THE SUMMER OF LOVE

remembrance,sublime sound,
behind her shades,she afterglows
she needs no grace but
her windswept splendor

once in a dream I plucked
a flower from her garden
fragrant, soft shapes in the night
you make me shed all inhibition

golden desire laid upon my heart
a blushing shiver upon my bed
your shifting cheeks and ringlets
burned me within your form

I will cleave you, speaking low
ringing out from this rock
all is wind and rain
as my love pushes  deeper

fall upon my sword ,gentle lover
as I flow, bathing myself with you
with every want, I wear you
swimming in this brimming cup of love

we're early gods,copulating feverishly
full of dewy grass and jasmine scents
touching time through your stoned eyes
deep in my love like a rebellious sea

we move like sand , remembering
hiding my limb inside your sweetness
freezing time, high above the earth
we loved thirstily, offering wetness.................

Hold Fast The Sighing Sound

Hold fast the sighing sound
tremble with unspent love's desire
raging love laid bare and moaning
with flaming voice of rock and need

Seeking nirvana midst your deep
my being filled with instant joy
as you rise to meet me, furtive
thrusting upward in heated need

Human faces of silk and tears
raging in bright fits of ecstasy
I steal your breath in gasps
taking you deep and merciless

 Immortal hearts, hoarding oxygen
saving up for the noisy dance
when you shine holy light on me
and  heave with gratified desire

I declare your lips  my own
your shivering cheeks, I part
taking your offered orifices
as you twist and groan from want

Possessing you breast to breast
male to female,coupled in heat
the wetness of concealed oceans
echoing ancient primal songs

SUPERIMPOSITION

 when I move, I feel................................you

when I inhale, I breathe the heated
fluid essence of.......................you

you left rippling echoes on my skin

when I turn I feel your shadow
and see it's delicious form!

your intoxicating smile haunts me

jogging my memory, taking me

instantly to that place
when time slowed, then stopped

your smooth supple skin sliding
on mine as our lips devoured..........

you're a white tiger, a she devil !

you left a haunting superimposition
of your being on mine!

thank you, for the ever present, memories

I will savor over and over again

until..................next time

                     

Elements

Rain, wind, the element of fire
All held in cold disarray
Perhaps what was joy
can be mixed with laughter
like a trembling child

It hurts, I know
the cruelest blow
all for a freedom song

I was a prince 
I was a birdsong
you did not see?

through your  marred beauty
Countless times
I wished upon your star

countless times
I scaled your freezing wall

I dressed in purple
just for you
Always the majestic, pathetic clown

You don't understand
I yearn to live!
And you
weary with tired laughter
scoffed

while your scorn haunted me
I could not breathe for you anymore!

Each day brought forth
fresh blood and wounds
And where is the glory in that?

would you hold my burning heart
Till cold ash sifts through your fingertips ?

Till I lay cold and white in the moonlight ?
No! I seek the sun and its warmth
Hold your scalding tongue
And your cruel moist lips

I am love ripening in the sun!
I fly high with the golden gods!
Delicious memories are all I choose
To remember of our sad affair !

SNYCHRONICITY

‘THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS’

See what you’ve done to me!

But no, how could you?

You‘re just a phantom in my mind

But no, I’ve seen you! your image

You moved me, without touching

I almost felt your breath, hot, moist

As you sat close to me, breathing

Our breasts rising and falling in unison

Pheromones are making us drunk

With want, sick with desire

Your feminine scent is maddening

Your near thoughts are racing close to mine

Swaying provocatively, sexily

Just beyond the edge of consciousness

What is this spell, this seduction?

Tempting me to forget everything

For one sweet intense moment

Where the unmet force of all

My longings, groan for recognition

And beg for fulfillment

Is it so wrong to yearn

For a deeper ecstasy, to suck

The hidden nectar, to experience

Being ALIVE, fully, unrepentantly Alive

Every fiber of my being glowing!

