Jazz

let these fingers play
major chords upon your skin
improvising jazz

Text

my thoughts have replaced
a worthier set of dreams
now long deleted

Need

I need to write
for if I do
the lines alight
to picture you
next to my skin
your breath in me
as flesh within
our poetry.

Tears

golden blossoms fade
spring rain leaves them in the dirt
unlamented tears

Unremembered Dream

in a dream my lifeless eyes
looked beyond dark clouded skies
and saw there in the firmament
such wonders not to comprehend
outside the boundaries of night,
they lose their substance in the light
for truth is found in fantasies
made whole in sleeping reveries.

le lac d’argent

her deepest secrets
whispered silver satin waves
against my shoreline

Flickers

These candle-lit vignettes
which form my memories
flicker and flare
in dancing footlight flame
casting shadows upon
the truths
which time,
as wont of its vague nature,
adulterates and adapts
to fit the play for today.

Savour

I care not for wine
but let me sup from your cup
to savour its taste.

Bello Variano

I sat to watch the sky grow dim,
upon a land where once the pride
of a thousand armies died
for what, ‘cept hubris held of him
who was as son but not of seed
yet took the crown from greater heads
that too did dream on final beds
great father Caesar to succeed;
and formed from clouds the ghostly trees,
o’er the fields where once they stood
now rich in life from scattered blood
dried slow across the centuries,
shed phantoms in the sweetest rain
to haunt this eve’s halcyon plain.

Kiss

the sun kissed the lake
preparing her lips for mine
and time seemed to stop