Communion

That love which is only taken
To warm the heart forsaken
Shall only burn
If not returned
Then quickly turn to ash.

Two Chords

Two Chords
Being sweet to each other
Two Chords
Sharing a dance toward opposite sides of the room
And if the music stops
Will they keep existing
And will they still be standing
In the middle of their destiny
Two Chords
Having a fight over nothing
Two Chords
Being as simple as they can possibly be
And if the music stops them
From being who they really are
Will they still be standing
Should they find that it's a fantasy
Being
Two Chords
And not
One Song

God Is

Good Goddess
Lover and Midnight Sun
Bestower of Tides
Beholden to none
But shines the light
Of Helios
Ever She, the Faithful One.

Badge of Courage

Excuse me if just for a moment I wear
A broken and shattered heart on my sleeve
As a badge of the courage it takes to pretend
I am loved, alive, and not dying inside

Holding Back

Love smiles
Holding arms open wide
And waits
Should you choose to walk
And not run

The Masque of Cupid and Death

Lie fierce and wondrous eyes
fearful
Alone, and forgiven of might
have
been

Masquerade

Behind the mask of the belle of the ball
Emboldened in her second skin
Lie fearful fierce and wondrous eyes
Alone, but forgiving of might have been
Her heart moved yet
And carried on
Dancing out her destiny
While might became what could have been
And what it soon will be

Howl

Howl
Remain
Still Vigilant
Prey
Not upon defeat
Prowl
Obtain
Her heart enchant
Stay
Hot and seeking heat

Until Morning Comes

Your eyes once beheld the best of me
You hid within my arms of rest
Your heart once beat as joyfully
As any could attest
But soon came the phantoms and eternal night
Our lips unlocked to catch a breath
Our souls sought for the secret truth
That forges lover's death

We Are Here Together

You held me in the arms of love
You helped me find my self
Created with me, hearts of gold
And dreamed of growing old
Together two, from first to last
And even yet apart
This promise we have made is true:
 I am here for you

The Last Word

The last word spoken in the room
Fell upon no mortal ear
Ethereal, untied from tongue
A sound of love and fear.

Avoirdupois

Merry
Love
Together rejoice
Marry
Age
Avoirdupois

Again the Morning

Again the morning of the undertaking
Of laughing children and starving dogs
Of headphones and solitude
Again the happiness of afternoon
The anticipation of the hurried
In the magic of smothered light
Again the intimate forsaken night
Does ache as the heart in a hurt reborn
For the donning of tomorrow's armor

M

Through mourning storm
In cloud and gloom
Of Acheronian twilight
Fell
Soul and dust, fired and star-forged
Into womb
And her arms of light

Should Night Arise

Should night arise within your heart
Your face become the haunting shade
Your hand become the instrument
By which an innocence departs
Step not again into this realm
Of guardians and iron might
Who limb-from-limb shall liberate
The dark to give back to the light

Prayer

Give us this night
In forgiving dreams
Alive and in love
For tomorrow
Give us these children
We wished we could be
Scarred not by yesterday's
Sorrow

In a Word

Breath becomes
Vibration setting
Cataclysm or repair
Of a new illumination
Born of hope or dark despair

Not Guilty

I am forgiven I am free
Though the sun has set
Your eyes are upon me
Though darkness
Never bring to light
That dark too dark to see
Your gaze is all I need

The Death of Me

Down to death did I dive
Deep into this sunken heart
Where none dare go
But for love
And with holy strength of
The fabled god
Drowned the kraken
Within its own blood

Holy Hot Damned

My timer stopped
My heart beats
I live
But dead
To all but you
Eternally
Through holy Heaven
And the hottest Hell

Reprieve

The heart cage
Lock rusts
In the salt
Of her ocean tears

A Small and Childlike Spell

The nights in which
Her crown sometimes slips
The princess wakes asleep

Defense Mechanism

The ink of the octopus
Darkens iridescent water sky
Sails unharmed
Into starlight

Love I Lie

Love
I love
I love your kiss
Your care
Your hand
Your word
Lie
I lie
I lie awake
Unkept
Unfelt
Unheard

Coloring in Green

Coloring in green
Upon the winter’s sheen
It spins
It turns
It twists
It burns
Around the upstream
Flowering
And round
And round
We go
And love alas
We know
Into the death
We all shall fall
And wither
Into spring

Nest

You turned and slept so lovingly
While angry words hung in the air
I flew away to find my rest
In another's soft despair.

