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