Half a Chance

Despite humbling trepidation

Balancing fear with uncertainty

Considering dreamed of possibilities

But failing to take that risk

While searching for a path to reach .....

.....  a heart

Another soul

I suspect given half a chance

I could fall in love

August 2023

Occasionally there's someone who just appears so fantastic .... and you're afraid to risk losing that presence in your world by taking a chance. 

In That Needed Moment

Like from a risen whisper

Or revived rumor

You appeared in that needed moment

Radiating undefeatable light 

And a universe of unearthed desires and possibilities

Spreading potent significance to this place

To this lost foolish life 

August 2023

Assumptions Countered

These visions pass in frantic seconds

Becoming incomplete memories before allowed to reconcile with the present

The shattered shards of unverified promises await restoration

At the least, clarification

The process aborted with every muted reckoning

Between worth and gain

Benefit or salvation

And discovering, countering all assumptions

That it wasn't intended to be lasting

Or rewarding

July, 2023

An Unexpired Calling

Obscurity and lamentations be pushed aside

Relevance is dominant

There is always a time .... a place

Even moreso, an essential need

For vital beauty

For a raging soul

A presence both random and targeted

Intended for this time

To promote what's often unseen or neglected

To create slivers of openings for light

To create existence and beauty from sands and seeds of notions

To create from humility and passion

To sew love into the linings of ignorance

To cultivate ideas and concepts

To take little and shape into infinite forces

To deny apathy of minds and imaginations

No borders

Welding embers of abstract uncertainties and possibilities into vitalogy

Vision that interprets significance in tiny remnants of void and doubt

There's radiance emitted

Reflecting on what's latent and concealed

An unexpired calling 

May 24, 2023

For a beautiful friend who due to sudden circumstances, has been expressing questions and doubts about her future and place in the world.

Final Memory

Subdued light and fractured shadows remain

The herons have retreated for the evening

To majestic hidden sanctuaries

We silently observed and documented their parting

What if the world ended tomorrow

My final memory will be being here with you

May 2023

A time and place imagined. The person it was imagined for, very real. 

This Place

I've seen this place before

This former place of pending affirmation

In that vision

That was a different universe

An assumed reality to last beyond forever

Dictating a time

Years now lost in a mirror

May 2023

This Aging Silence

This aging silence

Too many times we've explored its lonely architecture

Aborted missives lost in the haze of fears and doubts

Though the wounded faith and passion persisted

We accepted frail victories

And sadly, documented monumental failures

Once mistook it for a bad dream

Two worlds ceased yet continued

Navigating a broken path lacking in purpose

Or direction

Why should any of this matter?

No life altering sacrifices being offered

From me

From you.

2023

Untitled For Now

A pause, as if for dramatic effect

The realization that everything had changed

A disparate chill invading this suppressed reality

Frozen in stagnation amid reluctant withdraw

Little remained from the original vision

Only icy fragments dispersed among forlorn pages

You were gone, I feared forever .....

March 2023

Sometimes sleep dreams arrive with their own reality, taking bits and pieces of the past, meshing and mingling (clashing?) with endings that never took place, creating alternate emotions and stories.

Becoming Legacy

Exist to create

Each space dictates

The beauty known to unique eyes

And abstract visions of an unlimited world and mind

Designs and legends unimagined by others

Reviving remnants and things forgotten

Telling stories for posterity  

Reinventing possibilities

Scattering grains of light

Finding wonder in ideas

We might not otherwise take notice

Becoming legacy

February 2023

For a friend. Hoping that she recognizes herself in these words. A beautiful and kind person with a passion for the arts.

Erasing Fears

Graying memories intersect with

Darkened false images from recurring dreams

Extending worrisome reactions

Emphasizing aging fears

It's taken decades to erase

How truth became obscured

How sentiment turned.

2020

For two or three years, I had a series of dreams, in which a person from my youth was reacting towards me in a manner that never happened in real life. Pushing me away. Avoidance and sarcasm. I was very confused and rattled trying to identify where the dreams were coming from. The dreams finally ceased. (I hope.)