Poem: Happy Endings

She’s grown up on stories
Of princesses in castles
With long flowing hair
And knights that chase after
Their happy endings

Poem: Aubade Zwei Máni

Máni’s sweet kisses seal
the slumber’s eyelids
with dreams of buxom Valkyries
serving ale in longhouses filled
with the uproarious songs
of bloody victory, noble death

Poem: Dreaming of Change Unchanging

We always use the word changes
to describe life as it moves as it does
in reality it just rearranges
to something new from what it was
we’re trying to hold on because
we cannot adapt as we should

Poem: A City Dreaming of Itself

My dreamer listens
To the song of the city
That pretends it never sleeps
Calling out with the multitude
Of strangers voices in a choir
With cars and sirens and noise
Cacophonous to untrained ears
To my dreamer it’s a lullaby

Poem: Ripples

It’s her breathing
In late night hours
The in and out
Of silence masking
The slumber of a dreamer

Poem: Misses Jones

In a oceanside cafe Maria sits alone
Bare foot tapping time to the band
Playing flamenco music on stage
All the boys are calling to her
To show some of that Spanish dancing

Poem: Morpheus

Still moments in the dawn
When blankets still cover
Dreams not yet stolen
By Morpheus into his realm
Soft breath slowing
The wakening heart

Poem: Drip Drying

The rain keeps falling
As I’m sitting here
Drip drying drinking
Drip coffee dreaming
Of what I’ll say
When you sash shay
In from the storm
Shaking your umbrella
The same way you shake