loving sardines... ode to St Pete… the sun kisses the moon along a serene trinity road to a congress of sardiniers cold naked white landscape gone

Hand in hand Hand in hand Many a road to walk Many a beach to stroll Many more trails

DARK Angel, with thine aching lu… To rid the world of penitence: Malicious Angel, who still dost My soul such subtile violence! Because of thee, no thought, no th…

Once upon a time, You and all your kind lived undern… Had ridges for ribs that dropped o… As if an excavation crew were hire… And while the world above you inve…

“Golden” “Yellow” They say when they are asked to de… Defined by the color of my petals Or the sun I am under

let go and enjoy the moment day in the life kind– then let go of that moment and move on to the next one without anticipation and so on – and since you do not know what the future holds...

I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is

Some say the world will end in fir… Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if I had to perish twice,

one more breath flick worries away we earned to live one more breath laughing at ourselves ***

Let others pray for the passenger… the dodo, the whooping crane, the… everyone must specialize I will confine myself to a meditat… upon the giant tortoises

In fear we’d offend anyone The truth languishes in our lips Unspoken, a verbal eclipse Its light forever dimmed and gone But we’re signed up to speak His…

This is the lair of the landlady She is a raw voice loose in the rooms beneath me. the continuous henyard

My stick fingers click with a snic… And, chuckling, they knuckle the k… Light-footed, my steel feelers fli… And pluck from these keys melodies… My paper can caper; abandon

It was beautiful as God must be beautiful: glacial eyes that had looked on violence and come to terms with it; a body too huge

What does it feel like to burn you… Does it feel good, euphoric? As o… Does the tender sensitivity awaken… Or does it merely elude the solid… What do YOU feel like?

It is the first mild day of March… Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall… That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air,

An escape from the pain Someplace soft to fall When the world knocks me down And the ground is hard. Decorated by the hearts

A Petrarchan Sonnet So refreshing, the scent of lavend… So clean, so pure, so invigorating The autumn evening breeze softly b… The velvet sky shines in regal spl…

I feel it again, The cold seeping into my veins, Like dry ice, My heart hurts so much, I can’t bear to cry

Silence ...by Jess Gopez-guest poet... Some things unsaid Best they remain The silence blossoms

Able mounted, swift. You are crescent shaped and rigid, Colloquial, simply complex Paradoxical, congruent Absent minded

six weeks cold morning twilights the sun lazily rising sleeping-in in mind second month day two

I see you drinking at a fountain w… blue hands, no, your hands are not… they are small, and the fountain i… where you wrote me that last lette… I answered and never heard from yo…

Beating Heart A red rose with petal chambers and… Center of life in all of God’s ch… All creatures on planet earth... h… Does the simplest job... pump danc…

Earth Beyond Let there be Light Dead into life empty into full hel… Grains of sand into towers of moun… Formless unknown unknown darkness…

Between Westminster and sunstruck… The desert has entered the flea’s… Like shut—eyed half—submerged Nil… The buildings tremble with breath. The mirage of river is so real

Bring me to the blasted oak That I, midnight upon the stroke, (All find safety in the tomb.) May call down curses on his head Because of my dear Jack that’s de…

Whether he will go on singing or not, knowing what he knows of the horror of this world: He was not wandering among meadows all this time. He was down there

There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…

I celebrate myself, and sing mysel… And what I assume you shall assum… For every atom belonging to me as… I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observ…

Two roads diverged in a yellow woo… And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I c… To where it bent in the undergrowt…

Broad are my shoulders, Puffed are the muscles of my breas… Mighty is my heart, full of coura… Focus in my eyes, fixed at the horizon in the sight,

The pen to paper you touch is icho… so divine. Create! The slightest pressure from you ha… Create!

Take Me Brother gods Zeus Poseidon Hades of the sky the sea the underworld convened at twilight at the Mount Quite puzzled at near dawn

Be infinitesimal under that sky, a… even the sailing hawk misses, a wr… among the rocks where the mist par… Recall the way mere mortals are ov… by circumstance, how great reputat…

The Frog and The Turtle A Pristine Refuge There is a bull frog on top of the… That is on a rock island in the mi… That meanders toward and under the…

Unbroken Sail On Dear Brother Bright blue beads sprouted yet sin… With the same aspirations purposes… Honor and pride dreams and despair…

Across the endless sea where dange… Brave Jason stands with purpose i… The Argo cuts the waves in steady… Through tempests fierce and trials… The Golden Fleece, their long and…

My endearing seashell.. I put my ear to your chest And I can hear your heartbeat. Its like the sounds of the ocean, So soothing and potent

rubicon sitting here in my white rocking chair on the porch of a new century plus old house

Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly… From wide, uneven orbits; one brow… Somewhat over the eye Because of a missile fragment stil… Skin-deep, as a foolish record of…

if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.

child unleashed in a candy store suddenly you feel young again childlike-creative you share your intuitive artistry creating dishes to fulfill

Tightly-folded bud, I have wished you something None of the others would: Not the usual stuff About being beautiful,

A million million spermatozoa All of them alive; Out of their cataclysm but one poo… Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one

dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around

love four seasons Celebrate choose love touch with your smile kiss softly speak love tenderly The love you give you receive