I see your curvaceous form,

softly swaying, luring me

yet staying always one step away

I long to bite your lip, hard

tasting the stinging saltiness

Taking you in heated embrace

Overcoming ……………………….. your hesitancy

The mingled breath of intoxication

Wafting upward through our skulls

Burrowing deep into gray matter

Is Making us giddy, dizzy, afraid

Of losing control………………………

The primal urges crouch

Burning out of control, scorching

Flesh, burned by fevered hands

Fire walkers following secret rules

Lest we turn to ash

Surrendering to deep need

Kneading pleasured flesh

Slick with the wetness

Of communions sweat

Sliding, merging

Tongues fighting for control

Hands desperately pulling closer

Deeper, searching, aching

Struggling for something

Unnamed and unknowable

But real nonetheless

Our arched cries bearing

Witness to a deeper need

Than we dare admit

Groaning hoarsely, ancient rhythms

Rise and fall, shuddering for release

Your pointed need raking my chest

As we strain, each gasping breath

We’ve given way completely now

Flying, freely over the sea

The pounding native drums punctuating

Our hot struggle

Sounds of the ocean crashing in our ears

All is wetness and heat

As guttural groans escape

your eyes gazing behind us

Into nothingness

Stiffening Shivering violently

Stillness Overtakes us

as you stare

Bewildered

anxiously

Into My eyes

who are you?

Stranger,

bearer of gifts

Showing up unawares

Waking the sleeping Goddess

Crashing rudely into my world

My neat, tidy predictable world

Throwing askew, out of kilter

With dangerous new possibility

But then I’ve been waiting

If I’m totally honest, a long time

For you to show up suddenly

A gradually dawning awareness

Popping rudely into the open

You see, I called you from my depths

Violently in need, not knowing

Where to turn, because my true needs

No, my true dissatisfied self

Refused to be denied!

Then splashing violently

We leapt into the deep blue

As wave after wave washes

Over  our laughing, sobbing form

Smiling In gratitude at the magnitude

The random kindness

Of our shared gift………………………………………

‘THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS’

Elecric Blue You

electric blue you
hidden and forbidden
my desire thunders
washing over your body
like cascading waters

scalding, enthralling
I cover you with heat
a slow pressured
melting candle

my hands, feverish
following every curve
of your naked form
entering your flower

you fell back gasping
a tangled splay of limbs
tasting your downy folds
stroking with innocent hands

I slept and you burned
me, going down, up and down
you're the voice of my bed
taking my sleepiness away

like rain you cover me
opening your love to me
your deep valley seduces me
as I kiss your fearsome form

my thorn pierces you agonizingly
like a windy breathless day
your sails billow and heave
as you ride high beneath me

CRUCIBLE

poetry

        

Were all the yellowed suns

To burn at once

In a cosmic conflagration

A leaping exaltation of

Uncontrollable impulse

Skies of half- truth

Flying at light speed

Of course so are you

And me, burning

We

All shimmer

With abstract contradiction

Here and not here

Born and dying

Unsung

Convoluted

Like knotted apparitions

Our miscues, evidence

Our amphibious predicament

Amalgamated creatures

Of fated unions

Earth and quasars

Dust and spirit

Splintering stars

Trampled beneath

Dusty earths

Ungent minions

Salving the wound

The cosmic gash

Flowing with blood

Birthing us

With casual misanthropy

The bloated queen

Excreting monads

We, the laughable

Singularities of disregard!

Yet not to witness

THIS

Would surely be

The unspeakable blasphemy

Yawning horror

The ultimate travesty

Silent Streets

RAVISHED
Category: Writing and Poetry

Come to the glorious nothingness

Among the silent streets, god  and  I

Commune, cold and laughing

Midst the heartfelt emptiness

Far removed from human truth

Within the soul's divided dream

Savoring every ruthless smile

Partners in this crime of love

Each night beneath this dappled

Dome, this art forged of light

We share power like paupers

Singing for a while with the wind

BOLD WIND

Blow o bold wind of this world
Spew your callous utterance far
And wide over these hemispheres
Pulsating with stilly transcendence

I am and have more room to grow
To plunder clumsy Picassos inside
The deep core of my glowing sun
Though sometimes I find only dark

Sustaining my whispered heart
My wild laughter's flight for freedom
Makes every fleshly thought a sacrament
Offered in joyous pain and sacrifice 

The Mystic's I

In truth, I AM the mystic's I
Darkened crucible, blazing sky
Seeded shadow, hollowed light
Man waiting for enlightenment

