From the Outside

Everything looks great from the outside
It's amazing what laughter
and smiles can hide

Everything looks great from the outside
It's amazing all the details
you can keep inside

Everything looks great from the outside
It's amazing how mangled truth
never sounds like you've lied

Everything looks great from the outside
It's amazing how your heart
keeps beating even though it's died

Everything looks great from the outside
It's amazing how deftly
the illusion is applied

Everything looks great from the outside
It's amazing what smiles
and laughter can hide

Completely Connected

More information
less interaction
with that right in front of you.

Sat down for a moment
looked up after a minute
I seem to have lost more
than an hour or two.

Interrupted service
Lost connection
prompts questions of
Now what do I do?

Do you make life simpler
or more complicated?
Are we getting smarter or
merely sedated?

Laptop, tablet
desktop, phone
Completely connected
but still quite alone.

Window to the World

This window to the world

a genie no longer in a bottle

Does it do more harm than good?

Did you mean it sarcastically?

Did you say it with contempt?

Did you make a joke for me

or was it of me?

This window to the world

Allows one to forget or
remember, stalk or be voyeur 

to the neighbor next door,

the friends right down the street,
strangers in a foreign land or

The day to day people you can meet.

  

This window to the world's produced

New terminology for old demonology

Cyber bully, Troll, Online evil.
If you can't say something nice then
post it unedited for the world to see.
Go ahead it's easy based on many
comments that you see.

This window to the world lets you
Bake a better cookie

Set a nicer table

Fix your computing device

when once you were not able.

This window to the world lets you
Laugh at kitty cats
Ah at the puppy dog
See the bouncing baby
girls and boys.


This window to the world lets you

 Make plans

Greet fans

Buy tickets to far off lands

All this and more

 your fingertips explore

This window to the world

a genie no longer in a bottle
Are we using it as we should?

Does it do more harm than good?

Triangle Square

Interesting individuals
at triangle square.
Laughing, talking
Playing games
Without care.

Hope and hospitality
We're glad you are there
Keeping company
gladly
at triangle square.


Interesting individuals
at triangle square.
Stories of life, love and realty.
Filled with expansive personality.

Tales from the past
a gift for the moment
relive the heartache
extinguish old torment
Virtual strangers
 become new found friends


Interesting individuals
at triangle square.
Old faces find new ways
to look at life's beginnings and ends
It starts with the formation
of new relations.

Honking Geese

Honking geese on every street

Angry, squabbling, insensitive

Out of nowhere comes the sound

intended to make you turn around

intended to make you get out of the way

intended to make you move faster,

get over, get going, just get.

Honking geese on every street

Angry, squabbling, insensitive

It's not our fault that

you're running late

It's not our fault

you need to turn

It's not our fault

the lights turning red

Your sense of importance

is all in your head.

Honking geese on every street

Angry, squabbling, insensitive

Where are we supposed to go

through the pedestrian

like an agile equestrian?

Over the car in front,

or maybe through it's trunk?

Honking geese on every street

Angry, squabbling, insensitive

You're running late

which isn't great

but your circumstance 

is not my fate

Turn off your anger

tone down your hate

for on our nerves

You truly grate.

Honking geese on every street

Angry, squabbling, insensitive

Unexpected Events

Smiling eyes

Laughing lips

Funny lines

Dancing hips

Sunset sky

Twinkling eyes

Scintillating sensation

Clever conversation

Mutual interests

Similar weirdness

Fellow artist

Kindred spirits

Black History Month

Doctors, lawyers, actors inventors

Heart surgery, Blood plasma, Furniture

Traffic lights, Call buttons and Theater

Singers, sewers, carpenters too

Creative people

Do you know who?

Men and women

Beautiful dark skin

Lovely light skin

Black or African 

All American

Women, Men

Making History

Month of February

Unlocks the mystery

Lost Boys

I cannot bear to watch you fall

and yet I cannot stop you.

The safety net I represent

I've now begun to strongly resent.

Wendy has left the lost boys.

Just One of Many

Much like Greta Garbo

You want to be Alone

You claim that you are happy

being on your own.

To be in love makes you uneasy

Physical fun's your priority.

Just one of many

is what you want from me.

Just one of many

so you can remain free.

Just one of many 

is what you want from me.

You've planned your life with the design

that in your heart no one is mine.

You mention often

I'm just one of many

You mention often no one is 

special to you.

You mention often

I'm just one of many.

One of many seems better

than just one of two.

Somehow your heart's been awakened

by a one of many brand  new.

Love has found You

Congratulations,

I'm happy for you;

But First Runner Up's not

what I wanted  to do.

Often you've mentioned

I'm just one of many.

Of women in this life

you have had plenty.

Often you've mentioned 

I'm just one of many

One of many it somehow

seems better it's true

than to discover that

I'm now just one of two.

You say you're not ready to just set me free.

You're falling for her but you're happy with me.

A couple is two it can never be three.

One of many you told me and 

that I could be.

One of many in this case

seems better to me.

I was here first  and

second place out of two

Is something I'm just

not willing to do.

Often you mentioned

I'm just one of many.

Plans for our future 

I didn't have any.

Lovers embracing all we could do.

This situation 

 I could pursue.

But somehow my darling 

one of two

just won't do.

One of many's much better

Than to be second place

in a situation where

I'm just one out of two.

Tomorrow

You may want to think of tomorrow

 and the promises it brings.

