THE KNOWLEDGE

I am the glowing phoenix, the iolite phoenix,
the blue flame, the evolving child;
I am eternity summed up in the finite,
The flame that burns when the embers grow cold,

The Awakening

Catching Crazy

THE END OF WAR

"Only the dead have seen the end of war"... Plato.

      These words came as a bomb shell that made me think of the First World War, the war named "the war to end all wars", yet following that war has been the Second world war, and yet many civil wars....

WHEN I FIRST SAW YOUR EYES

Now I understand how the moon felt
when it first saw the earth;
"I'll stay with you forever" it said,
I felt lost at your sight;

THE YEARS OF YESTERNIGHT

If I smiled today, it was because you made me smile yesterday,
The little lights I've seen, the little winds I felt,
It was because you made me smile yesterday,

THE EVOLVING CHILD

    Have you ever noticed how you start out writing a poem, and somewhere along the line, somewhere down the middle, the story changes and takes a new meaning, It's concepts changing from what you originally intended, like an evolving child?.

I'LL WRITE AGAIN

The lightening flash,
No thunders splash,
And then it comes,
A little rumbling noise,

THE GRAIN AND THE SEA

Time has not been with me,

As if twenty four hours isn't enough,

It's been forever I last stopped to write,

But then i remembered, time does not wait in flight,

THE EVENING

Oh sun, who your light from heaven does shine,
And part the clouds so your rays day give,
Like the light of God, that on men does shine,

YOU DO NOT FEAR THE NIGHT

Come take a walk with me,
We'd walk past that shadowed hill,
The one made of rocks and trees,
The one that looks like folded black paper,
Against the purply black midnight sky,

THE NOTHING THAT IS EVERYTHING

It's becoming harder to organize my thoughts,

To pen down my ideas in a form to be understood,

The sadness lies in knowing what to say,

But not knowing how to say or mould it,

THE CAFÉ

You see him journey, a seeking longing,
You see her weary, a hopeful waiting,
He wants to believe, to believe so deeply,
She's breathes to her heart,a "keep still" weakly,

TO BORROW A WANDERING LEAF

To walk tomorrow, to leave today,
To stay in tomorrow, with today here,
To have the mind above the day,
And forget, the moment that matters is right here,

DREAMLESS NIGHT

Nights when the sky looks old,of the stars bereft, the moon gone,

Nights when before lost in slumber's grasp, day is a dream,

I lie as I fell, and of the day can't tell,

AND WHEN IT ENDS

We'd cry and then see,
Smile and then on fours,
We'd on twos, a walk, stumble and then run,

DISTANT DREAMS

Silently upon night's billows,
Rode she on gray willows,

Eyes upon a sun,
Yet to come with morrow's morn'.

A weeping child on the bleeding moor,
She lay all tattered and torn,

THIS BEAUTY THAT IS NIGHT

You sit and listen, and try to lay in.
The air is cold, the stars glisten.
You hear the chirping, and in gliding,

You can almost swear,

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LET ME BE A NEEDLE AND A LITTLE OF WATER

Mostly I write by night, that's when the world is most quiet,
But tonight, I'll play a little pretend and pretend this is day,
That I'm sitting by a glittering creek by eve',
And that the sun has turned her

I DID NOT FALL IN LOVE

I did not fall in love because I needed a companion,
I did not fall in love because I needed someone to talk to,
It wasn't because I needed a friend,

I fell in love because I couldn't help it,
I fell in love because when I saw you walk,
I couldn't explain why I couldn't stop looking,

I fell in love because it felt like

IT ONLY KNOWS ONENESS

I don't know what it is I feel this night,
I only know of a longing to be heard,
Something that wants to be said,
A song that wants to

A WALK WITH THE MOON

I took a walk with the moon,
She was nowhere to be seen,
Seems so long, forever maybe,
How long it has

UNDER THE TREES

Lay he upon her in silent gaze,
Upon her thighs his spine did graze,
With the night for a blanket,
Beneath the night's Dark

THE ANCHOR AND THE RAIN

"Tell me the sweetest things about my eyes" she whispered,
They were taking a walk down the street, hands together held,
He could hear the cold in her voice as the words through

A PRAYER

Those days I awoke from slumber,
And prayed not a Thank you,
Those nights after hours number,
And I breathed no Thank

PROMISES

You saw her pass,
You could swear you've never seen,
A beauty so tender, so mild,
And you asked, "all my life, where've you

THE JOURNEY

Walking trees, standing clouds,
I still find it amazing, that trees can walk,
It makes me wonder, if they talk too.

I look and look, and I'm hypnotized by

YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT I'M SAYING

It's 1:04am, I'm thinkin of so many things,
I want to write, i'm still wondering what,
It's 1:06am, and I'm thinking,
 "hey what was that I usually

HER LULLABY

Let me my night describe,
That you may its wine imbibe,
Let me my night inscribe,
Into the minds of

FOR THE ONES WHO KNOW

I know i've read many a poem,
Of love, of pain, of tenderness and gain,
I know i've read many a poem,
Where beauty becomes beast and love births

I DECIDED TO WRITE

By the time you're through reading this poem,
you'll find you've gained nothing,
i just decided to write.

I'm on a

GOODNIGHT

Let me a brief description of this night give,
Cold, dark, quiet but the sound of the wind,
And the trickling drop of the rain kissing the earth,
I believe it's called a drizzle, the

YOU AND ME

Let me hold your hand and let's this night walk,
And when they ask us what we're doing,
Let's tell them, "speaking words with our hands",

For when

OUR COUPLET

Dear love,

The day is morning when we smile each other in our smiles,
And find not words to describe the feeling that

THE REPLY

Hold me in your eyes,
Dream me in your dreams,
Love me in your love....

Don't tell me everything will be

CLASSICAL

It was silence, it started with silence,
then it became a hum, rising and falling, the most beautiful voices,
then it seemed like i heard voices,

MADONNA MADONNA

I'll grow u a rose to match your lips
And a mimosa to glow with your skin.

I'll paint you the night to match your eyes and dream of you in