Sullen
Not so much missing her as yearning youth Missing years Dismissing truth Sullen season not Christmas cheer Mulling Musing Me Advertisements Continue reading Sullen
Much
If she’s not much to speak of
Why do I talk about her all day long
If she’s not much to look at
Why do I gaze at her face Continue reading Much
Random
If what we expect
is ordinarily strange
then extraordinary
must be only plain
If what we get
is always random
then what is odd
is more of the same Continue reading Random
Reruns
One kiss can
Last a lifetime
Living in reruns
On every channel
In my one track mind
All play the same scene
You and me, that kiss Continue reading Reruns
Eons
time stopped
outside our door
ticking tocking
covetous
for the love of us
seconds signal
minutes mingle
ours disappear Continue reading Eons
Outside
Heart plotting
Head nodding
Lean forward
Blue eyes blink
Begins to think
What life is like
Outside the border
of his world order Continue reading Outside
Matinee
With
reality on hold
the story unfolds
Our lips meet on screen
Eyes see the unseen
Float on a dream
to the steamy streets Continue reading Matinee
Skylark
On skylark wings
She sings
Unspoken lyrics in
Unbroken song Continue reading Skylark
Captured
My life
An open book
In idle moments
Her beauty stalks
Hiding between pages Continue reading Captured
Step
On the screen
We step
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire
Without a care
Tip tap
Slide off the floor
You’re mine
in three quarter time
Just like before Continue reading Step
Stand
Yesterday I could not stand Today I understand Tomorrow I will take a stand Continue reading Stand
List
surrounded yet alone
love unspoken heart broken
just a token kiss
now and again like a friend
too infrequent to miss
and if you insist
on something more, like this
like I would kiss
you’re dismissed
one more check on the list
you keep folded up in the corner of your mind
Continue reading List
Miss Fortune
That was my Miss Fortune
Rags to riches
Sad sack to fancy britches
My wishes became her which’s
Invisible threads kept her in stitches
Breezily spun easily won quickly undone Continue reading Miss Fortune
Until
Until now
The birds sang
The bees buzzed
The flowers sprang
The seas gushed
your name Continue reading Until
Tea
Her love
in the morning
Like slow
brewing coffee
heating up
almost burning
still smooth
flowing free Continue reading Tea
