From a Trip

(off Reseda) 

Floating on air I see you 

Bouncing about I mark you 

Gazing at stars, no bells, no alarms 

A peaceful and sleepy world 

In this strange place, I’m flustered and dumb 

In paradise I only feel love 

The fields do align, and I’m lost in time 

A new lotus blossom world 

And though I say such fleeting words 

I don’t care that this fades 

To be unseen and feel serene 

I could not ask for more 

Flying unhinged I’m laughing 

Lying down now I’m sighing 

What a good find, all left behind 

A new lotus blossom world 

Feeling Weird!!!

 Feeling Weird!!!

A love potion I’ve drank and chugged quite fast
Though I do not imagine this to last

To strive, to fall infatuatedly
so stressed and pressed but still feeling happy

Like flying uncontrollably I shake
I wonder if you might also relate

Not now, some day, when you’ve met the real me
You’ll show your hand and blush angelically

And dreaming on— I’ll try to tone it down
while not forgetting to erase your frown

Your eyes, your talk, your mind, one cannot sell
I feel as though I’ve known you just as well

So do regard me like a future dove
Take care, beware, all that comes with my love

Roscomare Pass

The day restricts with the sun interrogating my weak eyes

But the moon gives off a glow and can’t see as far as her brother 

When millions of others are deep in sleep 

I break out and drive  

The air is cool, the breeze is slight, it’s a cold night 

As I head up the hills I think of you

Art is ringing through the speakers and in my mind

The only lights are from the street lamps and cars

The lights of the controls reflect in my eyes 

I reach the peak, the empty parking lot 

A good friend joins and smoke ascends to the stars 

Stars that we simply sit below and watch 

Yet that was a winter of years past 

And now I sit summers later remembering all of them 

Mourning exhausts but reminiscing makes you appreciate 

For such a partnership to break so easily 

For love not to come through and save us 

For love becoming the very thing that I can blame

And continue to not see how we play with her

And how we aren’t aware of much of anything 

When love lurks on by and plays a game of possession.

What more can I ask for? 

It was a good time. 

Just because something is good, it doesn’t mean it stays 

In our intersection of time and space,

I fell for time’s distraction 

And when I saw that she had no space 

It was over. 

Pure Desire

In a forest on a dry, dry day 

what could possibly go wrong?

and your smile lights the match 

And your soul drops it among the straw

Slowly, but not too slowly the hillsides are ablaze

Before I could realize— my heart— on fire

The firefighters rush there in vain

The forest will burn and burn

Until? 

The feeling of a stirring storm

Great, moody clouds gloomily moaning

It’s buzzing, sizzling, now it’s groaning

pouring! 

Rains are falling, each drop smacking the earth

the heavens quake, frighteningly awesome 

lightning desire charges in the atmosphere 

Touch my heart, my angel, 

feel my electricity, my sweet,

And I hope it won’t shock you.

Or don’t I? 

A lion in an eternal slumber 

But frankly an overdue wake-up

Asleep in the den, a familiar scent 

Even asleep the senses detect it 

Now I’m taking form from the void

From the oblivion of the ordinary 

and you knock on my desire

Slowly opening my eyes, registering the light 

But focused on the scent. 

I am crawling slowly from out the cave 

I follow my hunger

for the most worthy of mates 

And I catch you in the distance. Yes, I see you. 

My mouth is watering, my heart— drumming 

I roar— I only have one chance.

You know I’m going to make a scene

and you know I’m going to get you

sharp in focus, patiently waiting for the right moment

and you know I'll take what I want 

Sunset in Hawaii

Close your eyes. 

You’re standing lightly on your feet 

floating above the ground 

imagine shade like you’ve escaped the heat

the winds don’t make a sound 

On your shoulders they rest calmly

They have not much to do

But help me set the stage, and fondly

i’ll reveal what I see for you

Your eyelids they are resting 

What stresses do they know?

Your hair the sun’s caressing 

As it turns to set real slow 

The sand’s between your toes

You feel hugged all around 

I’m here and serenity flows 

for there’s only left one sound 

Waves of twilight, waves of evening 

They push, pull, and then return 

But can you image what I’m seeing?

Well I will help you to discern 

A princess dressed so finely 

I freeze in place and stare 

She stands there so divinely 

I deny myself the air 

She’s crowned in lovely flowers 

Her throne lies in my soul

Above all hearts hers towers 

And mine she long ago stole 

The sky is dim but orange 

there’s pink in there somewhere too 

screw rhyming things with orange 

I see a tinge of green honey dew 

We’re alone there on that beach

I don’t know it’s Waikiki or Maui 

and hot love kisses for us each 

I sure hope we make it to Hawaii 

You open your eyes slowly 

I’ve been here this whole time 

You smile at me so lovely 

Oh how great, this true love of mine

A Letter For Shut Eyes and Closed Ears

 Dear the lady who got away,

It might not be meant to be, but I'll always love you
I have neither hopes nor fantasies, already I got to love you
I look back and I don't cringe, I don't lie or regret to love you
I'm not asking, I'm not begging, I'm not demanding, for I love you
I gained you and lost you, but since I gained you, eternally I love you
We've split paths, destiny is too clear, but it won't stop me if I love you
And I do. I do like dew on your soil, resting gently all around you-- I love you
I will love others with passion and devotion, but still I'll love you
For somewhere inside, where my heart preserves the memories, I simply love you

With love of course,
the man who got away

I Remember

 I remember 

Like a separation of 2,000 years 

I come to the wall where we wail 

And I too make use of the distance

As a metaphor for what is so close

But is now but a memory 

But say, do you remember? 

Do you remember the other side?

The fire we always kept running?

The aroma of love and arousing appetite?

The moments of holy privacy 

For those very special occasions 

I know it’s not your philosophy 

But for me, to fall in love with a memory

Can cause love in real time 

You don’t have to believe me 

But I know it’s real 

And I remember 

And I remember held hands 

Embraced shoulders 

Touching souls 

Locked eyes

The darkness of the backdrop

The light of your face 

The hope within our hearts 

Do you remember?