best Friend
who’d understand
you’d understand
this heartfelt need
this destructive deep
swim now or drown
you’d tell with love’s frown
my sister
you’d say
wake from sleep
Tag Archives: Poetry
Emperor
Look with me if you will
You diamonds
For possibilities
Opportunities
As the finest ideals find fruition
Courageously bid if you dare
You rocks
That pressures
Oppressors
Draw near and be proved unclothed
To Do: A Haiku
Oh to no longer
be unrecognizable
and disconnected.
Doomed
What if we’re happy
With the climate now
What if we bid hope be gone
What if time’s wasted
While wanting for change
What if we just accept wrong
Instead Of Dying
Walk this heat-weary mile
Throat parched
Painful shoes
Nearly no breath left
Don’t blame the mistake
The map you made
When your eyes were younger
Tip your hat to the hurt
Toss your map to the sky
And take aim
Let those smithereens shade you
Praise the what-lies-ahead
Without thinking twice
Walk forth
Idle-hearted
The train has left
Platform now unexpectedly empty
The morning’s newspaper blows by
Not even a whistle to be heard
The schedule was posted
Written in black and white
The conductor took one last pleading look
Idle-hearted, go home
Percussion
All of us are seven
Game plan in hand
Foreheads daring the mountains
Feet thanking the coast
American shoes
Purchased
By grandparents’ blood
Carried
By hope-chartered boats
Northward
What could I give the stars
The diligent ones
That peek through the thicket
And sometimes seek me from within
Lest all I’d see is the film of clouds
Surrounding
Drowning
Would they want my voice
Lifted
Lighting the way
Guiding the underground
Calling on the sleepless
To look, to sing
Then reach and walk
Starver
What other firmament awaits
And elsewhere salted sea at which you may jut your jaw
Is there new terra to sweet-talk now
Where its air be so kind to your longing lungs
Time and time again
Who else can you call home
Baton
There’s neither pressure
Nor something to prove
What purpose the drum
Why the brass, you ask
The warmth ‘neath your hand
Keeping most perfect time
The cool clarity
Holds your crystalline mind
The team of the two
If they will become friends
A life-force
That will deliver you