In truth, I AM the mystic's Eye
Shy creator's flashing lightning
Watching witness, all things seeing
holographic, micro being

In truth, I AM the mystic's Aye
Approving smile behind the cosmos
Winking, dreaming, loving always
Universal, yes man bleeding

Shadows of Time

Who will undo the shadows of time
For my suspicious eyes desire not dreams
Nor a mask of topaz ill worn
Upon a field of battles waged in vain

As the sun rises in listless eddies
I'm the prince of tumultuous armies
A sentinel of hours, besieged
By passion's trampling throng

Fashioned objects of living bones
Blandishing weapons against the flesh
Like lightning scrawling my name
Across beleaguered heavens dome

Nature's hermit rudely accosted
The hero's grail stripped from his hands
His senses honed in ecstatic solitude
Pulled screaming from the dampening earth

Crowned with wings and flaming song
Leading the assault on castle walls
Through midnight vigils of arduous task
Till sunlight thaws the element of ice

LOves Idol

They say I make of love an idol     

The silent master of dismal fate
Like a maiden wooed by song
Or a breathless woman weeping

Mad and whirling like a dervish
A miracle is present here
With mournful wings of flight and prayer
Lifting angels of eternity

I worship the beauty of ancient gods
Whose strange processions pass me by
The rising tides of long ago
Turning stone into flowing song

With noonday flowers the bride awaits
A thousand suns to seize her soul
Without fanfare or sympathy
Stands formless at the altar cold

Wet with promise, a waiting spring
Her panting breast's bared for a prince
Hoarsely chanting of Eden's pleasures
Crowned with thorns and fevered hands

Arise my tumultuous joy
Of first-born bloom and awful hush
As gypsies sing of peace on earth
Our sleeping city fills with love

Soulful angel

Soulful angel sitting atop this rock 
My melancholy wings slowly beating
Chin resting on fist and upraised knee
Artfully contrived pose of the thinker

Meditative, intently casual, poised
My deep mystic eyes smiling benevolently
Babbling inanities, unwitting crusader I
Proclaiming everything, knowing nothing

Looking up, my face awash in the sun's glory
Premonitions of wondrous endings consume me
Concealed serpents, yes, upright mammals, yes
Some day, STILL! we shall soar with the gods!

Tapping code

On a starry night I can see ..........  
Past the far perimeter of thought
Shines my infinite home
Rhythmic light, Quantum pulsings

A cosmic drummer tapping Code
Writing my luminous new name
High on eternities wall

Accidental tourist, noble savage
Blind beggar seeking alms
Far away from home, lost
Existentially All alone

Stranded exiled stranger
Intently scanning horizons
Panning the deep inky sky
Intently listening for echoes

infinite realms of play

Im The Clod and Farthest Star

I am the clod and farthest star
Of Time's fateful pulsating heart
A hunter stalking wildest prey
Westward always toward the sun

I'm a dim speck of mankind's quest
Veiled until the day I wake
A mere ring in life's ageless tree
Until the dawn ceases to be

Heeding the distant call of life
My vessel returns to the sea
Full of feverish, shining suns
An infant bard, born yesterday

I'm a bearer of mysteries
Beneath this sacred stretch of sky
My tongue is thick and swollen now
I'm an oracle choked with sand

At Your Own Risk

Enter the world of my heart slowly
The lands within are not my own
At your own risk is the credo
I'm the great traveler of sun and sky

See worlds of red with opened eyes
Traverse uncharted continents
The dark side of the moon is mine
I'm creations white faced mime

What is it worth to you my friend?
To share this bloody toil with me
This universe of writhing light
Where intrepid seekers stare in awe

While the forbearance of capricious
Heaven stays its careless hand
Form your great art of holy fire
Gleaned from the fields of mystery

Explore that which I have and love
Though ephemeral and doomed to pass
Across this barren rocky land
Toward the great sea, always, my love

Embrace the Rush

Never fear, my soul, when cold winds blow
I reign in gold over fields of ether
I’ve done my years in the captive’s cage
Now I’m bursting fresh upon the world

I have no interest in  frailties or need
Only in expressing  phrased colors of truth
Pouring  salt into this man shaped wound
Sensing a new glory beneath his surface

Moments glisten in the sun’s yellow light
As I pursue the path, treading the dawn
The pyramids of youth rise before me
Pointing the upward way with emeralds

Toward the leaping light which never sleeps
Come live with joy, dwell in eternity, now!
Journeyman, early born, untimely  anachronism
Embrace this onward rush, of life from afar!

