MiG Alley

Over contested ground
One force met another in violent action
Both put warriors into the sky
Met in the clouds
Over the combat zones
The pilots were veterans of a previous conflict
Where they were former allies
But now they fought alone
Against one another
And what did it achieve
Killing each other in the skies
Over a land often divided
Never united
Even 70 years past
No resolution
No peace
No trust

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Ambrosia

By your presence
I am washed with grace
My soul shivers in joy
As you grant me mercy
And I embrace this to my core
How does this ambrosia taste
Upon my gleeful lips
That your kiss does bring
The sun is eclipsed
Your scent so tempting
Your visage so exquisite
Elegance is your domain
Until you arrive I twist
It is you, who I adore
And I am tortured by desire
Fated by the gods to wait
I desire you more
Than this flesh can bear
I do not fetishize your beauty
For you are so much more
Than your assembled traits
Or features and skin
Your body is a chalice
Formed of the finest gold
Your words are the nectar within
And by sharing you tempt my heart
With such a loving soul
And in your gracious arms
I soar

I am desire

POEM #2000


Promises spoken softly
Moonlight falling hard
Our lovely words shining
While our dreams soar
We know hope is costly
Our hearts become unguarded
The stars are aligning
Walking upon this shore
Your voice wakens me
Frees my spirit
I am fire
Alive in your love
Your choice saves me
And I am fearless
I am desire
You've filled my cup

She scares me still

Your beauty beckons
Your spirit reckless
Your mind able to untwist my tongue
You make me lose my timidity
And I long for you by the second
In a fashion, your flesh was a bee
And I've been stung
But your words so full of poison
Yet not toxic
Confusing
I long for you, over and again
And still
I pull back
Pull back
Knowing the pain
From the wicked words
And the wild heart
I'll need to tame

(Dedicated to my wife of almost 30 years.)

Unaware, Gentle Approach

There the shepherd boy slept, unaware, exhaustion called him to dream
She approached without any fear, knowing how deep was his sleep
For he had drunk from the magic stream, now he followed the magic gleam
And until he woke, many days later
She laid next to his body and sang
Hoping to lead him to another realm
Where he wasn't willing or able to dwell

Tick

We resist but time washes everything away
Including our dreams, including our hate
There is no defense against the flood
We are not unique, we are not insane
Our path is ever before us, not the direction we came
It is in our DNA, our blood
Humans are alive in this flesh for a moment
Best then to focus upon the good
The everlasting
And not life's torments

Invitation

A hero was defenseless, yet didn't see the danger
He saw many spirits, encased in perfect flesh
And abandoning his good sense
He fell among the strangers
And soon fell beneath the surface
His flesh broken by invisible hands
His body raked and rent
He never woke from this dream
He joined the bodies at the bottom

Looked

I looked but never touched
We were both adults
But I never behaved that way
She whispered my name
I turned away
But her words spoken
Left my heart broken
Did she mean to crush me
Did she want my death
Did she seek to hurt me
Did she want to place me on her shelf
Broken mirror
Broken glass
I refuse to surrender
But I am fading fast
I am flawed beyond measure
Yet still I try to be of honor
My life is not for sale
So forever now I wander
Because I've lost my way
And I am left to ponder
Why I do this to myself
She was lust made simplified
Aimed at making me backslide
Falling from my home
Leaving me all alone
Again

Oblivion has begun

In winter I dream of summer heat
In summer I long for the cold
Awash in the ocean I dream of the desert
And walking alone in a wasteland of sand
I would kill for a drink
I am asleep to my life in dream
And have no idea between shit or gold
In utero I wait for the  signal to abort
The worst nightmare is a construct of man
Where the reward goes to those who avoid the chance
To think
Opposites might attract
But the strong are tempted always to attack
I never resist the urge to run
My entry into oblivion
Is begun

Aware in that moment

I can't help but love her
For she's my lover
And I can't help but feel pain
For she has words that slay
And her wicked words are precise
Not casual, nor flawed
Such are the usual weapons
Found in the arsenal
Of every woman who
Refuses to take lies
Of the lover who
Is not whole
Removing the mask of the one
Who wears the disguise
She looks deep into his soul's eyes
Grabs and throws away the mask
And says Love me for me
As I love you for you
Be mine or not
But to your own self
Be true

Tu es mon coeur, mon amour pour toujours, 
et le plus grand désir de mon coeur.

