Orchid

Orchid Feb 2022

A lot of it scares me.
Not much the wrinkles or the grey.
But the anticipation, the knowing,
I will one day fade away.

Be but a sad name to whisper
A lost statistic, cold.
But in my poems I'm immortal
So onto these words
I hold.

Orchid Dec 2021

Would he?

If she left it aflame,
Would he stick by?

                                                   or sigh,
                                                       as he is tossed, cast away to the
                                                            side

With just the scent of her hair,
Memory of her eyes


                                                      With a backhand embrace
                                                             confronted with lies

Orchid Jul 2021

Damnation

…
She left all the rocks,
Embraced with the skies,
But landed in a net of deceit and lies
And cried to the sound of a sunset demise
With her heart in the gutter
Nothing was to rise
But the horns on his head
And crimson in his eyes.

Orchid Jul 2021

Hazel

As two hearts would embrace
Two worlds would collide
"My darling I am yours,
And you are simply,
Divine."

Orchid Jun 2021

Vacant

"Come with me, far away." I told you
Eager your bones had clattered
And joined me in that cloudless cave
Where no one and nothing mattered.

Orchid Jun 2021

Halva

"A jar of honey has never hurt anyone"

                                                         …

                                                                          Tell that to the guy who's
                                                                      manhood got stuck in one.

Orchid May 2021

On the Hilltop

I'd count the number of daises,
Dressed with the honey bee buzz,
That played with the wind, a symphony,
Harmonic to the sight of our love.