defied descriptors

Am I scared of the past?Am I scared of the future?Am I scared of you?Am I scared of myself?Am I selfish?Sometimes that seems the most likelyIt’s strange to thinkthat 3 free morphemes6 phonemesone or two secondsof vocal reverberationjust a bit ofdisplaced aircauses so much anxietyit’s so easy to sayusually…but not last night. I offered,support,encouragement,hope,logical comfort,but […]

A Mean Poem

What is your presence to me?an interruption?a derailment?a bewilderment?a friendship?temptation?a series of pixelsmakes a codeprovokingstimulatingnew situationssame old feelings I should not play the gamethere’s a lot more at stakethis time

I hope the world looks different

with you by my sideagain.For right now,I can’t seem to see in color.Days comprised ofsloppily composedpetty to-doshalf assed attemptsto check offthese arbitrary tasksendeavors fruitlesscontentment unobtainablehappiness impalpable.Don’t get me wrong,I’m doing fine.Waiting is just hardfor a skeptic.I taught myself not to hope.I surrendered my faithin the search for truthand here I amwaitingand hopingtrying to find faithin […]

There is a light

Shining forthFrom RomeI feel it’s raysTrans-continental beamsBeckoningHopeGoodnessLoveI struggle inThe warmth of the sunI am a skyGreyAnd dense with fogYou shine your lightAmidst, throughoutA rainbow of colorOn an overcast dayRain or shineYou’ll still be mineThrough calms and stormsI’ll still be yoursThrough droughts and showersThe world will still be ours

Another Song for You

A patch of green grassamidst a field of sunflowersa bright sun shining overheadis the only way to count the hours our basket is openour blanket is spreada cool breeze dancesthrough the hairs on our head we feed each other grapesbananas pineapples and pearsnothing belongs to one of useverything is shared tortilla chips and pitawhich we […]

A song to make You feel better

When I think on tomorrow,I think of us togetherI think of picnics amidst wild sunflowersIn warm sunny weather Enjoying the taste, the smellthe feeling of lifewith your voice in my earsand only your eyes in my sight and when clouds bar our lightand cover us with showerswe’ll leave our spotamidst the trees and flowers then […]

I feel your fingers in the breeze

as it danceson my fleshthe wind carriesyour voiceto my earsand down into medeep insideto that long forsaken placeclosed off to the worldfor a yearthe old wooden cigar boxsealed shut for so longbut the wind is beginningto flow through the crackswill I be able tolet you in?will I let youread everything?you say you share my painbut […]

in circles

Meet me therein that placethat does not existin time or space meet me therewhere desire is untamedand what we feelneed not be named meet me therewhere we need no reason nor rhymeand never need acquiesceto the oppression of time meet me therein that place that is only ourswhere we don’t have to shareour sky or […]

how to use:

as common as carbon is a poetic stream of consciousness.
there are 3 categories of “poems”:

(i) heteroglossic synesthesia (complete poems)
(ii) hobonyms (words with no homes)
(iii) mind jerky (thoughts to chew on)

after reading a poem you have 3 options to “turn the page”

“RANDOM” – takes you to a random poetic expression
#hastags – take you to another random poem with the same theme or motif
#category – takes you to a random poem in the same category

“no one can step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person” – possibly Heraclitus

just as no one can step in the same river twice, no one can have the same experience of “as common as carbon” twice