She set the night alight
She set the world ablaze
It all came second nature
In the most spectacular of ways
She took a vow of silence
But she had something to say
So she spoke a different language
With visual displays

He’s a man without a shadow
His portrait looks intense
You can tell that he means business
By the way he’s dressed
Whether dark, or whether light
Whether grey, or black and white
He’s keyed in on what’s in his line of sight
Clear as day
Dark as night

If we cannot penetrate the iron gate
There’s no way to get in
It spans on and on continuously
With no beginning or end
Many are in danger
The border to defend
Instead of love thy neighbor
We call them immigrants

I inspire with my drive
My enthusiastic fight to stay alive
I impress with a set of skills unmatched
My experience runs deep
I’m the lion amongst sheep
With the ability to walk a different path

A fossil of fern in liquid gold
As big as for a hand to hold
Clear as ice, yet heart of stone
More than I ever cared to know
Sitting on a stolen thrown
Pirate hat with skull and bones
What I grasp is what I own
All hands off my *****!

From the moment that I saw her
It was her radiant allure
Having left a trail of broken hearts
In pieces on the floor
It added to her mystique
Her abilities, and more
Whispers heard from ear to ear  
Grew her legend and her lore

Just behind the theater door
Are pirouettes on stage
The spotlight shining down on her
Capturing her rage
Her expression of new wave
An alternative portrayal
Of what life’s like in a cage
A magnificent performance
Dancing center stage
But, always with her eyes closed
Because she’s too afraid

Ironically, your position
Is a blatant contradiction
To the cosmic coming of a brand new day
With your history and tradition
I’m no competition
And your curtain call beckons you to center stage

I dreamt of you
and dreams come true
I haven’t any doubt
I never had a single clue
What you were all about
But now I have a different view
I took a different route
A feeling that’s completely new
For me to figure out

Evening up to score
Saying not much more
Except little lies
To make yourself look good
If you practice for a while
And you add a little style
You may end up
Looking better than you should

Somewhere in my dreams
I saw the strangest thing
Colossal hands claiming to be land
They encompassed the whole earth
For all the earth was worth
Skies and lions
Oceans deep
Clouds a plenty
Birds and sheep
Waterfalls and tall green trees
Helps describe what my mind sees

‪She waved to him goodbye ‬
‪Said “I’ll see you who knows when”‬
‪Thanked him once again‬
‪For the hand he said he’d lend‬
‪Left as parting friends‬
‪With a chance to make amends‬
‪What all happens now
Will become clear in the end

Art depicts the unreality
The imagination runs amuck
The focus and the mindset
You’d hate to interrupt
A stroke of paint on canvas
Gives a sense of sweet release
And by the time it takes to finish up
You’ve found your inner peace

The shortest verse
May quench the thirst
Of a thousand tearless eyes
When loves reversed
My heart strings burst
And I don a fake disguise
One that smiles bravely
One that shows no fear
When inside all I can think about
Is how to disappear

Across the sea
On sand dune shores
Are places you don’t see on tours
Golden sunsets
Where beauty stems
Along the landscape
Hidden gems
Waterfalls
Creeks and trees
The kind you only see in dreams
Perfect lighting
Casual scene
Can’t be replicated
By machine

Moonlight blue
Over a white drenched earth
Winter’s here
For what it’s worth
Snow and sleet
Log cabin heat
A vacation home well built
Our final chance to get away
Snow up to the hilt
An escape from the every day
If only for Gods will
And a small attempt
To extend our youth
If only for the thrill

In an argumental state
Pedal to the floor
If apples were your brain food
They’d be rotten to the core
In a vegetative state
Solemn to be sure
The negative reaction
To the poetry of war

Despite the final words “The End”
There’s still some more to read
In the realms of folded pages
No story is complete

With rough and callused hands
Large, teary gentle eyes
A colossus of a full grown man
Is gaged by sad goodbyes

A giant among his peers
Just one of the guys
But a menace to the little man
Of stature and of size

Knowing what’s to come
Seeing what’s in store
Knowing you are able
To do so much more
Than sit around the table
Inches from the floor
Reading news from yesterday
Instead of doing chores
Or making a life for yourself
With the whole world to explore

