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no more not again not another rest talk negotiate -or- displace destroy demolish culture country clan family child heart We watch passively as the images just roll across our screens. We preach aggressively to justify our ends with our means. We see everything and everyone as lesser than...

Incongruent Saviors Your crossed arms, Your crossed legs My crossed fingers hoping you'll leave your cross Not a personal hero but forever my martyr I don't want to see you cry Your passive resistence, Their patient insistence My hands tied tightly behind my back Not another pathetic...

This is for you. I'll never know you I never did But I did want you This mask always hid Secret desire Heart's love unrequited They said "you better not" Surely you know I did it So I moved with her and thought of you So I talked with them and laughed with you So I drifted home and wanted you...

Pondered the Outcomes I swallowed deeply and followed your perfume Attitude in the air was weight in the room A permanent scar that hid my face away Travelling at night I don't see the light of day Music was the dancer and photographic was your style My eyes followed you around mile after mile...

Strolling Another summertime Another fine wine Unwind from a hard day's work A cool breeze for you and me You know I'm still in love The parkway is a fine place For our lovers' laughs This pathway is our old way For us to forget the past Cos these days They just escape me These ways just...

Two In Blue Substitute me for you Install and upload you in me Fleshy fingers and shallow lies Savoring moments and handy ties Crossing the line into "Why?" Cosmic connections and emoticons Offer no substitution for the great beyond Two in blue from around the world Feelings and monitors buzz...

There was a smiling time, a calming time when we would hold hands and walk. There was a dream then, a scheme then within the way that we'd talk. But now we're two lovers here who are stuck there in a hard place by a rock. So I'm singing now, and I'm thinkin' about how I just remembered your...

my philosophe you were, you were my stigma, my stutter I was the bicycling fish and you were my lover we were dreams, dreamers in the dreams of ten thousand lonely souls when you watched me I was your TV and you, my philosophe now I'm alone now I'm a waste now you are my dream I just want you...

drop drop your casual pretention there are weeklong believers lift lift your highest aspirations not unto the heavens, but to your neighbor move move forward among the lamb in the field the seek only comfort leave leave it all behind for when you go, He goes with you, too...

"What a night, what a city, what a show...and its all over." I DON'T MEAN TO SOUND MOROSE, but its inevitable. The question is how- a bar-brawl gone bad, the studio sessions never ended or just "the day we just can't make music anymore"? As time passes and things change, U2 will eventually...

never lost we are forever names now lost in a dust cloud lazy days rainy haze I wish I was home you could phone write send me a sign I am here you are mine drying eyes crying lies disguise? surprise? "All rise." you were never lost never gone up without the sun not alone hear the tone dial...

brown & gold crunch crisp air dried moss stream rain cold rain shimmery mornings football walk through the cold night's air hands held tight scarfs toques wool socks hot chocolate, chai and hot carmel machiattos go best in times like these, when halloween is around the corner and its almost...

Compose yourself, you dissident flyer! Your exposure reveals loss, but your attitude shows promise. Pull yourself upward, flutter with correct posture, then dive! Through clouds, fields, flocks of geese, updraft, downwind, stall in midflight, then descend. Upon arrival greet your mother...

A Litany for a Bad Life I pain to understand children that hold dieing birds grandmothers wishing on lost husbands dogs roaming for moved families and lovers pining for their beloved. Instead my head knows gamblers who lose their homes thieves burning their loot liars hiding out in the next...

I wrote this while I was flying over the Black Mesa in northern New Mexico. I climb onto the mesa drag my feet across the boulder clamber to stand and admire the view I can see arroyos yucca and sage I stand, genuflecting in the sun and the Zia arrests my soul I lower into the cavern as I...

calm summer evenings in the city trestles caress my sides I stagger, but still hold your weight as you cross my span will I feel relief from this tension when you leave? or is it the coming that I crave? now I stand tall my glass veneer shimmering ride to the top, and down again throughout the...

untitled thorn crown for your head barbed wire for your prairies tide pool for your urchin phlegm for your cough smoke for your cigarette drug for your addiction sun for my flower energy for my walk library for my book words for my poem beat for my song water for my plant blood for my vein a...

July 15, 2001 An untitled poem whose subject is life. marriages, funerals, births and deaths I catch everyday life in my microscope examining their fates, I watch intently as they compose their futures my idle romantic heart comes to life when a Grandmother?s blessing becomes a solemn dirge...

How to Write a Poem 1. situate yourself in front of the mirror, with full view of all your limbs, and backside, if possible. 2. familiarize yourself with the toolbox that writers use. go through each device carefully, and know how to use it. 3. start with your teeth- they come easy. Just make...

Waiting Slumber, callous lover: in your whispers I find completion. Shoot out somber rays from your studded eyelids for I revel in your melancholy. Your melodies surround me, my mood drops down: I am the mud to your fingers. Play in my emotion- Geppetto to Pinocchio, Michelangelo to David, God...

smooth summer nights soft, silken shorts the ball bounces the ball rims shoes squeek and your curl relaxes conscious memories colliding with cautious realities those marvelous moon shots and your brick wall lifestyle fish, where are you? maurice, did you make it back? push it to the crib...

come around my love come around me love lift me up take me down come around, love open up your insides you are the forest- I am the winter show me your pride show me what you hide and I'll bring you life when we were the birds flying in the skies peering into heaven I spoke without lies it was...

saturday slumbers on ocean beaches summer holidays and we escape work- the day in, day out captivity of cubicles, commuting and consumerism all sit in the corner and lurk? we all do it for our friends, fathers families and mothers everyone does it the same, and we smile because on the inside...

His hands were your shackles Your trust was his weapon ..............When he hits you, you don't mind Held down, you held it in Fell down, I wanted in ..............When he hurts you, you feel alive Your father wouldn't love you Your mother couldn't trust you ..............So you never knew love...

Life-giving, for Zooropamanda Blue skies glisten, and I watch satellites- there's knowledge to gleen from the stars! In a handfull of dirt I plant a seed- is it a tree, or is it a human? the water bobs and the fish float, the seal swims and the jellyfish flounder (I flounder). Where is the...