There is a tension Between the waking world And the sleeping state At 5 am I awoke to the sound of a Bang! My dream was interrupted-- It...

Walking in a cool forest Safe from the heat of the day, the buzz of cicadas, the soundtrack of the woods, Scattered beams of light thru...

I've synthesized the universe Into a sedentary brew A distillation process I always had, but never knew Articulated language Specific per...

To point a sloven soul on the existential path Beset on all sides By invisible barriers, A middle life quandary, To fit the round body...

The nature of the heart is to attach and if attached, then it can love, And if it loves, then it could break, and if it breaks, It could...

(On the Occasion of my Uncle Bill's bench dedication) This day is all we have to live our lives And we live it thru honor, To love the...

Who casts the light upon these trees thru which they stand and shine? The air, I feel but cannot see the blue, above that we agree is...

Follow in my life path I think I'd like that Thoughts racing thru my head I think I should write that, Identifying the way you feel Won't...

Let's keep it above board don't always have to think deep don't have to search for every reason except why i lose sleep. Let's keep it...

There is a nothingness Inside One that feeds on nothing, Needs nothing. One that begs no begging Relies on no one but myself. And if this...

I walk on frittered grass Beneath A cast iron sky Only one jacket worn-- a fool's plan, But this far out from the door, I'll labor on....

Twas the eve upon Christmas And the night was near snow We packed in the warm car To my Aunt and Uncle's house we go Driving along...

The night before A trip to St. Louis, The dishes done The clothes packed The zippers drawn The little bottles got A tiny band around 5...

Long day End of a long week Went for a drive To bide me some time And buy me some things. Purchased the lot And turned to go home And...

No longer autumn in Atlanta It's December in Decatur A rainy, cold front Swept the land I wish I'd heard this second hand I'll never...

Facing this day I leave my heart open, Like a door ajar, In spite of this day The sun, my skin, and all it scorches I leave my heart...

You can't top the West coast The perfect places-- Los Angeles and San Diego I'll let them be, there. I've got a good view North of...

Those who love us Must one day leave us, And to those who we love We must one day leave. Memories-- Tiny scenes that extend as wide as...

Of all the talk Politics and movement This one rose And that one fell This group's cursed While that group's lineage endures All that...

I walk to my balcony The edge of the parking garage Outside my door Of the apartment building, I own the space, On borrowed time, I get...

I hide in plain sight The merge of the skyline Moon and shaking trees To my eyeline Stopped in mid-step The from work to car to home...

I am thinking with my soul I was thinking with my head How could I explain to others How I got to where I'm at, I was spinning round in...

A beckoned solitude--rejoice The neighbors are in full voice I hoist the window up a touch To join the seasoned air The whistling,...

I saw an old friend I said how've you been? He chose the awkward path and actually told me: He said I'm suffering man, I've really been...

Most times, I click the wrong link I thought the wrong think I drive the wrong way Long stops on short days I meet the right person and...

A fight against the light The dark has gone away, I can't wake up, With all the spots to hide And blankets to cover me, My body's made of...

Save your grace For Sundays and seders And seek your savior's grace, So you can save your place in heaven's line, If you believe in that...

(written in 2012) I learned from the martyrs of before me And now I'm here To tell you my incomplete story Told thru every stinkin'...

I kicked the ball, all done my run, and walked the sidewalk by the wayside of the common tracks of streetcars, vans, and trucks. Round...

Lethargy in the wind an empty current, a lazy river of air, like it's tired of blowing, it wants to run thru the field pull grass...

Inspired by "I Am The Antichrist To You" by Kishi Bashi The song that's playing casts a brutal light on all my ungotten wanting. All the...

There's something for everything Sun block for a chapped lip, Polish for a plastic shoe Candy flavors in the coffee cream Almond joy, ...

It seems much of my time Goes to maintaining my body Like I'm an old classic car Made in 1988, out of production now. I have to replace...

There is a quiet in my spirit, I heard it outside first. Beyond the yelling The panicked driving In the cashier's teen-face telling them...

Life is what you make of it, and love, the same. Without love, life is a lonesome road. So we fight the lonely moments In the face of...

For meters on end the air hustles to a stop, a hurried silence on a walk. I pass a tree-- each leaf rustles in my passing tinkering off...

In speaking of things lost, I believe that I once believed, And I will believe again, In myself. We cannot go so far from home That there...

Concerned with what I'm compelled by Me, human, from the hands of God commanded, A bundle of tendencies, a bale of habits, I lean when I...

Your love is a financial burden-- When you hear those words You know the strain between your ears Is not just a chainsaw in the distance....

You can't take it with you Into the next round These friends you've made These lives you've led These truths you spun, and wove into a...

We will all our heads look sunk and strange once we're in the ground, so while we are above it best we keep them on our shoulders. Cool...

Decay disguised as beauty crept under the facade of the autumnal equinox it’s more common, i find that with growth comes death, a...

Tomorrow, remembrance of dad’s passing; this morning, the sunlight streaming across the gingko leaves loosens the frost’s hold to free...

I used to write in scribbled words in warring fits in twitch-prodigeous nueron flits a passion mixed with madness fixed on changing my...

At night thoughts aggregate in the brain like a pool of water in the left hand corner of that dark space beneath the sink. am I a Charlie...

It is a mindless transport aubducting me from my spot. Take my mind and insert it where yours has been. All of you are my makers— think...

Too many hours own the day. To do the things I wish to do, I make a list called “things to do,” and I become spoiled for choice and...

I read three poems that I have written and I break em down for ya'. - The Middle Ground Of Lore - A Rainbow Above A Gravestone - There Is...

In this episode I read 3 poems and muse on various topics surrounding their creation. Pop-quiz hotshot! How long do you think it took me...

Be free and so your will Until upon the puzzle we, Destined to be fused Between nature and its image, Blending all the light that’s seen...