This Heart Is a Gun

This heart is a gun
I chambered my love
I chambered my insecurities
This heart is a gun
I aimed it at her
I aimed it at friends and at enemies
This heart is a gun
Falling apart
But you will be the death of me

Clotho Lachesis Atropos

Your days are woven of sun and of clouds
They are measured in laughter and tears
They are ended with voices of those whom you've loved
Ringing within your ears

Fear not

To Stay in the Season of Snow

To stay in the season of snow
I chose by the sun’s array
As walking in dreams
Of memory below
The trees in silent decay

I sang beneath the bone fingered bough
And sat in a chardonnay flame
Of withering grass and a wintry show
Forgetful of all
But her name

I regret to have erred
In the falling of leaves
And to ending the masquerade
By lighting the tinder
The unknowing perceive
As a wounding
And life delayed

Oh pain
The lie
Of perfect man
That beauty begs to need
And still I crave that perfect hand
That mine
My love
Has freed

Green

The art of being green
Is in bending the light
Just so
That the word fits
When seen

Such As I Do

They never said sunbeams had dark hair
Such dark eyes
They never said starlight had soft lips
Such soft curves
They never said daydreams had cold feet
And hot moves
They never said
They never knew
They may never
But I do

The Night Then Came

There were wars
And vicious rumors of war
The night then came
With the thunder
The angels attended
The battle was won
Both sides standing
Alive with wonder

Good Night

Children asleep in a moonlit dream
Held within a mother's heart
Stardust forged by Destiny
To crown the rising king

There Is No Time, There Is Only Now

In a moment far off
Or near
Our beloved Death comes swiftly bearing
Two names
Remembered or Forgotten
And the child returns to eternal light
With or without
Having been seen and not heard

Super Moon Wolf Pack

The Super Moon shines through rain clouds and star dust
As the wolf beasts feeds on fantasy's beauty
Hunting dogs in tow, with a sword and an arrow
Enemies fall under high fives and howls

Vampire Nation

One of the things I look for in the next few hundred years
When science makes a breakthrough and immortality appears
Then we can all be murderers and not commit a crime
Although we’ll be above the law we’ll still be doing time

A lifetime isn’t pain enough for all the pain we’ll go through
So let’s all kill the scientists before they won’t kill you

Backyard Haiku

The sun warms stale poop
And the lone dandelion
While breathing shallows

Star Girl

Love stare
Heart swoon
Deathray
Love Sin
Solar flare
Wolf moon
Bombshell vitamin

The Philote

Fireflies in a magenta kiss
Singing songs of the philote
And reunion
Breaking down barriers
With small flutterings
Of now and forever

The Hidden Hours

In the hidden hours
Between one and thirteen
Lies the eternal city
Of sunlit night
Where the darkness is dark
And darker still
Because
And in service of the light
- its shadows
Are a time-warmed blanket

Power

Do not
Rely on the heart of
Another which
Gives nothing
Of peace to
Nightmares

Building

Of war and of blood have the stones been set
To build the castle walls
The gate wrought of iron and of will and of love
Holds the spirit of valor
Within its immortal halls

