Poetry by Tim Windisch

Nothing

Nothing’s at work, like trying to eat soup with chopsticks

The logic’s mechanics suck they  need a bottom to top fix

Can’t pick up enough to satisfy my hunger

Meanwhile the clock says I ain’t getting younger

Seems to be the way the story goes for us romantics

Stare at the wall and try to connect every little bump

Can you create an image, not me I’m so easy to stump

Blurred by pictures we painted above

Over mi...

Silently screaming

Darkness fell across my eyes never wanting to want to leave

Sometimes the promise of a new sunrise is too hard tobelieve

Wanting tomorrows that for years he spent every nightdreaming

Only to wake up in the pitch black all alone and silentlyscreaming

Understanding the echoes of the questions he tirelesslypoises

While a cacophony of reality batters his mind with suchnoises

The wreckers of dreams perpetually at work ever scheming

Trying to destroy every last vestige as I lie silentlyscreaming

What’s the word

What’s the word how are you babe? Can you hear me call yourname

Are you listening, are you sitting up; how long until youlight my flame

Where’s the lantern to light the path, I’m worried you’lllose your way in the dark

It’s long past time we fired the torch to march into ourunknown, where’s the spark

Now you need to push the envelope, take yourself out of parkbabe put it in drive

Join me for the best ride of our li...

In another one of my dreams

Candles and incense, soft warm glow

Sandalwood clouds and we lay down below

Nice steady rocking tune, and guitar screams

Lying side by side, in another one of my dreams

Grilling steaks watching you dicing cubes of cheese

Making them cool apps and winking at me, a quick tease

Two silhouettes spooning under the moon beams

Ah but shit I’m alone in another one of my dreams

Always I see you, every time I cl...

And run

When the moon finds her, lying ‘neath shadows of the thingsshe wants to see

She is motionless; unable to speak held to the bed unable tobreak free

And run

She feels the weight of the thousand nights that have alreadypassed

There is a home glowing in the distance and she wants to rise up fast

And run

But try as she might another day passes and leaves her farbehind

She can’t help but worry that he’ll grow tired of theend...

I’m out of words to say

I’m out of words to say

They go unanswered

Pain spreads like a cancer

What made it turn this way

I’m out of rants to rave

It’s all just more of the sad noise

Lamenting absence of the joys

I thought we’d perpetually crave

I’m out of meaningful explanations

Cause I never seem to know the score

I’m telling you I can’t take much more...

Silence ain’t golden

Silence ain’t golden, it’s just rusted steel

Not worth a dime, especially when all you feel

Is cold lonely heartaches, another part of you breaks

Doing the right thing it seems was the first of yourmistakes

Hanging tight and being patient, one I can’t comprehend

Sit still and be quiet, no matter no one hears you screamingat the end

You and your thoughts sit alone, staring at that goddamnedtelephone

Be a good dog, go shit in the yard...

Snap my fingers

Not the day it was supposed to be

See you were nowhere close to me

Panic left the disco, he lives upstairs

When I seem out of whack I’m under repairs

Snap my fingers let me put a better spin

Anywhere, anytime I choose we can begin

How about that lovely summer day

When two yearning souls joined the fray

Snap my fingers and we’re back at Alma’s sippin’

Dew splatters, soft cha...

Soul Mates Gaze

Here we are again, standing alone waiting to be whole

Yet another pitfall has fallen in the way of our goal

I feel like Charley racing Algernon through a maddening maze

But one day soon we’ll open our eyes to our soul mates gaze

Plans of grandeur and extravaganza’s cast aside

We’ve only dreams of being by each other’s side

But every time we try, it seems that old familiar tune plays

Along comes something to keep us...

I don’t know why

I’d like to say I understood, believe me baby I would

It’s just that I have this terrible pain and I don’t feeltoo good

Seems every time I stand up tall, somebody pulls the rug andI fall

Maybe we could talk about it the next time that you decideto call

I’d like to be the king of the hill, I bet calling the shotswould be such a thrill

But I’m not much for politics; my thing is giving true...

Is there room for just one more

Tell me what you see in there

Are there rainbows, do you wear ribbons in your hair

Flying behind you in colorful displays

What completes the space you occupy these days

Is there room for just one more

Or would you turn me away at the door

An exclusive place you can only ever find

While you're day trippin all alone in your mind

Do the worries of tomorrow make i...

Holding Tightly

Melancholy moments your silence can always expose

Holding tightly to the dreams with you Christina Rose

While my heart aches my mind replays your pretty eyes

Drawn as I was from the first look launched perpetual tries

To sidle up close and meld warmly into one heartbeat

Is the thing that keeps me going, without you I’m incomplete

Pain is a companion I long to give the slip once and for all

And I know that beside you I...

