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Nov 2023 · 359
Dismantling the pedestal
Ben Palomino Nov 2023
I have this vision
of you in my mind

But through your words
I found the human
lurking inside
And
I can tell by your responses
there’s not much going on

Are you listening?
Or
Just trying to get by?

Once in a blue moon
I meet plenty like you
only for it to become
all too human
way too soon
Nov 2023 · 106
Halloween sunset
Ben Palomino Nov 2023
I watch
As she
Descends

Her light reaching out
Trying to hold on
Till the very end

But as I watch
I know
I’m not alone

In my peripheral
There is a man
Looking out
Sitting on stones
Oct 2023 · 73
Confession
Ben Palomino Oct 2023
Do I confess
To the night

Love so cold
I looked for
Warmth in you

Whisper to the stars
Of this life

From
Despair
Renewed

Playing
Under the cloak
Of daylight
Oct 2023 · 121
Of skin and bark
Ben Palomino Oct 2023
I sank one day
Deep into
A tree
Becoming
One with
The nurtured
Roots
I wished to be
Sep 2023 · 244
Granite eyes
Ben Palomino Sep 2023
Into gently placed
Granite eyes
I waited for my heart to beat
But got nothing back in surprise
Sep 2023 · 400
Hidden from the sun
Ben Palomino Sep 2023
I lay here in my own arms
Cradled by an absence
Petrified in obsidian
Sep 2023 · 138
Untitled
Ben Palomino Sep 2023
And
there it crawled across my eyes
eight legs and all
I still couldn’t see why
It dare to make this climb
yet there it burrowed
In the back of my mind
catching your lies like flies  
I’ve never been more
fond of the web
Jun 2023 · 130
Untitled
Ben Palomino Jun 2023
There’s a shadow

Poking at my thigh

Trying to take attention

Away

From my mind

Not to reality

But somewhere unrefined

And Opposite of divine

Can you hear it call out

Sideways in time

Three different perspectives

Of the same scene

And

Their all upside down nines
Apr 2023 · 125
You’re a Gem
Ben Palomino Apr 2023
I have spoken to diamonds

They have taught me their art

I’ve drank from their frequency

And to their world
I became a part

Sharing a thousand words
With
a thousand different jewels
And
They all spoke to me
Of your heart

Truly Adamas in nature

They say your gleam
Can be seen
From within dreams
Left ajar

I wandered with you
In these scenes

Becoming

Your falling star

Visits in my sleep

While you gazed upon me from afar
Mar 2023 · 287
Night muse
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
Mar 2023 · 93
Ego-naut
Ben Palomino Mar 2023
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
Nov 2022 · 140
Mammals
Ben Palomino Nov 2022
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
Jun 2022 · 254
Untitled
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
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
Jun 2022 · 165
Lessons from a Goddess
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
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
Jun 2022 · 160
Forming dreams
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
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
Jun 2022 · 425
Bashful day dreamer VI
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
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
Jun 2022 · 125
Conduit
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
Dying grass beneath my feet

Now ever softer the blades

 

The day begins to crumble

As I start to hear

Whispers over my shoulder

From beyond the grave

 

They tell me of a goddess

Grown in the meadow

Once somber a slave

 

So I became their conduit

Blindly pulling these words

From the haze

 

Selling off a part of my soul

Just to give her my name
Jun 2022 · 252
Found
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
Raised by Gods

That can’t sing

 

Her love became

The prayers

That they would read

And

Bestowed with the blessings

Her smile would seed

 

Awakened my mind

Beyond gold and green

 

Where

I found my self bound

 

To the one

Who found me
Jun 2022 · 139
To comprehend a Goddess
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
To comprehend a Goddess

Is like meeting a love

You’ve never known.

 

To shy away from its light,

Because it is Blinding?

Or too beautiful to behold?
Jun 2022 · 100
Springs greeting
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
If life is the reality

That you dream

 

Then dare I say 

 

That I’ve met you before

Somewhere in-between

The in-between

 

Where connections were made

But left unseen

 

A couple souls

That slipped through the seams

Of time

Like sand in the hands

Of greed

 

Casted into the fire

I saw her dance

With the life of spring

Turned to glass

The spirits called her

Persephone
Jun 2022 · 202
Mirror
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
Dare I manifest

all that I’m

not meant

to hold

 

There laid upon

my chest

a mirror

made of gold

 

One in which

reflects her loving

shine

 

But

 

Even if I loved her

to let her go


I'm sure even a mirror

made of gold

can fracture with time
Mar 2022 · 168
Once in a dream
Ben Palomino Mar 2022
If I were to tell you
I saw you in a dream

