Hello, all! I wanted to express my warmest gratitude to all of you at the initiation of this bright, bold new year! Indeed, it is times like these when poetry can move, shape, and connect people from all over this nation and our globe — to heal our wounds and bind up our souls.
Therefore, I am sharing with you some of the poems I wrote over the course of my winter break; I have many more yet to come, and will post those individually in the coming future. Until then, enjoy!
my sunlight
from the endless sea you
came born of rose bleeding sun
beaming in unfettered joy and yet i
i weeping in my heart that i should lose
you so fair so soft so bright a morn so clear a light
laughing sparkling shimmering
you stream through oak and redwood flowing
coursing over stone in gentle rush always happy
always warm playing upon my face gazing upon my eyes
a sunken blue a tamed passion drifting like morning white fog
and you soaring up up
blowing with a swift autumnal breeze
tousling fields of golden grass rolling hills
stretching lips to sea forever embracing a love i once knew
and once beheld i never did want to let go and run free for fear
for fear that once you
slipped from my calloused fingers i never
would behold your sweet touch nor watch you grow strong
amongst the mossy ancient oaks and fresh green redwood springs
arising from the wasteland dust a fecund womb of burning poppy singing
milk and honey joys of life
a life ebbing a crimson leaf falling
a tide of fog rushing to snuff all dancing flames
even yours my moonlight lily love cut short and fading fast
the day dusking with eternal blackness back across the sapphire sea
back across the boundless font of life
laughter echoing in empty streams and hollow valleys and i
i weep no more and smile for even in the darkest night you shall rise
my sunlight
the road i died hallelujah
ive been walking
a long lone road through rain
and shine night and day dark and light
my exodus to the land of nowhere and nothing under the sun
my heart is a thousand shards dangling i dont know i dont know staring screaming black void
hallelujah
warm tears dripping
from eyes rubbed raw and bathed in siloam
the world moving at my touch wisps of cloud tinged crimson
falling sun past craggy peaks of skull plunging me back into thick darkness
eyes blinded once more stung by biting north wind driving me past edge of sharp icy cliff
Give us this day our daily hallelujah
soul soft stirring
lifting up bronze shattered spirits broken
in blessed twinkling resonating chime of stars through time
dancing in looping chaos of brushstrokes across the sea of space in strong
beating light angels streaking blue green rainbow melting stone in flowering white moss
Hallelujah
guiding heaven eyes
down far below to silent bells tolling
floating on an endless frozen ocean wasteland a flickering
candle burning in the window sills of hearts in long awaiting midnight vigil
beneath blooming lily drops of moon shining through pellucid haze rising in unfettered chorus
HALLELUJAH
lighting my path
such struggle rejoicing in jubilee
jagged hills smoothing to rolling green fertile pastures
frigid maelstroms clearing in calm waters cradling ark in infant arms
pair of doves soaring the Road i Lived and Died the Road Birthing I beyond the Son to sing
hallelujah
Emmanuel
eyes bleeding
burning devouring black flies
screaming heart of flesh
sobbing struggling soul
forsaken by its mother to cold death
warm light in
seas of milky honey
beating in your soul as I embrace
and lift you up like serpent bronze in peaceful sleep
with eyes of sapphire harking auric tears for what was lost is
found
a winter’s dusk: haiku +1
rose
springing
tree cold bright
weeping tears
drifting
snow
lamb
singing
newborn soul
I Can
i cant fight this raging red torrent
subsuming all my dreams and hopes lost
shattering hearts and families like white porcelain angels
i cant pretend that life isnt a barren wasteland
depriving with insatiable inexorable cruel hunger
forsaking me to weep and gnash my dust in darkness
i cant look in the mirror but see emptiness
taunting me my lurking shadow doppelgänger
whispering grating deceit of asperous joy falling too low
i cant feel anything but dread and pain
boiling my stomach like our polluted seas
burning my mind like a billion acres of vernal ash
i cant hear sweet birds caroling deaf
deafening silent ringing ring ting tinging
piercing cry jolting sweat soaked sleep of terrors
i cant embrace my soul rotten
retreating untouchable horrid fiend in day
infecting clean air with the foul stench of gangrenous flesh
i cant stop the götterdämmerung
eclipsing the ephemeral world in eternal twilight
drowning in the frigid waters slit by sharp bleeding rocks
Non nocte moriar at cum sole ascendam et hanc pugnam pugnam nostram quotidianam pugnabO
I Can swim with clear currents of possibility
buoying all dreams and hopes in entropic ecstasy
expanding and uniting in shining shimmering cosmic light
I Can cast aside the hollow façades I’m living
flowering golden poppies flowing honey milk
birthing from scorched earth blessed with soft touch of love
I Can see myself for the person whom I am
smiling in beaming fresh pellucid morning sun
dripping drip drip gentle dew down from petal of crimson rose
I Can stand burned but not consumed
healing tender wounds and bitter scars
kissing flames with tears of heart in bounding leaping joy
I Can hark life’s spontaneous vignettes
playing melodies of love gliding all around
dancing twirling looping on and on at restless close of day
I Can lift up my quiet heavy soul
growing brighter lambent light on stand
soaring flaming sparrow on sweet breath of newborn sky
I Can rebehold the stars to sing
dawning mellifluous crepuscular lux aeterna
beating beauty blending ex animo infinito symphonia maxima Fidei Spei Amoris
I Can
We Can
Ad Astra
Per Aspera
Together
aqua vitae vita
Aqua
pure
cool and
crisp springing
from garden well clear
raining sparkling lambent tears
of dripping red sun falling flowing
on thirsty tiring land and streaming on dry
aching ground bubbling dancing lily with vivacious
joy washing healing cracked fetid wounds and scars giving
eyes to see ears to hear the wondrous greatest symphony of life
beating in all souls and ever rippling through silent speaking cosmos
cascading melting snow over deep stretching roots of fecund sweet fruits
A spring whose waters kind shall never fail to flow and bear light unto us
illuminating the formless empty darkness cold void with hovering candle of
change rejoicing this day our daily sunrise pouring water from salvation well
in bountiful unfettered abundance of blood and water pumping heart of our
good families nourishing endless fields of wheat reaping thick sheaf upon
sheaf threshing ancient vines reaching crimson virgin grapes from waste
dead dust in aurum wine of rivers flowing from without within blessed
gentle tender white snow kissed dove with fresh green olive sprig
lifting spirits with serpent bronze water life eternal welling up
in each of us flowering rose of soul dancing on thorns
giving leaves of tree for healing of nations so
that none among us shall thirst
Aqua
vitae vita
omni veni veni bibi bibi
Emmanuel bibi atque ignosceris in Perpetuo
give to give the gift of Life the gift of Love to all forever and always
In case there is a problem in formatting, check out this link to view a pdf of “aqua vitae vita.”