This House

This house is a transformer

With a lovelight heart

And a child for brains

Dancing around a foundation

Of magic and mayhem

Love Haiku #1

Holding hands is good
But holding butts is better
Faces have to touch

Chanoyu

Kaiseki

Then I wait

Koicha

As communion goes

Thus the blood is served

Yokan

Becomes the flesh

We bow before the brotherhood

And words begin afresh

Shibui

Wabi

Sabi

Fura

That's What He Said

Frankly, this world of a camel

Has three humps

Sillyable

Firest wind sunk storm cocaine

Pallid parched anima pain

Godless loss guest giving in

Forrest seashore’s terrapin

Mobile table tener tengo

Vilified in San Diego

Habla veggie commie-sutra

Afro hippos in a groupa

Moccasins in thunder tempo

Bird coyote un momento

Doggy dustbowl good god pride

Gun foot slips on the devil’s slide

Lost

And thus I returned to my earthen hollow

Whence first I'd emerged –the acolyte

From birth to naïve and intimate sorrow

After forty-two days of night

I followed the shadow, chased by the sun

From the islands of old to the new

Spoke He, near the edge of the dawning horizon

“You’ve all your discoveries before you”.

Dear Valkyrie, Never Known

The last of the Valkyries has fallen,

Alone into the world of men

Her eyes proclaimed the Revelation

Her lips, the end of sin

For the sake of the electric beats of her heart

Annihilation stayed his hand

Seeking his exoneration

In her warning reprimand

The roots of the world tree are dying

All runners sent forth to signal the end.

Calling our souls to liberation,

And some to consummation.

The newborn child cried out in my arms

Vibrations untying the air

The voice of a thousand generations

Prophesying an eternal despair

Was it in sorrow for a life once lost

Or perhaps for the journey to come?

For a future of fear and of loneliness

Or the death of the helpless one?

For the gods who hung upon thy trees,

Tribulation

and

Ragnarök

For the burden of sin and

Of impotence

For the suffering

Of the child

For the havoc of woes,

Of being and blood

For the magic of love and

Betrayal

Woe

No Apologies

How can we say we're sorry
When we hate the love we give?
How can we say we're sorry
When we're only sorry we forgive?

Dynamite

Let's take it slow
You're one in a million
You're volatile
Hot
Nitroglycerin

It's Easier

I stood behind the mirror
as she screamed at herself in terror
And took the blame for hating
That which she had become

Damn

Damn all the things that we've ever said
That were medicine
But too hard to swallow
Damn all the promises of a life yet to live
If they can't get us through to tomorrow.

All Love

All love given as I Owe You's
Left unpaid and overdue
When one is dead, the other risen
To a life of debtor's prison
Has passed into eternity

Chorus to a Dead Tune

Don't want to make up
I just want to make love
Don't want to break down
I just want to die in love.

Alive Alone In Love and Always Dying

I tasted the deep of the blood of your love
Which the kiss of your mouth laid bare
My hand on your hips, my tongue on your teeth
My word of eternity breathed on your lips
Your heart is my fate
My fate is my death
May my eyes close at last in your arms and despair.

For Heaven's Sake

For heaven's sake
Hell awaits
You're running late

Half-Moon

Half-moon
Half awake
Smiling with a harvest grin
Yellow stained and ancient teeth
Like a happy old god

Do Not Go Gentle

Do not go gentle into that dark night

It writes,

Misquoting in memoriam

Within the fog of a march morning

Remembering the dead

-and the dead still living

It reminds itself that it is no different

That it is the worst of these

That there is no one to blame

-but itself

That the Gods are so far beyond comprehension

That hating them is simply an excuse to lie

The masters have indeed taught us well

-for the love of God is truly the love of oneself

And that killing a thing is killing the God within

Woe to the human whose higher intellect has been used for murder, for greed, for usury!

The day of transformation cometh, and you shall be changed into something else entirely!

And if it is nothing at all, why have you not taken comfort in the moment?

Woe to the lazy, the fat-ass, the video-game demigod who has not shared with others his weakness!

It will miss the leveling of worth and the power of truly being!

Woe to the indifferent!

That which has made you is that which you have become -your identity lost.

Woe to the market for attention and souls!

You have sold not only your own, but those of your children.

The crash is forth-coming, and with it

The Greatest of all Depressions.

