is it mankind’s lot
to tolerate the darkness
for enlightenment?
Quotes
Dread
he dreaded sunlight
not for the things it revealed
but for their shadows
Daydreams (in a sonnet shape)
These azure thoughts ascend
to partner with the skies
and in these heavens highs
my daydreams know no end
with your dreams they will wend
to live behind your eyes
where they by and by
into our wakings blend.
what once were dreams are real
enlivened in company
imagined lovers’ reels
in paired society
such fragrant dreams breath true
the scent of me and you
Reflects
the moon tells no lies
she reflects but deep desires
that hide in the dark
Picture Books
He was haunted nightly
by the chocolate covered death masks
of comic strip gunslingers
and yellow page pirates,
though in the daylight
he thought fondly
on and off
of the adventures they shared,
but that was many ephemeral moons ago
when he was a child
and they were alive
in newsprint imaginings,
now their picture book ghosts
and a thousand denouements forgot
give only pause to restful sleep.
Window
I look on the past
through fragments of lost moments
time’s broken window
Sketching A Rhyme
poor passions are borne
in the sleep of sobriety
and desires be denied
by a vain quest for piety
let Bacchus awake
when your eyes close in reverie
and under his spell
may you dream with impunity.
Full?
the moon may be full
and set to inspire madness
yet the black skies weep
Rain
I read from Rilke
as it rained outside
insulated from the storm,
and yet
my dreams not in summer
but in fall reside
and so I had my reveries
abet.
KLEE’S STORM
his forest explodes
and freezes upon still winds
each shard tells a tale.