I feel you in my heart

The future has always been so appeasing,

we knew right from the start

Now pillows in place of my love, so tightly squeezing,

I feel you in my heart

Wondering, questioning no one but my own darkening thoughts and fears

But my love is not lessening, a vibe from a click of oureyes, now full of tears

Desperation, sitting alongside exhaustion,

having lunch with hopelessness

Resisting urges to charge ahead without caution,

never...

No

No decorum, not even a forum

Skip the back story don’t bore ‘em!

Days passed; to too many, too fast!

Where’s the feeling was s’posed to last?

Green soon, remember late ’21 June?

Stumbling in the dark like a buffoon

No sounds, all alone dumping coffee grounds

Time passes; no communication, hopelessness abounds

No fills, not a word and my spine chills

Don’t need much to get my cheap thrills

Too many days, ending badly...

57 is 19 x 3

Pressed between the pages, filled with love across the ages

Sweeter words expressing your grace were not written by sages

The thoughts of the joy, the twinkle in your eye caught this boy

I meant every single word babe, loving you I would never toy And I’ve been banging my head, nights with no you I’d sooner be dead

But I sit again and add more to the realms of poems instead

Another year passes by alone, I sit and I stare at that...

Time marches on

Those used to be’s are flying again, mentions of how it was better way back when

Unlocked doors without any fear, waving to strangers just to spread some cheer

Bolt those doors, keep your gaze fixed ahead catch no eyes, wonder why you ain’t got a friend

Governments and department stores, got more to hide behind smiles and shiny floors

Come and go, with the tide of fashion, what matters most you hide inside, your true passion

Ease and relaxation unlocks the desi...

Alright

Sipping on my coffee, trying to see through the heavy fog

Reaching for my love, but my arm is wrapped around a dog

I know there’s always something, with an underlying desire

To circumvent this situation, only embers remain from our fire

I’d love to rekindle the flame, but babe I ain’t even got a log

Chilly on the sofa, my feet feel so cold on the bare wood floor

It could eighty-five in here, but we both know it won’t heat m...

You feel

You feel rundown, body’s infected

I sit alone ignorant, lost and neglected

Can’t get it right but you go at it all wrong

Kept to yourself even though I came along

Said you never had somebody who’d care

Promised to share a life but you’re never there

Sometimes I bang my head against the wall

Sometimes I fall asleep waiting on your call

You feel scared, but keep watching tv

Violence and mayhem all you...

Ode to Christmas Carol

A legend left the building, the sad news came

And we will all move on but it won’t be the same

If you called her a legend she’d probably laugh

Maybe fawn for the camera offer an autograph

She wasn’t searching for a spotlight for her face

Rather for the earth, pay attention to what we can’t replace

Or the poor who have no money for shelter or a meal

Causes caught Christmas Carol, s...

Time can

Time can be my friend, or time can run away

Hold me for a slow minute, promise me you’ll stay

Words can help me explain, words can leave me blank

I’ve so many of them to find the right way to thank

To thank you for the dreams, those dreams I long to see

In daylight, against an autumn sky under our maple tree

Time can be my friend, this time the clocks won’t mean a thing

And words...

Cry

Staring at my last text, worrying cause we seem vexed

Like our plans were cursed by a demon and we’re hexed

Complex, confounded and confusing, how much more abusing

I try to wear a smile of hope but it’s hard be coy while I’mbruising

Choosing to do all that I can, stick to the course andfollow the plan

Babe I’m trying my best, but after all, honey I’m no godjust a man

And have I told you how much I care? Al...

Down

Down so low I forgot about being high

Lost direction seems pointless to try

Sounds are distractions and bring me no joy

Head pounds, these inactions serve to destroy

Golden has nothing to do with the silence here

Memories I’m holdin’ bring me violence and fear

Nothing as it seems, is this supposed to be our ever after

We made all those dreams, but I can’t hear the laughter

Searching my mind, trying to piece all of the broken...

Covers

Seems sometimes even the closest of lovers

Lose steam like kettles with bent up covers

Things boil over and make a mess of your day

Stains add character, they’re only stains anyway

Cements got a crack with weeds right where it’s begun to heave

Like bare trees in the winter, problems gain appeal when they leave

Breathe in a promise if you still dare, map a route to your desires

Break up excuses and the grizzled retorts, use them to star...

Lost

Used to know, maybe not but I thought I understood

Mind it goes, in and out and no longer works too good

Am I alright? How can  I really be so off base and so completely out of whack?

Must be a sight, my senses left word; they took leave and they’re not coming back

Me no money, heart and wallet both broke

Can’t blow it off with another numbing toke

Dreams left town, burning desires are covered in frost

Had a...

Stumble

I’m no good at tests, babe I really must confess

I keep trying to understand but then I second guess

Seems every step I take, my legs just start to shake

My head can’t seem to deal with another heartbreak

I try to tell you all about it but my mind’s a jumble

When I try to say the words babe all I do is mumble

It makes me angry, makes me hurt and I start to grumble

I’m t...

