November 14, 2012

Want

Do you want more coffee, The motor wants a tune-up, I just want a chance to rest, What do you want for christmas, He wants a bicycle for his birthday, Do you want anything
from the store

She wanted more time to finish the test, I want a new ipad, I want world peace, I want perfect weather, You can choose whichever color you want


Thousands of poor people still want food and shelter
She wants a garden, I want to watch it grow

February 4, 2012

Expired

I am the boy in the yellow shirt
standing by the 
water

who followed his instincts
to the edge of the falls
and 

fell 

in love with the ambient chatter
and soft pitter patter of
your gentle 

beat

I was standing by the water 
when i lost my quiver 
from an indian

giver

and in less then an hour
i became a 

flower

disappearing into the
landscape

January 27, 2012

The Color Of Dust

magenta is the color of the dust that dances
between the branches of
the green trees

which sit in the shade of the golden sun
and orange is the color of
sunshine

before the droplets of blue
rain

soak the earth a deep
rich brown

and life is the color of
light

because even tonight
you glow

January 26, 2012

Spent

1

flesh packed by the pound
with broken hearts
tightly wound

and in the morning when
the day begins

we wear our smiles and
crooked 
grins

and lay down at night and
shed our sins

spent and tired but
full of 
grace

and yet these lines
we can't
erase


11

finding that place where i step into space
and lose myself

like an alien who eats human emotions
i'm lost in the oceans of your
desire

and like a human 
dipped in cumin
i'm on fire

January 24, 2012

January 20, 2012

With All Our Forgets & Plans

These sad glad mad times filled with unusual rhymes

and the darkest finds in fruit so sweet

lemon rhymes and purple beats


In a jovial garden of moist wet air

full of lingering fruit


We held the leaves

but forgot the root