If you Recognize Love out In the wild,If you findLove in Its naked state,Pick it upCarefullyAs if it were A robin’s egg& listen For the Gold inside.Set it down& come Back oftenBecause oneOf these Days you Will return To find The shellCracked& love Flown away Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help…

In the courtyard, I see newFaces. My summer friends leftMe or my good health leftThem, there’s no way to know.I wonder, what will fillThe vacuum our dispersedLove creates as holesOpen in the universeWe had in common?I still can’t let Susie go,My “practice girlfriend.”Did we really ply light-Sabers at the Bowl& swear loyalty that nightHanging our…

Bask within the sol of lifeTree within earth’s gardenLit aflame, yet ever standingFlares of spirit empowerA maroon body of natureAs the sun sets, I await a new sunrise Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.

Hearts of the earth, bloomed anewEndure the iron fist of the meridianYet you, burnt orange mapleRemain positionSentinel with a thousand armsOverseeing creation, benevolent shade Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.

From death, from darknessA new life emergesSparks and flares teeming with energyReside upon the amber obeliskTemporal guardian of the landscapeArise as do the sun Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.

The job I’d had in mind paid silly cashTo take extended boozy business lunches,Let me expense a client’s birthday bash,Rewarded risks and frequent reckless hunches. And every day my desk would be the same.I’d put my briefcase on the varnished oakThat bore a golden plate that bore my nameThat bore significance for chartered folk. I’d…

…who saw an obnoxious slogan which irked her. The easy way to get the ladies supineIs slow and steady, while remaining lupine.‘Tween man and beast there isn’t such a gulf –“A gentleman is just a patient wolf.” Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.

“I don’t come here often.” The birds are light-dappledThe bench damp from early morning showers “Our kids go to the same school.” The trees are dripping brightThe air as sweet as candy “I’ve see you there…looking sad.”“You should smile more often.”“It looks good on you.”“Let’s set up a date.” A playdate? “No. Well, that too,…

You’ll get used to it, honey.No, we can change that.Anything you want. There’s no reason to be sad.It’s just that you have two rooms, now. Well, we can’t get that right now, sweetheart.We can’t go back to Mommy’s house.Not right now. Don’t cry, baby. This is your room, too!I promise you’ll get used to it.Please…

Some places have a certain smellThe gymnasium when I was youngLike tin and sweat – a scent that makesMe anxious and excited A field before a soccer gameFresh grass, and the air of success This courtroom has a smellIt’s the first one I’ve ever been inWhat pains await me on the far sideOf its sense…

I wish I was a better man.I would bargain for itwith Mephistopheles – clutch hisoffered claw in mine.With no irony, I would ask thisof God if I was only capableof admitting to myself that…that…That it’s my fault.All of it.It was me from the start, wanting otherwomen, thinking of ways to convince youthat it wasn’t so…