The wishing hour Is those rare hours Between sunset And moonrise darkness Where wishing stars Can be seen The wishing hour Is when I found you Lonely in a field waiting But for what Was it for me The wishing hour She said to me Is when I feel hopeful Sending wishes To the heavenContinue reading “Poem: The Wishing Hour”
Tag Archives: Love
Poem: Desperation Days
Thursdays are desperation days
So close to the weekend they entice
To behavior better saved for Friday nights
I’m laying here half naked and half awake
Listening to breathing that’s not my own
Thinking maybe I made another mistake
Poem: Coin Toss
Sometimes love is like a gamble
Where you lay all your chips down
Allowing the cards to fall where they may
Never recognizing the deck was loaded
And you were a loser from the start
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: Night Falls Hopeless
Night falls on the city. I’m here falling on my knees. Somewhere out there I picture you falling in between the world you came from and the world you found yourself in.
Poem: Corporeal
In the early morning
When the sun still sleeps
I can hear the clock keeping time
Between her slumbering breaths
While I’m awake contemplating
The choices we made leading us on
Poem: Lonely Halls with Echos of Plans
In rooms where guests used to congregate in I sit alone
With my thoughts focused on the notable absence of you
Whose angelic voice would fill up these hollow halls with song
Where the people would dance and marvel at the spectacle
Poem: A Fragile Heart
A fragile heart
That still remains unbroken
Is missed potential
Poem: Deepest of Blues
We watched the sun set and the moonrise
Until the moon set and the sun rose again
The horizon circling around us
Like we were the very center of the universe
The infinite heavens stretched above us
Stars burned falling lost forever
Beyond our notice as we were lost
Poem: Reading the Blanks
On this blank page I see a mirror
That’s reflecting me and deeper still
It shines with all those wishes
That I wish would be