Your gracious beauty is divine

In communion
I prayed to God
For your company
As my companion
Forever
That you'd enter my life
Blessed my existence
And now
I have no resistance
To your soft words
The touch of your paws
Your meow
Your form next to mine
Makes my being serene
Comforts my soul
And allows
My heart to reach
The stars
The universe
And all the cosmos
In between

There is only a promise, that I will be only me

When I caught your eye
You turned your face
I know the reason why
You looked away
You judged me, with disdain
Yet you approached
And called my name
Like a runaway train
A catastrophe ride
Ending in disgust
Broken glass
Stained by blood
Do you believe
Do you trust
All there is
Reality cuts
Believe
And be
Nothing lasts
Not even the flood
Of curses or blessings
Gifts received
Tend to fade
Youth burns hot
Like our lust
Promises
Who are you to look that way
All that I ever wanted
All that I ever could need
If you were mine
I'd never stray
I promise for you
I would bleed

Love causes the heart to pulse

We live epic lives where we can do nothing but exist
Exalted, new lives, entwined, in new flesh, by holy kiss
We long for what we must have
For our hearts know a truth
We do not truly understand
Love exalts every life
Love is never wrong
Love never speaks aloud
Once ignored, then it is gone

Falling to earth

I fell from a place
Set so high in the stars
My return to earth
Caused oblivion
As all of my thoughts
Crashed burning
I remembered nothing
I thought nothing
All my lives were ended
With a single breath I rose
And my galaxies formed
And I swore
Before the universe
I'd return
In a new form
Without anger
But for now
I must sleep

can't hear it

the crying goes on
the dead can't hear it
the soul has flown
no chance to see the next dawn
a life lived well with spirit
now gone
but we should smile
and remember
what we had
not cry for
what we can no longer have
and in a while
we will join that soul
and never leave
what is born in flesh
never dies in spirit form
never dies or wears flesh
never to draw another painful breath
breathing only the highest air
of the highest heaven
surrounded by the souls aflight
reunited
at the festival of saints
in the end of time

Ready and waiting for the harvest

For a long time
I wondered why I care
I spent the better part
Of five decades
Wondering why I failed
Wondered where
I could find a heart
Like mine
Not in any way athletic
Possessing no talents
Rejected by two fathers
Given up by one mother
Despised beyond casual dislike
Hated beyond my ability to despair
I chose to resist
What I do in this life
Follows me
Through out eternity
What I do for others
Helps them find the way
To that same place
Elysium awaits
It waits and destiny
Is a cloak
That covers
To shield the arrows
And shame
Away
This life is far too much
I've had enough
So I wait
Wait
To see the fields of wheat
Drawn through my hand
I see the golden sunrise
The gentle wind
And know
The day will be good
For the harvest
It is reaped
Every day

Preventing wrath, saving the day

Take my hand
You don't need to die
I'll hold you close
And help you try
No need to drown
Waiting for the walls to fall
We can help each other
Until hope is gone
Is there anything to prevent the wrath
Is there anyone who is not insane
How can anyone see our path
Can anyone be free from pain
Will this time on earth pass
Time flies past the day
Shame and sorrow
Our hopes are dashed
Our children lose the way
We can pray to a god
Or believe in the dollar
We can be kind to our friends
We can hate all the others
This world is waiting for us
To rise and take a stand
What will we do
Will we be the ones
Or will we be made slaves
To the miseries of wage
Love one another
Find peace to share
Honor your blood
Your father and mother
Because you might have it good
But for others it isn't fair
Give your life
To be more
Than someone
Who is wasting days
Who is killing time
There is nothing we can do
Unless we change inside

Steel and Silk

To simply risk life is nothing, to offer one's life to save another is pure good
The flesh and armor of a knight, act in unison to defend the truth
The silk and beauty of queen, masks the intellect, waiting until outburst

Stupid facts

Think about it
Bombs cost millions
Lives cost nothing
Which is more precious to you?
Children with absolute brilliance
Die 20,000 a day of starvation
How do you accept that?
4 people per minute die
Of lack of food
While Americans are obese
That is obscene
I am fat
I live in comfort
And I am stupid
Because I watch
As others fall
Because they weren't born in a certain place
Or Wear a certain skin
And I feel shame
Because I was called to do more
With this thing I have
My life
And I don't
I don't do anything
While we lose
20,000 children
A day
Who starve
So stupid
I am stupid

Laodamia

Her husband was slain
Hector of Troy his killer
She was beyond sorrow
And grieved for days on end
After prayer she chose a path
Building a bronze likeness of her man
She became devoted to his memory
When others intervened to stop her
From holding him up as her god
She joined the bronze statue
Upon the pyre
Rather than live
For now she had no desire
To exist without him in her life

Harvest of Misery

Sorrow has a victory
Am alone in this shame
I whisper a prayer
Asking about the mysteries
Without answers
Fears that cannot be tamed
Isolation and silence
No one cares
As the heart
Harvests the misery
Close my eyes
Enter darkness
My time is done
Did deep
Place me in the grave
And leave me
And the cemetery

Cyanide Serenade

Listen
Please
I
Just
Can't
Continue
I am through
You are breaking me
You are making me
Want to die
Commit suicide
Drink a vial of poison
Eat an apple of cyanide
Let me go
Just let me do what I need
To survive
Just let me go
You drive me so
So very mad

Slaughter

Why are we bestial
Will we ever become moral
Do we even care
Humans are not special
We are animals
We slaughter each other
And feed upon the marrow
Found in the bones
We make violence our temple
And we never rise above

Is there any hope
For humanity to ascend
Or are we meant to linger
In the morass of a moral dead end
Are we able to rise
Do we even care
Why do we bother
How do some transcend

