If It Ain't Worth Remembering (+5)

Patches on the quilt of life,

letters sew not rend

Memory darning time to time,

future warmth depends

Words left tattered, words that bind,

 ragged breath portends

To stitch it once and have it last

—tomorrow on the mend

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

Inspired By Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant

“If It Ain’t Worth Remembering, It Ain’t No Good”

Until Then

Until you really love someone,

you don’t know what you’ll do

The old rules self-abated,

priorities renewed

Until you really love someone,

you won’t see past yourself

Your life upturned, your role reversed

—your soul to someone else

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)

The Borderline

I dare you

not to read the words,

I double-dare you true

To live outside

a sentenced life

—your spirit unrenewed

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)

Love Demands

Damned when we do, damned when we don’t,

the end works out the same

As love demands its pound of flesh

—the lion never tamed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

‘Inspired By Daniel Turner’

Surrendering To Love

All passion enslaved to Aphrodite,

her chains beyond silver or gold

Where time will forever surrender,

 to love—never purchased or sold

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

Charlatan Of Verse

An empty voice with naught to say,

a barrel hollow born

To spout and spew, pontificate,

a hairless sheep forlorn

With lines recopied, often stole,

released, his name to bear

A charlatan of spoken verse

—embezzled words to share

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)