Buddhism

drunk on you

Ok, let’s see
You rail at me
I watch your words on the screen,
watch you vent your rage as I sit outside your cage

this magnificent day

for Min & Leigh

Early evening Sunday hour, 
not a time of great power,
really time to take a…

tiny star

Here is space I know not well
sitting between heaven and hell,
mountaintop with infinite view,
heart wide open, soul renewed

dream kaleidoscope

Air sharp, ground firm, I’d ask your mind 
but you’d have to turn and look me in the eye
You look away
You hear me, but don’t want to know what I’m saying

pantheon

I hope you understand this is all part of the plan,
not my design, but with reason and rhyme
playing out across time, a poem unwinding,
words…

cat passing

for my sister Cathrine

You and me, what was that like?
I cannot see what became of those memories,
all we have…

peaceful

I thought maybe I would ask you what to do with this pain
I don’t need it anymore, learned what I needed to know,
chest still tightened…

natural beauty

under neon red shag bowler, edges turned up,
white earphones hang over gold hoops,
snake down her long burnt caramel neck,
sculpted…

this wheel

I’m a bad man, sit on a tin can, 
make a plan without standing for anything,
pretend to care, but in my heart of hearts 
am empty, easily…