Golden beams stream into the veranda from the sun-soaked streetA moment of repose from unsteady steps drawn by bowing arches of aching feetHis soul bereaved of visions of a comforting embraceSol’s warm rays are no comparison to the form ensconced in laceBut the soundscape of … Continue reading Micaela’s Poem
I’m writing to say that it’s time to let you go. I’m sure the tribes of the church of hatred will click their heels and jump with joy at those words, but they don’t exactly mean what they hope they do. They mean that I … Continue reading Noah, Part Three
The interminable fever dreams of the silky clad nymph have run their course to expireFrustration and uncertainty arrive with penetrating waves to finally quell desire Life resumes her rhythms and courses around the globe without recourse to any particular landThe tower of ideas tumbles earthward … Continue reading Inanity of Sanity
Disappointment seeps through every member of the wanderer’s bodyAnd through every exhausted ventricle of his destitute heartHe’s done everything from the noble to infantile to the shoddyEvery effort rent to nothing by a lancing from Satan’s fiery dart To find a God-fearer indistinguishable from an … Continue reading Quagmire
I knowI didn’t comeRegret crushes meI need to undo itI will undo it if you want You’ll never know how important you areI can’t believe I can’t tell you how important you arePlease allow me to tell you how important you areEvery song from you … Continue reading Open de Deur
I’ve had a few encounters with the ladies recentlyJust to rediscover my body and assess its efficacyAfter a life as a monk and eight years of celibacyWith sideburns greying and pushing fiftyAnd nerves fried by PTSDI found that the passion I’m made for has to … Continue reading The Paladin Gangsters
Burning down belowThe itch of self-destructionDecades without compunctionThe interminable rabid pony show Better as a consecrated religiousThoughts were more prestigiousFar less desperate and superstitiousLess fraught with consternationLess submersion in self-flagellationLess gasping with desperation The wound the Dutch ripped openBlasted heat from an emotional ovenBut the … Continue reading Monk Five to Pilgrim Seven Checkmate
She isn’t going to callYou’re just going to have to fallIt’s just a crystal ballYou’re supposed to lose hope It doesn’t mean you don’t have a futureIt just means your future will be without herCinderella man come out of your cornerLet go of the rope … Continue reading Valkyrie
No prince of poetry or prose has ever conjured the words that describe what I need to say to you now. I’ve checked. Yes, you are forgiven. No forgiveness has ever been warranted. I understand your situation. It’s so hard to be who you really … Continue reading The Letter
The ancient wizard ambled slowly and deliberately down the coil of stairs that lined the inside of the stone walls which formed the skin of his remote spindle of a tower situated at the edge of the land, standing precariously before the sun on a … Continue reading Noah, Part Two