Elora

Supernova star-child
Illuminating old eyes
With swirls of locks
And a hula-hoop

Desert heart

Salt-sea air floods the desert heart
Scatters death sand and haunted soul
Of a fading ghost-town memory

Slower Than Time

Words move slower than time
Break the bones of the old
Pierce the heart of the young
Twist minds
And cause slips of the tongue

Starfire Sandpiper

this existing,
ephemeral,
imaginary,
and quaint,
Has had its head messed,
and,
mind shook
up,
just in time,
To see the light,
Before dusk, has brought
Cancer to the dream,
That one day,
This animal soul, will leap headlong,
Into the breaks, between soft and density,
between air and might.
But by and by, and in the likeness of god
the vanities, Upon my lips,
speak consonant, vowel,
adjective and verbial,
Disillusioned,
deposed,
waiting on a
Half-had life,
and a heart to break

The Ballad of You Can All Kiss My Ass

May the Lightning

El of a Thousand Victories
Maker of crowns and histories
Heart of the Living Ancient of Days
Bestower of Smiles and Destinies
Bless this child

A Palm Seed

A palm seed perhaps
Waiting for water enough
To dig in and root

Sleep In You

If I could sleep inside your body
On a long cold night
To find your dream
You would awaken
To live it

Heart-shaped

A heart-shaped glass half-full

Repair

After the storm
We repaired the sails
Swabbed the deck
And unbarreled the limes and oranges
With a new name
And destination
We set out for the New World
Penitent and hopeful

Damn Expectations

I expected to be noticed, I thought I would be moved
Further from neglect, perhaps close to being used

The Lie

If white unknown from the tongue
As a dove
Flies
And is regretted in release

Please

Please bear in mind
That I love you
And all that you are
Even when I hate
Those few small things
For the moment

Moon

Upon the path
To kiss the sun
I saw her light
And came undone
And as the dusk
Behind her came
I followed close
And screamed her name
But turning not
Her form did fade
Into the night and shade

Destiny

We have hitched our hope to a falling star
But the moment is bittersweet
For though swiftly we ride to consummate death
We live
We love
We believe.

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Not the Enemy

He scaled the wall
To the temple
Replaced the heart
He'd stolen long ago
Turned to leave
Through open the open gates
Welcoming him home.

A Black Dream

Across blue waters
The heart lies red
Bleeding out into
Greener pastures.

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Covered

Look with your mind at the soul here beneath
At the joy of the flesh held reserved
Self-assured and covered in promises
That no other may yet observe.

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Paradox

Man is the maker of the music of dreams
For a woman to dance within
Though the notes cannot be played
Until the dance begins

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Fear is a Sigil

Fear is a sigil born in blood

Inscribed upon the heart bewitched

Fed by time through wars of tongues

And sealed with a lover's kiss

You Don't Say

Water, like words,
Turned to ice
Fall upon the soul and skin
A dark and lovely magic
And the trickiest part
Is knowing
That both death from above
And reverberation
Are formed of the same small substance
Of which also make life and love.

Aurian

Tomorrow's wind blows

Leaves stir upon autumn trees

Whose roots grow heart-deep

Could It Be Any Other?

Starforged, earthborn
Sunkissed, headstrong
Clockwork heartbeat
Wound up Love Bomb

Religious Art

Faith is the art of disbelief
In the madness and pain of mortality
For the eye is the transmission
But the mind, reality.

Love's Long War

There's a crack in the armor of chivalrous knight
Where the heart once beating did break
By the sword and the shield of a love's long war
Thrust through goodness, for goodness sake.

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A Stirring Heart

She wished upon her wishing star
Who fell to earth upon her word
And having fallen was no more
The wish for which her heart had stirred.

If Undead I Awake Before Dawn

If undead I awake before dawn

In the dark at the door to forever

I will drink of the thought

Of the heat of her blood

And the dusk of our mortal endeavor

For the love once lost shall soon follow

And the love fallen first will not wait

For the light ends again as at first it begins

At peace, as one, together