I've marched the concrete mile/
stilettos tap the cadence while/
dark tenements loom high/
along the way/
I died inside/
a rift appears in time/
avoiding 5-0 traps I hide/
today can't say that I/
emerged unscathed outside/
the cage/
I still don't trust/
the smiles/
I've found they often lie/
and so/
My eyes look toward the sky/
The tears I used to cry/
back there/
did long ago subside/
Environmental hazard of/
the strain of Ghetto life/
A calloused heart/
resides inside/
My eyes no longer cry/
My eyes no longer cry..........
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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