Friday, April 20, 2012

My Love Asks


My Love asks me, “What am I worth?”
I reply so sly, “You are worth
the stars, the sun, and the moon.”
She sigh, then smiles, then says,
“Those are not yours to give,
Mister Glib.”

My Love asks me, “What am I worth?”
I retort so smart, “You are worth
My very life. I will prove with a knife.”
She smiles, then sighs, then says,
“What would I do with your corpse,
Mister Suicide?”

My Love asks me, “What am I worth?”
I counter cleverly, “You are worth
Several years of hard toil and pain.”
She sighs with her eyes,
“What would I do there,
Mister Masochist?”

My Love asks me, “What am I worth?”
I soundly respond, “What are you worth
To me that I would give in return?”
She kisses me gently, then whispers,
“Exactly,
Exactly.”

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Poet Possessing the Possessed


Space between my hears
I hear
Where fear might hide
Where fear might run
Afflicted
From the barrel of a loaded gun

Teach me a piece of mind
Find me a way to find
Orbits
Of a horizon’s event
Completed before Lent
I quit.

Intangible
Bet you didn’t think so I command you to
A wink, A word, an Idea
A think.
A sigh, My wonder of
Your why.
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies!!

Panoramic view askew
No One asked your opinion and you gave
A view
A tear stained pew’s interlude
ScRAPEd  knee’s repeated
Injury.
Rattling and tattling into the night.

A poetic poem sown in a whole
Metaphor of a broken whore,
A chucked rock.
Words lost their meaning without
Even a small cry
But I cried and you don’t even know
Why.