You may want to think of tomorrow 

and a million other things.

You may want to think of tomorrow 

and all the passion it may hold,

fields of dreams and stores of gold

But tomorrow's still unclear

Today is all that's here.

Budding Passion

Beautiful People

Beautiful Place

Beautiful Passion

Beautiful Pace

Unexpected Answers

Unexpected Activity

Unexpected Art

Unexpected Ability

Deliberate Speed

Deliberate Scale

Deliberate Spark

Deliberate Sail

Delicate Scene

Delicate State

Delicate Step

Delicate Shape

Indescribable Ideas

Indescribable Inventions

Indescribable Interludes

Indescribable Intentions

Natural Operator

Natural Option

Natural Oracle

Natural Ocean

Genuine Narrative

Genuine Nerve

Genuine Nonsense

Genuine Notion

Thinking Queen

Alone with myself

Thinking many thoughts of you

Memories don’t fade.

Ask who you might be

The response I am the Queen.

How could you not know?

THE KEY TO THE DOOR

After the shadows, before the rain, between the heartbeats and thoughts of pain is a stillness known to none but a few who are blessed with the ability to feel the kiss of the old and new on their cheeks.

Music is the key to this forgotten place. Not just any music, soul searching, mind boggling, spine tingling rhythms won’t do. It must be a simple tune both pure and sweet. Bright and pretty dark or deep, whichever melody it plays, it’s the simplicity, which it conveys that keeps the key to the door in the mind of the one lost to us for a time.

When the music plays, a room unlocks and pours the deepest feelings in ones heart out with the hopes, dreams and fears of love and laughter life and tears. Once accomplishing this, the door will close, the shadows retreat and the rain starts to flow. It washes away all traces of woe and heart beats grow stronger as time starts to go.

The stillness now broken lets the world reappear. The mind has been opened gone are heartaches and fear. The cycle continues again and again until finally the music proceeds to win.

THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE STORM

It’s wet and cold, it’s dreary and dark.

The lightening flashes an evil spark.

The thunder roars with a lion’s temper.

The raindrops fall in tempo.

The storm is approaching little by little

It takes it’s own sweet time.

The storm is coming it’s gradually coming

To keep the world in darkness.

It’s wet and cold dark and dreary;

It’s coming to blot out the sun.

There’s no way to stop it,

There’s no place to run

The storm will Always find you.

It has no shape.

It has no form.

It’ll come at anytime.

The storm is approaching the young and the old

It doesn’t matter who you are.

It’s coming to find you. It always will.

It’s coming to take you. It always does.

Its fury will find you and take you away;

There is no resistance that you can use

It takes you and then-

RINGING AND KNOCKING

I

Silent Rings

And Rusty boxes

Time ticks by

No knocks I hear.

Outside my window

Continued noises

Laughter, Lights

That’s all I hear.

II

Silent Rings

And rusty boxes

Bells not heard

And notes not writ

Time ticks on and on and on

Traffic hums

And pulses run

That’s all I know.

III

Where to go and what to do

When will I find someone who,

Will fill my ears with ringing and knocking

Stop the sound of the tick, tick, tocking.

Take me where the laughter is

Traffic STOP, when I am his.

HEY NOW

And I say hey now, hey now won’t you come with me

And we’ll play in the sunshine next to the shim’ring sea.

And darlin’, darlin’ you won’t worry none

Our lives won’t be empty living beneath the sun.

Love me, love me today and everyday

And we’ll sail down the ocean the current flows our way.

Oh, hey now, hey now, the sun shines bright all day

All the while we live beneath it we’ll dance and sing and play.

Our lives will be a party from now till summer’s end.

Trapped by the troubles in my mind

Trapped by the troubles in my mind
Outside I often find
Others have their troubles too
I tell myself it's not just you.

Conversations overheard
Youngster's troubles different words
Same as mine at a different time
We all have issues they will find.

Trapped by the troubles in our mind.
Nothing's new just rearranged
Why must we be so estranged?
All this trouble, nothing's changed

Believe in Yourself

"We are all mad here."

The Cheshire Cat says

as he disappears.

Anger, Confusion, and Eccentricity

All that and more

your personal identity.

"We are all mad here."

The Cheshire Cat says

as he reappears.

Laughter, Love, Hope and Serenity

All this and more

your personal identity.

"We are all mad here."

The Cheshire Cat says

as he holds back tears.

Tears of Laughter.

Tears of Joy.

Silent tears filled with noise.

Believe in yourself

Or fade away

Listen child to what I say.

"We are All mad here."

"We Are all mad here."

"We are all mad Here."

Everyone is Not a Winner

Here have a reward,

NO need to work hard.

Just show up breathing

 A prize you're receiving

It's as easy as that nowadays.

Hard work is passe.

Tough knocks

Fade away.

Learn a lesson from life

Not a chance.

Participate

and we congratulate

The mere fact that you are there.

Work hard and win

Apparently's a sin.

In society today

Everyone wins.  

As Yet Untitled

Remember, I Love you, although you forget.
Remember, I Love you when I'm off on My Own.
There are many times I think You're NOT with Me
But I know With You as a friend that really can't be.
We have different Passions;Not all of them shared.
But through it all, We've been quite the Pair.
Stop feeling bitter when it seems I'm not there.
Remember I Love You Remember I care.
Don’t throw up fences that don’t need to be there.