new year's eve

new year's eve you'll find me

a star, stringed, hanging 

upside down

a firework past its prime

three hundred and sixty four

days is an eternity

still i stay unfound  

despite the witty repartees 

we've stumbled over

in our rush to hurry time

perhaps i best forget

the passing year

and bring myself from sleep

and save the pool of tears 

threatening to spoil

this stale cup of coffee

new year's eve you'll find me

or maybe not

new year's eve

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into the green

slithering as the sun mounting the sky

i walk the path into the forest

where birds affluter hold court 

dark then darker into the green i go

the forest as subtle as a moonbeam

at once meandering and revealed

lay sensuously like morning dew

an entire world naked as a finger

i dream of losing my way momentarily

set adrift in the heady scent

of not remembering altogether

of straying and being found again

i traipse, stumble and fall endlessly

until leaves and stones unravel  

unwrapping the heart of the forest

and i become the hunted, the forest 

into the green

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the fruit picker

his hands itch at the sight
of ripeness out of reach
fingers curl around the 
season and he thanks god 
for the daily bread


the scent teases his tonque
and his eyes swim in joy
to covet and trespass
are rights demanded
by his nature


he does not wait for the
fruit to rot and drop
time is not the 
fruit picker's despite
his nature, he has the sun

the fruit picker

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solomon sang

there i trod by the river
tranquil green but gold under the sun
seeking the one with scent of fair lily,
eyes of dove's and hair dark as dusk


there i trod by the river
pebbles soft as kisses 'neath my feet
the air cooler than winter's touch yet
did not bring my beloved's embrace


there by the river i trod
with withering soul fragrant as spice
lingering, waiting for thy love beloved
that sprung for no reason nor prayer


our love is a song beloved, born by the
stars because you were you and i was i


there by the river i trod

solomon sang

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happiness

where have you been,

happiness? under

my bed all these years?

'neath leaves

gathered at my feet

in the many autumns 

i breathed? did you not,

pray tell, look for me?

or my smile, or the shadow

of my face in the 

dark space beyond 

the light?

oh happiness! oh happiness!

why are we strangers

still? i searched for

you in poetry, in funeral

flowers - purple and white -

while by the rocky shore

on slow-fading nights

perhaps i'm too glum even

tragic despite the light

in my eyes and the laughter

that comes easy as day

but still i'll hunt you down

conquer and devour your

liquid warmth until

i cry out all the salty,

gray, musty sad in me

are you happy now?

happiness

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all is fair

dead words substitute 

for the pain that would not come

and you sit silently, a

limb, a star abandoned by air

a flower droops in the

shadow mourning the passing of

an unripened heart and

you strum your hair guiltlessly

winter is outside the

window, white is the color of

gloom, you pull down

the curtain as i lick my wounds

/

all is fair

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to the star of a million nights ago

i shall wait for you fervently
when you cross the landscape
i roam 
when you tread as before, like a 
shepherded lamb on its way
home


things are no different from
what were before, and this i
say
i shall love you no less, not an
ounce, not a breath, not a
day


my reveries will be of you and
my name, my hours are yours to
keep
my secrets to your ears shall be
brought and never again to my
sleep


i will see your face in the rain, in
the dawn and in all the smiles that
stray
and in the end, when death to my
door knocks, your music they will
play


forgive me these silly confessions, 
these little vows, the repetitions i
speak
the star from a million nights ago
and burning brightly still...you i
seek


your naissance is my rebirth

to the star of a million nights ago

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