Many a Blessed Scarlet Tear - with audio

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Petals were strewn about on the ground
Like many a blessed scarlet tear
She cast them down in the garden
To bring me morning cheer

I sought her face among the flowers
But there I could not find her
So in the yard I went about
Giving little green lives a caring shower

Plunging through the sunlight pure
Rounding another corner
Waking afresh upon dawns breath of air
Among roses, camellias and citrus, but more fair

A vision of this day's joy upon the walk
My eyes found awaiting there
We entered into a long warm embrace
Kissing and caressing without a care

Joining in the cold and dew
Love's precious tender affections
Once again this day to renew
Savoring each heart's reflections.


 

Alone - with audio

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Alone, alone

In crowded room

Or on the moon

Alone,  alone

Identity unknown

Destination home

Alone, alone

What to do

Make two, one

Alone, alone

Kisses morning and night

Make it right, make it right

Alone, alone

Without you

Lost and undone

Alone, alone

Seeing you

Across the room

Alone, alone

Touching your heart

Life again

Alone, alone

Loving you

You alone

Alone, alone

Take your hand

Alone in mine

Alone no more

In your embrace

Forevermore

Polluting The Minds Once Free - with audio

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The clouds have descended
The fog is back
Bouncing off trees
In the Outback

Anxiety rising high
Mood sinking low
Readying the back
For the many falling blows

From little men
In cold dark suits
Enforcing victim-hood status
Micro abuses, imagined slights

Deconstructing mores with splendid finesse 
While wearing the cloak of bloody righteousness
Disguising a cavity of unbridled greed
Polluting the minds of (you and me), once free

Fraternal Twins - with audio

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So thirsty for the water of good
That a parched blind beggar
Settled instead for mud
Fraternal twins, one carrying, the other caring
Searching and driving each other's onward tread
Pearls strewn about shoulds and shouldn’ts
Black and white in the fertile seabed
Passing by there many a time
To stare and gloat and brood
Hoping in the heart to catch
A hopeful glimpse of purest mood
Or something else to make one mad
But like a river you elude any capture
The eyes disciplined like a soldier
Drawn scouting onward like a seagull
After crabs in the green sea’s sandy shoulder
Page after page scrolling ever downward
Desire deep within ebbs away at the soul
Turning shallows quixotic, beauty, then scoundrel
Till one should watch over and heal the other’s hell
But time and season can ne’er abide
So outmatched are they by a gaping hole
A life force not directly satisfied
A story not to be finished or told
As sunlight reflects and fragments blinding
Downcast upon foaming deep darkest sea
To raise up the mists and clouds above
Sating the earth below with dewy greenery
The lofty lowly self holds the ups and downs of life’s blood
Sometimes spent for naught, but overall meant for good
Not power’s thirst, conquest’s boasts nor bleeding greed
But for the giving of one’s life instead
Laboring in the fields of love’s fertile seed

Haiku x9 - video