Your eyes
Your smile
Your hair
Your slender frame
Your voice
Your beauty
Your inner being
You have seduced me
You have wrapped my heart
With your goddess self

One last corrosive turn
Why we came apart
What I can't literally burn
One last choking remnant
I'll gather all I can
All that rant and rave
I'll bury every last part
In some hidden grave
Along with all those bloody pieces
Of my bleeding broken heart

Out
On the west coast
Big waves are rolling in
It is the end
Of February
Still that ocean
Its seafaring kin
Motion
Along every beach
Every tidal estuary
Nothing but a sushi notion
Singing Orcas
Barking sea lions
Feasting on racing salmon
Just as most do in rainy June
For that lonesome man
Up in the moon
It's still green cheese
Dry craters for that old loon
Down in Old Woman Bay
Out on Lake Superior
A water panther Mishipeshu
Like a great hungry bear
All that Nanook knows
Somewhere
Rogue waves roll in
Blowing winter snows
Blizzards 
Imprinting every showy exterior
All those rocky cares
Panthers and caves and bears
Those ones that make us dare to shout
Bearing what comes in
Boasting about what goes out
Like shipwrecked sailors
We clamber about
Soaking wet
Yet exhausted
Up some foreign rocky shore
Forlorn
Wond'ring
If we'll ever go home again
More
What monstrous life
Has in store

Tears
Those shots
Ringing out
More tears
In the dark
All that mad lust
Across the bloodied park
Loss of trust
Some madman
Badge and uniform
Gun in hand
Finger on the trigger
Ready to pull it
All that pain
Every bullet
Grieving now
Across our land
A flood of tears
More purple rain
Our worst fears
Those cutting knives
Every life lost
More broken lives
A tragic cost
Our heartfelt tears
So many fears
All our broken parts
So much sorrow
So many
Broken hearts

I've lived
So many lonely years
I've breathed
Those memories and dreams
Vast arrays
Those nightmares and fears
A moon with stars
Has awakened me it seems
Tragic flames
Have rearranged
My frittered life
Pitted love
Taunting games
Have left me in a lurch
Hard times
Digging rhymes
Arranging lines
Defined
With a carving knife
God head
Led me
Out of canyons
Becalmed raging rapids
Lit a path
To a graphic church
My heart
Beaten down
A thousand times
Patience saved me
From a misguided fold
My cloistered life
I've lived
Both hot and cold
Ironically holding on
Alone once again
All those colours in the sky
A flood of purple rain
All those insane colours in the wind
Restrained love must forsake
Focus when the fake sky turns to rain
What are we to make
Of mystic love and misty life
With all this purple rain

My life
Just a can
Of pea soup
Don't expect
Anything
To be different
Don't expect
Anything
To change
I would
Like to say
Something
Everything
Like all
My lost poems
Time has
Hidden
Those words
Away

All this carnage
So much madness
When the dogs are barking
When the butchers come
Wielding carnal sadness
Bloody red rivers
Crushing runs
Hordes of chagrin
Grim men with guns
Those cannibal warriors
Consuming grinning innocence
Devouring nature and saviours
Lobbing pestilence and bombs
Crashing tempestuous borders
Tearing at our bleeding hearts
Shredding any remaining decency
Dreading every reticent everything
So this is what we've become
Is it just those malicious few of us
Or is it Maleficent in everyone
Dishonest madness has gripped us
Clenching dreams 
Entrenching lives
Giving little with all this fuss
Revoking choice
Advancing death
With a deathly voice
With those needle claws 
We are firmly clasped
Vampire prey
Those lamprey fangs
Those reckless jaws
Sucking precious life
Wrecking the world
Both tooth and nail
We're mucking about
All this trial and error
Gray and frail
Does the world really care
All this unforgivable sadness
Is this really something
We cannot pause
Or can we wake
One glad day
To find war is done
And miraculously
Some brave peace
Has truly come

Nothing
Can replace you
I feel lost
Without you
When you left
I went blind
When you didn't return
I couldn't find myself
I ran through the streets calling
The sky is falling
The world is ending
I dreamed that I was falling
I hoped I would hear you calling
Still days come and go
Night envelopes the world
With star light and moon glow
But the sea has warned me
The tide is against me
My life is ripped to pieces
Love stripped me of decency
Your parting words had no leniency
Now I float in an unrelenting wash
That unrepentant ocean of fear
So I exist without you
Surviving
Even though
You're not here