Poem: Boundaries

The golden fields of childhood
Lined with verdant forests
Providing a soft boundary
Ripe for exploration

Poem: Paradise Cove

A ring of light circles us
As we tread water
In this place you visited once
In a dream where we moved
Silent through the waves

Poem: Coffee Dream

Hot and steamy
Rising form the black depths
The vapor roils and curls
Like the curve of your lip

Poem: Oppression

Insidious undercurrents still run deep
Like hate filled tendrils wrapped tight
Around the heart of men believing
That there vision is the only one
That truly matters in the collection
Of voices that arise in opposition

Poem: Absolution

The rattling of countless coins
Making resplendent sounds
In deep coffers stashed in gilded temples
Trumpeting the sound of generations of absolution
Where sinners payed to atone for sins

Poem: Repeat

The needle skips
And skips
And skips
Until I put it back in the groove
That old vinyl has been playing
The same song since you left

Poem: Comma Haiku

Words withheld by lips
A comma pause between us
Unfinished story

Poem: Rain City

Slate grey skies open
Over a city that would never
Embarrass itself with an umbrella
Wearing rain on their faces

Poem: Serious Talk

She’s got that need to talk look
Though her red lipstick and done up eyes
Are communicating something else
When she says she wants to talk
About needs while my mind wants
To talk about wants

Poem: Evening News

Talking heads on the TV
Tell the home viewer of the world
The worries that fill it
From an environment trying to kill them
Before AntiFa turns their country
Into a socialist wasteland