Would you let me go on
about how I saw
your soul gleam

Like a million fires
seen across sea

Now

My eyes can carry me
to your wonders

But

At your shore
I could never be

So

If I were to tell you
I saw you in a dream

could you tell me why
I awoke with a love

That was never meant
for me
Feb 2022 · 167
Amongst the roses
Ben Palomino Feb 2022
Red flags disguised
amongst the roses

I can’t lie
i was distracted
by
her many poses

Quick

water down the fantasy  
can anyone
being some hoses

For

My dry eyes

had me thinking
“This is great”

Until I met her gaze
and realized
like the rest
she’s the same

To one day
meet
a kinder love

So I won’t
have to
feel
the loneliest
in my pain
Feb 2022 · 256
Distracting the feeling
Ben Palomino Feb 2022
I walk along
the stoney roads
where
pebbles seem to scatter
as I step

My lift
cloud be
a complement
to her wings

But it is the earth
to whom I’m kept

As she has me
looking up
just to find myself
looking down

Chained to the roots
of all the grounds
In which I wish to fly

It’s funny…

On this level
i can see
just where
all those pebbles hide
Ben Palomino Feb 2022
Once I lay with her

dare I never wake again


So I don’t have to go out

and start the search again
Feb 2022 · 175
Lost in the garden
Ben Palomino Feb 2022
I Got lost in the garden

Not too long ago


Upon my arrival


I found my self a ***

With a beautiful golden rose


I could have loved her maybe

But now I’ll never know


For ivory stone roads

Beckon me to come home


Away from the

Flower potted wardens

That line the fields in rows


This soil wasn’t meant for love

Here no heart can grow


And upon my leaving


I had to bribe the trees

With a fresh bit of snow
Jan 2022 · 100
Oracle reveal to me…
Ben Palomino Jan 2022
I’ve got the sun and the stars

To orbit around my feet


In  their shine

The  many answers that I seek


So I ask you god

Though I dare to speak


Do I fulfill the prophecy

That you wrote for me


The one that  you did  write for me?


I’ve opened my mind

Yet sometimes I still fail to see


What’s right in front of me


So


As I go forth

I still give thanks to her love

Despite the burning sands


And


Scorching heat



Throw me your toughest stones

And I’ll scrap with broken hands


But


Won’t be beat


Even if I have to crawl to the end

On my teeth


For


If I have  known a faith to crumble

Then surly I can meet a faith that stands



At her alter

Now

Just to deeper understand



Falling forward Into the trust

Of

Unknown hands
Dec 2021 · 282
O’sweet babe
Ben Palomino Dec 2021
O’sweet babe

sister’d to her  

many forms


In each shape

she had found

a new way

to change my world


But held her love

In a shapeless void
Aug 2021 · 150
Untitled
Ben Palomino Aug 2021
I’ve laid in the fields of our dying mother


watching as our gods wither into an  epoch  


masses set out to remember


but in time when stripped of their flesh


all will be forgotten


as they are  exposed to their mortality
Jun 2021 · 350
Reflections of the heart
Ben Palomino Jun 2021
Over the years

How love defined

Refined

By times

Lonely eyes

As mine

Are forced

To lie  

Within sight

Of my hearts

many faces
Jun 2021 · 211
Where do I go?
Ben Palomino Jun 2021
When I close my eyes

And feel the pull
Ben Palomino Jun 2021
In the end

I know I’ll be compelled

To judge my self so harshly

For all the love that I’ve withheld
May 2021 · 539
Daisies haiku
Ben Palomino May 2021
The days eyes open

In the field her heart finds peace

  Petals all around
Apr 2021 · 287
I met an Aphrodite
Ben Palomino Apr 2021
The roads that find me  

Take me every which way

One night I stumbled into her temple

And there at her alter

the Venus flower lay

I am not one for gods

But just this one time

I couldn’t help but pray

She blessed me with a glimpse of her beauty

And it has scarred me to this day
Apr 2021 · 118
Crow dream
Ben Palomino Apr 2021
What the crow’s can salvage

From the subconscious mind,

Secrets carried  in-between
Feathers;

The many truths I’ve left to die.
Mar 2021 · 488
O lady of my dreams
Ben Palomino Mar 2021
I hear her sweeter whispers

She calls to me in threes

To tempt my soul to flicker

a dying fire aided by the breeze

I know not which way  to answer

As she is now  knocking on the trees

Why is it that you visit me

O lady  of my dreams
Feb 2021 · 653
I am envious of your tears
Ben Palomino Feb 2021
I am envious
of your tears

My dear

For when your
heart holds pain

They grant you
a relief….