Cant Play It Safe

I'm restless and blissfully alone
I'm the boy that time forgot
Planted precariously on the high wall
Can you hear me? I can never play it safe

My quivering, emergent leaves are red
Hand painted with my own life-blood
Prayers tossed carelessly to the sky
Set free for their moment upon the wind

The complacent, glibly accuse my life
Knowing not, I'm their freedom's cry
Soon forgotten inside mansions quiet
Along with all the powers of light

I'll bring you pleasant, aching shadows
Light, longing in the face of innocence
Chasing mists, while the world lies sleeping
Dance with me along the beams of infinity

Stormy capricorn

Stormy capricorn, spraying lewdly scrawled graffiti
Spanning abyss's, bridging  the falling deep Rubicon
 
   Logos of  banqueting kings, slogan of  languishing jesters
Evolving secret door, shadowed clouds opening
 
Wolfish tongue unforgiven, sheepskinned renegade outlaw
Chorus line's featured orator, unbowed genie's apparition

Tabooed roustabout bold as crashing brass
Flaming sword's pure unmalleable nettle

Ruthless crusading troubador, serenading
Holy warrior charging windmills, undaunted

Lucent signal fires

Far above mounded earth,  radiating points blaze
Lucent signal-fires,  falling light's seeded glimmers
Captured succor, my adoration's sole requirement
Hallowed stronghold's  luminous  measured abandon

Floating starry skies, trek-less endless worlds
Past stellar  paradise's seventh heaven
Blazing comets, protective sword of Damocles
Wandering Illuminati, creation's providential children

Radiant paramours, streaking, flashing libertines
Life's lustrous cadence,  ruthless and  irrepressible
Prudence cast to the  laughing light's madness   
Writhing celestial's,  exalted  life's  preeminence

Babeled edifice

Life appearing, disappearing, in never ending cycles
Complimenting the imperative, glorious now
Creating order, our stilled consciousness permeating
Unformed chaos, the origin of possibilities

Parasites all around, unconsciousness draining life
Feeding on the shimmering faces of wakened others
Taking all, giving nothing back, true evil epitomized
Bloody twin, untimely born, grasping humanities heel

Mark upon mark,rule upon rule,our babbled edifice rises
Darkened monolith, penetrating heavens virgin womb
Worlds spinning, webbed ages, karmic entanglements
On and on and on, blasphemies of balance and equilibrium

Clay underdogs

Clay underdogs, slam-dancing, street brawling blitz
Wandering vapor trails, zagging to skeptical rhythms
Truth stealing moments, cruel as lovers scorned
Clutched awl, piercing infinity's leathery heart

Capricious heavens, huntsman's horn, hunting call
Desperate paupers scaling guarded castle walls
Gargoyle and swan, masquerade ball's sporting theme
Shared jester's fate, Victorian and philistine

Whirling gaggle, frightened, frenzied throng
Restless clanging, relentless hammer and gong
Purgatory's anvil, resounding, soul’s dark night
Tolling bells, signaling, dawn's breaking light

Tattered raptures

All is wind and breathless abandon
Spellbindingly wrapped in tattered raptures
Cruel crush of flesh, besieged sapiens
My seamless robe, shredded, flapping

Ripped veil hiding, my restless deep
Gritted, seething, unblinking salt
Gasping whore, freedom's torn maiden
Mythic soul searching for reasons

Naked flight to dawn's far shore
Wretched apparel lays discarded
Filthy rags, my soul's poor catalyst
Threadbare nude, smiling at last

Omnipresent deja vu

O bronzed god, emergent sun's blazing solstice
Care free spring’s youthful dalliance courted
Riding furies through time’s restless portal
Hail Bacchus! Make laughing love, immortal

Romantic's realm, abode of fabled cherubs
Angels playing revelry for eternal celebrants
Trance dancers, throbbing, ravers ecstatic
Mad monks, surfing endless waves, forever

