Missing The Dream (+5)

For a mountain to be high,

 a valley must be low

 

But inherent in both,

 one truth is to grow

 

Dimensions and colors

 and polar extremes

 

Self-serving the obvious

 —while missing the dream

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)

 

 

Laura's Captive

 

Fifty years a poet

More than that a man

My spirit held in ransom

Laura’s captive once again

 

Fifty years a poet

And all those years a boy

The written word a treasured gift

  —my soul’s most precious toy

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

 

 

Darkness All I See

 

What’s left of my remembrance,

  now all that stokes the fire

 

What embered in the springtime,

  the winter does expire

 

To douse not once but then again,

  that spark which set me free

 

My wood left burnt with forest bare

  —and darkness all I see

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

 

 

Channeling A Melody

 

As the music inflates,

  like a David Bowie video

 

My voice is set free

  for the words to diffuse

 

Floating above the unwritten verse

   like steam escaping

 

And drifting free as the

  pressure expands

 

It cries out the release of a

  lyric unsung

 

Channeling a melody

  —neither future nor past

 

  (Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

 

 

Yet To Plow

 

Don’t wait for that perfect poem

  to appear

 

It lives in the seeds of your

  imperfection

 

Waiting for new furrows of wonder

  and strife

 

To flower in soil you have yet

  to plow

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

 

 

It's Harder

 

It’s harder to lie in verse or a poem,

  than it is with dialog or prose

 

It’s harder to bend the truth over a feeling,

 than around what you or someone else knows

 

It’s harder to feign an eruption of light,

  or the isolation of being alone in the dark

 

It’s harder to mislead with words formed in your soul,

  than with tomes that were written to outsmart

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)

 

 

 

The Difference Within

 

The universe orders

  the questions and answers

 

Eternity caught

  —within their difference

 

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)