• Unraveling

    I watched the thread,
    slip from my fingers,
    cold as steel.

    I couldn’t hold the end,
    or trace the start.

    Like a shadow in alleys,
    following the hunt,
    its shadow in my chest,
    too swift to name.

    I watched the thread
    through the silence.

    You can only sense
    when nothing stirs.

    I felt tremors pulse
    through skin, t…Read More

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    • I was just thinking the other day of all the ways of saying and meanings for unravel. This is a potent expression of it 😊

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    Love Sonnet LXXXI

    Love Sonnet LXXXI   I watch the full moon rise outside my window, its beams slowly reflect across your naked skin.   You stir some, sigh, as my fingers caress gently patterns across your breasts. Yaraa, let me love you like the   gently rains of Springtime as it plays upon...

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    April Poetry #5

    April 5 is just another day
    in a year already a fourth
    of its life gone. But this day
    has no song, unless you want
    to count the rhythm and noise
    of imperial bombs sent by
    the “shining light on top of
    the hill”, who has always promised
    the grave and the slave. April 5,
    just another day where they
    say all this hor…Read More

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    • I was thinking this morning about that phrase march to the beat of your own drum. But the noise of the world is so loud these days it’s difficult to hear it. Those last lines…damn!

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    Leave a Message at the Tone...

    I can hear my phone buzzing  on the dresser across the room  like a fly...dogging my face it's distracting    as I give myself over ...in every possible sense... to his ferocious ministrations   his smoky eyes burning holes in my soul setting my nerve endings ablaze flickers spreading quickly a...

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    Leave a Message at the Tone…

    I can hear my phone buzzing
    on the dresser across the room
    like a fly…dogging my face
    it’s distracting

    as I give myself over
    …in every possible sense…
    to his ferocious ministrations

    his smoky eyes burning holes in my soul
    setting my nerve endings ablaze
    flickers spreading quickly
    a…Read More

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