Burn

Brand new fence, pretty flowers line a paver walk

Decorated for harvest a pumpkin and a corn stalk

Fresh mulch around the newly trimmed up trees

Two figures locking lips laying toes up in the breeze

Along comes a flame engulfing them no matter where they turn

Seems it was just a dream and now the whole thing starts to burn

Sunsets shared together, hand in hand out for a stroll

Celebrating life so happy they finally reached their goal

...

Hello babe?

Big steps sidewalk, cars buzz can’t talk

What would I say, like scratching on a chalk

Bored to life, misery. Repeating is my history

Walking Asta in the dark, I just love a good mystery

But we need more clues, femme fatal spoken words to use

Stumping on big blue with those lack of any news blues

Nora has an arm load of boxes; Nick boozing acting obnoxious

I see you coming you remind me of her, both gorgeous foxes

Double scoop

Bad news, skinned knee; stepped on a pricker, got stung by a bee

Tears and crying out in pain, mother to the rescue again

Sit down in the kitchen, alcohol stings and gets you twitchin

But if you were cool you could go sit on the stoop

A reward for being a big kid you got a double scoop

Years later, mom gone who will tend, me with a bleeding heart to mend

I talk like she was, and go on to explain...

My Christina Rose (Pt II)

Holding hands, holding hope out for our tomorrow

Molding plans, repay lost days that we had to borrow

Build those dreams, live that once only imagined life

Willed it seems, devoted man wants you for his wife

And these were only things we thought, yet prayed for every night

The happy memories we both sought, happening now only seems right

My Christina Rose, her pretty nose, feet to match with pretty little toes

She shows and goes and...

Sweet Cielia

Arms spread wide drowning in a jersey of gold

Drove all night north, we were maybe 19 years old

He was not everything you’d dreamed

Despite how he pretended it seemed

I remember meeting someone there, but it went cold

Distant days that never cease to amaze at the way they come around

Lost in years of becoming something, but it’s nothing like what we found

Love and laughter, friends in the great hereafter, reminisce myriad memorabilia

Too many...

Clear Me

Carried under layers of ominous fog

Astride me fast asleep a little dog

Clear me take me steer me make me

Flush away the sediment, clear the clog

Drained and lying somewhere between

A dream and a nightmare, what a scene

Clear me wake me hear me shake me

Wash the busted promises get me clean

Set me on the edge of that glorious day

But don’t wander then, no don’t you go away

Cl...

Congratulations Emma!

See your future, see your dreams

Days you’ve dreamt of under many moon beams

The goals you set, all those you’ve met

And the best part, the fun hasn’t even begun yet

Be your future, live your dreams

A sparkling road stretched out before you gleams

You drive the car, and you’re the star

It’s your chance to show who you are

Live your future, realize your dreams

It’s maybe not as easy as i...

Again tonight

I’m troubled and I’m blue, my head spins so it’s hard to think

Had a grasp on a feeling but it was gone like that, in a blink

Heart break, shatter, and crash, it’s spread in pieces on the floor

Send a message while I take another look, no you can’t no more

Did you miss a signal, make a wrong turn, sure you heard right

Then tell me friend then why are you laying here alone again tonight

Need a l...

The Key

Every time I stub my toe, or bite my lip while I’m chewing

Pain sprints down my back and stops whatever I’m doing

But it’s nothing like the pain of the memories of those I lost

Or the heartaches I’ve been through, man they exacted such a cost

So, I gather the worst of the worst and do my best to hide them away

Write about surviving the storm, and relaxing while enjoying a sunny day

But then the clouds r...

One minute

One minute I’m happy, the next I want to die

I’m nothing but confused, drop my head and cry

So are we climbing a mountain, wishing, throwing coins in a fountain ?

They were all I had left, see I ain’t very good at accounting

Money drops by sometime, but it’s gone before the bells chime

In and out and I can barely make ends meet it’s such a crime

But it doesn’t do the trick for me, the...

For Sloan

Memories spark my keyboard, bringing days of flat noses and scrapbooks with pressed roses

So long ago, so far away my Lord! We drove two-hundred-dollar cars, yet tried dressing tight in the bars

Try and make an impression, give it a shot, she looks pretty don’t you think, why don’t you buy her another drink

Hope she ain’t looking to close in the lot, that junker don’t match your wealth, damn, looks like you’re going home by yourself

Next day we laughed...

They say

They say you’re a pretty good writer, I was hoping maybe you could help me sir

I just want to hold my baby tighter, but I don’t hear back no matter what I text her

So pen me something that sounds clever, try to convince her that I’m worth the time

Please don’t say it’s a worthless endeavor, let her know falling in love with me ain’t a crime

They say you’re a pretty good writer, so please can you...

Damn

Cracks in the mirror, six views of a broken face reflecting

Things seemed so clear, got muddy when I started inspecting

Run your fingers on the edge, careful not to cut your finger

No time for jumping off the ledge, close your eyes turn off the ringer

There’s a perfectly good explanation, wait for the full story

Save the doomsday machination, or you’ll just end up sorry

Hard to steer the car from in back, don’t be afraid to grab t...

