I had written you a love poem
maybe two or twelve
before I ever met you
but it's hard to tell
I wrote you ten or seventeen
while we were in our throes
I wrote about a handful more
before I met my close
Then wedding bells
Then honeymoons
I wrote a few for her
I passed them off
originals
her own down to the word
I might have been successful
she never cast a doubt
but I never believed
I ever left you out
Nov 2, 2015
Nov 2, 2015 at 12:05 AM UTC
The ivory poacher stalks his prey
each day he walks the silent plains
a gun slung high upon his arm
no warmth within his gaze
Elephants nor rhinos sought
but two or one extensions of
an ivory tower painted red a
bullseye meaning meant for dead
The ivory poacher sights his barrel
warily delivers narrow
slivers of a weathered corpse
thundering down to the earth
an ivory tower in his hand
or two if it's an elephant
a clean pristine white he holds high
and on his soul a red bullseye
Mar 18, 2015
Mar 18, 2015 at 9:59 PM UTC
I love you
he said
how much?
she said
the world
he said
there's more than
that
the stars and moon
the universe
the hidden leaves
he said
she blushed
I love you too
she said
I know
the depths of the
Antarctic snow
she said
he said
I love you too
she said
he said
she's dead
she bled
the light of moons
eclipsed
I love you too
he said
she said
is it too soon?
away she slipped
the way a tide
decides a ship
Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM UTC
Autumn again
red leaves spring
red leaves fall
red leaves for winter
somewhere
Summer
shimmers verdant
falling for Autumn
for not one
stays green
brays green
fades red
the hue
off Her shoulder
betrays not an Angel
but Devil sat over
He whispers and She
She laughs
red with glee
falling for Autumn
recalling Her being
Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 12:01 AM UTC
I've never heard a piano
say a single
word
Though it always seems
to tell the
truth
Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 1:44 AM UTC
I have a girl now
she is
beautiful, really
she's smart and she
laughs
and she calls all my bluffs
I have her now
she has me too
so it's fair
if you ask her or me
I have a girl now
and I smile because well
I'm happy
she says
she's happy too
I have my girl
and I've lost my girl
though I have her now
so I smile
At night, only sometimes,
and maybe I'm drunk
I look for her
for my girl
but I'm drunk
so I smile
and smile
and I smile
and grin ear to ear
and smile
(so I think)
as I smile
and grit all my teeth
and grin all the while
Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 1:40 AM UTC
between my thoughts
she streaks like eyes
down lines of farmland
razed for tithes
a naked field
to the nines
dressed up in sunsets
through ribbed spines
Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 2:27 AM UTC
seagulls pull the sun of mourning
up into the starless sky
flawless skin set free of midnight
taught against the azure heights
foaming waves and swirling sand grains
calmed upon her soft approach
settle into morning's daybreak
braced against the coming cold
a million stars to chase her warmth
and barely light the darkened sky
where one once flared a burning love
sit countless others counting time
between the twilight and night
passion burns away to quiet
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 12:12 AM UTC
Say it once and I'll
believe it
say it twice and I
won't blink
Say it three times I'll
besiege it
Keep it silent, I'll
relate
Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 3:30 AM UTC
He noticed a scorpion on her cheek
crawling up into her hair
She didn't seem to feel it there
and kept speaking, so he sat still
and listened
When she was finished the creature
stopped above her ear
its tail curled in the air
He reached to her and brushed it off
with a silent whisper
Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 5:32 PM UTC