Soul Tanka
I remain empty Words go in and come out: both. But those that fall out Are full of my very soul. I cannot be replenished. postscript For day 17. Just a tanka, because finals are kicking my TAIL. I've written 1.25 papers out of 3.5 for…
Quarrels to Art
I speak Into voids and hollow trees In the middle of night. I speak And no one hears My tree falling. I speak And nothing comes of rhetoric But division. I write And wars inside come forth In art. postscript For day 16. From "Out of the quarrel with…
Iron Will
You look to stars for light and nothing more For beauty has no meaning to a brain That has no mind attached. You stand on shores And calculate the density of rain Or gauge the atmosphere without the wind To gently cool and soothe or stir your soul, For you…
Iron Love
I trace your chiseled jawline with my hand Enraptured by the cold and steely gaze Of living death etched sorely on your face. My breath is caught--I draw back as you stand And push me sideways. I can only hold The hope that you know who I am within, And…
Illuminated
I use odd words In everyday speech. Ink runs from my mouth Indelibly impressed by the ancients and Imitator of their thought. Identified proudly with the lovers of wisdom, Intellect is no obscenity to me. postscript For day 13. Poetic form: Pleiades I don't mean to say this…
Fragile
Fragility was never truly mine. The rose I was back then Was never so much petals, but all thorns And here I am again; A shaking stem in storms I can't define. It shatters clean like glass: This thunder overhead from fury borne Will just as quickly pass…
Next
I feel a sense of next In everything. "When finally I am able, I will." "After this season, I will." But there is no hurry To next. For time is a measurement of the progression of history through space And in the present, I can in…
I Need Not Flee
I fled him down the nights and down the days But I ran unaware I would be caught. For love is greater yet than rebel ways And would that I had known t'was all for naught. I am too loved to be left free to stray And he…