Poétique

Seeking

Calling something bad
Isn’t going to make it good
Just like writing the word
Meaningful down and expecting
It to naturally
Somehow have meaning
On its own
Could be enough
You make it bad
You make it good
You give words the power
To have meaning
How can dreaming of
Being remarkable be more
Than just that
A dream
It’s hard to find a sense of
What life is possible to be
If not surrounded by
Voices that encourage
Us to stretch
Controversy mixed with
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Is there complacency in
Contemporary clashing
Or have we lost our will
To catch passion

Cadre

A house of cards
Waiting to fall
Tempted to break
Deturpate
A vile place to
Care for humanities
And our rights
By overshooting
Toreador
To the soufflé
A dirty kitchen
All my eggs in one basket
I insisted on biscuits
Peanut butter and jelly
When will the truth
Finally come out
We all bleed the same
Can we love from over there
Do we have to hurt
Devastate one another
Just to hold one another again
Maybe imperfectly so

Friendship

Friendship
Acquaintances
Friendly distances
Social Media retains
Networking disdains
Casual friends
Hang out refrains
Shared interests
Light hearted conversation
Low pressure no pressure
Close friends
Emotional support
Trust sends
Consolation like a letter
Inside jokes or better
Quality time undefined
Advice in time
Love sublime
Accountability is renowned
Lifelong friends are
Steadfast and recounted
Shared experiences
Belonging and undoubted
Close like family
Timeless tree
Where you left off
Lifelong memories begin
Showing up for each other
In the ebbs and flows
As we grow up and it echos
Through our life paths

Mien

Can our magic still hold
In the space of us
Our magical unfold
Our blanket of light
Did our stars disharmonize
What is our mien
What can we be?
We have so many lives
Before us and so much
Yet to be seen
How much is resting in between?
Seeking our own level
Together as water frills
If the wand is empty
If our hat has no more rabbits
What could we be
What shore will we
End upon
What grief do we have left
To glean if we have
Anything if we have
Nothing if we have
Everything we
Could ever need
Thin is the horizon
What is our mien

Full

Pleasurable moments
Verbal sophistication
Death is an attempt
To communicate
Deeply damaging
Romanticized
Blue skin butterfly
Tattoo of you
Hammer blows
Perilous breakdowns
Magnetic hues
What it is to be alive
Suffuse the darkness
With a salient light
Surreal air surrounds
The breath of life
Heart holding
Lungs open deep
And wide full of wind
Full of love we are
Full of love you and I

Flirting

Iris moon gone too soon
Boxing to be someone
In the shadows of the bayou
Fancy footwork in the dark
Fighting to get to the top
Standing out from the murk
Compassionate crime
Heliconia sun and tree bark
Winter’s starting to flirt again
Malapert dreams on avant-garde
Bended avenues of strangeness blue
Foment me
Swamped with the center
Of the universe before me
Penetrating my core
My whole being is forlorn
No pressure no pressure
Believing every night we’re reborn
Caldera beneath the gaslight
Blathering about in love
Morning returns
Never again to lose sight
Of the sound of the moon

By the Sea

What if I’m not amazing anymore
What if I need to do more?
If I do nothing and leave it alone
Would anyone notice at all?
What if I’m not special to anyone
What if I’m just like the rest
Is it so bad to be average
Am I resisting success?
What if life passes us by
Is it so bad in the end?
Is it a failure to sit by the sea
At most to enjoy with a friend
To fish and to dream
To relax and to breathe
Really deeply…
What if to be so amazing
Is to be resting with you
By the sea

Satellite

May I take you into my confidence?
I am a witness to so many moments
Man sweeps front porch blue broom
Have I failed you in some way
Like a serial offender over and over
Can you find forgiveness in the prowl
Hunting beneath the moon for
A romantic entanglement to
Heal the wound back and forth
Every upside down cloud floating
Upwards to the sound of our
Heartbeats wrapped in a turquoise sky
My eyes are flames and yours pooling
My hands are summer and yours winter
I keep you warm you keep me cool
An Old Norse carving in the wood
Of our hearts in the tree lines that
Report back to the earth grounded
In light suffocated by love the world
Returns back the echo of our love in one
Gigantic Doppler radar that is pulsating
In extraterrestrial dimensions

Sunflowers

All the girls turned out pretty
What happened to us?
Impart upon me your grace
Your beautiful face
Your smile that can
Take up fields for miles
Like endless sunflowers
As far as the eye can see
You radiate me and the
Earth trembles at your feet
Laughing for hours
Convinced to walk on
Glass and all the while
Still in contempt of what
The heart wants
Still in contempt
Of you

Wishful Thinking

Vœu pieux
Thinking of you
Accord and satisfaction
Inculcate my temptations
Tantalus of the sea
Send a rescuer to me
A boat with wood
Made to last
One hundred good
Ionian delight
Love and water
Day and night
Not far from land
Bishopric inland μπλε
Pulling inward trekking
Through and we are full
A land of plenty stillness blue
I’m here for you
Together we are
No different
Impossibility
Knows nothing
An empty room we are
Keeping it full
Our hearts expanding
Sunlit apricot on
Windowsill and you
Resting on me