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I want to see the thoughts
you breathe,
hear your words and collect them,
cradled in your honesty.
I could watch the beauty in your eyes
for eternity
without ever wishing
to walk away.  

You give me your hand
and I close my eyes,
hear the whisper of the sea
and I remember how my heart
has searched for one
such as you
knowing I have found my home.

My love,
the world could dance
on the shells of their falsehood
with words
written in beautiful calligraphy
and your words
would continue to run in my veins
like Morse code
tapping out who I am
to me.

You fill my hope chest with your spirit
lifting my head
from the table of where my mind wanders
when I forget
to stop and smell the roses along the way.
Your words
bring precious harmony
into play.

I look through the window of my heart
where you
have pressed your lips
on a photograph of your words
and I feel you as soft touches
on my soul.
 I collect them one by one
to remember,
until you again I hold.
Candy love
          neon colors bubbling up through
     pink cellophane quilts

                  Voices that
                                 despite all logic
             pledge allegiance to the sincerity beside
                                                            roma­nce

You say it's hard to run on nothing
                          but it's harder with a broken heart
A simple woman, sitting by the window sill
watching the dust glimmering in the beams of sunlight
that peak through her broken curtains.
she catches them with her tongue.
she forgets to put her undergarments on usually when she wears a dress
and alone she loves to be naked.

A simple woman who wakes up in the morning
and washes her face, examines herself in the mirror
one minute convinced she is beautiful and the next pale and daunted
the water slowly runs down her neck

she is electrical with remorse,  fondled by regret
she is enamored by the new day
she wants to lay in her bed forever
she cannot wait to kiss the sun

her mind will make your soul feel -light/cool wind/calm.
her heart .fleshy -copious, and pregnant with deadly bombs

her hands press down like the dictator in his high
her hands press down like the mothers upon a new born

black and white things make their way down
like oil snakes, leaving impressionable trails behind
this mirror that she stares into
behind all the admirable things she has tasted
she examines her mouth
the creature that has pranced upon vicious moments
the one that restrains itself from brutal emotional death

some of her days are a rise above phenomenal planets
she throws her arms in the sky and dances every step she knows soaking wet
enthralled, blistered and covered in the masquerade of her tears
usually she is empty, hallow - engraved with speechless anecdotes of
her most inspiring times,
under the blazed moon
her back glimmers - her skin gives off a light cool
the stare in her eyes, makes every bone in your body
turn to ice, beware of her because sometimes
she is too nice

a simple woman, who will make the black heart turn white
a simple woman who can make ****** fall in love
a simple women who has
died  

she walks into the grocery store
people do not stare correctly, or never stare at all
either way she is discontent ----- rarely people stare with proper eyes
and when they do, things go missing
her memory vanishes- her turmoil falls deeper into the grave yard
she is new

she is a simple woman
she sings after she smokes too much, and does not eat enough sometimes
she enjoys making love to books and giving birth to new ones
she melts at the thought of a good poem
and withers away at the sight of others misfortune

eradicated at age 7, combined by ruckus and 80's music
John Lennon, a blonde grandmother. Greetings
and fingers that almost touched

I have a collection of old birthday cards,
and kept the items that I almost died in
shriveled roses and vintage candles

A simple woman, breaking at dawn with the hour
coolly breathing in the midnight disaster
smiling to absolutely nothing in the world
I did not want the courts
and the life of the cities
and I did not want the struggle
but I did not leave -
perhaps it was me
that saw the tension
but could not come into integrity
and put the blame on duty, care
and responsibility


I did not enjoy the crowds and the clamor
and yet was in it;
perhaps it was me
seeing what was about and all round
but not seeing within me


and then I picked up my staff in my old days
and I live now in my shed in the mountains
and walk when I wish;
and the ways of nature
and its forms keep me company
and I walk where I wish
in the solitude that nature whispered
would be mine, always mine…
but then
I was hard of hearing
when I was young;
and now, you that linger
in the halls of power,
you will see,
I am gone
poem based  on artwork “Walking with a staff” by Shen Zhou (1427–1509), China
In the midst of daily living
  random worlds collide
not every day
but often
my mind will drift
to a dreamlike state,
lost in the heat of burning years.

Today for example
I watched my daughter graduate.
She crossed the stage diploma in hand,
yesterday a pudgy cheeked toddler
with untamed curls and phlegmy laughter.

The years in-between? Smoke.
Smoldering fading fire.
Lingering scent.
Such is life.
Naivety is for the young.
It dissipates with age.

Another example tonite
my wife and I went to dinner,
her children went with us to celebrate.
A surprise party with nothing but smiles,
while yesterday I lived alone and without love
in a hateful and bitter place.

Smoke.
Smoldering fading fire.
Lingering scent.

A journey through the mind
like a field general re-living scenes of war,
he'll take his guilt to the grave
where there should be only glory.

Laughter brings me back.
She smiles at me.
She knows where I have been.
She has seen a different fire.

The irony of the moments is stark.

Bittersweet morning hugs,
tears and congratulations.
Comfortable laughter tonight,
love and appreciation.

What a spinning day of varied emotion,
a collision
of the lives I’ve lived,
orchestrated by a cosmic eye.

Nothing is random.

the best I can do
is take whatever comes my way.
Open the cage of time,
shoo the wings of worry away.
There is only today.

I'm still learning to live with stinging eyes
and see through the dissipating smoke.

The dissipating smoke of the burning years.
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