COLORS
Monday, February 24, 2025
never cross the moon
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
wander
into a pen or a brush
sweep away all betrayal
you start out small
in your honest repair
one line or two
the masters you learned from
are laughing at you
these strokes
that you dare
this unspoken poetry
is easier than you think
so stop thinking
be unfinished
for once and forever
dip the brush
draw the chalk
drag the oil through memory
your face is a story
still to be told
your face is the memory
the future unfolds
unfinished is sanctity
unfinished is bold
unfinished is memory
unfinished is gold
5.1.17 nyc
Friday, February 14, 2025
russian river valley
sonoma county
pinot noir
you are here in underdressed stories
crimeless passions of the lone
ly
among a live human choir
you are here to rectify coyness
you here for the judged
you here for the mulching
you here to remind him
writing is vengeful reminders of love
writing is something to witness
flown like the wind
an unharnessed forgiveness of sin
you are lacquered with golden reminders
useless rations in the cupboard
wedged between the writer’s lies
you are here to stamp out forgiveness
you are here to put out the humorless lies
you are here to touch the forgiven
you are here to witness denial
tramping across the
russian river valley
sonoma county
pinot noir
for your underdressed love of freedom
countries you have never ravaged
he went there for the love
he went there for moments
he lacquered dreams of old glory, impaled
he risked nothing new on the grand scheme of things
russian river valley
sonoma county
pinot noir
an undermined noise
better than bee stings
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
NORTHERN LIGHTS
urban cliff dweller am I
with the soul of a hermit
searching the light
in an alien sky
I’ve been warned of the storms
considered regret
I wander in restless
celestial deterrent
sit at my desk
and wonder what’s next
I pound keys into stars
words land uneasily
the rest of my scars
are stories told freely
I wanted to witness
that unearthly glow
cramped as I am here
in darkness below
the cat creeps beside me
his eyes all aglow
what more do I need
what more can I know
evil is written in stone
and in snow
in rivers that rage
deserts I don’t know
urban cliff dweller am I
with the soul of a hermit
searching the light
in an alien sky
I am home with my light
my river that flows
my witness to self that
continues to grow
my desert that kills
each passing word
I live by the light of
unknown northern night
I wonder what’s next
shall I stay shall I fly
I wonder what’s next in
my northern light
3.18.15
Monday, February 10, 2025
PHOTO:
Tim Tapling Reflections : Thurstaston : Wirral : 07:Feb:2025.
when wandering in poetic gloom
me with my penchant for
comments uncalled for
me with my trek through truth-raking ruin
me with a fathomless distrust of
small birds in a room
finches have gathered in a field of thistles
little birds fuck in the shadow of eagles
they are lovely no doubt
their feathers of hope
the eagle the hawk the falcon of nope
starlings are chunky in nature she says
invaders more like
armored wingspread today
for the entitled right to belong to somebody
when rightful wounds mended unsung is okay
a long-term cornering has begun with me
with an abstract bag of poetry
lines unaccounted for as long as it takes
it is me the raker
it is i who rakes