Music changes Everything

Strands of melody, bows on strings

ivory hammers on the piano's staphs 

as female vocals sing.

a single drumstick taps cymbal song

electronic mix merging metaphors

somehow all this and the horns

belong together, a band, a throng

alters my mood

my sadness settles, my heart takes wing

the rain falls, the night calls

music changes everything.

Serendipitous

Lace soft, 
seductive grace
visualized fantasies 
surround me
in that place, 
the waters, 
trees and
serendipity.
They two nymphs, 
at rest, 
in my mind
idealized best, 
they sing my songs out
there, luring my mind 
from the woes
of the day. 
Teasing out my foibles, 
gently mocking 
my daydreams
while nervous ripples 
play
out the shapes of the breasts
shadowed 
against the silk over
their chests, 
making me swear to
love each one 
the very best
as long as they let me 
stay here
I must confess.

Bliss

Bliss

Adorably caught, hushed pleas for secrecy

shushed whispers justifying her presence there

in my bed unbidden, uninvited welcome anyway

where are your clothes I ask like a fool because

I only care that she lies the naked in my bed

desires scream merrily along blood rushing to my head

aroused her whole body smiles up at me

I feel the returning grin spread open my soul

finding bliss below me I dive down deep into her desire

giggles tickling me with wisps of feminine fairy fire

 

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The Band

Drumbeats drumming bang

cymbals clash, triangles clang

boots marching, that banded gang

in tandem almost random

music played, songs sung- sang

pounding in time, legs striding

thighs flashing, movement sublime

 arms blurred in motion drumsticks

flicks slick tips snapping tapping

heartbeats in step with their feet

hands clap

time to go

you should know

smiles teeth white

pristine red uniform flap

disappearing into night

The girls' cheer

the band isn't there.

Masculate Femininity

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Should a woman be the island
that my cliche drowns trying to swim to?
Should a tired excuse be all there is
for a man like me to resay
as if there is nothing else
new to state, obviously?
Oblivious, I dream of drowning
watching the Gaean safe
haven vanish into the darkness
as I die a victimless
crime down into
the dark abyss
of my own
ignorance of
all I was trying to save by being the man
I wanted to be.

March 9th 2018

Under Water

Under Water

Swim.

Swimming here I found

her standing there

under water.

air bubbles flowing out

up in chains like pearls

of air racing to surface

invisible annhilations

on the surface.

Reflections

Refractions

a hall of mirrors

under water

a world of its own

devising so deep

down in the abyss

where the monsters

still sleep

under water.

"Are you a mermaid?"

I wanted to asked

but the words

rushed out

the saltwater

in as I found

myself drowning

under water.

She smiled

finger to my

lips.

As if to say

that whatever I am

wont to do

I should try to

speak, talk

sing

our precious

moments are so few

as we live and cry under water.

STAY

S T A Y

YOU went away.

Leaving me here alone, even though

I begged, begging you to not go.

Watching your truck fades

into the haze that comes in tears

blurring my eyes, out of sight

out of mind

out of memory.

DADDY,

When I try to remember you
you're just slightly out of focus, the dust in the fields

at sunset, the flash of light on your teeth as you

smile, laughing as the dog runs this way

like a photograph is frozen in time

trembling in my clutched hand

as the physics defy

logic as you drive

over the event horizon

into my memory

I AM
lost here without you, 

life has become a series of unsolvable

math problems left on the chalkboard in your old

office, stacked paper drifts like the dust that

collects in the fields outside

I have almost forgotten the farmhouse

save that it was the last time I saw

you holding my hand

promising that you weren't

ever going away

that

after all this

you would

S T A Y