In this flower of love

In this flower of love
Both color and perfume
We widen narrow hearts
Into an open bloom

My love, your love, touching
Behind each other's eyes
To see, to feel, to know
The ultimate of prize

Here lies the tragedy

Here lies the tragedy
When we are unable
To feel as others feel
Peace becomes unstable

To only walk in shoes
Accustomed to your feet
Will only find questions
And answers of defeat

Diversity is not

Diversity is not
Dangerous decadence
Music is not one note
Held at a perfect stance

There's so many answers
Infinite ways to live
Opposing opinions
Too unwilling to give

Vulgar truth all wrapped up

Vulgar truth all wrapped up
In a Puritan style
Christianity boasts
While crimes in denial

Continue to surface
Hypocritical life
Heaven-made warriors
Justifying their knife

Looking back, I question

Looking back, I question
Stupid youth! Who was I?
A barnacle attached
To a ship passing by

Sacrificing myself
Girl and a volcano
Trying to keep peace and
Put out an inferno

We never held a sword

We never held a sword
We only had a shield
To deflect and protect
And then yield after yield

To find ourselves AWOL
A white flag victory
We never went to war
But fought with chivalry

Wanting to understand

Wanting to understand
We built bridges and crossed
Only to be scolded
And find our efforts tossed

And an invitation
To experience Us
Always resulted with
Us thrown under a bus

The summer sunflowers

The summer sunflowers
Have nodded off to sleep
The asters bloom after
Months without a peep

And the long shadows curve
Carnival mirror shapes
In an autumn clearing
With multicolored drapes

Sunrise on underclouds

Sunrise on underclouds
The sky lights from below
Clouds like receding waves
In a strong undertow

Breathing in the moment
Exhaling just the same
Oscillating in a
Picture without a frame

Square peg in your round hole

Square peg in your round hole
To know a solution
Does not exist and your
Answers are pollution

We married a future
Without an ode to joy
Two ducks landed beside
The ultimate decoy

If only we had known

If only we had known
And had a chance to share
This great understanding
About those who don't care

Loved one's brutality
Fists of low self-esteem
We could have warned you of
Their massacre of dream

Been searching for a choir

Been searching for a choir
While out here on this wire
A search that will not tire
Until unity thrives

Not birds of one feather
Just flocking together
Only question whether
We celebrate our lives

A pivotal detour

A pivotal detour
Showed we were off the mark
Not on the right path and
Existing in the dark

Like Icarus we flew
Directly towards the sun
And out from the ashes
A phoenix has begun

Not able to thread words

Not able to thread words

Too many syllables

Sometimes there are too few

One, not disyllables

Some feelings and some thoughts

Get lost and discarded

Like falling leaves, moments

Merely disregarded

This is not a soft flute

This is not a soft flute
I let my trumpet blare
It’s not a gentle breeze
Just wafting through the air

It resonates like the
Bass of Pastorius
It comes from the gut with
Emotions glorious

No longer making pearls

No longer making pearls
The irritant is gone
I’m happy as a clam
Amongst the fish and sprawn

The World is wide and long
And dreams low hanging fruit
Intellect and laughter
Given thought and a hoot

I can’t connect the dots

I can’t connect the dots
Many remembrances
Too may forgots, rhymes
Without resemblances

The thumb imprint fading
Without collar or leash
Swimming not wading like
An unbridled release

You say these lines are sick

You say these lines are sick
And all of it is puke
Then better to expel
Than swallow, I rebuke

So much to learn and love
Allow a change of heart
To only look inward
Is to never leave start

Fewer and far between

Fewer and far between
Like the numbers of prime
Or a nautilus shell
Spiraling out in time

Certain coordinates
Of the senses and soul
A diamond pressured out
From the darkness of coal