chances

 

dream to me

oh beautiful girl

your rhyme carries

on a wind

so sweet

that i am forced to

dance

through it's moonlight

whispers

do i dare

to love you

 

possibilities

realities

if a man loves

if a woman  dances

chances

mirror reflects mirror

water falls

from fingers clasped

possibilities

dream to me

                                   - jude

 

 

 

 song

 

water without rhyme

dreams fall

silence in the morning

believe

 

where rain falls

as song

longing

snowflakes

midnight

lamplight echoes

                                - jude

 

 

 

 untitled

 

the rain

it doesn't stop

this dam eternal rain

a broken dance

erratic

shattered time

what rhythm carves

deep into my skin

it just won't stop

                                 - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 on a question of love

 

seasons

without reason

keeps turning

 

in loving

will she break

upon the weakness

in her sighs

if

in my eyes

will her soul

be

cast adrift

into mediocre

is it my failure

or an act of god

 

deep in silence

such beauty i see

                                  - jude

 

 

 

 

open letter to "we the people"

 

when an empty man

is elected

to spill his

black

circle

dreams

where walks

within the mirror of honor

must we

the people

march once again

to stand as a wall of

truth

justice

you say

not your problem

will you wait

once again

till

it's your children

who are  dying

on our president's field

of

only rich white men

who match his

 dollar green eyes

                                             - jude 

 

 

 

 

  

step dancing

 

ice sudden

a moment in echo

time shift

water

dancing in rhythm

falls

walking west

chasing a paint  dripping

sun

unsure

on the run

step dancing rain

tall building shadows

darkness within

a tunnel dream

                                     - jude

 

 

 

 

 carried by the dust

 

i feel lost

long hair

and balding

surviving

one

more

operation

it appears

that what

tomorrow year

is carrying me

deep into it's

dusty dream

facing yesterday

while casting words

to be carried

by the dust

dreaming within

what mirror

falling

calling

i scream silence

where only

dust does hear

                                    - jude

 

 

 

  

seasons in drift

 

i walk

where i bleed

water carves through

my soul

as breath

blown upon

an ice wind carved

vibrations

as words

describe beauty

moments as seeds

flying the thermals of spring

change

seasons in drift

i talk to silence

where whispers paint

images as motion

                                     - jude

 

 

 

blood or water

 

wood floors

soaked from years

of sweet whiskey

worn deep

souls seep

stains of love

of loss of truth

worn leather boots

with holes in the soles

sweet blues

guitar rhyme

in time playing

as you dance alone

what

do you see

between the vibrations

blood or water

table lamp

shadows small

calling

no tomorrow across

your stained fingers

alone

you watch

her one last dance

dark light whispers

cold lips and whiskey

                                                - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 table lamp shadows (When MS falls)

 

wood floors

soaked from years

of sweet whiskey

worn deep

souls seep

stains of life

of loss of truth

worn leather boots

with holes in the soles

sweet blues

guitar rhyme

in time playing

as you dance alone

what

do you see

between the vibrations

blood or water

table lamp

shadows small

calling

no tomorrow across

your stained fingers

alone

you watch

your

one last dance

dark light whispers

cold lips and whiskey

stain

one last tomorrow

                                            - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

meeting silence

 

lost within

a mobius dream

chasing what

scream

believing in

nothing

before tomorrow

dare you

touch the silence

blood upon your fingertips

endless light

words carved

liquid across the night

believing

is more than just seeing

stepping beyond

your

linier facade

close your eyes

be surprised

                                        - jude

 

 

 

 

sweet chance

 

dancing the dance

of anarchy

across

the chance

of family

summertime

cries janis

as a daughter

sighs

when rhythm carves

across a younger son

who grows with

no surprise

who wants

just his father's eyes

ah! sweet possibility

a woman

a man

dancing the dance

daring

caring

walking across

the long stage

is it the

magic of love

rain

across the night

sunshine

where the full moon

reminds

just a family

dancing

their dance

                   - jude

 

 

 

