Like a cloud aspired
To countless skies
Our sincerest laughter
Which never dies
All your words are true
My ears a gift
To listen to
You
Dappled I will crawl
Past the darkest shadows
Into the morrows light
The afternoon rumor
Is to tell of your delight
I will not be absent
From this
We will not be distant
Still the evidence
Is just a whisper
And a kiss
© GÄ
The unfolding of your words
From the deepest wellspring
Giveth light to the faraway
Understanding this has
Always been paradoxical
And ever will continue
Always previously given
With an undying
Debt to attachment
Something one can’t shake
Like a feeling that takes over you
My unrelenting crush
Call to me and I will answer you
Though the downtime feels a bit
Like a straitjacket for love
About such an appeal
There is only one way to deal
The cards out between you and I
One at a time
© GÄ
From the window
Dreaming listlessly
Through a small hole
I saw a woman
Cleaning a birdcage
Her face was beautiful
Like a swallows flight
In mid air
Long hair flowing about
The aroma of cinnamon toast
Floating everywhere
My senses all too aware
Like a gypsy fortune teller
Sometimes we see things
We shouldn’t see
Shaped like a memory
We can never forget
Strange I thought
And placed my hand
On my head
To feel my temperament
I bet I could break a hundred
If character or disposition
Could be measured
You know
Sealed glass and mercury
Rising and falling
With emotional levels
Maladjusted
Window shopping
When relief seeks its way
To the top of blossoms so sweet
So natural and
Unassumingly with wonder
You wonder what I mean
Watching all the cars drive by
I think to myself
There goes another life
I wonder if that life
Would like to know about mine?
With each boring moment
Arrives another one
Ever so alluring
Like the art on the walls
That keeps changing every month
Hmm, I guess if I hadn’t known
About love I wouldn’t ponder
To think it might have forgotten me
But then again how could it
I’ve hardly been a day
Without it in fact
I can’t remember when
It wasn’t at the forefront
Of my mind
Yes, voyeurism
The look of love
The heart that’s sitting
Opposite in time
From mine
Warped by butterfly wings
On the tips
Of prosperity
Have you any sense of direction?
If you’ve half a mind
Or could even find the time
Meet me on the corner of
Fifty-Second and Charles
I’ll be waiting there with
A cameo of you
I had it made
Especially to impress
Your handsome heart
© GÄ
To sit calmly
Await with promise
A blur of time
A melting of artistic purpose
With every brush stroke
As smooth as marble
My face resting
In the crevice of
The arm of your ship
Cradle me like twisted wood
Holding a swing
On a heartfelt goodnight
Bespeckled with
Adoration and
Perspiration
The scent of you
Is one
My nose could only
Recognize as this
Your fragrant love
That sends me into
Dizzy spells
Never lying to seduce you
Three hundred plus miles
Floating down the Garrone
Within you I am
Retranscribed before you
Like an old story
Finding its way to the shore
Of your lips after the flood
Of emotions that
Inhabited the bank
Of my once stony heart
Which was written
Only after you
Walked barefoot there
Amongst the rubble
Of my pizzazz
It is here
That I let myself go
In the canal
Of your impeding
Wash of rain
My chosen tributary
Flowing into your larger stream
Unlike any other estuary
You are a dream
My favorite channel
To turn to
© GÄ
What I need
Is seldom what I want
But if I merely listen
I too find wading through the tide pool
Of thirsty lapping waves
A revelation to the
Spirit of things
That which profoundly
Animates and illuminates
The heart of the young
Once I’m buckled into the
Unbreakable bonds of love
I will not have to ask
Will I remember you
Even if we crash
It seems the
Weeds overtook what was
The new arrival of
Ten tiny white flowers
I never would have noticed them
If what I needed was to
Lie here on my stomach
It’s what I wanted
© GÄ
The moon
In broad daylight
It gives a lovely light!
The madman
Is my refuge and my shield
You make it easy to delight!
All the weapons
In the world would cause no harm
If they had some sentimental charm
Sometimes I think
About the night come mid morning
The glittered darkness is restoring
Sweep the things of yesterday
Into a countless ashed array
To toss it out with thoughts gone by
And still we ask ourselves
Am I amazing?
I am amazing
Am I amazing?
I am amazing
No pressure worn for wear
Sarcastic snares
Teeter-totter back and forth
To find the gentle hover
To discover the perfect weightlessness
Svelte calm serene
With all the answers
Travelling safely stowed away
In our back pockets
Forgotten hastily
‘Tis but to blind dismay
© GÄ
You are the light of the world
You are a town built on a hill
You cannot be hidden
Although hide and seek
Is fun to play with you
Can we take our blindfolds off?
I think about the last hour of this day
Old friend
How I wish to rewind it
Paste your smile all over the walls
Experience it together again
In a different collage
My quick sleep tonight
Might just delete it all
Starting over tomorrow
Will it be as great as it was
Yesterday?
Will I be alone
In a strange city
Figuratively
Intervening time and place
I know I knew you from before
Like the first book
I ever read
I remember it well
The way the pages felt
The smell
Like the bitter-sweet
Shakespearian tongue
That picks the fruit
From my soul
When you speak
It could only be yours
Just as I am ferociously
Consumed in the fire
Of my desire
For you
© GÄ
My son
Imaginary
We tried
We wrote it down
But then
Grandma and Grandpa
Said he was never born
But I saw a picture
Good lore came down
Out of the sky
Shook me with terror
REEKER REEKEER REEKER
REEKER REEK
Heavenward
It would shiver
The skyscrapers down to
Pure nothingness as if
Typed in an old scrapbook
And then burned
My aunt had pictures in an album
Of these things
That’s when I knew that
People loved me
I see non acceptance as a result
Lit up just like a
Feeling of persecution
Someone ignoring us
Spitting at us
Hitting me in the head
Suffering is that which
Comes when we live
You know it as the truth
The only lie
Would be forgetting
That I loved you
Even if you
Never existed
© GÄ
The truth is
I am grateful
Honestly
I crave
I long for
Transcendent love
Exhaustion at the end
Of a busy day
Could never mask
My desires
My satisfaction
A feeling of work
To do what I’m
Capable of
With you
As surely as grass
Yearns for water
My mouth seeks
Your bread
Even if I fear
The breaking changes
Surrounded
I search a great cloud
In a sky full of witnesses
Throwing off everything
Daggers that hinder
The wisps if words
Are lisps that conjure
Us absent on lips
An arm around to receive
What lowers to raise
Dips down to retrieve
The ghost of a love engraved
That wanders the halls
Aimlessly
Calling out
For the home
That cements it
Underneath our
Foundation
In the chest
Of our bodies
Pressed together
Even if exhaled sharply
Just for a moment
© GÄ
Good hath come
To the generous heart
The lenders of selflessness given
Freely conducting
A symphony of their affairs
No worry no wear
Just being there
People look
Side to side
In a most bewildered stare
In my direction if not for money
Then what for?
I imagine
Walking slowly into the universal
Garden among the green
With a resilient ardent glow
If we should fall to
The consumption of the
Materials of being here on earth
Hidden behind the stained glass
Treasures in a manic state rebirthed
Walking atop the all too
Attractively colored shards
Our cause will crumble
Under her spell
The witch of darkness
Rings the bell
Call to the one in white
With blood free diamonds in her hair
To be so drawn to her
Though we are so often
Drawn to danger magnetically
There is a comfort
Knowing the trees
Are surely there
To coexist within a grove
That has not need
For pots of gold
Within our hearts and hands
For what we hold
Toward every footpath
Is surely sold
Our freedom from the coin
Into the wealth of love
© GÄ
Poétique 