Sleeping With The Muse (+2)

Sleeping with the Muse,

  my nights have grown short

Sleeping with the Muse,

  my spirit comports

Sleeping with the Muse

  words dance with delight

Sleeping with the Muse

  confronting my fright

Sleeping with the Muse

  her will tests again

Sleeping with the Muse

  not lover nor friend

Sleeping with the Muse

  my dreams sacrifice

Sleeping with the Muse

  all rest put on ice

Sleeping with the Muse

  the whispers come clean

Sleeping with the Muse

  excuses demeaned

Sleeping with the Muse,

  my spool is respun

Sleeping with the Muse

  divorced from the sun

Sleeping with the Muse

  in darkness I learn

Sleeping with the Muse

  the day will confirm

Sleeping with the Muse

  till dawn’s freeing light

Sleeping with the Muse

  —new words to take flight

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016) 

Living Unclaimed

Present ordained

  past future in shame

The Poet and Jester

  as one

Living unclaimed

  free and unnamed

Archangel and Devil

  —undone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

I Kneel And I Pray

Will the words come,

  will the words go

Are they forever,

  how do I know

What do I think,

  what do I feel

Memory escapes

  a spoke off the wheel

Written in blood

  spoken in rhyme

Forever to echo

  forever sublime

Daffodils scatter

  a wolf howls at bay

Nighttime has answered

  —I kneel and I pray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)