By Any Other Name

The roses I attend
are hip to the hopes
I so dare to nourish;
buds of meaning
bloom and flourish
in my sacred garden.
The roses are hopeful
and blossom just
as I open up
to the supple pull
of two fools
             rushing in.

©2008 RA

Deep Dark Places

The deep, dark places
are hard to escape...
but when light wakes,
light waives the make
of any
deep, dark place.

This deep, dark place
is hard to escape...
but in light's wake,
light waived the make
of my
deep, dark place.

©2007 RA

Never Before, Always After

You strike in me an
awkward innocence;
thus I speak so
awfully insolent.

Forgive me!, maiden
of the infinite--

I was made to bathe
you in wit that's intimate;
but am struck so bold,
I say the insensitive.

Forgive me!, and stay
to parley a bit.

©2008 RA

All That You Are

What you are,
is not what you'll be.

Unless you are
all that you dream.

©2008 RA

As With The Past, So There Is Now

The years pass like
the wind of your laugh--
energy and memory
passed as funny gas--

but who are we to laugh
at all that's passed?
We weren't meant
to grasp at our past.

©2008 RA