Grab

Hey babe, I’m supposed to be the shoulder, I mean, after all I’m the one who’s older

Things would be better if I could just hold her, warm sunny day but I’m feeling colder

Isolate the problem to try to get a better view, keep it all inside until it consumes you

Can’t build a wall and me expect to see through, hide and seek is not the thing to do

Grab my hand, my head my heart

Let me keep yo...

What about

What about the roses? What about the view?

Why plant flowers if they’re not seen by you?

What about the mornings? What about sunrise

Why get up babe? Every day without you I despise

Truncated by the unseen and I’m left alone to my devices

Memories cut deep and leave me covered in slices

Run but no direction, so are you avoiding or inviting

Silence you wish golden has instead been inciting

What about the show...

Dead Lilacs

Moon phases pass

Rain dries on the glass

Days go with notice

Nothing left to sugar coat us

Not so special plant on an odd wooden box

Sitting right in front a vase with dead lilacs

Like a second or it seemed

Was it something I dreamed

Plans and hugs included

Something remains excluded

Brakes squeal and the engine sort of knocks

All I see’s a vase in front of me...

One last try

It was the kind of day, where sun shone bright, but inside he felt a  chill, no he couldn’t get right

He’s wondering about tomorrow, fumbling through today, but then maybe again it was last night

Why in the world can’t he get warm? Aching and lamenting, “my arthritis says it’s going to storm”

Sometimes he’s right, mostly feels wrong, world spins faster, feels like he’s falling behind the norm

Isolated from a time when things made sense, when decisions were solid, no si...

Halted heartbeat

Am I yesterday’s dinner? Or should I feel like a winner?

Skip acting smooth cause I’m falling off just like a beginner

Because I have a halted heartbeat, sweatin’ my bed sheet

Spinning my head, leaving me laying here feeling so incomplete

Nothing like a direction, if you’re off you can make a correction

Slash across my dream, an untended wound leads to infection

Combat, inner emotional battles, a memory versus future ones your head rattles

I’m feeling li...

Clamoring for the light

Ugliness mixed together with deepest fears

Sketchy and vague details all the same tears

Wrap around what you can’t comprehend in full

While demons in the dark paint horrors in your skull

Deprivation madness hammering my head at night

Leaves me sweating, heart racing, clamoring for the light

Random texts, unconnected words leave doubt

Mixed up messages but what’s it all about?

Leaving me in the dust with a mouthful of regrets

Pretty word...

Fate

She’s excited, he’s delighted, and the whole damn thing is blighted

By the almighty dollar, it’s the way all good love stories are plighted

Where’s the fun, unless it’s undone, and the heroine needs to be won

From the evil clutches of some sinister evil, so she can finally break free and run

It always seems there’s another unforeseen obstacle

Like blindly reaching for grape, only to get a lemon popsicle

Like there’s free beer at the bar but once a...

Go Vote

Can we really be only months from selecting someone for their second terms

Both sides are certain neither will live it out, but end up food for the worms

There’s a daily circus if you really want to see

Gotten to the point where it just sickens me

One with the rod of Asclepius held high and his Greenwood bible gripped firm

Proclaims innocence from all, charges be damned, he wants a second term

The other tries to look and sound like he...

Restored

How long can I hold it in, without bursting at the seams

If everything is so golden, where’s the rest of our dreams

Coughing out detached emotions landing before you the detritus

Ugly shadows stealing sunlight robbing all the hope and joy inside us

Cutting into my soul

Losing all thought control

Villains! The path to my happiness got cored

Hold me closer, bring it back make me restored

Draw the curtains is that rain, sometimes that’s all it r...

Soon

Sitting crossed legged on faded sunsets, chewing away on dried out regrets

Time can’t steal your memory, cause like an elephant, this heart never forgets

Stores in the cupboard seem depleted, means are reduced but never defeated

Same heart soldiers on determined to ensure that this journey’s completed

Underneath a snow crust moon, dreams of sunshine and flowers in June

The calendar cannot keep the days from rolling ahead, oh!  But baby soon!

Staring though frost covered windows, a reflection of concern on hi...

Speak to me in my dreams

Speak to me in my dreams, rolling across apples, bananas and pears

A space where nothing’s as it seems, free from offhand comments and stares

Tell me how you love the feel, laughing, carefully picking out your favorite fruits

Watch so you don’t slip on a banana peel, falling into today using coconut shells for parachutes

Waking up to a monochrome existence, nothing in the cupboard, seems the fridge is barren too

No wonder we meet reality with resistance, so m...

Help me understand

Alone in a cave, no soul left to save, darkness feels like a grave

Reading tea leaves, they deceive, only message I seem to get is behave

I feel like a stranger in my own land, can’t even see my hand, babe nothing’s as we planned

A little bit longer, a little more time, got to be stronger, quittin’s a crime, help me understand

Phone don’t ever ring, out of blues to sing, I feel like I’ve already covered everything

Covered...