 

fist in the air

 

i walk within

the echoes of years

when falls dusk

when calls the rhymes of spring

i sing

vibrations warm

a longer rhyme

calls across time

change

i engaged

i played

i believed in

all i saw

a broken country

and again

open roads

now closed

circles

long hair

fist in the air

still

i would die

for my brother's freedom

                                     - jude

 

 

 

 

 

for she is on your mind

 

what do you dare

when

a young soul

dreams

between night screams

and the sweetest lover

such a long touch

and sips

that will hold your last breath

when

you stand alone

on the edge

of a tomorrow

split

where her lost eyes

still believe

is it a mountain's call

deep sky reflections

calls the universe

will you dare to still believe

as you bleed

for she is on your mind

will you dance

a young soul

across your empty bed

below the deepest of

tomorrow skies

                         - jude

 

 

 

 

the lie

 

venezuela

communism ate your soul

so lost

you don't know where

to go

will your people

revolt against this

shattering of delusions

who will sing

your old songs

what tries

what beauty has died

music

do you shatter the veil

or are your songs

to no avail

dream

just learn to dream

once again

as you starve and die

what is left

but the lie

                     - jude

 

 

 

 

just a ramblin' man

 

torn jeans

painted paper screens

seasons long

 a poet

has all his ramblin'

brought him joy

dreams still

sunrise in song

fingers empty

but for the wind

four chord singing

65 years

as always

bare feet and concrete

his continuing story

"looking for fun

and feeling groovy"

yet

never forgetting

to stop

to hear that sound

for yesterday

is just beyond tomorrow

for this still ramblin' man

                         - jude

 

 

 

 

what a blues song sings

 

and i saw

tomorrow

if

i dare to bleed

believe

see

what a blind man

sees

what a blues song

sings

dare i dance

my last dance

in

where the sea begins

and ends

 

            - jude

 

 

 

 

richie

 

he sang

loud in the quiet

freedom

freedom

teeth out

his soul

still

cries out

like a motherless child

far from home

freedom

           - jude

 

 

 

 

  

without a street of his own

 

i loved you

one long night

ago

sweet sips found

your liquid lips

if eyes could dream

you got lost in my scream

a long desert night

you held me tight

sand as stars

fell to my empty hand

if i had loved you

one long night ago

would you have stayed

to lie naked

with a man

wandering without

a street

of his own

                - jude

 

 

 

 

 pacific ocean sunset song

 

could you carry me home

it's a long highway song

i'm singing

i long

for your sweet lovin' lips

night concrete shadows

behind

do my walls hide

distant rocky mountain mist

my lonely thumb tries

to listen to you

morning air sighs

big sur blues

deep as my eyes

water warm

leaves salt where

of sand

my fingertips bleed

must i

concede

your mirror

empty seeds blow

where i used to be

it's a long highway song

i'm singing

i'm alone

deep within a

pacific ocean sunset song

                                                          - jude

 

 

 

in drift

 

cold

as if

ice

lies upon

inside of wrist

slow

your pulse

time is forgotten

while

your soul is in

drift

will you see

within the silence

of

a death mirror

cold across your

eyes

closed

or

wide open

to rest

upon where

tomorrow dreams

                                                   - jude

 

 

 

 

back to the sea

 

how to say good-bye

to a father

who was never a father

who dumped his children with his

clinically insane wife

94 and died in his sleep

a man who was a talker,

social and a great friend

to his friends

i liked him enough

to share a drink, to tell a

story.   yet, i never once

found a poem  from his?

just a man without inspiration

a failed writer

a bad actor

a imitation beatnik

so i guess he's just a man

i need not say good-bye to

back to the sea

he walks

the circle game

                     - jude

 

 

 

 

 stillness cloud dancing

 

i feel

a wave of tomorrow

carried

by the voices of

angels

and so

where lies

sand of a billion dreams

falling

through my fingers

while silence is singing

a sweeter blues

mirrors hanging

without a wall

shattered eyes

as frozen cries

far away banshees

stall

one last long ride

to carry me

stillness cloud dancing

above a quiet wind

soul surfing without a song

into tomorrow

i belong

 