It goes by in a second
In a single blinking eye
Everything you’ve worked for
Stolen, or connived
Gone along the wayside
The blue sky way up high
It’s hard to make an argument for
The reason that we try
I guess the fun is in collecting memories
Until the day we die

Every wrinkles meaningful
Whiskers full in bloom
Eyes peer in with eagerness
Mind’s heavily consumed
The fallen tears of discontent
The unease, seldom caught
The holding back of black anguish
Disgruntled and distraught

I’m mired in new war decals
Complete from head to toe
Most of them are anti-war
But some of them are pro
Where there’s conflict
There’s unrest
I’m not easily impressed
We need love
We need a splash in the pan
A gunman undercover
And some coffee in a can
We need joy
A crack of the whip
One solitary lover
That’s pretty well equipped
We need hope
A crash on the shore
An anti-revolution
And the reason that it’s for

I adore all of your metaphors
The quiver of your lip
Your pronunciation of the little words
Your occasional Freudian slip
I’m vulnerable to your parenthesis
Your underlined content
The illusion of intrusion
Where every minute’s spent
It’s indicative of your movements
Your pantomime express
The solution to pollution
Under meaningful duress
The creation of the nothing void
Which takes time to digest
But every stare you’ve given me
Makes me believe you’re unimpressed

An apricot coriander
of daffodil dissent
Grew up to emancipate
And then later circumvent
But poutine wine
and dandelions
Coming this way,
Went
Have no degree
As to what decree
They haven’t mentioned yet

I was denied my contentment
My phosphorescent jewel
My iridescent luminescent
Images of you
A fireworks explosion
Seething ***** of light
****** into the atmosphere
To electrify the night
Bolstering up the front lines
For graphic acts of might
And lit up like an active war
Despite the will to fight

The pain remains
As memories fade
When our home
Went up in flames
The loss, the rage
The unexplained
The damage done
The rattled cage
The sunken lines
That show your age
Don’t look away
Just turn the page
For the curtain call
On the grand stage

You can mock me all you want
It doesn’t change a thing
Meeting up with an unknown stranger
For a coffee and a fling
Don’t judge me in your eyes
Or your thoughts where I’m despised
Cut me slack, get off my back
You’re nobody’s prize

Where the earth and heaven meet
Above the rock on the mountains peak
Beyond the thick and luscious green
A waterfall who’s beauty, runs a bit too deep
Harmony, tranquility, calm, serine, and peace
These traits are what embody me
And help me put my mind at ease
A majestic force of nature
A pretty sight to see
Crashing down
With power, with force, with strength, with speed

The mosaic of my life
Together held by glue
Makes the broken pieces beautiful
From many points of view

The mosaic of my life
It’s magnificent design
Can mend the broken pieces
If given the proper time

The mosaic of my life
A reflection of my heart
More effective than a thousand words
Seen as a work of art

The mosaic of my life
The pieces of my soul
Shards of glass
From my own wrath
Made better as a whole

A kaleidoscope of color
Rainbow feathers bright
Two parrots in a love embrace
A beauty of a sight
Cuddling on the windowsill
Before taking flight
Back to the nest
For evening rest
And a gentle kiss goodnight

It’s shockingly poetic
How an endless river flows
Seemingly forever
But it doesn’t, I suppose
The ripples in the water
Shimmered glass on stones
Slicing through the open path
While visually exposed
Combining, yet dividing
How do you propose?
By seducing Mother Nature
With the petals of a rose

Rays come down like golden strings
Powdered with fairy dust and angels wings
Then slips in close, between the trees
No room for a subtle breeze
Shimmer into the faded
Where shadows go to die
The sun beams shoot like laser beams
Brightening up the sky
Shielded by the darkness
Where my shade of green trees reign
In between the peeking light
That’s where my thoughts of you remain

In the neighbors garden grows
Buds of violet scented rose
Mixed, it’s essence, is sweet perfume
Flushed with nectar
Unconsumed
By the busy buzzing bees
That’s hive hangs low from a nearby tree
Dancing in between
The evergreen
A wonder in itself