Nobody’s got to be right

Used to hang out together nearly every single day

Weather didn’t matter we found something to play

A couple of kids on bikes, riding with no hands trying hard to look cool

Lazy summers saw us playing, got them swaying, sunning by the pool

Long summer days, deeds that could’ve made a sailor blush at night

Behind those smiles, nobody’s got to be wrong, nobody’s got to be right

Grown up games away to grown up schools...

Picture this babe

Come to me woman, and butter my fears with the comfort of promise and hope, celestial sun showers

 of tomorrow's that we can drive our dreams across and pick up memories like roadside wildflowers

and keep them in a pretty vase in our minds to share forever; our very own jukebox of collected smiles

Picture this babe, close your eyes and softly kiss me through the phone, it’s just more or our life’s trials

Install yourself an app to keep track of more than just ...

How do I say

How do I say I’m sorry for your pain? Do I show my ignorance and moan again

Do I just utter the syllables and form the word, in time that refrain starts to sound absurd

Or do I wrap my life around the wounds, and say through my actions, you’re the best part of my day

How do I say I would be happy to give, all I have and all I am just to be able to live

With you. I see tomo...

Your valiant shine

It’s the big day to send a red heart.

You’ve had mine right from the start.

I could ask you to be my valentine

But instead, I’ll offer to be your valiant shine.

When the clouds won’t let you see the sun

And we fall apart cause we can’t have any fun.

Life gets dull, but no worry; cause along with being mine

You get a cloudy day cleared away, from your valiant shine.

Forget t...

Crave

Dreaming of a river, sunshine, and a slow raft, seeing you smile, hearing how you laughed

Splashing me and telling me how glad, how you were thrilled with every minute we’d had

Drifting as we lovingly embraced, feeling your passion building as our hearts raced

Moments like these I would forever save, dream them again and again as I’d rave

Woman you are my heart’s desire, set my soul on fire, lying in your arms is all I crave

TV shows play but I real...

Well…

What are the good old days? Who gets to share them and who pays?

Happiness is better shared, whether with chicken or some fat filets

People on the right say we need to get back, got to add some more to their 401 stack

We need that last guy again,  get us revved up, keep the immigrants out, put us on track

Make the bad nations cringe in fear, keep our jobs plentiful over here

Get the economy going and get the stock market back in gear

Blessed

Blessed are those who are quick to offer a prayer

Blessed even more are those who are always there

Blessed are the ones who offer their love from the start

Blessed are you cause you have a home in my heart

Blessed is the sun that lights a new day to improve

Blessed are the fruits that supply the energy to move

Blessed honey is the shelter you provide to warm my soul

Blessed for eternity are those vows that make us...

This dream

She was exhausted and he was depressed, he felt so defeated, he sorrowfully confessed

Mornings had found him disheveled, mistreated even in dreams, it was hard to get dressed

Don’t you be reading tea leaves, she spoke in sharp inflection, my absence physically is not a rejection

And before a fortnight has passed we’ll share a toke, by then I will have healed this sudden infection

Again, he took her promise, through several grains of sand, one day babe, everything will go as planned

Sh...

Back at the deserted parking lot

Back at the deserted parking lot, every year, there was a carnival that came alive with lights

Out by the freeway, young boys laughing riding the Tilt a Whirl ah, those warm summer nights

Long paved over, filled now with progress and commerce, they’re now memories that I loved most

And there’s a subdivision over one, shopping center over the other, those drive-ins we used to boast

Special places off farm fields that we used to camp and ride our dirt bike...

Logs on the fire

Waiting to get warm, things get back to norm

Make me feel whole, fulfill the role, vanquish my desire

Take this cold man, do what you can like logs on the fire

Glow and give the view, illuminate the magic you can do

Let’s see some choices, hear those heavenly voices, a thundering choir

Symphonic sound rumbles, that cold darkness crumbles like logs on a fire

Tell me the hour is near, say those four words I long to hear

Brilliant radiance

Brilliant radiance resilience paid recompense

My angel appears through the fog heaven sent

Shining across my fears, platinum hair wipes my tears

The lingering steam clouding tomorrow suddenly clears

Brilliant radiance

Layers of yesterdays heartaches, a mind can be strong until it breaks

Forget devoting thoughts to the pains and catch a break on those mistakes

Brilliant radiance, resilience paid recompense

Enjoyment of those dreams and where have those troubles went?

Brilliant radiance

H...

The last of his twenties this year

Ran into some friends who asked about my kid

Just like always, I recounted all the things he did

How old is he now they asked, and I  suddenly choked back a tear

Could it be true? Time flies, he’s in the last of his twenties this year

Seemed the other day I marveled as he came to be

Climbing from the crib to college so much to see

Seems funny now my neuroticism from the first-time fat...