Riddled with cupid's drunken arrows
Second attention's besotted concerto
Hallowed deja vu's blind artistry
Fallowed earth's sodden sure alchemy

Slow dancing to sound bites

Shadow dancing to sound bites
Prefaced by denuded adoration
Alabaster pure linens tainted
Too good for this dusty enclave

World's fallen stars prison house
Mad hatters pawns, enraptured stars
Rendezvous with intimated destinies
And the numbing stealthy refrains

Ethereal voices, calling marvels
Previewing dawn and seasons past
The rude awakening forfeiting
Glistening chrysalis metamorphosed

Unknown trajectories open ended trek
Midnight's escape through black holes
Oblivion's alloyed outstretched palm
Five pointed star begging to be read

Resurrection of a thousand phantasmal
Barren generations enthralled minions
Within deadly mediocrity's timeline
Pedestrian enclave's sure anathema 

Devoid of light and life's outrage
Sure predecessor's blighted fantasia
Forbidden inquisitor, outfoxed in plain sight
Rosetta stone found hidden in chaos

Ruinous calculations, triangulated position
Captured light's circuitous energy
Synergistic overload, problematic charge
Synchronicities coincidence realized

Dancing man of sorrows

Dancing man of sorrows, astonishing sight
Cool brow, in a fevered age ignited
Startling oxymoron, paradoxical truth
Premonitions of a glorious morrow ruthless

The lowliest vale shall elevate preeminent
Surpassing the blue sky’s unimaginable limit
There warm sun shines through the cold rain
Even the unholy shall be supernaturally graced

Where every dark sorrow, vile imagined slight
Shall be banished forever from this pale blue dot
Till all is radiated  glorious light
Shining bright and stilled, amid the trembling night

Sealed womb

Take flight, My winged heart of fancy
Hovering, poised, over the yielded rainbow
Arcing diver, spinning theatrical romantic
My deepened, thrusting soul, entranced

Shimmering iron, my tubular readiness, barred
Sealed womb, foiling penetration, clamped
Zooming mystic, discarded, silent zygote
Adamant universe's stoic, miscarried light

Rushing polyphonous wind, cresting, calling
Renaming me, newborn universal levite
Sequenced light, life's coded re-creation
Bold new paradigm, reconstituted, fervent

Loveliness Is Thy Female Form

Loveliness is  thy female form
A beauty that's unequalled still
The sound of my heart, in your absence
Is just empty, hissing noise

O, but in your thrall ecstatic!
All gods’ creatures stand and shout
We dance, arms wide, on mountaintops
With the cunning love of consumation

I'm a  king upon your outspread charms
A gasping cry from  azure Heaven
I wash into your garden, breaking 
A wave upon your gleaming bosom

Once Upon A Summer's Sun

So it began, our life together
lasooing a shooting star
Hailing the bounty we shared,
Once under a summer’s sun

There upon your flesh,
I staked my new-found-land
Midst the presence of sky
And thunderous exclamations

I have no repentant sorrow
That Adam has known his Eve
Though now I leave for other lands
Hope torn along the dotted line

She Shimmers With Heat

She dances with feminine heat
Her slow pressured pleasure melting
Spilling Fragrance onto my earth         
She's the brown hands of my damp soul

She shines with  desire of princes
Hot Venus  splayed like swaying trees     
An open book, each page well thumbed
Hot lover bathed in pools of bliss         

She rode underneath, rising high 
Glazed and flush,  gossiping of Eve
Fanning the blazing summer's flame
Her honeyed womb dripping with gold

The Wind Cries Your Name

The wind is blowing again my friend

Who kisses the dawn with peace

Trailing hope as she sails onward

Her lightning bids me forward

Pure object of celestial birth

Full of clouds and golden lyres

A spreading miracle filling time

Whose lingering ecstacy awes

The  valley rings with power

Full of the desire of ages

Reflected in reluctant moons

The deep cycle sighs complete

Under the zenith of burnt offerings

Filled with countless hopes and dreams

Blush not, hold them higher still

No farewell kiss shall brush your lips

Rivers of Desire

Bathe us in the rivers of desire
where raging love once gasped
Sweet bliss of another life  
effervescent swirl of flesh

dancing memories upon nirvana's
soul of wet and parted clouds
Sentinel rising from the depths
Enticing us with changing rules

