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In the beginning, the sky was vast and empty,
Sol blazed across the heavens,
Golden, fierce, untouchable.
Luna glided in silver calm,
Soft, distant, a quiet ruler of the night.

Day after day, they watched each other,
Burning with a longing neither could name.
“You are too far,” said Luna, her voice a whisper through the stars.
“And you shine too bright,” Sol replied, his light trembling with desire.

But longing cannot be contained forever.
On rare days, when the world seemed to pause,
Sol reached across the horizon,
Luna glided toward him with a gentle pull.

Their edges touched—
A kiss of gold and silver,
A fleeting embrace that bent time itself.
Birds froze mid-flight, oceans held their breath,
Mountains shadowed in awe,
And for a heartbeat, day and night became one.

“The world must not see,” said Luna,
Her glow dimming, reluctant to part.
“I know,” said Sol, burning brighter with love and sorrow.
“Yet we are bound to chase, to follow, to long.”

Then the world sighed,
And the moment shattered into shadow and light.
Sol withdrew, fierce and aching,
Luna drifted back, soft and sorrowful.

Still, they waited, always waiting,
For the next rare day when the world would pause again,
When the sun could stretch,
And the moon could reach,
And the eclipse would happen once more—
A stolen embrace in the endless sky,
A love that could never last, yet could never die.
Lisa was very smart,
always checks
the weather forecast
before going out.

Over breakfast,
she turned on the radio
to listen to the Monday’s forecast:

“Heavy to very heavy rain,
with thunder and lightning.”

She smiled,
“oh, thank you!”
left her umbrella,
put on sunglasses,
and went to work.
If there's a comet,
And if we all were to die,
I'd welcome it with,

Open arms,
If you do too.

Romeo, 2025.

Found in an old crypt underneath the Venice canals.
She’s Chaos..
taking shape into something..
Harmless.
Not the kind that shatters but
the kind that births galaxies..

Raw and Unpolished,
Like coal before diamond
Like earth before life

Crafted uncounted
Created carefree
Unmeasured, uncalculated
.. like the sand at sea

Wild, uneven,
devoid of symmetry,
But there’s something in those eyes
that tells a story..
how she was founded from grief..
from doubts..
from shame..
from confusion..
from love..
     And hope..
That even such a broken piece
Is worthy of reverence..
worthy of space..
and
worthy of love.

As she wear her scars like armor
She flaunts her flaws like truth.
She finally laid down
The burden of expectations
that she was never meant to carry
The sweet sweet child of anarchy
Finally learned that she
Is everything she has to be.
Perfect morning scene
Full quality of light
Fruit tree flowers flush
So very pink against
A sky so very blue

Honey jasmine air
Star petals frosty white
Burning bottle brush
with scarlet flames not quenched
by glinting candy dew

Leaves drink up the sun
See all the clocks
In all the trees
Sense shifting balance favour
less the nighttme, more the day

Triumphant feeling flows
The equinox
In quiet passing
Led to colours loudly telling
that the light will have its way


Impossible despair
When nature shines like this
Warming every part
From gloomy winter shade
To hibernating cheer

A message penned in glow
Unable to resist
Thaws the chilly heart
Where sprouting joy is made
And bliss is running clear

Less the nighttime, more the day
The light will have its way

Now spring is here
Happy spring to those in the southern hemisphere!
Winter will soon slip into
spring, all dressed in
green; bouquet nights and
the rebirth of love.
Snakes gliding through
the grass.
But for now, we deal
with ice and snow,
slick roads and cold
hearts.

I was on the bus the
other day.
The driver had a
slippery scowl pasted
on her chubby face.
My mask had inched
down on my nose, and she
yelled, "Put your mask
on or you will be off the bus."

I was already having a terrible day.
My asthma was acting up,
I could hardly breathe, and I had
just put my beloved
dog to sleep.
I miss her, but she slipped
away peacefully.

I rang the bell to get off at
my stop, as I chewed my
gum in passive anger.
I stood up and walked toward
the front of the bus.
The aisle was slick from
the snow and ice.
As I neared the exit door,
I took the gum out of my
mouth, so that I could throw
it away, but things went
horribly awry.

I slipped on a wet
spot, and to catch
myself, I firmly planted
my gum hand on the back
of the driver's head.
She had short hair, but still,
the *** of gum was now
embedded in her golden
locks.
I'm sure a haircut is
her near future.

Since then, I intend
to tread softly and cautiously,
and just maybe,
she does too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAdvMXLg6DA
I just did a poetry reading and book signing at Three Bells Bookstore. I've included a link to my YouTube channel where I posted it.  My 3 books are It's Just a Hop, Skip, and a Jump to the Madhouse, Seedy Town Blues, and Sleep Always Calls.   They are available on Amazon.
We gonna rock
right, rock means

something, right, we
gonna rock this joint, tonight

means something to the mob,
representative miniscule bit of it,
we, you and me, whatsoever we agree
paying rapture ready attention, to we, us

the living words appearing in your mind,
this mind we share using knowing, old,
wise, ways we lost through misconnection,

truth and wisdom, tandem, two minds,
arranged with worthiness weights in place,

we are, those champions, those folks from
former times, the old days, the glory days,
these days,
we believed were our destination,
ever, after
ever before, now
we were stuck right here in now,

and then, now, again,
same old, same old, now.

The good guys and the other guys, the thieves,
and us, those stolen from, we too tiny to think

we may be involved
in eternal warfare, as mere
peace makers, sent
to perform
on demand, pure

peaceable possibility supposed up above us all,

peace past understanding, achieved
in confusion, defused, refused
since
when
precisely,
cut incisively
to the core concept, truth weighed in,
throwing sheer folly
at our fear
of death

stopping
the heart
of our confusion, as we agreed,

we may be all we
make believed.

And immediately appear
as true as ever

imaginably, just so.
some tequila was involved, witnesses reported at the scene
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