Wrapped in my arms

I know what I want, no more window-shopping

Stay home at night, don’t ever go barhopping

Cause I found love, beauty, and heavenly charms

The first-time babe, that I had you wrapped in my arms

After years of wandering finally my heart’s centering

On a lady who flipped my heart just upon entering

You sent my head code red, tripped all of the alarms

The first-time babe, that I had you wrapped in my arms

I kn...

Well-traveled highways across trampled dreams

Well-traveled highways across trampled dreams

Tragedy showers the plans we made it seems

Again, we’ve been stalled at this critical juncture

Unforeseen delays that always seem to puncture

The panorama, paranoia, pandemonium, patience

Deliberation, determination, destination vacations

Lose the broken record of the tired too-worn reasons

Catch as many falling stars that you see across the seasons

Tomorrows turning into memories we spent together

Flocking close, laughing watching the birds of...

I love you more

Sunny days with people who make me smile

Tokin, playing Kart and laughing all the while

Juicy red steaks, fries and a large ice-cold Coke Zero

Dreaming of saving the world and becoming a folk hero

All of these things are really great

Each one I would greatly appreciate

Be a happy stoned satiated legend of lore

No matter what though I love you more

Watching the Pack crush them all and win every game

...

Where do you stand?

Angry words, violent actions; a nations hinges on the furor of freak show factions

The right ballyhoos ballot box trickery fueling their constituency’s irate reactions

Election season unlike any before; based on the last imagine what’s in store

Me? I have had more than my fill of fanatical delusions Mein Kompf can’t take no more

America you’d best be paying attention. Our democracy teeters on one last straw for suspension

There’s a mad man who wants to rule the world...

Those horrible too many days away blues

She said they took away my eyes, I can’t see my babe she cries

Said she is feeling beat down from all the failed things she tries

But you can see me babe

She said I can’t hear you babe they took the sound, this shit is making my poor head pound

We two flying hand-in-hand across myriad skies of future sunrises, but I’m stuck on the ground

But you can hear me babe

She said I...

Open my door

Too many trips to the medical center

Baby’s getting tired but the doctor sent her

Too many pills make everything turn to fuzz

Can’t see the point, she wants it like it was

Breathing hard just to feel more pain

Life was good I want to be back there again

Relax honey, lonely nights but just a couple more

Sunrise shines ,two lovers, picture window, open my door

Too many curves on this road to salvation

One heart

Say I’m sounding like a total jerk, ranting like a lunatic, I lose my composure you can’t take no more

Once you get coffee to perk, better take it from the burner quick, it boils over before you can pour

Clean it up fast before it can burn, grab a couple of mugs, time to sip away at the chasm we created

Here’s a lesson to learn, kissing tears, sharing hugs, pump some air into the lungs of the love we deflated

Baby that highwa...

What goes through your mind

What goes through your mind, what image do you find, when you say I love you baby

Are you straddling my chest, what’s the place you love best, were ya thinkin’ ‘bout that maybe

Memories play too big a part, tired of things keeping us apart, so much further from our destinations

Pounding head cannot explain, leads to short fuses and I complain, our dreams are not evil machinations

The plotting to tear out your past, you bite your tongue it leaves you aghast...

Swing the tire

Swing the tire

When the tension mounts, had about all I can take, hit those nice flat cliffs down by the lake

Swing the tire from the high branch on that old Willow on the shore pray the rope don’t break

I don’t know the last time I was there, seems there’s never enough time to spare

Swing the tire even if you’re miles away don’t delay cause you owe yourself some better care

Is there a problem with your popul...

I tried

Needed someone who really cared

Were beat before and it left you scared

I gave you everything that I thought you needed

So why’m I feeling like a boxer on his back defeated

I never understand

Not how we planned

She cried

I tried

Sitting alone staring at the regrets I carry

Found the one to be with forever, to marry

I’m driving through a pinball machine and then I tilt

Time...

Be careful what you wish for

If I found a bottle with a genie, suppose he questioned my desires

If he said to me, “Master you can quench any thirst or quell any fires”

Power to rule all, or share it with all so their lives are enriched more

With your wishes come grave consequences, be careful what you wish for

Major Nelson stumbles on Barbara Eden and I get the conscience of my mother

Paused about me on a throne but I think I’d rather the gu...

Sit right next to you

I’m cold as ice or that’s how it felt

Like, no woman could ever melt

with a text, excite me with a smile, make me swoon with a kiss

and captivate me with the warmth of her tender love such as this

Baby it's you since those eyes of yours grabbed a hold of my heart

Gas station parking lot, head over heels babe ever since the start

There is nothing in this whole wide world that I woul...

Lord knows we need more of these

Feeling your warm breaths across my chest,

close nights with you are the best

Soaking in the sunshine splash me with jet spray, laughter to kisses it’s my day

Lord knows we need more of these, babe I’m down on my knees

Lord knows we need more of these

Sipping hot coffee on a cold morning at sunrise, tripping on the magic coming out of your eyes

Ordinary things become wondrous in your view, the day goes...

