I say it's sunny weather.
You say it's cold outside.
I say the water is fine.
You say the deep blue has lost its shine.
Spin a nickel like a bottle
watch it turn.
Light a candle in the dark…
…
Read moreJul 15 2021
I say it's sunny weather.
You say it's cold outside.
I say the water is fine.
You say the deep blue has lost its shine.
Spin a nickel like a bottle
watch it turn.
Light a candle in the dark…
…
Read moreJul 6 2021
Come away with me
high above any nervous weather
and sound of city thunder
where heaven doesn’t fade from the uncertain sky
I’m waiting with my favorite suit on
the one with love poems in every drifting pocket
…
Read moreJun 27 2021
The poem is available at every moment; open to the active gaze, resting in the sounds that vibrate the focused ear, awaiting with excitement as one touches or tastes upon the physical elements that are at hand. Even smells reveal…
Read moreJun 16 2021
A copper spoon
that would have been polished silver
slips from a mouth as wide as a watermelon smile
revealing the imagination of a negro child
that invents in pencil, pen and crayon black
like a score from Porgy and…
Read moreMay 21 2021
My wires keep a rapid pace
They separate your face from a crowded space
A looking mirror breaks
as salacious sounds escape
My heart awakes in a moment near you
. . . holding a Cinderella shoe
yet the festive…
Read moreMay 19 2021
A black-top, farm-to-market, road window breeze.
An old friend, sunrise, eases through the objecting screen.
Dawn beams softly off her morning eyes.
Dew sleeping, on her lazy yard,
still cool from twilight,
wet under a set of bare feet,
bare…
Read moreMay 5 2021
Brownie is a hold of breath
So beautiful in drift
ripping stationary
Elegance permits her temper
a swing jazz tempo in bop
One had to really listen
She skipped punctuations, vowel sounds, and
Inflated onomatopoeias
Like the drummer splashing his…
Read moreMay 2 2021
From copious ash of grave misfortune
I shall rise again and again
Despite the deceitful hearts of men
my candid nerves shall not be lost
nor set to waver by their lurid contempt
When jealousy triumphs
and her indifference scorns
…
Read moreApr 26 2021
There's no one
like you
I've searched every single page
for two
Imagined myself with a crayon
neon blue
A shade so perfect
it rivaled the moon
A play on looks in your glance
A quick book full of speechless…
Read moreApr 26 2021
He was a lit wick
at each end,
... lost a few screws each time the wind blew.
... wore a steel-toe military combat boot
on his wrong foot!
... said it was agent orange ...
water torture ...
Vietnam…
Read moreApr 26 2021
Club lights dim
People in the back gradually disappear
momentarily
in the trim
a flood of red, grim and sinister, rays saturate the stage
Ruby shoes
Crimson Tuesday
scarlet sweaters
and
a
Marxist sound-man adjusting volumes and distortions
Welcome
as
…
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