Handsome Ed & Pretty Sue

Handsome Ed and Pretty Sue

 

Handsome Ed.

Pretty Sue.

 

She is young and full

Of a long life of expectations

And promises

And yearnings-

 

Living along a gravel road

At the end - around a semi-bend

 

A wooden house with wide open windows

And a lovely garden with a white picket fence

 

The front room of blue; burning fireplace

She wore garments so fertile

 

And he touched her so - upon her sleeve.

A Harbor Waves

The ground moved time still

While seas ran the harbor walls.

Dear lives flowed thru the spill

And the cold night’s squalls

Shriek death’s eyes awake.

Her form rising into full quake-

Calm shall return to the warm sands

As a heaven waits with folded blessed hands.

Octopus

The tentacles of the octopus lover

Move her presence deep beneath the seas

 

Where being is total darkness - no one sees.

And her cold oceans roil with lustful cries.

 

Heaving waves high thru indigo skies

While raging against the long frigid night

 

Until sweet dawn whispers...

 

calm thy might.

A Ravel’s Cause

The ravel of the mind has strings

Of fragile weave and manic threads

 

A sew of raging seas

like no one sees-

 Unraveling ... unraveling, it is all

 

Unraveling

And the endless noise rings

Up madness of midnight’s dreads

 

Unraveling ....

 

it’s all unraveling.

Night Light

I fear not the night

For I know not the light -

Yet, that darkness has a place

That loves this old face …

- and so, there is haste

That knows the plight

Of time set alone – set aside

A madness that will abide

All reason for total waste

For there is no more to ride.