Deeply hidden within thoughts
that linger
A centuries old message to know
and then feel
Remembrance crying out from the
darkness now passing
In a voice so familiar—our fortune
to steal
It calls to us silent, as it waits
for an answer
It calls to us closer, as all
distance revokes
It calls from within us in a voice
our breath fosters
It calls from beyond all past anguish
and hope
The air now grows heavy with
a mist that induces
Words mate in the fog as the
letters reverse
The ending comes first, as the beginning
still chases
All sleep taken hostage
—as new memories converse
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
A Windless Sea
Opinion,
shapes the
aftermath
of what once was free
A commentary of
detainment,
adrift
—on a windless sea
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
The Passion Enflamed
Don’t get ahead of the feeling,
never forget a memory unlearned
Don’t think and kill the passion enflamed,
forgoing the moment—all time left to burn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Now And Then
It’s all been different
It’s all been the same
It’s all been anonymous
It’s all had a name
It all had a beginning
It all has an end
Its truth lost in winning
Its game of pretend
And we search for the answer
And we question profane
And we blame it on providence
And we smother the flame
As we look toward the horizon
As we look past the shore
As the waves crash with meaning
—now as then, and before
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Mount Rushmore Afternoon
Editing Poetry…
which face comes off the mountain?
(Keystone South Dakota: August, 2013)
A Ladder Appears
Stuck on the broken landing
Of a stairway to nowhere
My mood no longer elevated
My spirit remiss of song
Looking over the railing
Into a history that I buried
A ladder appears above me
But when I step—its rungs are gone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
The Dark Road
Revenge…
a desperate stepping stone
—on the road to perdition
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Unholy Marriage
Lunacy…
the unholy marriage
—of laughter and fear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)