Love With Fire

We love with fire When it rains, the drops burn Before they even touch the scorched earth Your eyes opened are Sauron And I’m rooting through your earth You’re searching, I’m falling The ring was forged When you placed your hands on my neck And told me to never stop We love with pain Deserted […]

Peace We Pursue

Follow the pathway through the trees In between the raucous crowds And over walls erected in militaristic prowess You will find the voice of truth Underneath the bed covers of youthful lovers On top of the roof where the widow sings Down in the valley of what once her domain Sounded the call of truth […]

We’re Playing Dress Up and Democracy Is Our Chains

Take me from this church, I don’t belong to life Humans shattering bones with blood And taking life with a million knives Ingrained in our society the absence of rights Despite aged documents we claim to live by Ingrained in our food, flowing in our water Chemicals and poisons that shove us farther Into the […]

Snowfall

Streets covered in an illustrious white Icicles adorn each and every sign Traffic slows to a standstill Isn’t nice for humans to be paused this time And let nature take control Of our actions, our breath It’s always there, but in bitter weather The ante is upped, vision is dimmed And we stay home, afraid […]

Will You Come With?

Where the sand touches the sea Where the breeze runs free Where there’s not a cloud in the sky And waves lap a calming lullaby Where you collect shells and sort them And sip drinks with pineapple garnish Where little children go off to swim And the smoke of man does little to tarnish Where […]

What Do We Really See?

the clouds so white, the trees so green bees make honey, and birds sing ebbing and flowing I dream are we truly what we see? The Tanaga is a Filipino stanzaic form that was originally written in Tagolog which to my ear is one of the more musical of languages. (Kumusta ka? Mabuti salam at) […]

Potent Poets

Fingertips glazed with potent pictures of the fray presidential missteps punch humans out the person poets ride like the cold winds striking blows and leaving fast the mangled guilt leaves a trail for the universe to see even the strongest eyes will tear when stripped of belief hope is wrong in the minds of some […]

Unwanted Reasoning

The voice sits beside me giving not an eye to my humble disgrace I’ve given my future children to the soles of my shoes I’ve mustered every excuse as to why I couldn’t do My brain needs more and I need us so what if I lose a little memory then a little too much […]

Morning Glory

today is tomorrow’s yesterday the circularity is the amazing yet the intricate differences are what make it so intriguing you may find the same thing but never the same place or time morning glory becomes evening dread what will I wake to if anything, again?

Appreciate Today

sometimes I look out into the confusing world speeding around in infinity do we ever stop to appreciate the little moments the precious slivers of heaven that grace us but so often yet so well I’m guilty of living in my fantasy instead of a less gratifying but oh, so overwhelmingly necessary reality I’m afraid […]