winterowl

ragged trails of twisted riot
October leaves are fall'n
a colored palette of unrest
and shameless trees undressed

tonight the moon flies full
powder white at dusk
so ivory iced this e'en
and who else embraced its sheen?

and now that hermit moon
obscured by waffling clouds
who else observed this ruse
or knew 'twas just obtuse

winter nights are bleak and cold
the silver song of ice
this night made up of frozen tears 
of lovers lost among the years

and in the thick branched oak
inside his lair above
the winter owl hoots from up above
and awaits his winter love

2009

the winter owl

ragged trails in twisted riot
October leaves are fal'n
a glaring palette of unrest
and shameless trees undressed

the moon today flew full and bye
snow white at edge of dusk
she shines her ivory teeth this e'en
nor who but me has seen?

Mount Dachshund

                                                  The Tower of Yapping,,Bavaria

How come you do me like you do

blatherskites and nincompoops            

got lost from every hope                      

tried to guess from faraway               

the meaning of the scope. . .               

it all just got beleagered                       

by the vastness of the blue               

and every time i turned around          

i thought i just saw you. . .                  

dunderheads and helpless oafs       

can't stop the way they are                

but their denseness is a haven        

their minds are not ajar. . .           

figureheads and equanauts                

have fiddled their last dance                

they've spun outside of  puzzled wit                         

and squonced the parting glance.  .  .    

i don't see how it ever flew                                   

at such a burly rate                               

and then i had to look away                    

'cause i saw you at my gate. . .                         

control of everything was lost

my poems wrote in Braille   

inside out or upside down  

it takes no skill to fail. . .    

2003