A Voice From Beyond (+6)

Poetry often answers

  —a question never asked

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

Only A Dream

 

She stole your heart

  without asking

    —leaving only a dream to chase

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

 

Borrow & Steal

 

Borrow from a liar

  —but steal from the truth

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

Be Wary

 

Be wary of that trap once set

  —for yourself

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

When The Fates Allow

 

I don’t write sonnets,

 or limerick verse

 

I don’t write haiku,

 though often terse

 

I don’t write ballads,

 or Horatian odes

 

I don’t write parables,

 to self-implode

 

But I do write in rhythm,

 and often in rhyme

 

With meaning that’s buried,

 and metered in time

 

All verbal indenture,

 I must disavow

 

For the meaning to rise

 —when the fates do allow

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016) 

 

 

The Stars

 

Is it a memory that pushes

  the future away

 

As wishes embody our souls

 

Is it a promise that opens

  and closes our hearts

 

All hope to then console

 

Is it a longing that reigns

  over friendship now lost

 

Of times once sorely blest

 

Is it the searching for love

  and the choice to believe

 

The stars at our behest

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)

 

 

Our Choices

 

Your say download

I say upload

Diametrically opposed

 

I look up

While you look down

The truth now juxtaposed

 

I step forward

You step back

Our choices thusly shown

 

I remember

You forget

  —the difference mine to know

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)