A mellowed haze of ecstacy
Stolen intoxicating sweets
Come my love, come, breathlessly
Soar on wings of consummation

A droplet running down the walls
Upon the sheer cliffs of ecstacy
Braced moaning against the rocks
Hidden deep in pleasured clefts

Awake the thousand days of love

Awake the thousand days of love
Toast their golden chaliced bounty
Of spirit wind’s bold sacrifice
Upon a cold and brambled  altar

Invisible and ancient race
Kings and queens of an empty court
In wonder surging over earth
And dark recesses of pale sky

At this feast lit by morning stars
Love dwells with full measure of life
And deep inside this veil of stone
A shadow flies across the Sun


There the quenched fire of dreamless nights
Spellbound by bright and blinding light
Foreshadowing the waxing dawn
Shall release all bridled passion

I"m a river flowing

In truth, I am a river flowing
My deep echoes with joyous laughter
I fear to look too closely within
Lest those bright waves disappear

I am no Solitude in refined attire
I call to those held in fiery palms
Who rage in crashing deed and woe
Things we deny and disguise for fear

I stand as a flower in some distant meadow
Bound on this unenviable bed of anguish
Bearing the rustling of tangled trees
Beyond the mountains and far away

I call to arms, wearing only a paper crown
A single sifted grain, am I, courtesy of the sand
By the gale I’m blown against my roots
No more than a glimmer, to the rainbow’s end

Excaliber's blade

Remind me to light the world, to burn before I fall
With wings of my soul and a God in the gleam
Tell me to smile for the children of the air
I go to meet their mortal sting and dream of clay and sky

Oh! I am pierced! By sure Excalibur’s blade
In thrust and parry of heart his shaft hold's forth truth
There are found the sweetest sighs, inhaling holiness
Please, tell me, O God, timeless amber truths

This heart,  this man's soul, I have often poorly shared
For I can never repay, all that I have is broken and gone 
Cognizant of calm and new, I close my own bright self
As the moth draws nearer, dancing with distant heat

Why the ending of love and the sweetness thereof?
When just around the corner woeful winter turned tail
Fall on the sky and cry, ‘I AM’! For what else can we seek?
I hold life's lone mystery and alone with God reside 

When is there another time? If I hide my heart, and fear
Yesterday’s shoreline my wandering thoughts refuse to cross 
The late afternoon air begins once more to ease my yearning
Whispering echoes of eternity, whitewaters of love's desire!

The grass blissfully sings

I worship the broken life-lines
The smoke of proud passing beauty
The glory of stoic leafless trees
Foolishly laughed at in plain sight

O holy song of evening breath
Wake my face from stony sleep
Fly me to the wintry mountains
All creatures are but fragile glass

Our infant wings stir the quiet
While the grass  blissfully sings
Hymns of weeping at noontime
Drowning in the flood of light

That's when worlds innumerable
Rising, spread fire air-ward
Faint lights on the valley floor
Universal man, leaping for joy

Chameleon of the moment

Chameleon of the Moment

Time devours my simple space
Its pale hands stealing the present
And holding me in opaque thrall
Denying my highest dharma

I'm a rebel of passing autumn                
An innocent spinning gold
Capturing fleeting transcendence
An evolving angel's Soul

I'm running back to where I saw
High above the silent drones              
Tomorrow’s dreams nailed to the sky
I grasped them lest they slip beyond

They noticed not the wonder shown
Raw lightening held within my palm
I tasted of unspeakable things
A Chameleon of the moment

Runs With Wolves

When the mirror knows not your face
When the light within forgets your name
When mistakes and imperfections multiply
When the way is not clear, wait with hope

Learn the futitlity of self abasement
Embrace your sins, turn not away
For of such is built the city of angels
Each false step bringing power to your song

How oft neglected, the left hand path
Which in truth, we all  part way travel
While most bask  in self satisfaction
The alternate road remains unused


If chased and driven from every town
Then to the river with head held high
If barred from the river, then to the sea!
No disgraced animal, but a leader of men


Let every bland pawn, prophesy his destiny
Ruminating with oblivious, bovine  ease
As for me, always the restless carnivore
I must be free to run with wolves!

