Winter Moments

It'll be a long
Cold winter
If you sit
Looking at
What you're missing
No arms for hugging
No lips for kissing

Oh, the long
Cold winter nights
With the chill
Settling in
Don't spend it
In regret
Or basking
In sorrow
For the days & nights
Will just keep going
Enjoy each moment
They are given to you
With great care.

Gray Wolf Summit

Hidden from view
Tucked between the
Mighty peaks of
Mt Olympus
A place where reality
Slips away quietly
Nature
Resting comfortably
The safe zone
Where the
Gray wolf
Can roam.

Ode to Nanette

Gunslinger walk
Rough voice
Brash talk
She reminds me
Of me
Get her alone
Safe
In her comfort zone
You'll see the lines
Melt
Smiles sweetly
Talkin' about babies
All their future maybe's

It was on my worst day
She caught me off guard
Her voice dipped
To a husky growl
Eyes flashin'
Smile sparklin'
She told me of the day
She left
Him

There in our concrete cave
Our conversation becoming
A warrior chant around
Our invisible fire
It was sunny that day
But by the way we laughed
Somewhere
Someone
Felt our thunder
Felt our lightning

Noticeable

I'm fine
She said
Then tipped
Her head
Tears spilling
Down her ashen cheeks

Why ask
When you
All ready know
Maybe some kindness
To show
That you truly do care

Closed Door

I said hello to the
Dark void
Again
Only this time
It really
Pulled me in
I knew better
Looking that close
At the past
Before you know it
You're lost
That's the crux of it
The sheer Hell of it all
I knew writing about it
Merely to tell you
Could possibly take me back
To the Hell I had escaped
And it did
But not as far in as it
Would've liked
Before the demons could
Clutch my skin with
Their steely claws
Light seeped in from under
The closed door
Proving to me
Light will always find a
Way to enter.

Velvet Verse

Night surrounds the poet
Words gently landing
On stark white pages
It is here, in the cover of night
We write
The soft verses
To ease the senseless curses
Harsh parlay of the seemingly
Endless day
The words
Caressing the hard edges
Velvet

Chaotic Lines

Crossing the
Chaotic lines
Drawn in the
Continually
Blowing sand
No line is ever
Complete
Blurry vision
Looking into the
Sun
Making footprints
In the sand