To push beyond the limits
Of uncompromising feeling
Uncomfortability is reaching
Into grasp deeply at the
Sky and touch the stars
In such a way that you feel
Parts of yourself which are
Hard to face hard to see
Difficult to look down
Or back upon into your
Own heart and eyes
In the shadow of yourself
Standing in the light with
Nothing to keep you
From opening the door
To your own soul
© GÄ
What part of your life
Isn’t intense
Do you correlate
Intensity with passion
Think of the wins
Don’t focus on the losses
He said driving
Down the road
Fighting his whole life
To have people like him
To befriend this
As if something were
Unacceptable?
Not so much approval
But to be loveable
And if someone didn’t
Return that perhaps
To share that affection
Somehow I failed in
Being loveable
Will there be sound
After we die?
Are we holding
Ourselves back?
We love the outside
But the inside cannot
Love us the way
We think it will be
Reimagining
© GÄ
We step out
Beyond ourselves
To find forgiveness
In someone else
A different opinion
To be forgiven
I look to my heart
Tied to the universe
Married to the mother
And her children
The stars
Comfort my empty faith
How they cradle and bathe
My symphony of pain
How they give my whip rest
Arms of light about my chest
Forgive this human condition
Release your selfless victim
There is no worthy hostage
O, how the heart swells
With pure joy
When we free love
© GÄ
Some days I feel like I am
Living in a body that has
Already had its funeral
I can be more amazing
Than I am behaving
Befuddled by my own
Momentary lapse of
Seizing the instant
Someone wise said to me
Seeking no and
Being told no creates
Cracks and that’s how
The light gets in
Our failure is the only
Way we learn
Be satisfied with yes or no
Because you’re going to get
What you’re going to get
Regardless
Perhaps they’re not my words
But they become our words
When we own them and
Adopt them into
Our spiraling cores
Which says
Everything is everything
Into the ground
Up to the sky
© GÄ
Am I deranged in my love for you!
Orange moon make me not
A prisoner to your glowing
All for the answers to bow
Down on bended knees I need less
Little of nothing but only
Tenderness
Leave me not with the
Rotting ghosts on the floor
Reminiscent of past life love
If we break the ice might we
Also be found drowning
Together
Keep on lying to me
Before I change my name
Handle me with noble gestures
Give me both of your hands
Warm sun at my back
Early morning could be
Left with nothing warmer
Than the touch of your heart
Abandon me parched
Situating your softness
At the tips of my fingers
A smile and sweet eloquence
Find my voice and pick it up
Off the floor
© GÄ
To be strong in the vulnerability of
Our honesty is what matters most
Making the actions you take
Not a sin or a crime but a choice
That somehow hurtles you out of
Some self sacrificing pity and into
Another realm of respect in the
Eyes of those that love and adore you
When the lightning flashes
Brightening your surroundings
Like a tournament of heartbeats
Pounding stronger one more than
The other and then the pulse of
A sky illuminated by the silver
Moon is found highlighting the truths
Where will you be if there is
An unimaginable genuineness
Holding you in its charms
What ecstasy if not for vibrant
Realizations that could free us up
Mental clouds that leave us stranded
Deep in the weeds of luscious prairies
No longer growing to push back but
Yet to offer supple fruits and grains
For the wildlife that remain there with
Beguiled rains on the horizon isn’t there
A chance that we all might fulfill
Some solo meaningful propose to a dream…
© GÄ
To be a participant in life
Not always driving
Sit back and take it in
Be not contained
By the desires of others
Fight for your exit
Red lines drawn down
Electric eyes up
Irascible prone to
Temperamental outbursts
Like a burning fire
Sadness always on the horizon
Little did I know that genuine
Happiness was always
Around the corner
Like a wet towel you
Can’t get out from under
Breathing in wet
Breathing out wet
With what we have left
How much more
Can the body take
What is resilience
If nothing exists
To feel love?
Just to stretch our legs
Walking the distance to
Get onto the other side of
Emotions we were never aware
That we were suppressing
Solve the mystery and mercy
Embrace the light that was
Once blanketed by those who
Needed to put it out
© GÄ
Maybe we shouldn’t
Disturb the bones of what
Once was or what were?
That’s it! Get on your
Hands and knees and scrub
Hot tea with rum and little cakes
If only to fulfill a tragic destiny
I don’t think I’d be afraid without you
I’m not so boring after all
Surprisingly pleasant
Do any of us deserve happiness
Questionably a table has been set
For just an event like this
Salt at the tongue
Sugar on my lips
What would it be to repair
A scorched bridge
How do we forget ourselves
I’ll not soon erase you
Nor my dreams
Waking up first thing
Gnawing at the brain
Hush hush
Every happiness can
Find its way through
Though love is something
We can’t command like a
A lambent neighbor
© GÄ
It was a deleterious dinner
Every night was a fight
Fill your belly go to bed
Injury to the head
Intrusive thoughts
Protection
Protection
This was the medicine
To create the circle of
Guidance and keep the
Bad ones out
Like a gang for love
Not a group for pain
Stay away grab your stake
The vampires come to prey
On your beautiful light
Lights out!
Lights out!
No peace for you
If the world wants to
Beat around in your noggin
It breeds no permission
For stopping
Grab your tool kit and run
An ankh and a bracelet
For transmission
Abhor mistakes
No broken hearts
No shattered ways
Humble in love
Remove the piece that
Doesn’t fit, that’s it
© GÄ
He loves the contrary
Adores the mess
Embraces the ugly
And dances with it
In the darkness
What a deeply murky soul
Delighted in the bleak
Chaos catalyst
Shake you off
Do your worst before the devil
Call the corners to your sad
Let me go let me run
Sliding out of your
Twilight zone
Free from wonder
If you care pretender
Your lack of empathy
Listless enthusiasm
No more chains
Free from you
When you shine
People try to dim your light
Suffocating the glow
With their insecurities
Short distance
Free of you I run
© GÄ
Poétique 