LITERAL REMAINS

I had a conversation the other day with a very good friend, and that resulted in this.  Hope you like it.  Enjoy. Disarmed (for M.N.P.) In daylight the wounds are healed With no trace or scar, just a faint Look that something may be wrong. It’s a distant expression, a slight tremor In the voice, [...]

I know what you wanted- I’m sorry what you found. There’s no one here to set you free, only me to keep you bound. You dream love in bloom as a rose, but the thorns keep it real; the sad reality brings the blood and crucifies the heart’s ideal. If I confessed to your every [...]

A Mystery I’ve been watching the light fade, watching as Summer slowly ebbs away; the katydids are singing, thirty days ’til frost. We better bring in the harvest, or what these hearts planted will surely be lost. So, are we right, or are we so very wrong? Some hearts take time to cultivate, and some, [...]

To____ For every way that I conceal myself, You have a way of making me reveal myself. Your every look, your every smile, Your every touch calms me for a while. When I feel broken, sad, and down You come to me with your sweet sound, Your voice, like an angel, helps me to forget [...]

You Remind Me of a Song You remind me of a song far better than this A vitality of life I once had the pleasure to kiss A memory that lived and breathed me to thrill A memory I tried to forget but it haunts me still It’s easy for someone to say “Life goes [...]

Okay, I found a few files, but not all the ones I was looking for.  If I were a little more organized it would not be so frustrating.  I really need to clean this desk, everything.  Where did I put all those other poems?  I know I was looking at them not too long ago, [...]

Flame  You call me after dark; Maybe I don’t feel like a torch song tonight. Maybe I don’t need any of your redemption, But I want to go if only out of my own spite. I still have your picture, I don’t know why, It’s the picture you gave me that one time. I look [...]

All God’s Children Have Wings (for K.C.)  I won’t tell you how far down I’ve sunk, Or that tonight I’ve reached an all time low. I’ll spare you the details, as ugly as they are; It’s a heavy burden, and it hurts too much to know. But understand the wilderness plays tricks, And it’s tried [...]

A Hundred Different Ways  In a million years, a thousand Days, or ninety seconds from now, The sky will fall a hundred different Ways, and Beauty might find its rest In the fifth corner of a secret grave.  All the kingdoms that use the earth, All the empires we built up by Hand, all our [...]

Robert Johnson   The sun is set over the hills     and I sure can’t see The sun is set over the hills     and I sure can’t see The night has come from down below     and the dark is getting to me   I’ve bent down and prayed     I’ve been to the [...]

Canticles   your love is better than wine lily among thorns your eyes are doves’ eyes by the rivers of waters   let me hear your voice, for sweet is the sound, until the day break and the shadows flee away.   I sleep but my heart wakens, it is the voice of my beloved. [...]

How to Quit   I woke up today and found my life was shit. Everything. I need to put it to a stop, but I don’t know how to quit.   If I would just fade away, be the nothing that I feel; if I could mute your voice…. I know all this despair is [...]

The Dying Embers of Evening’s Light   I keep warm in the pocket of my heart The picture of her that graces my wallet. Either Love, or Lust, or Madness, it is wrong Whatever name you’ve decided to call it. There is a chill wind that resides in The evening light’s falling; The owls are [...]

The Other’s Web Maybe I’m a moth drawing closer to your flame. Maybe you’re a fox and I’m unsuspecting game. Or maybe you’re Jesus come to heal the lame. Sometimes we’re spiders, sometimes we’re flies, sometimes wanderers barely passing the other by. Sometimes we’re missed calls losing faith on the line. I’m the ship, you’re the [...]

Carrion   I brought my tools to     take you apart I’ll eat you piece by piece to     save you this disease I’ll make sure not to leave     any trace of you behind The sickness will find     nothing of you left, not         even the scent of your hair         [...]