COLORS
Alluring Wyoming
on a midsummer evening before the storm:
A sun-kissed, bubbling creek
beneath an aura of ivy laurel
The forest, deep in magenta mist
and whispy, icicle blue angel wings of ivory hue
An electric yellow sunbeam glow
Turns jadesheen, then juniper green
The serene terra cotta terrain
with its ashen sagebrush,
cornhusk and rye
Like desert dust against a copper sky
Lava stone [...]
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COLORS
Posted in Language about Language, Poetry on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Poem of the Unknown Savior
Posted in Poetry, Science Challenges on July 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
He saved the world
And no one on the planet knew what happened
They still fail to recognize him today
Even though his action saved their very lives
and make possible their posterity
The whole world was in his hands
its destiny at the tip of his fingers
For that brief moment
he held the scales that balance the nations
War and peace was [...]
Hey, I’m A Believer Now!
Posted in Poetry on June 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
HEY, I’M A BELIEVER NOW
I’ll believe in global warming when hell freezes over
When I blindly pick up a four-leaf clover
And white turns black on the cliffs of Dover
That’s when I’ll believe
I’ll fall for the right to spew internet porn
When I hear if from the mouth of a unicorn
And when a more righteous Messiah is born
That’s [...]
IWO JIMA
Posted in Poetry on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I could just stare at this image
And I do
Often, and long
Alone
Mezmerized by a secret enchantment
I hide from family and friends—
My escape to this
singular island of contemplation.
What is it that so captures my eyes
Holds them fast
Makes me a hostage to such raw beauty?
After all,
it is only a distant rockpile,
unsteady and deformed.
But [...]
The White Radiance of Eternity
Posted in Poetry on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Somewhere
between the white radiance of eternity
And the washed-out hues of earth-bound existence
We meet
Between the outstretched tent of heaven’s firmament
And the tattered fabric of windless souls
Space
Posted in Poetry on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Space
Antares is a star above all stars
You could fit a thousand suns inside its sphere
It burns 400 light-years from where we are
And the eye can scarcely see it shine from here
Cosmic Salvation
Posted in Poetry on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Take me through a vortex in your heart
That whirlpool of crushing revelation
And blackhole of abandoned trust.
Completely absorb
The mass that is me by the gravity that is you.
RED
Posted in Poetry on August 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Red is the color of the planet Mars
Volcanic anger and giant-gas stars
Ruby lips tasting cherry wine
Twelve roses waiting in a check-out line
