To Swim

This contract? It ends

I don't wait for men

It's now, that was then

I woke up, I win

I've learned how to swim

Amen

Significant Other

God is my partner, so please understand -

I'll never be tethered to woman or man

I won't play a part and I don't meet demands

Unless they're my own and on ground that I stand

I keep neither cuffs nor a ring on my hand

I do all I want and whatever I can

Alone is illusion - I know who I am:

Supported and courted according to plan

Sediment

Like sediment sinks

Slow down and rethink

Don't settle, but sleep

Awaken in peace

A wind will upheave

Expand and release

As ripples, you reach

Wash, rinse, and repeat

Rebuild

Weather harsh, window sill

Ants are art - do not kill

Shopping cart, poison pill

Put it down, please be still

Fall apart, wait until...

Watch us start, see our skill

Follow heart, with free will -

We are smart - we rebuild

A Rose

Like the light comes through cracks

I'm a rose that grows back

In full bloom and intact

A high vibe and impact

In spite of and in fact

I'm on point and on track 

Free of fear, love from lack

I am better than that

At Play

These birds sound like scissors 

Wings clip cut away

Seams burst, sundress withers

It's dismal this day

My words blend with blizzards

Do dreams die or stay?

Deferred - dead like winter

But always at play

Taurean Today

Let's be Taurean today

We'll have what we want and our way

Great food and good sex and high pay

Soft sweaters and leathers with lace 

Put assets all over this place

Own homes in all fifty (one?) states

Invest in the best real estate 

Rent rockets and timeshares in space

We'll build through our will, how we say

From scratch, off our backs, made to stay

It's Earth - here's our worth on display

We're bulls and we rule, so ole'!

Give and Take

Eye and socket: sight

Lamp and outlet: light

Man and woman: life

Plus and minus: might

In and out: ignite

Give and take tonight

Color Therapy

Peach fuzz, white fleece

Pink Ladies in Grease

Grape jelly, Greenpeace

Blue eyes, Siamese

Bright yellow striped bees

Magenta, Rocky 

Bullwinkle/peri

Majestic, pretty

It makes me happy

Lifts my frequency 

For real, and free

No, seriously

Color therapy 

Flower

At my window, left and right

He stops at a center site

While not weak, prefers not fight 

Rather speak than spray with spite

Balanced he in black and white

Blend of sun and lunar light

Flower, be my friend this night

Help me learn and earn my stripes

Honor Swan

Honor swan, on water skim

World we walk and also swim

To a lake on land - a limb

Bridge of both we dally in

Ballet and the Brothers Grimm

Mr. Christian Andersen

Teach us time and time again

Be and see beauty within

Go in grace and only then

Shall an outer shine begin

Justice

By my beak, inside my caw

I am keeper cosmic law

Sacred speaker rule of God

We all reap and also cause

Feather deep in dark and flaw

In each weakness, reach this thought:

Brandon Lee, as he, we saw -

Justice must this come of ka

Magic Act

I'm in deep and below

And I sweep as I go

I'm pitch black, but I glow

Witch's hat, white halo

Magic act, raven's show

I come back, and then lo -

What I speak shall be so

This is fact, now you know

Pond Fish

You call her a dumb bitch

But that's how you run shit

The under your thumb trick 

Inexperienced chicks

An equal would know this

Because she's outgrown it

She cannot be gaslit

And wouldn't put up with

What fun is a fight fixed?

What good in a game rigged?

Come play with the big kids

No power in a pond, fish

Faline

Faline of the forest, a childhood friend

A face he adores where he goes in to swim

A princess in storage for when he is prince

A courtship of courage where means are built in

Through fire and the warring by sporting of men

He's always supporting this doe he defends

A doorway to home and to father fawn twins 

Their love is a force and a song without end

Blacklist

On a blacklist

As he speaks this

Not a weakness 

But a death kiss 

For a blue throat

On a scapegoat 

From a fame cult

Full of turncoats

Murder, she wrote

Obsidian

Human obsidian, black lava rock

I'm what you were wanting, but not how you thought

I rip through meridians where they've been blocked 

Exhuming insidious crap that's been caught

What's holding you hostage I see like a hawk

And much like the merciless raven I knock

Defenses? I'm sent with equipment to drop

With God as my witness, I will never stop

To Last

I will work until I pass

Then I'll send ideas in mass

From each story in my stash

All the animals I ask

Flower petals from my past

Future faces yet unmasked

Every incantation cast

Inch of intel I amass 

All I write and telecast 

What I do is done to last

Bring About

Saturn, how I see myself

Neptune, what I know but doubt

Mars in what I bring about

Venus, how I balance out

Mercury, my pretty mouth

Jupiter, a joyous crowd

Moon, make sure I'm on my route

Sun, stay with and shine throughout

Communicate

Out of time in outer space

On my own at my own pace

From my heart and in my place

With my God and by His grace

I commune and I create

This I then communicate 

I relay and we relate 

With my words articulate 

We are all love incarnate

You Knew

You knew you were beautiful, knew you were blessed 

You knew you were talented - more than the rest

You knew when you landed how you'd manifest

You knew you could build at your every behest

You knew not to screw with these truths God had set

You knew not to prove you could do that, and yet...

You moved with your head from your heart when we met

So too how you knew would your blues be in step

You knew, you still do, I do too, so reset

A Body

A body of water, a body of work

The body of Christ via bread in a church 

A heavenly body in our universe

The body electric as was Whitman's verse

A body to hold all our light here on Earth

A shop to repair where this body's been hurt

A body of evidence 'til we are sure

Our God is benevolent, holy, and pure