Ben Palomino

Ben Palomino Mar 2023

The sun dare impede
So I banished it
For you

Underneath
stars
I saw
Words fracture
And
Fuse

As

You crushed
a galaxy
In your hands
Just
So it may
Be born
A new

Released
from her inner keep
There
my night muse

Refining creation
To her hearts tune

Ben Palomino Mar 2023

Ego-naut

You came to me
with waves upon waves of emotions

yet I couldn’t see through your sea

You told me to dive deeper
and
I might find something more than just me

But is that not the nature
of the ego-naut
to explore indefinitely

making a home
in a place
where a home shouldn’t be

Deeper down know I see
All is
We

I started writing
this poem for you
And
made it all about me

Ben Palomino Nov 2022

Mammals

Unbecoming
just so I may
be
once again

I reach my hand
upwards
as if
I were to ascend

No wings
to break

So

No wings
to mend

While I soar
threw open
sky

I wonder
how many
ways
one can
open their eyes

Ben Palomino Jun 2022

Untitled

I dragged

Duality down

A delicate

Deception

( lost I found myself dazed)

Face to face

With my youth

I was caught staring

At my misguided directions

(Surly to succumb to the maze)

For what these

Dreams demand

Go deeper

Than blood

Calf or correction

( to get out I had to be unmade)

Saying goodbye

To apart of my self

To gain

An ever evolving perception

Ben Palomino Jun 2022

Lessons from a Goddess

The many lessons
That’s she taught me

The first was how
To let her go

The second blessing
She Bestowed me…
Well honestly
I wasn’t listening

(Foolish child)

So that one
I’ll never know

But
The third…

The third one
Struck me
Through my shame
Teaching me how to love
And in turn
The fourth was
How to love myself
All the same

The fifth one
Brought me to my knees
So my Goddess is to whom I pray

Ben Palomino Jun 2022

Forming dreams

Staring

Into the night

I found myself

A stranger

To the darkest

Parts of my mind

Now

Starring back at me

with a million faces

And

A thousand eyes

I met a being

Who knows

Hundreds of names

But

still couldn’t

Tell you mine

It told me

Many stories

With hidden messages

Underlined

With rhyme

Sending me off

To fill your dreams

In-between

Your solemn cries

Ben Palomino Jun 2022

Bashful day dreamer VI

Once in a dream
I inhaled the night sky
Becoming one
With its hue

I replaced every star
With a sigh

All except for the ones
That reminded me of you

I then kept
Just enough of the sun
To torture it till Jun

Planting six seeds
For my lover

And grew them under
The pink moon