| More Poems For those who just cannot get enough |
| Like a flash of pain. It hit me that way.
I felt her mint-scented breath and Heard the tiny gasp as my own kiss touched her ear That certain, perfect point on her Perfect ear, and the desire hit me Like a flash of pain, But better, Quicker, and more real than the Faint, gold circle and I pulled Away, crying inside, but so strong, Immutable on the outside. We pried apart our bodies and Our hearts in one quick denial For right, for truth in promises, For integrity, words So meaningless in a moment But so real in a lifetime and We remain true, but Sometimes sorry at our own virtue. |
| Life for liberty I give.
Let us bleed, Oh Father, for land And love of country; For our mothers and brothers For the lovers and children waiting On fathers and sons. We relish the pain and honor the maimed Let our fears and our tears be remembered In the only immortality given to the common man: To walk into bullets and eat the flame of missiles, Huddling for survival in mud-encased trenches, Watching the bombs fall on our friends and Making walls of defense from rotting corpses. Where is the glory in our sacrifice? Or the glamour in the searing screams of the wounded? Where is the honor in the murder of our young men, Or the young men of another despot? It is deceit. It is a horror and a lie They hurl waves of living weapons at one another Weapons with families, and jobs and homes And scorn the millions who die To fatten wallets. |
| A Soldier's Prayer |
| Saying goodbye over cups of coffee and tears
Giving hugs that hold souls as well as shoulders I sit in awkward silence attempting desperately To learn, or invent the correct words And I fail but know that a thousand miles Are only a step between our hearts. |
| My spirit is a shiver of sunlight
Gently kissing the hem of her dress But retreating, Adding the distance required, Then suddenly slid from the shadow Again to dance �cross her lashes And smile against all decorum. I am the breath pulled in, the airy Swish of sudden movement, an Instant pang of hidden attention, Unconscious awareness. I feel more than my senses, Know more than my thoughts We are one for now, then again ourselves |
| I watch the sun rise In the plant parking lot and remember the days When dawn winked at me over Your right shoulder and we snuggled in to hide For another hour of peace. Where, now, will I find That peace again? |
| Come to my arms and make me forget Like morphine I take in kisses To deaden and dull over-exposed nerves. Your hands carry heat and not hurt I pray For a head and heart that have hurt enough I won't hide and I can't run any farther And fighting is too exhausting a task So I may only pray you reach in kindness And not hunger like the one who has eaten me up |
| In the mind of a firefly Is the need to make a light For a purpose beyond his understanding That becomes another point of flame In a sea of flickering fire That used to be a wheat field. |
| July Evening in Coles County |
| Lovely lady weeping in your wine Hold my hand in quietness Let me comfort you, hold you For a time, a moment of peaceful unity Not for lust, or the hope of love But only to be together for now So that maybe, by the miracle of being together I could learn to live again And cry my own forgotten tears. |