proof What fills the … Continue reading Doing
Ruler
Religion is for reliving Past practice and past rules Masked motives and fast moves Checking boxes and lost clues Faith is for the living Next action and next service Asked to give to the last impervious Unlocking locks of lost … Continue reading Ruler
Poetry by Carrick Cross 