…Into the dialectic

Would a thorny rose, bitter sweet As love lies bleeding at her feet Proffered in ecstasy of loves desire Fade away in vain ?

And I was about to say – the trouble With intellectuals… Is they skirt around emotion. Then he gave me a hug And stole my heart From its retreat Into the notion Dare must we Dare must I DARE TO BE TRUE!

Percussive rain, drives hard and fast Against the cold, window glass, As hostile winds, howl through The deserted buildings, at Lakeview. So desolate, this place, in the night Bearing under winter’s blight And through the day, such animation As Ilka and Karina, in confrontation. Conflict of ego in angry conceit… Oh, a peaceable place this Read More

Time seems suspended as I go to pass Midst gray shadows, diffuse moonlight doth cast Damp air hangs heavy in a haze As still horses, from their boxes gaze Then around the corner I am silently met By Bolero’s, stony silhouette Between his and Dallas’ box I tread Toward my… waiting lover’s bed When dawn Read More

[My 1st poem. San Pedro de Alcantara, Spain.] Peace pervades the clear evening air As moonlight shadows lucidate there Dark silhouettes of the trees new form And faint stars call the night newborn Sitting now, to meditate on, this Tranquil scene of peace beyond… my mind all the while perfused By the …c a l Read More