I want you -
To see me -
As I am.
Not an -
Imagined image!
That would be -
A sham!
Knowing -
There are -
Parts -
To which -
You will NOT -
like!
But taking -
Chances -
Anway.
To feel -
My ugliness -
And NOT -
The beauty -
On display.
What lies -
Deep  -
Hidden from -
View -
Underneath -
For that -
To surface -
My… Read full post »

Love is -
Starving -
All around us.
I see it in faces.
In empty -
Dark places.
In the alleys -
The homeless -
Drug pushers -
Alcoholics -
The mentally ill -
Who lost all hope -
And have precious little will.
Here they lie -
In their own waste.
Unrecognizable -
To who they once were.
To the people that -
Once… Read full post »

Can't hold on. 
Stealth thief -
Came -
Right after dusk.
Sun go down.
The amber -
Fades......
Then this -
Precious world -
Slips far away!
Shadows HUGE -
And so deranged!
Play their tricks -
Impetuous games!!
They seductively -
Dance -
Upon hollow walls!
During vacant hour… Read full post »

I am a lion -
In a cage.
Dangerous -
FIERCE!
Fences up -
Do not engage!
Pacing, Panting -
My acerbic mouth -
Drooling.....
Entrapped -
Ready to pounce.
I'll rip -
Your flesh.
Sucking it dry -
Every fluid ounce!
The breathe -
In you -
GONE!
The tawny skin -
Withered, stretched...
The life force -
Drawn........
%I… Read full post »

To James Michael Barbaria... with....."LOVE"

I've no shame -
To confront love.
Don't want to -
Hide from love.
Even if love -
Shows me -
No love.
At least -
I told love.
I embraced love.
Opened -
My heart -
To love.
There is -
More loss -
In holding back -
Love.
Than to -
Lose love.
So I've -
No regret -
That I -
Gav… Read full post »

He's the solid land.
She's a roller -
A breaker -
Coming on -
Hard and strong.
Crashing against -
Him -
She loses her -
Strength.
Omnipotent -
No more!
There lies -
An edge -
A boundary -
Where the water -
Meets the shore.
But when a storm -
Is brewing -
She rises up -
Fiercely!
Over the seawall -
And he's  -
Swept u… Read full post »

Where are the stars?
Have they fallen -
From the sky?
And who hid -
The moon?
It must be obscured -
To every passerby!
I woke up blinded -
Have been so -
As yet.
Because yesterday -
I swore, the sun -
Never set!
It stayed with me -
The whole night -
Through.
That's how it's been -
Since there's been you!

You fill me up -
Like the trees -
in the forest.
With vastness -
As oceans -
With the intensity -
Of a hurricane.
I feel the spirit -
Of the gods -
In the heavens.
Celestial being -
To enlighten -
my way.
I feel prickly heat -
Like a scorching desert.
Yet still as damp -
As the dew -
Clinging to the grass -
On a… Read full post »

I always walked -
A narrow path.
And walked -
That path alone.
It always was -
So straight -
And the only -
Way I've known.
It didn't lead -
To anywhere.
A path with -
No direction.
And it was -
Rather long.
Though I've often -
Sat and rested upon it -
With introspection.
Yet still I keep on -
Walking it.
Hoping it wil… Read full post »

When minutes seem like hours -
And hours feel like days -
And the only breath in you -
Like the wind, been blown away.
When time is against you -
Before the last curtain call.
And all your hopes and dreams -
Before you, now go down and fall.
When no one has the answers -
And the questions you must… Read full post »

New beginnings!
An awakening -
After languish years.
A jolt!
And the reality -
Is more much intense -
Than the fantasy!
It grips!
Riding high -
Ascending up -
To the sky!
Your alive!
The quiescence - gone.
And sleep will not -
Be such to prolong!
For once -
You'd rather be here.
Than out there -
Slumbered i… Read full post »

Devil in designer clothes -
Jet planes, women, casinos -
Indolent life spent in repose -
A sharpshooter, suave, and charming -
Highest stakes, the poshest resorts -
Throwing others off, so disarming-
Takes what really isn't his.
An Embezzler, a thief -
A manipulative, cunning wh… Read full post »

I saw you peek -
You took a look.
Something intrigued -
It suddenly took.
After all this time-
You came around.
If only in words-
Be they profound.
If words be such -
To sincerely capture-
Oh, this much-
I'm truly after!
And that's all -
I'll ever need.
To feel your presence -
Through my own creed! Read full post »

His dark, somber clothes-
Fit neatly on the diminutive man.
A solitary figure stands -
Hair black as night -
And as thick as London fog.
Dense growth on the face -
With a sombering expression.
Austere and plainly dressed -
His nose crinkles when he smiles.
 
But in his eyes - turmoil..
I know he's felt a p… Read full post »

Sucked me dry -
In a vacuum.
All the dirt -
swirled.
Feeling the tug -
The suction cup .
The motor grinding -
Me into dust.
Lost little particles -
Of something that was.
Only now, just debris.
Thrown out in the trash -
All grinded into a -
Heaping mash!

Scratch her really hard -
With his ebony, bearded bristle.
Suck and bite her nipples till scarred!
Then shoo her out with a dismissal!
 
Pity little one, how you adore.
Your not his only one!
Wanting, craving more!
Your a momentary distraction -
Never anything more!!
&nb… Read full post »

Two o'clock, Thursday afternoon.
Sipping champagne on ice -
Like a satirical New Yorker Cartoon.
Another lonely buisness man's wife.
Laundry folded, put away -
Cheers to the perfect life!
House is spotless every day!
Coming home to a beauty pageant wife!
 
Not a word will be said ...
She's preparing… Read full post »

This love has come full circle.
Through all it's ups and downs -
The break-ups and the make-ups -
We've found our way around.
 
Weren't we always challenged!
Had our share of doubts and fears.
So many times off balance -
Sleepless nights spent in tears.
 
I  questioned all your motives… Read full post »

For Jim With Love..

Philosophical not am I!
There is no reason why!
I can tell you that which I perceive -
Yet I can't tell you why I so believe.
 
I believe there's love -
The kind that dreams are made of.
But I can't give a reason for that.
And I know it's not where you're at.
 
You don't… Read full post »

I woke up a ragged blue -
Wasn't sure what to do!
So I only thought of you.
Then starlight filled my eyes.
 
Oh, it glitters but it's not gold.
It's a story, that's not been told.
For the love I'll never hold -
Is playing love songs in my mind.
 
Another snowy after… Read full post »

I want to show myself to you -
With all the colors bleeding through.
A rageful black, and somber grey.
Lascivious red to start my display.
 
Rambunctious purple and callow green -
Sun-kissed yellow with a golden sheen!
Kaleidoscopic as a rainbow's edge -
Bouncing polka-dots on a mountain ledge!
&nbs… Read full post »

If I give myself to you -
Will you promise to protect -
And show the utmost respect?
If I lay it on the line  -
My deepest feelings I define -
Will you promise not to laugh?
Will you give me as much as that?
 
I want you to know -
I've been hurt before.
And I can't take… Read full post »