the war rages on
4,000 dead and counting
isn't that enough?
    
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laying bricks at night
I am resigned to this fate
sad and perspiring
    
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I'm shy and I'm proud
and some things move me to tears
like everyone else
    
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With a fake smile,
I hide in my persona
Despair hides in song

    
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All sons and daughters
Fail to understand parents
Fly can’t see pupa.

    
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Sailing the long voyage
Keeping the heart's wish afresh
Unto the last phase
    
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forever friends lost
winds of time eternally gone
now and forever
    
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Never forget past
Every experience a lesson
Man learns till the end

    
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paths I walk today
can change with little warning,
then who will I be?
      
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old man with a cane
considers bending over
then leaves the penny
    
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We’re like true sailors
Tracing the path for future
Immortal our ways

    
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Tests in school brought marks
Tests in life taught lessons
Either way learning

    
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Hard to read people
Face isn’t the index of mind
Life time isn’t enough

    
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Oh wistful warrior--
Be bravest in the battle
Against yourself.
    
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aprender a volar
mi pajaro de papel
paloma blanca
    
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Stalking from shadows
Green eyes glinting, whiskers dart
Prowling 'round the yard
    
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you thought you knew me
hiding disappointment, shocked
I thought I knew you
    
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A man made of rain
Has hidden our kidnapped sun
In his cloudy hat
    
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Dare to stare at life
Resolve to leave with a cheer
Show the world your best
    
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That special silence
When you walk into a room
That has been waiting
    
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Today I glanced down,
found a penny on the ground
Wealth is relative
    
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Small green raw plantains
As kids cling to their mother
Hooked to plant with pride

    
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ghostly solitude
every pew in church empty
except for my own
    
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Let's make way to life's
Mazes, puzzles and cross-words
with sportive spirit
    
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One life you will have
You can choose to go through it
Or will you live it
    
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muscles gripped with pain
bending stretching helps to ease
age does not agree
    
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through thawing forests
a voice of hurried water
announces the spring
    
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See AC/DC
Like I just did with my dad.
Angus tore it up!
    
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Suppressed many thoughts
Can’t express my heart’s anvil
Words can’t hold my pain

    
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monarch on her throne
wings exquisite as stained glass
nose dripping nectar
    
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flowers in the breeze
alluring orchids printed
on her summer dress
    
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Ravens weeping call
The Hangmens ax is sure to fall
To the dark i surly fall
    
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Penance with feelings
Yagna on the world of words
yields unique poetry
    
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if the truth be told
we are our brothers' keepers
nothing less will do
    
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Crossing stressful paths
Adjusting with life's currents
Eternal challenge
    
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writing on the wall
graffiti philosophers
often speak the truth
    
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snow-covered mountain
reclines in silent slumber
awaits Spring's return
    
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Tasted lot of pain
Walked through the valleys of shocks
Learned lessons in life
    
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Words Ineffective
Heartache Has It's Own Language
Spoken In Silence
      
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Birds chirping on trees
Concert for cosmic marriage
Smiles spring everywhere

    
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down a deep, dark hole
overwhelmed by depression
there is no way out
    
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My body may not
come back to disturb you but
my words no doubt will.
    
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Lesser and greater
my heart becomes both and knows
loss and gain at once.
    
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in my life's pursuits
i had never dreamt of this.
i wake up seach time.
    
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Cucumber eyes
and white paste skin
A day at the Spa
    
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hands, gentle large strong
touching healing tender sweet,
now I want his hands
    
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Words formed into poems
Like butterfly from cocoon
Poetry from ideas
    
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man made disaster
before him no being claimed
the right to complain
    
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This girl named Susan-

Susan is scary
children run from the ogre
teddy bear with claws
    
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Bella's a good girl,
She's a beautiful dog too,
She loves everyone.
    
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