Descent

I have no shame
Falling from the heights
Knowing my place
I had been upon the rise
The enemy knows my face
Despite my disguise
And chose to take
My life
But I am not made of flesh
I am still alive
Still alive

Naive revelations

I keep silent
My thoughts kept secretly
I am unwilling to bleed
For the pleasure of others
My heart broke repeatedly
Believing with trust
What was not true
What else could I do
She promised
Her love renewed me
But now I sit watching them
From a distance
Those who love one another
And realize how foolish
And very naive
I was

Danger Love

There is no magic, but for that within every body
There is no choice, but to fulfill our eternal calling
The beauty of one and the heart of another
Love can kill, it ultimately smothers
We see beauty, mistake it for truth
We see hope, mistake it for worth
We are fragile, unrestrained prisoners
Love is a cage
No wish to escape

the master

we call it time
but it isn't its name
it flows and twists
never starts or ends
it takes no prisoners
accepts no blame
it knows it is master
over all of our lives
it is death
it is life

Falling Blossoms

Blossoms of fire
Fall and die
They died for the empire
And the emperor's desire
To save the land
The most sacred land
Of the gods

The Black Lightning Bolts

Barbed and Razor sharp

The camp is surrounded

The dead and dying

Rounded up

To be burned

And hid from view

Transformed from body 

Turned to ash

The winds carrying away

The final form

Of the innocent

Nothing left

 

Nothing to build upon

The death of the future

The final moment of life

Quickly passed

Cold killers

The pack gathers
Hunts as one
Catches the scent
And begins
The alpha directs the strike
The slaughter begun
The snow turned red
Goes on without relent
And the cubs are fed
For another day

when sky breaks

They watch
From high places
But they are not worried
They've watched
They've existed
They expect no mercy
For the world below
That world moves
When it will
Arbitrarily or not
In summer heat
Or winter snow
They are fulfilled
By their calling
Because life goes on
Ever shining
Like stars in the belt of Orion
It will never fade
They are content
For they know there is more
Far more
And their role goes on
Ever silent
Ever true

Answer of Death

I surrendered
To the fear of existence
Long ago
I remembered
My punishments
At the hands of the twisted
The horrid bestial violence
That humanity has become
I do not still hope
To escape
For no one does
But I offer resistance
For while I am aware of my fear
Nothing changes
Nothing can change
Existence treads forward
And there is nothing I can do
Except die
In reply

Nothing but guilt

I ran from the memory
But they kept pace
I tried to oppose them
They melted my face
No hope in my heart
Nor in my mental state
Guilt was poured down
And I disappeared
Without trace

Crying People Linger

Crying people linger
Upon the ground
Beneath three crosses
In the air,
A sweet scent of rain
The sky above, raging red
heavy clouds, swollen
As the water pours down
his body is cleaned
of the sweat
of the blood
and dust
He is still
but the crowd watches
in shocked silence
As the blood brings healing
Reunion and communion
And trust

I moved

I moved in the bliss
of being in new love
I received the kiss
of having new life
I escaped the abyss
knowing I was alive
In the love
Of an angel
In the arms
Of heaven

Love is Heroic

A knight of worth will shed his blood, break his bone, expose himself to danger
A heart in love with risk everything, to keep the love alive, a devout remainder
Love will risk both life and spirit, crushed by the chance, flesh will be lured away
Leaving behind shells and ghosts, it is powerful, destroying with fire, all our days

Hope, The Heart, and Death

Humans can only reflect
Even when we make art
Sing songs or write stories
We are not truly able to create
Nothing we do is ever perfect
Nothing compares to the night stars
Never approaching the creator's glory
Only be inspired, reaching Heaven's gate

What is beauty?

Why is one face more beautiful to our eyes
How is it we move our heart to disguise
The feeling inside that we cannot explain
Is it our nature, sending signals in the brain
Why do we long for those we do not know
How is that they inspire our flesh, even our soul
I believe in the motions of the heart on fire
Who decides, not me, when I am moved to desire

Continent Wide I've walked

At some point in time
It becomes obvious
This was the time
This was the hour
We served the greatest empire
And we are Roman
Like my father and his father before him
As my brothers and my village's young males
Serving is a privilege, not a duty
Rome existed and spanned the horizon
So great in distance, so great in power
Infantry wore down their sandals
And cavalry horses their shoes
The path was unpaved
The journey was dangerous
We were not promised safety
Rather, glory, and reward
We served the Empire
We sought to make it strong
We fought, explored and conquered
From shore to shore
From Caledonia and Britannia
To the boundaries of Partha
Every day a Roman dawn
Our path crossed the empire
And at its height
We were invincible
Constant war made our skills sharp
No other empire dared challenge
No, it wasn't another empire
It was those who formed tribes
And chose to fight
For their own people
Barbarians
And as we sharpened our skills
In battle
They sharpened their desire
To destroy us
I am now a sacred spirit
Who watches
As the world forgets
The greatness
That was Rome

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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." Julius Caesar