traveling

Sometimes waking is unwelcome

And the morning yearns for sleep.

In solitude I turn to stone

And sigh although I'm free.

What's to stop me, in my freedom,

From unraveling?

I find alone I'm most at home,

Still, the soul craves traveling.

scarlet necklace

A buried seed is bound to bleed

And split the earth with crimson head.

From thorns to rose, or so it goes,

Is born a sharp and sudden red.

And were I charmed and not alarmed,

I'd touch the velvet blossoming

Until my hand was pricked, unplanned,

And scarlet necklace start to bead.

Over my head and draped in dread,

A flower crown fit for a queen.

I watch the colors slowly spread

And find I'm trapped inside the seed.

piano keys

My fingertips send shooting stars

Bold, blazing 'cross the night.

Piano keys and galaxies,

I touch the infinite.

island

The ocean splits open
The land like a wound,
And I'm trapped inside, sinking
And lost in the the sound
Of tidal waves crashing
Like knives and blades gashing.
It's made me an island,
And so far from you.

your melting world

Shaken, drifting,
Specks in the water.
Settling, shifting
Within my small sphere.

You pick me up
And peer inside,
I want to touch
Your melting world.

Immortal snowflake in a globe
I wonder just how it would feel
To leave my ring,
Dissolve with Spring.

I don't want to sit
On a shelf and wait
For my world to shake.
I want to be
Where there are earthquakes.

But still I am so far away,
A snowstorm in the midst of May.

these poems

Lonely scribes

Burning inside.

These poems are

Our suicide.

The alphabet

We set ablaze

Unleash the fire 

In every phrase.

Perilous pen,

Breathing out ink.

Heart of a dragon,

Drowning in heat.

If words were swords

We'd stab ourselves through the heart.

In fairytales we slayed dragons,

But now the story is ours.

And people like us,
We set the world on fire.

sandstorm

As midnights fade to dusk pastels
I settle like dust on the shelf.
Slowly I become myself,
Softly strum that string farewell.

Swirling in the the sound awake,
The sandstorm and this subtle ache.

Motionless in the earthquake,

A desert chill, a winter heat.

I play the earth like a guitar,

Find beauty in each passing chord.

In tempest tune and song of storm

I'm shaped like desert sand, reborn.

And slowly I'm becoming me-
Softly succumbing to the sea.

sundial

Hands of the clock,

If you could stop

And hold me for a while,

Time would stand still

And we would feel

We'd spun a thousand miles.

Watch face,

If I could replace

Your blank stare with a smile,

We'd count the days

Within your gaze-

Drift into place like a sundial.

distance

There are oceans between us,
And such great depths inside us.
And if distance makes
The mountaintops turn blue,
I wonder what it means
For me and you.

ghost town

My tongue is hard and black,
Swallowing these words like hot coals.
And my stomach is a pit of ash
Like a ghost town filled with ghouls.

If pencil lead could shoot instead
Of fire from my throat,
I'd write your name in silver flame
Upon a golden scroll.

But I'm breathing out destruction
And I've lost the sacred book.
The ghost town of a dragon,
Still, I'll find you in the smoke.

the words

In writing
I freeze my tears
Into icy spears
And I cut myself
With the words

insignificant

Turn your ear to me
I want to know You're listening.
But You're invisible
And I'm insignificant.

circles

These thoughts run through my mind
Like a carousel of dark horses.

I'm spinning in circles,
And circles again.
I'm spinning into shadow lands.

And the monsters in the shadows
Are so real tonight.
I can feel tonight.

I'm feeling in circles,
And circles again.
Black carousel,
My only friend.

tonight

i turn on the shower
so that no one can hear me cry
and the water
falls
to
the
floor
like
my
heart
tonight

dewdrops

Together,
We're the light
Shimmering off drops of dew

Cup my hands
To catch the sunrise,
Feelings I don't want to lose.

And the future here seems brighter,
As I watch the sky
Turn blue,

When I think of all the mornings
That I want to spend
With you.

stella d'oro lilies

Stella d'oro sunset,
Splashing in your waterfalls.
You're sounding like a trumpet,
Ringing like a million bells.

Golden fountain bursting,
Bubbling up a tender shoot-
Flowers fading in the evening
And then springing up anew.

You start out as a trickle,
Rippling with yellow wings.
And now you are a river
Overflowing into me.

With open hands, daylily dance
And dying in the night,
You renew yourself eternally,
And I fall into your light.

a little like light

Consuming the darkness
And sipping on shade,
I breathe in the night
And I exhale the void.

In your vacant stare
With those funeral home eyes,
I looked through and saw
Only dead things inside.

So I donned a black dress
And I buried my fear
And I showed you the shadows
Are something we share.

We'll drink in the darkness
Together tonight,
And it's strange how it feels now
A little like light.

this tree

I wish light could shine right through me,
Like leaves in the summertime,
And that you could see these things
Pulsing through my veins.

Glowing and open for all to see,
I'm just one part of this tree,
And if the light hit us all in just the right way
I think we'd love each other more.

goosebumps

You're turning my skin
Into a million tiny canyons.
Adrenaline-
A hundred hikers' views.

If they all felt this rush
Then there would be an avalanche,
But I climb a mountain
Every time I think of you.

butterfly wings

Delicate
In orange and black,
A trembling flame
Upon your back.

Flutter free
From your cocoon
When with a spark
I kiss the moon.

Spirit descending
Through the air
In butterfly wings
And tongues of fire.