Monday, January 6, 2025

The Stubborn One

* Just Another Day *






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The Stubborn One



The peanut butter is good

Till one chunk refuses to leave

I release my perfect teeth

Flick off the stubborn one

And I’m back to my perfection.




Thursday, January 2, 2025

Wild Desire

 * Keep a Star, Somewhere *




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Wild Desire



Horses on wings

captured in muralled thrill

With faces upturned

thunder through the wilderness

and glee this heart

free its weight

away on these phantoms of delight.





My One

 * Keep a Star, Somewhere *




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My One

(a dedication, 12/1985)



Silver hair and laughing lines

You snort at signs of age

and wave away norms and forms

  ‘give me my pipe and cappuccino,

   a tale or two

   of old movies and alfa romeo

   and soccer too’


Acts of care 

Acts of deed

behind a countenance severe

Only he who laughs along

sees laughter in your eyes that pierce


Such as you are

Simplicity, sensitivity,

sometimes to a fault

(a tinge of arrogance though)

Dear, you are only one.