The ‘Deceivers Of Time
Masquerade Ball’
Invitees file past
Yesterday in drag,
Tomorrow disguised
Today—the Present’s mask
Memories hide
in the shadows of hope
All wishes dancing fast
Until the Jester laughs
as the final waltz ends
Deception to the last
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
The True Cost
Its answer never welcome…
“The Price Of Joy Is Pain”
The question forever mired
—in perpetual disdain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Unmade
Prose…
Has a room built in
For the reader
To crawl inside
And sleep
Maybe
More than one room,
Unmaking all beds
That the Poet
—has so carefully made
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Words Of Hope
Left on their own,
my words turn to prayer
Renewing my faith
—confirming You’re there
Spoken aloud,
they lodge in my soul
Warming my heart
—and keeping me whole
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
\'From The Book Of Prayers\'
A Tinge Of Lilac
My window opens wider,
as my focus narrows down
The words are now much richer
than what I used to think profound
The light brings joy and substance,
filling corners deep and closed
Its breezes tinged with lilac
—all negatives exposed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Solus Ipse
Not like her,
And
Not like him,
And
Not like you
—I write!
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
The Sun Will Come Up
The warts are ugly,
the wrinkles deep
The flesh now sagging,
deprived of sleep
The eyesight failing,
with hearing gone
But words still call
—from tomorrow’s song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
\'From The Book Of Prayers\'
In Memoriam
His funeral
unattended
His pallbearers
the written word
His gravesite
an ashen memory
His legacy
—in futures heard
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
From The Darkness
The only sin uncommitted
—is the one unknown
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Licentia
A strange thing happens
once you’re as old as your heroes
The mystery less enchanting,
the romance nearly gone
A stranger thing happens
when you outlive your heroes
The nuances shouting boldly
—permission now won
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Timeless Attraction
The gravity of words,
their truth pulls together
A force field of enlightenment
—beyond the continuum of time
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
1 + 1 = 1
Superpositioned,
truth here and truth there
Unmeasured duality,
a mirror contraire
Whose message lies distant,
whose message lies near
A Siamese phantom,
both fronts facing rear
The sublime contradiction,
one plus one equals one
Their natures poetic
—each truth zero sum
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)