A puddle once
I cried, as I lost
you to goodbye
but a lake it later
turned, while
awaiting
your return

She finger paints her universe in song

She dances with precious dollies of all colors, shapes and sizes

She draws everybody closer with her
ever hopeful smile

She stumbles and gentle hands keep her safe and guide her

She grows into a caring woman

She desires that the same love and kindness touch her children as well

She can only hope and  pray 🙏

As high as one can climb
just before the first trickle
of a nose bleed
stealing what oxygen
is left for others
within the circulating
frost of thin air

How deep the freeze
of
narcissism
can evacuate one's
soul

There dwells a divine
color
The interim of
ROYGBIV
Battles the lost
to find their truth
Hides the found
that are nowhere
Looks beyond
the black of night
Swallows the sun
the light of day
No judgement will rise
for those who see
GRAY

Within a hidden valley
floats a hot air balloon

He raises his hopes
as high as the moon

He reaches up to scratch the surface
but, begins to deflate

He thinks, what can I do,
to unseal this fate?

Slowly, air streams from
a tear in his skin

The reality of the fall
begins to sink in

As it was childish to take a joy glide, without letting anyone know

-Hot- Headed -Brave- Balloon

all blown up with
nowhere to go!

Deep soul,
I wish to swim
in your wisdom,
Press upon the warmth
of your gentle smile
with my needy lips
Dance upon your
light heart
to feel joy
Slip and fall into
your comforting arms,
never to feel contempt
for any human again
Teach me lover,
how to be secure in your
kindness

Chiseled mind
bound to synthetic joy
kiss the warden
Goodbye
Time to go play in your
Sandbox

Turn your back
on the gentle hands
that once carried you
to
chase the flaming
wings that
silence your tongue
within a casket
Your Decaying
VOICE-BOX

A magnificent
shelter for
your invitation
to death's door

Hear them shower you
with lies
taste their creamy
smiles and sweet skin

Inhale the breath
around the baby's tooth
with meandering nares
that swell from the
Spry Scent of Sin

Experience
the Vial
dance within your
effervescent blood

Your soul's
on a leash
waiting to be torn to shreds

Your mind
a balloon on a string🎈
waiting to POP

Your nerves
burrow beneath the
EARTH
surrounded by faults
Ready to CrACk

No!
There's no turning back
Now go play in your sandbox
and
Bury Your Toys

Closer and closer
the sky lowers
kissing my skin
crushing my opinions
into leaks
sending tears down
my cheeks
can't hear the cries
when a whisper
evaporates into lies

Unobserved
am I matter?

The evening rush
packs up daylight,
inside a suitcase
bound for stars....
Beads of heavy haze
swallow lights
of the vineyard
Flying within a
seamless horizon,
Atlantic's blackness
seals the night
Love's blindness,
love's chaos
dissolve into
the
nautical twilight

Exhausted slumber,
in deepest Lamentation,
enveloped by my own skin,
Blood Memory of her
seeps in

Dancestry transforms
as art knocks
at my door
I am reminded by
her spirited moves that,
Every Soul is a Circus

Life cycles
in contractions and
slow releases
of breath

Beaming
clavicles reach up to
behold morning's sunrise

As golden rays
tirelessly
leap upon the stage
of a brand new season,
Appalachian Spring

Rescued by the
graceful universe of
contemporary
dance

Think
from a
well of
words
and your
mind
will never
thirst

Time to put the moon to sleep
hasn't slept in years or weeks,
tucked beneath a
warm blanket of stars
Sharing space with planets,
Jupiter and Mars

Wishing sweet dreams to
our trusty beacon of light
who needs a night off
Lights out
and
Goodnight!

Wrapped
in rolls of
scar tissue
the memory
can no longer
absorb
the truth

The sun rose in steps today
one ray, in front of the other
forming a stairway to the sky
to finger paint the clouds
in loud-n-wild iridescence
and sullen baby blues

Reaches for the empty cradle
remembering gentle whispers and lullabies that used to
rock her to sleep

Too shy to speak about pleasures
drizzled with regret

Spars with maturity
to reclaim child-hood

The humming bird flutters
in reverse, she thought,
I cannot

moments of youth gather and
fall
into a sunken meadow of
stolen adolescence

brokenhearted,
waits for a ride home

I'm here if you need me
KING
on a hot checkered
bored
awaiting your next
M O V E
me like a pawn
jump me
knock me
over
watch me roll off
the table but,
I won't
STOP
until I steal your
Queen

Generating the the speed it takes
to tolerate a new, uncharted atmosphere

Orbiting beliefs that challenge human nature and jettison doubt

A window, proviso allowing the
trajectory of deception to offset our ingenuity upon re-entry

Some left to dwell in the
darkness of space

Prayers unanswered

Maybe we can
talk about why you
choose to
shut me out,
while keeping
the door open
to strangers

be still
body, soul
and mind
lips smile
hands be
kind

You carry around
questions
like a ****
on your back
while the daylight
around you turns
completely black
Though, the one that has
the answers
you keep at arm's
length
the same arm you
push away with,
feeds into her
strength
Finally, to fall
from your clutches
and enjoy where
she lands
There life sits
in the palm of
her hand

Don't hide for too long,
you'll only be
lonely,
longer,
paler,
grayer
They don't make it easy,
the struggle,
I am grateful

Ruminate on positive vibrations..
Negate the negative

A wayward breeze
A verbal tease
Navigation of words
Soaring altitudes of ego
Longing the destination
defining
YOU

How do we put an
END,
to this undesirable,
viral
trend?

Responsibilities lurk
just to the right of
the rusty swing,

the one that used to squeak
more obnoxiously,
with every pump

creating a tempo
to ride to the sky by

flip flops in flight,
tips of toes
touching the clouds

Tossing heads, teasing wind's
backward arch
shadowing a wave of nausea  

swirling hair caught
in the sides of silly grins

Dreaming of
the next destination

the in betweening
of take-off and descent

Sweaty palms
clinging tightly to
gentle, non-binding chains

On second thought,
"time to let go"

Release

then

Launch

My tears
stomp
as loud
as my
feet
enduring
the
growing pains
of
movement

Waking eyes
rise and shine
set sights that soar
beyond
ceiling skies

No limit
to the infinite
brand new day

For now,
we will agree
to disagree..

But, as time
moves on
you may
become
unrecognizable
to me

An unfamilial territory

I am
no longer
equipped
to
run around
for you

Hold on a minute
while
I
Write this

Time in squares

cut heavy charged air

into a million

dressed up pixels

Hypnotized,

beneath the high rise

dropping stories of

skyscraper static

strolling

city's delight

Nobody wanted to see
me,
become me

So I became what they
wanted me to be

Then, I lost myself
completely....

Now,
there is no one

Happy?

He was a drug
delivered
right into my needy
arms
while you were looking
the other
way

And I rightfully say,
to those people in my life,
playing emotional
ping pong with
my pineal,
"Stop blocking my
CHAKRAS!"

Didn't
know I was there
while I was
dropping
by