Prolonged aggravation

Seems a few minutes become days,

our utopia’s  been lost in a haze

Can’t see through the fog,

headaches from the howling of the dog

Stranded in the dark run out of fuel,

my Iphone is nearly dead, how cruel

Bang my fist in anger on the dash,

thinkin how sweet life could be with a little cash

Sometimes it seems life can be such a tease

Go from happy to hell as qu...

A touch of ice

Tragedies seem to have a simple way out

The heroine knows exactly what is about

To occur

She saw the killer out the window very clearly

Those soft words he spoke darling I love you dearly

It’s a blur

What seemed to be so wholesome and nice

Leaves a shiver running up your spine, a touch of ice

Passionate kisses dreams of throwing rice

Sharp icicles form as she speaks her words , a touch of...

Old Familiar Christmas Tunes

I hear the old familiar Christmas tunes; I hear the blaring holiday jingles

Ads for toys, jewelry and get aways, parties where everyone mingles

Love is in the air, a brisk breeze out of nowhere, pretty things under trees

Christmas is surely coming soon; Santa is posing for pictures at the mall

Tiny shops are enjoying the boon, grabs your coats say hello Winter goodbye Fall

And children are still children, despite the difference of how we were back then

A Christmas thought

Trimmed the tree, strung the lights

Played the old familiar Christmas songs

My mind and me, thought of passed nights

All of us harmonizing Mitch Miller sing-alongs

Dreaming of the white, my finances in the red

Worries like the lawn buried down below

Special family nights, sharing good cheer instead

Hugs, love and the special drinks would flow

Presents and smiles, little children now grown

Pictures of “their kids”...

Christmas memories

Way back when I was young you know

I’d sit and watch the gently falling snow

With dreams of presents wrapped and under the tree

All sorts of sizes and colors, with a bunch tagged just for me

I was always certain that Santa Claus would make it so

Catalogs were all we had, cause there was no internet

Laptops, I-pods and cell phones hadn’t even been invented yet

A TV commercial, store display, a little...

Baby get some sleep

Things are crazy, some people acting lazy, and it seems that you never get your rest

They think you’re the Energizer bunny, you can’t take much more honey, trust me I know best

How much does it take, how can you make them see?

I know it ain’t flattery, me sayin’ your battery is on empty

I need you to get a charge, babe the task ahead is large

Our future awaits us, it’s time to act, pick up the cars s...

We’ll always last

Leaves are few, mostly blowing; birds are flocking soon they’ll be going

And another year of opportunities will be blanketed in white as it’s snowing

Months go by, surroundings change, shuffle the furniture, and rearrange

No matter the background when you’re not here the whole place seems strange

Look up and down the street at the new faces, been here so long all that remain are traces

Walk my dogs and greet neighbors, I see you in my mind as I bend d...

As we lay sleeping

Babies stolen from their parents sight, sometimes in the middle of the night

At dinner I hear news on the TV , it makes me feel uneasy as I go to sleep tonight

You work your job, live your life, love your kids and you kiss your wife; all while someone’s creeping

There’s terror afoot in every city, news anchors says it’s a pity, happens every night as we lay sleeping

Cities are leveled somewhere far away; in the ruins the people are shakin...

That seat is taken

Table for two, place set for you, smiling at me in my mind

Skies are blue, warm breezes too, in dreams you always find

Despite the lack, we got off track, those memories forsaken

Dinged some, maybe a crack, but she’s coming back, yeah, that seat is taken

On the couch I can’t get right, need you to roll me tight, wrapping my arm around air

Seems it happens most every night, ask the dogs it’s a hell of a sight...

Looking

Looking round but feeling square, seems I just don’t fit anywhere

You jam me into a shape that suits you well as you say you care

Looking up yet I’m feeling down, I’m no king, it’s just a phony crown

Nothing to rule I just need some faced paint cause I feel like a clown

Where are the rest of our days? Have I missed them or are they up a ways?

Loving comes, but never too long, tell me how long till it ...

Hole in me

Hole in me

Whole of you

Fill my heart and soul

Patch the hole mama make me whole

Hole in me

Whole of you

Cry me a river ride a boat in the stream

Be my port baby be my dream

Hole in me

Whole of you

Set me free

Babe you know what to do

Patch the hole in me

With the whole of...

No more pain

Saw the news, heard the screams, so much worse I’m sure than it seems

Men, women, and children scattered, lying dead, robbed of all their dreams

Centuries have certainly not improved, blood-stained scars so deeply grooved

When will it end? Despite mega ton blasts leveling buildings the needle hasn’t moved

We hate them and they hate us even more, kill innocents to prop up your cause and even the score

Pound them with artillery, no humanitarian pause, too bad about the civilians, damn...