There’s no shortage of beauty
If you open your eyes
The colors, the images
The parallel lines
The branches on trees
The birds in the sky
The falling of leaves
The echoes reply

There’s no shortage of beauty
Watching butterflies fly
The earth and the moon
How the two coincide
The stars are a vision
Our ultimate guide
A map of the heavens
Through zodiac signs

We drifted into the moment
Two passing ships gone by
Out into the great beyond
Under darkened skies
We drift into the horizon
Chasing after the sun
But it vanishes and is gone
Finished, complete, done

I can’t help but to stare
The way it is you’re standing there
I don’t think it to be fair
To get pushed aside so ill-prepared
So I set adrift come mornings light
Until I’m beached along the shore
I’d crash my ship on to dry land
To see you just once more

I watch the flow of petals swoon
Under summer shade
Relax to sounds of birdsong blues
With a glass of lemonade
Catnaps in the daytime
Dreaming of clouds in flight
A luxury for some of us
Which just isn’t right
So I live out every moment
Future looking bright
Hidden in my vision
A summers day delight

I was frozen in a shadow
That was evidently cold
Just doing what came natural
Revealing flesh and bone
I snuck into a crevice
Inside a mountain made of stone
To gather my belongings
In this place that I call home

I took you as unique
Despite you riddled with your flaws
You had so much mystique
Moved so quick I had to pause
Just to catch my breath
To find the reason and the cause
So I stood in disbelief
Not violating laws
Or taking bows in front of crowds
Accepting their applause

Taking in the sunset
Amidst a golden sky
Hands held so tight together
You’d think that they were tied
Celebrating the occasion
We’ve survived another day
Because there are no guarantees in life
Or how long we will stay

The fun is in the journey
The destination’s fine
I’ll tell you once I get there
If it was what I pictured in my mind
Every roadblock
Every stumble
Until I reach my mark
Every minute
Every hour
In the mornings
Or in dark
Taking time to free your mind
Like long walks in the park
The fun is in the journey
That I will now embark

“Never coming home again”
She knew it in her head
The words that she remembered
The things that she heard said
A promise that was broken
When he was pronounced dead
“Never coming home again”
To tuck her into bed
Just some old fond memories
He lived for and help defend

The dust collects and settles
Before the cold wind blows
And parts of me fly through the air
As my curiosity grows
I span across the luscious green
I float into the sea
And even though I cannot swim
I’m glad to just be free

We’ve battled all through history
We’ve conquered or we’ve failed
Lives were lost
At high costs
Yet, our victory was hailed
And to the victor go the spoils
On much grander scales
Yet, still, we chase the unicorn
The wind behind our sails

The lonely silence vanishes
Sound, busting at the seams
Explosive tunes in general
Lean towards the extreme
The misguided youth
Now raise the roof
High above the beams
Resorting to
Visual proof
Found only in your dreams

A tablespoon
Of salt in wounds
Is bittersweet and ****
Spider webs
Spun anew
Imitating art
Stuck like glue
For later use
Can’t tell the two apart
I sought the truth
I have my proof
Of a captivated heart

She passed along the note
She herself wrote
Grinning, as it was passed
Trying not to gloat
She knew she’d strike a cord
To be loved and adored
She’d do anything to prove her love
Like swallowing a sword
Or maybe not so drastic
But that’s what she’s leaning towards

Connected as one
Our souls intertwined
Always together
For moments in time
A lovely reminder
Of how true love works
Someone to share with
Our purpose and worth
Our main motivation
For our time on earth
To become better people
Since the day of our birth

Change in my pocket
That’s all I have left
I was once a proud man
Now I’m flirting with death
Broke to my bones
To my innermost core
I hate what I’ve seen
Just can’t wait to see more
But whatever it is, that God has in store
No devil nor angel’s going to walk through that door

I’ll find you in the forest
I’ll meet you at the sea
I’ll venture through the desert
Or to the top of mountains peak
Just to worship in your presence
Where I’m able to be free
And marvel at the miracle
That’s been bestowed to me