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10/13/2008

Ink Stains (for Honesty)

I pause to press pen to paper
The ink staining the sheet in a fine circle
Hovering above the thin blue rule
As I hesitate to find the words
My brow knits blankets of frustration
Searching for what I could say

The faucet to my creative mind
A constant downpour these past weeks
Has suddenly clamped to a drip
Squeezing out only dribbles of eloquence
I know the cause but even better know
It is no cause for worry

The heart now so enraptured with new joy
Cannot express a passing coherent thought
In it's blissful state of logical confusion
The world's vast beauty seems meek
When held up to a paramour's eye
Yet even to describe such an eye seems impossible

Perhaps my words fail me
And an untroubled poet is rarely the case for remembrance
Rather this rough artist would embrace that shattering emotion
Than remain miserably untrue to become truly remarkable

10/13/08

10/01/2008

Gravely I Sing Unto the Night

I said all the pretty words already
Thought them
Sang them
Chewed them in my dreams
Sealed them with a kiss
Clichéd just for you
Each with their own special flavor
Let them languish and roll
Off a ready tongue

They stream forth with good intention
Only to dissipate
And die

Desire is the common flood
Never finding an honest destination
You, my errant mystery--
Someday you'll slip your coordinates
And pretty words will find you
Till then, I make them tidy graves
Among a thousand others
Unearthed for withering fantasies

10/01/08