                        - jude

 

 

 

the shade of paris

 

waterfall echoes

dreams and chance

a young girl

dressed in an older

woman tries

dances

still

where night calls

from within

a summer dusk

falls

a curtain opens

dances

a woman with

the shade of paris

jazz if where music

tries

falls across her eyes

even when she recedes

daring

she believes

                    - jude

 

 

 

 

 light reborn

 

quiet the season

a man

comes to reason

starlight shattered

moonlight reborn

earth night

without a name

deep within

where mirrors bleed

and rivers echo

a man

relearning

still again

to believe

sweet voice

water stain

                              - jude

 

 

 

 

highways without dreams

 

sail me a river

broken moonlight

bridge to nowhere

my young man rhyme

crosses fall

to time

child without a home

becomes a boy

meant to roam

highways without dreams

yet

no good-byes

sweet blues

and so never cries

highway sand carried

all my lovin'

all my dreamin'

sail me

a long road

where still lies

a water season

and no good-byes

                              - jude

 

 

 

 

  

within the songs of whales

 

where is my love song

to so many

to so few

beautiful woman rhyme

sweet empty temple time

i believed

i perceived

i danced

where so few knew to dare

i never

compared

i saw beauty

never rare

everywhere

everywhere

i would live forever

if

i died tomorrow

where

is my love song

alive

in where whales sing

                                       - jude

 

 

 

 a ghost sound

 

gave away

where sings

my song

deep

strange the sound

of

a beating heart

not my own

as if

sewn

in where i breathe

touched by

a ghost hand

too real in the silence

time distance

can't reason why

already said good-bye

a boy who

never cried

can't reason why

a poet

can merely sigh

always in the end

to

hear someone die

for far is the sky

                                   - jude

 

 

 

  

light falling

 

i don't see myself

what mirror

my hands

do they dream

to be empty

to be another's

to hold

water calling

to light falling

as the moon

bleeds

truth before time

if

a blind man

speaks

your name

                            - jude

 

 

 

  

dances illusion - (multiple sclerosis in rhyme)

 

man in a box

carved from

a shattered dream

and

a body's silent scream

choices

a picture on a wall

of life

just beyond

the fall of glass

left upon

yellowing paper

mirror carved words

mirror faces a window

where a man

dances illusion

as waterfalls color

within

his eyes

                      - jude

 

 

 

 

cold dawn

 

called to the sea

dream away

river

cold dawn

from me

my eyes see

seasons

walls of reason

a man on a tightrope greased

by

the ice of

tears never called

never wanted to fall

just

in the shadow of

just another day

just a poet

with too much

to remember

words

are my tears

as my years

as

my only

tomorrow

                                 - jude

 

 

 

 

 prayer to not

 

to live

to die

no reason

mirror in the sky

dare i

once again

believe in life

sweet rain

fill my eyes

when seasons call

i drift

all the love in-between

 

                              - jude

 

 

 

one more season

 

single door

carved from

a deadwood drift

lay me down

where the sea

greets

tomorrow's sun

cold skin

thin blood

a glass of wine

held to the sky

life past reason

mirror to mirror

rhythm

when dreams drift

4 am silence

everywhere

with just

one more season

to dare

believe in

                          - jude

(and yet...) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

small room dancing

 

sand falling

across aging dreams

fingers open

rivers of silence

wash

ice holds

eyes wide

small room dancing

fear stains

old men

who ignore

the chance to believe

in

brotherhood unchained

                      - jude

 

 

 

 

  

 

crowdfunded whitehouse

 

watching

a

whitehouse

shattering

high pitched

greed calling

empty hearted

silence

sings to fool

to a mirror

where

a liberty bell

turns to crystal

even church bells

fall to silence

before

man without honor

man without soul

crowdfunded

to bring

anarchy upon

the tight hold of

politicians old

watching

my country tis of thee

shattering

 

                           - jude

 

 

 

 