I wished upon a falling tear

I wished upon a falling tear
Resounding a pity who’s unheard Strains
Silenced a thousand instruments Of delight
With melancholy airs

O Autumn, laden with sweet mournfulness
Calmly I lay my spinning head
At the golden feet of your  earth
And wipe away the dust of ages

My little sorrows are drowning
In the sound Of thunderous waters
Dissolving my heavy chains of vanity
I found holy chasteness under your sky

Hailing eternity with full choir
I marveled through gardens of delight
Dreaming a world that is fully awake
Where children of the morn yet soar  

Rusty Iron

The noise of living growth against rusty iron
Blasphemous like an inverted crucifix
Just a clanging shutter [says the iron]
A dissipation of energy turned outward

A glittering constellation of sucking breath
That bright flickering flame of infancy
Rude empires reaching toward horizons
Freedom echoing down the open road

Like a newborn song eager to conquer
They pull aside the curtain called wonder
Celebrating, midst the constancy of iron
Singers of holy melodies yet unwritten

Feel Once More With Me

Feel once more with me, at morn-and twilight dim
The wind is light; our course unplotted and fair
For never sun and joy, the stars that were born seeing
My Smile of care, and wandering earth herself afar

Till the shifting soil of life belies our remedies
And somewhere, inside me, I declare we have won
I could dance and live and act, now, as long, long ago
Although you dared to breathe the darkness, never fear

All is gazeless beauty, tightly wound, maddening splendor
Listen, restless, musical voice of spinning prayer wheels
Behold where true Love composed the world’s farewell
Among the longing Isles and many a silent sea arising

I salute the springs of yesteryear, her single deathless rose
And many thoughts passed away there with dismal sheen
I saw that glow, the sinewy thread my life has assembled
Unknown fleeting shadows, dim vales- and nothing more

Lambency

The ever-present splendor, when I feel it
I step outside of god’s guarded flock
And thru the rain call my own name
Riding the tide for several moments

The screaming songs of man fly by
Broken winged, but I taste them not
For I’m derived from fire and my
Wild flame burns still uncontained

I worship alone, where xanadu was born
Traveling, cloaked in the darkness
Unseen king disguised as a pawn
Crowned with toil and loving touch

Revealing my deep lambent light
Others gaze, feigning deep passion
I spit and follow the wandering sun
The sum of all days filling my soul

Arise My Love

Arise my love, out of dust and demise
Be the rude unrepentant spectacle
The consummation of ruthless mercy
Like a hermit drunk with solitude

Yearn for the warm embrace of life
Keeping pace with your halting dance
Of a hope not contingent on this space
See how unafraid you can become!

As you look longingly toward the dawn
Know the sun is but controlled chaos
A flame contorting your slumbering awe
As you sit in silence, shorn of wonder

Glutted with the slow sentiment of a beast
Mere phantom whose pale beauty speaks
Volumes to the unhealed grievous wound
That sacred majesty which bears all being

cognizant absurdity

Yearning to reach the deep
Aching for envelopment
My stunted selves, shunned
Shelved like so much chattel

To recapitulate all personas
Into the grand synthesis
Yet what is accomplished?
“I“ is such  convenient fiction

A  momentary stoppage
Stepping stone in the stream
Necessary for comprehension
But ultimately ephemeral

I watch myself unfold, for what?
All is such tremendous mystery
Thoughts arise from unknown depths
Surprising me, their author

What pompous, fallacious nonsense
As if this sensate bundle exists
Apart and wholly without cause
I belly laugh that thought into oblivion

Uneasy balance

My wanderlust is insatiable!
I want to see all! I’m curiosity personified
The sole purpose of life?
Evolution of consciousness!
I need input, experience
To justify my existence

Any fool can play statue!
How long can you hold?
The same, lame position
You misguided zealot
Mistaken guardian of truth

I’m ruthless in my scorn
For your deadened, leadened
Smugness in the face of mystery
Your repudiation of our calling
Our sole overarching purpose
To learn from life itself

As for me, I’m clueless, without assumptions
Ignorant and eager as a newborn
Each moment receptive to my reality
Perceiving all, in unending process

