The Shores of Styx And The Gloom Of Stygian
A baby cries from The shores of Styx A child cries from the darkness. Of a ghetto A baby cries And a child cries And a mother cries As a father dies A war starts Job ends House is lost Another father...
View ArticleShadows And A Dancing Jackal
Like the finale curtain dropping descending in the middle of the last act falling on a good actor in a bad play smothering the finale words expecting no roses no standing cheers encore bravo rave no...
View ArticleMy Name At Dawn
At dawn my name was called by nothing made from human hand It was whispered by the wind and the rising sun and a multitude of flashing images a slide show of past and future A crow with a cracker a...
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Christmas, Version 2012
Its Christmas time in the city, as the old song goes, and something about shoppers rushing home with their treasures, oh the retailers, all a flutter with anticipatory excitement. All a glow with...
View ArticleSomething About Nothing By, ?
They taught me in school To write about What I knew about And when I learned I knew nothing About anything That is precisely what I wrote about And suddenly everyone thought I knew something about...
View ArticleChristmas Snow
Christmas morning Snow soft and light Just enough to say It’s white The boxer next door is howling Chloe cat is prowling As the snow Coats the ground We can’t see their faces Warmed by their fires...
View ArticleThe Door
Somewhere The rising moon the setting moon The rising sun The setting sun The rhythm of forever The moon again the sun again Over again and forever There is I scream there is no forever Not pray Not...
View ArticleThe Writer
He wrote and wrote He cried and tried He wrote he wrote And hurt inside He wrote and wrote And tried to say Locked in feelings In the way Dreaded fears Locked deep At times haunting Fleeting sleep...
View ArticleLove And Candy Corn
Your scent surprised me in aisle ten At the market today Catching me unaware and ill prepared I was transported Into another time When brown eyes held my gaze And be-stilled my heart I wish you had...
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Faces And Places
I look for faces I once knew I look at places both old and new The faces have change The places not the same But in my mind’s eye It’s all the same I close myself in And the doubt out Then I go and...
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Twilight And Other Mysteries
Red globe floating Outside my bedroom window Just tonight Across a field Not far away I watched with delight Floated I swear it did As if to say Come out and play Floating floating far away And...
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I Got Lucky
The first moan of life Thrust from darkness into light I got lucky While living out a country song Playing music all night long I got lucky And living in a rock and roll dream Nothing was ever quite...
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