The Single Man’s Valentine
The stores are filled with crimson red, With chocolates and teddy bears The roses fill my heart with dread For there’s no part of me that cares – They took […]
Tag Archives: Poem
Iago’s Theme
Such is my fate To be the harbinger of doom For little more than can be reasoned out And every reason that might be conceived To twist the knife twixt […]
The Ode of the Coward
I’m sorry I wish there was a better way I’ve damned our love by all I’ve done And there’s little left for me to say I look into your hurting […]
The Muse All Artists Chase
This poem was written to Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings op.11 For the audio accompaniment as you read this poem, click here. There’s not that I can softly say That […]
John The Beloved (Part II)
There are so many voices So many screaming for attention Confronting me with choices Many more than I could mention An ocean of chaotic change Time flowing strange The people […]
John The Beloved (part I)
Marginal cost, marginal benefit The mathematics of loving true I had hoped that this might be significant That you could value me And I could value you – Forgive the […]
The I of the Spider
The little brown spider hangs high in the tree He grins as he spins, he is spinning for me He falls and he crawls as he carefully weaves Each […]
The Life and Death of God
Your breath crystallizing in the dark cold night As the starry expanse welcomes you to Bethlehem You’ve come full term with your destiny And divinest joys well from the depths […]
Cloud Kings Collide
The cold of the east-driven wind Whips the barren face of mountaintops Their glossy peaks veiled in heaven’s suspended rain The swirling continents of air churning over one, over another […]
The Headsman’s Ball
The desperate pursuit for satisfaction often leads us down the wrong roads.
Rhyme Written In Red 