 

aging plaster skin

 

dear you

why do i

remember

our fall

your empty eyes

cold behind your

autumn wind silence

written

lie these empty pages

of life

a walk in stages

curtainless

no tomorrow

no today

free loving

a man homeless

while the winds

blow flags

covering truth

if a man loves

is it forever

alone on a chair

old wood floor

stories told

carved into

aging plaster skin

just a man

circle refrain

how does one

love a man

without a home

adrift

on the roam

faces

just the traces

of light

held

where dreams

a man's soul

always

just beyond the reach

where

behind a curtain's fall

                       - jude

 

 

 

 

sings a silent jester walk

 

between sleep and tomorrow

where the songs blue whales

call

a rhyme between

earth dreams

and the seams of

a universe

in circle time

i sing a silent jester walk

to a quiet girl child

lost on a subway train

manhattan stain

summer san francico rain

washes

as echoes drift across

homeless defeats

soft skin on a lover's whim

deep shadows when star-light

falls upon a young woman's lips

nevada desert sand

across a mad hippie's sips

colorado mountain sky

cast upon

a boy as a man as a god

as a poet is born

winter new hampshire night

hard cold moon-light

falls

snow shadows call

alone

stands a dream

cast in silence

a scream

only heard

in the mirror of

blue whales in song

a rhyme between

                           - jude

deep water seasons

 

deep water blue dreams

where lies

name on a headstone

un-dug grave

ghost walking

poet talking

bar stool writing

stories old

untold

drift as silence

a shot of tquila

held

in-between a moment

what dares

a dead man see

deep water blue sea

seasons

they doo seed

a dead man's reason

                                             - jude

 

 

 

  

no shadow

 

silence and shadows

3 AM lamp lit dreams

concrete sidewalks

across yesterday

across

all the waters of

tomorrow

if she walks

so does she

with the beauty

of an artist true

where a full moon

casts

no shadow

but for a mirror

of a soul

forever free

                            - jude

 

 

 

 shattered windows

 

such are the whispers

of silence

who dance as shadows

of lost wind rhymes

time

the chimes of moments

shattered windows

no beliefs left

to lie upon

empty hands

fingers open

sand dunes across

a wooden floor

the long yesterday

carries empty

when the banshee sighs

tomorrow tomorrow

if tomorrow

                                      - jude

 

 

 

 

wind song long

 

dancing

she dances her

dreams

seasons in waves

pacific ocean warm

window open

so carries her soul

wind song long

island mirror

where she belongs

in dreams

where a poet's words

sing

till her music belongs

her voice whispers

still

dance me

till...

              - jude

 

 

  

 

as tomorrow remembers

 

when time walks

across your grave

silence falls

as a water dream

where truth intersects reality

man talks to a mirror

frozen water tears

and hears only

hush

as tomorrow

remembers yesterday

                            - jude

 

 

 

 

between the seasons

 

ice carved as light

dreams

shadows casting

all the lost images

believing

beyond the taste of

blood illusion

songs conceiving

sky frozen blue

clear mind

soul yearning

to see

between the seasons

to touch reason

crosses fall

where

skin truth whispers

love cracks the mirror

and so may

the angels sing

                                                     - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 star-dust rhythm

 

water of peace

earth of dreams

silence before belief

dare

to walk alone

to pass through

the mirror of reality

and stand on

the wall of truth

care

to be of

star-dust rhythm

to dance

under the light of

forever

                                             - jude

 

 

 

  

slow on a young man's mind

 

i see water

spill as blood

from an old dream

where my soul

walked free

endless sidewalks

late night lamp lit

shadows

dancing

across the quiet sleep

of children

behind closed windows

my open hand

filled by sand

moist with blood-water

dry lips

lost sips of rhyme

so in love with time

slow on a young man's mind

long highway talking

measured echoes

and walking

sunset calling

tired soul falling

into

and tomorrow

just another dream

                                            - jude

 

 

 

 

star-dust rhythm   (xmas-2 children)

 

water of peace

earth of dreams

silence before belief

to walk

to pass through

the mirror of reality

and stand on

the wall of truth

care

to be of

star-dust rhythm

to dance

under the light of

forever

 

                  - jude

 

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