Personal Angels

Why wouldn’t everyone
have their own majestic angel
watching over them
as they walk down the street

Even junkies could have
a regal appearance and
outlook to future endeavors
imagining every moment
in dreams under a rainbow

Or the Wall Street crowd
could have longer lunches
and have time to meet new
lovers in hotels with champagne
while their wives do the same

Yet which angels are which?

Desperate families have
their own angels and
maybe they are mothers

Seldom an image
shows a mother causing
ill to anyone. I just see her
protecting her children

The real majestic angels
live, right here, on earth

Don’t under estimate the Impressionists… Mostly drunks…But Bright

The Girl Who Emerged From the Sea

Broke my heart

not because I was

Star-eyed and naive

The girl who made

me mad in love

was always just

around the corner

The girl who ruined

her mind was my neighbor

I suppose I loved her

One girl I wanted to marry

was stolen as I …

A girl I didn’t deserve

Is still my ghost friend

But, I found my love

along the further

reaches of the World

And where else

could she be

The Nature of Calm

Sit down and breathe

In a normal way…

Be calm

Morning Coffee

The pot complains upon ending

the water running through

Is just like us

grumblg sounds

waiting for the day

to present itself

Let it be wonderful

bleak, bold and boistrous

like long lost souls

Long lost friends

Never to meet again

A memory

A smile

Can be magic

Dodge a Bullet

Last wonders are best
So told am I
Syntax in reversal
I am told
Around you
Dignity but
that be yours

And be you that

This talk is meant

To dodge a bullet

So the marksman

failed by millimeters

small gestures
across a century
could you meet
your past so well
something in your
shoe a stone not
so innocent

but taken out

by your pure lover
Carry on tomorrow
beautiful life
live in expectation
don’t forget
the river that runs
through and
cleanses you
makes us free

worried minds

lost in wars
You are not
the only ones
to heal your
generation