I am envious
of your tears

My dear

Because  like a
lovers hand

They run gently
down your cheek….
Feb 2021 · 146
Drinking by the fire
Ben Palomino Feb 2021
When drinking
by the fire

I can feel myself  
come undone

My nights have
never been colder

And I’m unnerved  
by what’s to come

So I focus on flames
to hide my endless
gaze

All the ghost’s  
Inside my head

Dare I say they
call my name
Feb 2021 · 284
Smoking in the wind
Ben Palomino Feb 2021
Smoking  
In the wind

If she
comes my way

I love her
cold embrace

I fear not
the flame

For all that
turns and coils

In a mind so young
yet tamed

All the thoughts That
linger in the background

If only she could
carry them away
Jan 2021 · 120
The bright flamed dame
Ben Palomino Jan 2021
The bright flamed dame

Between light and dark
She walks the gray
A place where good and evil
Can share no blame

For she knows
The night is just a complement
To the day

And without the duality
A reality you can not
Maintain
Jan 2021 · 120
Missing beat
Ben Palomino Jan 2021
A lovers tune
Long lost to me

Saytr’s play their
Flutes but I can
Hear no melody

And when tossed
To sea
The sirens songs
Have lost their
Lustful luring

So Apollo
I ask if thee

Why does the
Muse forsaken me

Perhaps the gods
They seek
An offering

So I’ll bleed
My blues
Under the lonely
Oak tree

To ease my ears
And find that
Missing key

Then in golden hues
The answer illuminating

I was never without
The tune
But
The heart beat
Dec 2020 · 94
Dead today II
Ben Palomino Dec 2020
My mind claims
To be the master

So chain me near
The pastor  

When Asking god
For help
It fills me with laughter

For I know in this
Moment
It really
doesn’t matter

I’m holding my heart
In my hand
And it’s only bleeding
Out faster
Dec 2020 · 82
Dead today
Ben Palomino Dec 2020
Depression clouds
Above my head

They swarm

With no one there
To keep me warm

When it rains it pours

And
Once again I’m left alone
To brave
These storms
Sep 2020 · 67
Bashful daydreamer II
Ben Palomino Sep 2020
Hand in hand
We chased
This dance

Gliding across
The fragile glass

I turned to the right
You took your stance

And Within your gaze
I became entranced

Relaxing my mind
to make it last

That’s when I
Opened my eyes
And it came to pass

So lost in the dream
I forgot this floor
Was made of glass…
Sep 2020 · 108
Bashful daydreamer
Ben Palomino Sep 2020
We hide away
In fantasies

Where sweeter
Sins taste
Like butterscotch
Candies

To compliment
The bitter truth
Of our Malaises

But do we really
Know what
It means

When ducking
Away from
Bashful daydreams
Jul 2020 · 96
You
Ben Palomino Jul 2020
You
The only thing stopping
You
Is
You

But hey
I’ve been there too

So used to the pain that
Without some sort of
Suffering
You don’t feel
Like you're in
The right mind
Frame

And that’s okay

But some advice
Don’t mind the
Time as it passes by
Because yes it's
True that time
Heals all wounds

Yet What they
don’t tell you
Is that it may
Take an eternity
To get through

So maybe tonight
Go outside
And look at the sky

Do you see the stars?
How they shine so bright?

Well one of them
Is you

And once you see
The only thing stopping
You
Is
You

There’s nothing you can’t
Do

I believe in you,

Feel the need to cry?
Do that too

I understand
I’ve been there too

But remember
We are all
Here for
You
Jun 2020 · 132
At night
Ben Palomino Jun 2020
At night
The moon whispers
To my mind
Sending it off to
Find its fate

While I lay empty
Waiting at the gate

The sun impedes
Wiping away
A dreamers
Escape
May 2020 · 125
Its hard to wake up
Ben Palomino May 2020
In the
Illusions
I tried to stay

For
In gilded
dreams
The torments
Slip away

When peace
Comes
The chains
Will sway  

Leaving
The soul
A million
Ways to
Masquerade

So I ask

Asleep
Do I
Remain?

I know
I’m not
Needed out
There
Anyway
May 2020 · 89
If only
Ben Palomino May 2020
If only
You knew
How brightly
You shined
Against this black and white
World
Through my eyes
Mar 2020 · 139
A dark god and his mistress
Ben Palomino Mar 2020
A light meets
A darkness
Hideously
Tamed

A match
That knows
No balance
Only pain

He swoons
At her
Smile

She
Burns in
His flame

Everything
Freezes
To capture
This moment
In a timeless
Frame
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