Confessions of a Poet
Poem These words just sound silly to me Reflecting my lack of verbal fluidity My slow, diminished mental acuity Laid out in ink for the world to see Yes, you could say I...
Tagged: rebellion
Losing You
Poem ah, that’s right Life, it takes a toll The demands we fight without selling our soul when, we live this existence we enjoy what it yields live in it with malice our...
Use Your Mind
Poem above ground always accepted and always admired you shared your thoughts with me while I looked in the distance half listening there was something in the air that day a light along...
Ten Minutes
Poem Ten minutes early and I bide my time Sliding into the corner Of the cafe sanctuary Not alone am I We hide Savor the few minutes That are our own Ten minutes...
First Dokusan
Haibun Poem I step from behind the screen. Sari sits lotus on the zafu atop a large zabuton. A second zafu lies before her. Bowing, I enter. Bow to her. Sit. She smiles....
Lead Me to Temptations
Poem Lead me to temptations As the drops of icicles melt into the earth Allow divergence to tithe its unsorted dues To preach its oaths of mans sports As once-constants fall away, left...
Grooming For Never (Never) Land
Poem Attempts; again and again To suck in the gut of atrophy You swear admittance will Ultimately rely on the twinkle In your eyes The one where … any attempt Foiling hardship or...
Breaking Through
Haibun Poem Tuesday evening zazen — not an “ease in” sore thighs and forearms burning, mid-spine vertebra numb legs all troubling thoughts from this morning so much crumbled dust no fresher feeling than recovery...
The Things They Tell Me
Poem They tell me to forget you That I’m wasting time on feeling who You are inside and appear aside From your bright, fluttering smiles They tell me waiting isn’t worth The return...
Giving My Life to Time
Poem rather the water blue to a cool breeze to refresh and undo to the sounds that appease rather be sailing where the air drifts freely exhaling in directions with new twists away...
