Poetry is everywhere. Or at least, it helps to hope for poetry amidst the noise. The following poems were published on Verbatim Poetry, a blog dedicated to found poems:
I wrote some songs and worked hard to craft lyrics for them, a relatively new pursuit. Here are a few of them:
THE GRADUATE
The pains you’ll take
The rules you’ll break
Just to keep from feeling older
An acute sense that it’s over
Still won’t cover your student loans
Your credit cards
Brought you far
Or was it only deeper?
You tried sleeping with your best friend
Now your best friend’s with someone else
Had I known someone like you
Had I half the charm you do
I’d have done the same thing, too
An attitude
Sad as untrue
The endless solitude of summer
With ever letter to each other
We write every wrong we’ve ever known
A set of stares
A godless prayer
And the space that lies between you
And though there is no smoke to see through
I still wonder who you are
Had I known someone like you
Had I half the charm you do
I’d have done the same thing, too
SUMMER SONG
Hold your coat
On the cold face of a clock
Summer floats
As she talks
There’s no map
To the beach beneath the street
Summer’s back
Incomplete
The touch of her hand
The choler of love
I can’t understand
And I can’t get enough
Detour days
Sun diverted to the night
Summer plays
At a life
Streetlights yawn
Throwing shadows in her smile
Summer’s song
For a little while
The touch of her hand
The collar of love
I can’t understand
And I can’t get enough
All the thoughts she treasures
Her semi-precious stones
Arrayed with elegant measure
Displayed when she’s all alone
Hide your smile
On the dark side of the sun
Summer sparks
Your smart remarks
Summer sparks and then she’s gone
Summer sparks and then she’s gone
Summer sparks and then she’s gone
Summer sparks…
YOU AND I
You and I
Have no need for a name
No need for a singular truth
No need for these trivial things
Our needs are both one and the same
And that’s why we cry
I hunger for your wonderful games
The play and the pull of your eyes
You and I
Have our own little thing
A secret language we share
A silent song that we sing
A love poem that’s tapped out in code
So no one can tell
I hunger for your wonderful games
The play and the pull of your spell
You and I
Are not what we seem
Unbound from any sense of ourselves
The soft melancholy of dreams
We both want to come in from the cold
In each others arms
I hunger for your wonderful games
The play and the pull of your charms
FINITE TIME
A fond farewell
Not overdue, but just as well
It’s time to shake
The bonds that bind you
To these streets
To the night
This thirst for life
The correlate of finite time
You let grow
Now it consumes you
And you’re lost
To the premise
To the promise of it all
I pretend to nothing innocent
Just think of all the wasted days you’ve spent
Tending to the needs
You never really needed
To begin
To live again
She wants you to begin
Her calling card
The city streets in her backyard
She lights you up
Like strange pachinko
And you’re lost
To the premise
To the promise of it all
I pretend to nothing innocent
Just think of all the wasted days you’ve spent
Tending to the needs
You never really needed
To begin
To live again
She wants you to begin
THE REBEL
Say no
Say no and say no well
Say no
Say no and give them hell
Say no
And so assert yourself
There is a power to the word
When you say no
The unjust cower to the word
When you say no
A no
Won’t go all by itself
A no
Knows there’s a yes as well
Say no
Say yes to something else
There is a power
When there is a yes in no
The unjust cower
When there is a yes in no
Be brave
For all that you have fought
Be brave
Don’t be what you’ve been taught
Be brave
And be just what they’re not
There is a power to the word
When you say no
The unjust cower to the word
When you say no
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