After all, life is process, ever changing, unfolding
Walking the thin red line between
Continuation and oblivion
With no assurances, no guarantees
Come for awhile and walk with me

Lust for life

When the force of life seduces you
Be not indignant at this intrusion
Nor with reticent rage push away
Gasp instead, in the heated embrace

We’re the golden mistress
Brimming with coded messages
Envoys of erotic hunger
Life lusts for us like a lover

The hot, thick breath of ravishment
Needs you to join this eternal dance
This writhing, purple passion
Of the momentary cosmic swirling

Grasp the  universe’s  mirrored horn
Preen  in its reflective surfaces
Slide across the adamant expanses
Do this and suns shall bow their knee

The heretic of sand and foam

I love wonder’s bright tears, and I
Love life in all its wielded splendor
And freedom's wind redeeming
This lost heretic of sand and foam      

I chiseled the near face of god
Whose sinewy hands, bore the Grail
Held high with thirsting fingertips
A new world waiting to be born
 
Wild fruitful dreams and longing prayers
Sifted and pure, by infinitude
Defying time's envelopment
The long goodbye's relentless grace

Lucent epiphany

An impassioned man of keen blindness
I saw heaven on earth, a lucent epiphany
Through the momentary pauses of clouds
Water, fire, air, the stars, revealed in full joy          

Stilled before the dancing rocks, I
Delighted in the innocent face of nature
Enlightened midst life's noisiest hour
I changed perspectives, casting no shadows

Now I cry for the eternal lies of uneasy sprawl
Those betrayed by false pleasures, loud and gone
I talk of being, praying under a wide moon
Blushing, fully awake with life, mystic son

Tangle of thorns

I'm a tangle of thorns on the wide shoulders of god
I'm a piper sitting beneath the gates of iron
I’m stilling the winds, chaining myself to heaven
While clashing earth razes the temples of solitude

Whose pinnacles soar, skyward, like points of a star
While I dream of paradise with shining eyes of hope
The journey and I, two souls standing as One
Lone beating heart, our breath intermingled

Rushing out into a day full of cruel talons
Reinventing the wheel that birth bestowed
Every wound strengthening my determination                    
My pale fire roaring like the sound of many waters

Delight in the cycle of my drum

Delight in the cycle of my drum
Breathe its pure raptured rhythms
The finger of god ever closer
Dancing like the rising phoenix

Gawking at the glory of kings
This world is blind and cannot hear
A marked vision of hope whose hand
Betrays heaven and grasps the dark

Golden orb, pale images all
Sweet songs for the savage race
Auspicious guide for a primal brood
Gone with a gleam of frothy thought

I pound a cadence of  miracles
For unseen masses do I sing
Thru the black night of  suns
Each beat full of resounding hope

prodigious

Prodigious
Breathy
Windy enchantress
Wind me tightly
Mortal coiled Olivette

Coolly enamored
Damp and dada dayspring
Immodest dharma
Erewhon is enough
Is here now ever seen?

Intersect me raptor
Sweat me
Clean arced
Thawing, melding
Running quick silvered
Sublime reams unbound

Flushed fecund
Unapproachable shore
I……………………….
Woman of Pleiades

Beckon
Siren songed temptress
Dark impetuous tart
Bountifully laden
Stark vicissitudes of desire
Trysting angels squirming

Groaning hell bent
Or heavenly
Mindless phantoms merging
Searing, icy hot

Wordless ingrained coding
Reptilian brain play
Rehearsed a zillion aching
Times afore at least

Twisting, curving,
Ineffable something
O god, heavenward,
Spinning heavily

Unfocused, I,
Undone, dizzy, dropping
Headily, sliding
Limp, spineless
Sucked into nothingness

Love Is Written On Your Face

Love is written on your face  
Entered cloud I feed on you
Stepping softly, praying to breathe
Your wild atmospheric air

Beneath loud music we travel
Earth, chiding the barren ground
Sweet inflamed glow, praising
The sun's nearer approach

Like figures upon the rocks
Whose single splendor shines
Fresh ornaments of marble
Our elemental passion, screams


Possessing a shadowed perfection
Shrouded in mist, walking the sea
Strange beasts of ecstasy and pain
Shouted whispers in the rushing dark