Happy Ending

They say ease up with your flacks, man you’ve got to relax

 Take a breath and be chill, if it’s meant then it will

Come to fruition, but it’s straining this condition

Hits me like a drill in my head and I spill

Out comes the ignorance, reeks of abhorrence,

Words to inflame, cause harm and maim

Thoughtless barrages, insecure collages,

Wonder not from where it came, we’re trapped in some evil game

Somewhere...

My Christina Rose

Before another sunrise

Lord let me see her eyes

Before another sunset

Let me kiss those lips I can’t forget

I lived for more than six decades

Been through fantasies and charades

Lead down the aisle with a hook in my nose

None of it means a thing since my Christina Rose

Before another sunrise

Lord let me see her eyes

Before another sunset

Let me kiss those lips I can’t fo...

Rest in my arms

No sun today, looking rather gray and in fact it’s mainly rain

Despite my usual cloudy day aches, mama I don’t feel pain

Cause today’s the day she’s driving through the marsh, past the farms

Spread the news today the love of my life is coming to rest in my arms

I got a case of jars,  full to the top of the sunsets she missed that I save

And too many empty Tylenol bottles that’d ease my hea...

You could say

Ducking bullets and dodging cars, house on fire from two falling stars

Stepping on cracks tripped over a black cat, landed and Pandora’s box is where I sat

You could say I’m not having a very good day

Another well designed chance to return, the journey home did crash and burn

Never got off the ground left you feeling flat, like it or not it’s another day where you’re at

You could say you can’t go on living thi...

The Christmas sound

From a dirty muddy green, to a brilliant red gold

Watched the leaves change as the temps got cold

Soon the air will relocate them to the ground

Naked trees reveal the many houses down my street

Before long strands of colored lights will make it complete

Close my eyes I can almost hear the Christmas sound

How fast we go from stretching summer out to donning sweaters

Labor Day parties to composing annual holiday letters

...

What would follow

Piling in the back seat of a ’74 Firebird

Toking jamming tunes best I ever heard

Crammed together laughing; now I cry

Putting it all into words is hard but I’ll try

Once we were people frozen in time, shielded from tomorrow

Enjoying the thrill of our todays with no worry what would follow

Grew up and apart from the back of that old car

Though some live close, the distance seems so far

Philosophical and poli...

Pass it by

Teardrops hit my face, waves of heartbreaks cascade onto my fingers

Memories can’t replace, could’ve beens echoing, the pain still lingers

Empty days planned, nothing seems important without your touch

A longing I can’t stand, blast the tunes to drown out my heart but it’s too much

Why look for a second four leaf clover? Or find both ends of a rainbow?

When will your search be over? When will you let your loving flow?

Holding out for...

Full Throttle

Skipping stones across this lake of tears

Fishing for an answer to your deepest fears

Floating hope across, my soul felt message in a bottle

Climb aboard my vessel let’s sail far away full throttle

You be the captain chart a course past the jagged rocks

I’ll ready the ship and be set to go you just get to the docks

You’ll never do anything in this world without courage said Aristotle

Meet life head on, take m...

My promise

We’ve traveled too far, apart too many miles and days

As you’re in your car, heading to make a home that stays

Hear me in your ears, let’s share it all, smiles and dramas

I’ll vanquish your fears, all my days babe that’s my promise

So maybe we have to sift, pick the best of the worst to see a real gem

What for some’s a curse is a gift, our castle of castoffs wasn’t made for them

Turn out the lights

Honey let’s make believe it’s still summer, and we’re lying in the sun

Even though we’re snuggled under blankets cause it’s barely thirty-one

Degrees

Let’s have a lemonade, maybe a picnic whatever activity you choose

Careful not to look out the window or you’ll see the tree’s loose

Their leaves

Sooner or later, I suppose we will have to come to grips

Walking the doggies outside watching steam rising off of your lips...

Disconnected

That number is  not in service, hands sweating, feeling nervous

Too many days without a sound, sundial keeps spinning round

Dropped signal, head pound, so lost babe I need to be found

Got my senses disconnected, too many cracks became infected

How long can you keep on trying when your call’s rejected

Username and password do not match, is it just me or am I always in a rough patch

Online issues mess with my brain, figuring everything out drives me ins...

Woman

Tell me I’m a patient man, and we will make a vacation plan

Pleasant thoughts to marinate waiting on promised satiation

Still my petals face the sun, ready for raindrops they get none

To frolic freely in the rolling hills of blooming flowers babe so fun

A lonely stem withers and drops, a bloom struggles to open and flops

Open your skies on me and pour your loving feelings on my slow dying crops

Hold me against your chest, I am yours for li...

Written for my lovely daughter Jessey's birthday

Happy Birthday Jessey!

Your mother’s eyes

Here it is early fall, winter prognosticators are making their call

When will the first flakes arrive and how much do you think will fall

But I tune out those guys, there’s something way bigger under October skies

My daughter’s birthday, the woman with the golden smile and her mother’s eyes

Oh, she has her daddy’s profile! Look she’s so pretty, inherited her mom’s style

You try...