Thursday, June 28, 2018

Lazarus

There’s no amount of time
I’d always want for more
Now my days seem endless
I’m broken to my core

My father Lazarus
Sleeps coldly in the ice
How is it that you’re gone?
It still does not seem right

You chill the stars and sea
And breeze upon my neck
As long as I will be
I swear I won’t forget.

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Parkway at Dawn

My day begins in quiet dark
I long still to be fast asleep
My joints are sore as I embark
Another day ahead of me

The street is cold and dimly lit
My cup of coffee in my hand
As warmth begins to spread through it
I see the lights from where I stand

I say I’ll drive second today
As neither of us seems to mind
Engines stir as we’re on our way
It whirs and slowly passes time

As dawn begins to gently break
My head is still cloudy with dreams
Soon I will be fully awake
How I love the passenger’s seat

Azure

My love, he has the bluest eyes
They're deep and often sad
So deep that I feel lost at times
As if I had gone mad.

My love, he sometimes slips away
While he's holding me close
His eyes I see have gone astray
I wonder where he goes.

My love, I miss him while he's gone
I wish that he would see
If only I could come along
How happy we would be.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Cousins


Whenever I am down and out
I call you on the phone
We laugh and cry and scream and shout
Without caring who’s home

That’s how I know we’re family
Because you always care
And drink tequila shots with me –
What else in life is there?

Thursday, January 9, 2014

The Morning


Once more I am awake at dawn
I hate to go to bed at night
The man who recently has gone
Creeps with the sun into my light

I pray that he will go away
Across the globe is not so far
Yet better still than yesterday
There just remains the smallest scar

Now lips do kiss where it once hurt
And laughing I’m a fool once more
Remembering how to smile and flirt
Feels better than it did before

The morning comes, now I can sleep
For night has passed quite wickedly
And though I may be falling deep
I’m doing so quite happily

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Saccharine


How dare you come into my life
And take the pain away?
Heartache was all I had to write
My poems are now cliché.

How dare you always make me smile?
I much prefer to brood.
To laugh so much is not my style
You’ve changed my attitude.

How dare you help me sleep at night?
Insomnia’s no more.
My edgy art has lost its bite,
My friends think I’m a bore.

How dare you teach me not to care
What other people say?
Now I’ve become half of one pair
And everything has changed.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Sonnet 55

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
Nor Mars his sword, not war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death, and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
   So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
   You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.