sits in a window

 

dark light

lost

deep within

unwritten rhymes

and winter nights

cold dreams

walk alone

where shadows, only shadows

call your name

a boy

he wishes for rain

hoarfrost

to stain upon his soul

long years

all lived

without tears

a man

just a man

sits in a window

where glass melts as ice

bleeding upon a

paint worn

ice torn

wooden frame

dark light

reflections within a window pane

simple song

and a long refrain

whispers light

lost

an aging man’s

circles bleed

truth

when eyes that see

still

walk alone

within

where dares

winter wind

to believe

in a mirror

and all he sees

sweet tomorrows

where rivers dream                 

                                         - jude

 

 

speechless

 

if tries whisper

where butterflies dream

deep within

dancing across

the rings

as trees sigh

when a woman

believes

but is speechless

before time

only rhyme

dares

bleed her eyes

to the rhythm

of water

today falls

as

tomorrow’s echo

in silence.

                               - jude

 

 

 

 if seasons

 

silence

where sings

water

across color

deep within

a night

as falls

time within

a mirror

dreams lost

where dances

a fall

of seasons

still wind

begins

a walk of rhythm

a sweet woman

where dances

color

across a child’s whisper

                                             - jude

 

 

 

 

 below, a blood’s rhythm

 

blue ice

thick upon my soul

if

within a window pane

closed eyes

whispered sighs

echo

lost

un-walked streets

where

reflections rain

where memories hold

no answers

stain

carved deep

seeps

below

blood’s rhythm

life

too soon to die

as a desert’s tears

free every lie

when

longer night, wind

calls

when

a man stalls

                                 - jude

 

 

dancing

 

dancing

in the isles

in rhythm

songs and smiles

mirrors within her eyes

white mountain tries

woman wants to believe

north atlantic storm

will sing

a song

of the season

crossing

ice winds

and

reason

man on an ocean floor

dancing

for something more

                                       - jude

 

 

 

 survival within a shattered mind

 

like tears

frozen

onto the footprints

lost upon the burning sand

like children

breathing

sweat as air

dying

 

long summer

concrete

walking dreams

to wash away the hunger

child

is a man

too young

to believe

 

like years

wandering

a man

too old

is a child

believing

 

sweet clean sand

whispers

deep

in his soul

till

there is nowhere

left to go…

                             - jude

 

 

sing

 

sing harmonica

your dark morning blues

one more dance

if the wind

deep within

silent echoes

bleed soul bleed

till

your blood turns

water dreams

eyes inside

walking

ocean current

talking

long night

whiskey sipping

remembering

sleeping

cold wind

from within

black ice falls

sing harmonica

one more dance

                             - jude

 

 

 

 subway train dancing

 

she walks a concrete street

with sweet rhythm

and no defeat

doesn’t dare

to bleed

where anyone might see

in dreams

deep

shadows of anywhere

comb

longer thoughts

warm dark hair

across her eyes

as she sighs

could of loved someone true

subway train dancing

chancing

to be seen

to believe

north atlantic winds

remember her

and tomorrow.

                              - jude

 

 

 

 

 of water

 

when time

and the wind

reaching

trees calling

speaks to me

i stand

on the edge

of a river of sand

daring

to scream,

of water

of children

our children

living without thirst

living where dares the wind

where dares

within fingers small

to hold

and dream…

 

                      - jude

 

the rain

 

sweet love so deeply

once

lost in the echo

where gods dream

when time breaks truth

and rhyme calls in music

i walk along the edge

of whispers

carrying no tears

only years

water

bleeds life

sweeter refrain

when man

dares

to believe in the rain.

                                 - jude

 

 

 

talking rhyme

 

walking dreams

sweet voice

when she dares

what she means

young years

on the edge

of

music

of

chance

to perceive

reflections in an ocean mirror

talking rhyme

girl

finds

wet sand holding

her hand’s print

to

bleed

where believes the seasons

reason

within her walking dreams

                                  - jude

 

 

a butterfly’s wind

 

as dances dreams

within

the breath of a child

who sees

where light bends

who believes

rhyme sweet rhyme

in beginnings

in echoes

in endless trees

daring to breathe

still walk

upon a butterfly’s wind

visions

whisper

where only death calls

to the silence of shadows

within static movement

as motionless years

hold

always before

and tomorrow…

                             - jude

 

 

 

 in a spring warm

 

dream dancing

on water

deep summer sighs

beyond moments

early spring warm

long shadows

follow

a traveler’s song

                                - jude

 

 

 

 fallen things

 

disappearing

down a long deep rhyme

talking

of silence

and other fallen things

if time dared to question

where moments stall

believing

believing

in nothing

or in all

disappearing

                          - jude

 

 

lost dreams on a concrete street

 

within her hand, closed

north atlantic wind

a summer chill

held across a moment

still

as a paris dream

is dreamt

upon the lip

of a wine glass filled

where her shadow

bleeds

but only

if she dares to believe

before

mirror, mirror

alice!  if you please

where

is the magic in my hand

when sand

within the tears

of her sighs

falls down the years

so asks alice

do you see

reasons to dare

reasons to still believe

within a wind

just before she sleeps

late night echoes

on a concrete street

where seasons call…

                                - jude

 

 

    

 

no retreat

 

broken by an echo

while dancing

lost on a quiet street

late night

street-lamp shadow

retreat,

no one to believe in

just another child

with no where to sleep

searching

seeds on the wind

searching

where walk the dreams

black to white

glass sighs

shattered seasons

shattered eyes

just a stolen soul

lost on a quiet street

within the shadow

of a girl child’s

trust.

                        - jude

 

 

 

 slow dance

 

in summertime

deep and easy

young girl finds

long time dreaming

slow dance

in the shadow

of an evening rain

where the woman

always tomorrow

sweet refrain

long rhyme

a child in a mirror

where a mother dreams

as sand falls

dares to believe

woman-child dancing

on a moving train

in summertime

                                  - jude

 

   

      

screams

 

when the wind calls

where night

and light

falls

when it’s time to

live or die

tired

morning is

a mirror’s dream

in silence

if rhyme

isn’t what it screams

                      - jude

 

 

 sand and mirrors

 

roadside tar

upon the soles

of my feet

longer walks

deep within

shade-less heat

always tomorrow

just over the next rise

silence

if whispers

where echoes call

behind open eyes

a trail of blood

as drops of time

fall

within footprints

left behind

sand and mirrors

concede

as a man

never speaks

silence where

a man never retreats

                          - jude

 

 

 

 

 river mirror

 

in a dream lost

carved by a nightmare’s

silence

a death rattle

a birth scream

between

in-between

breath

and all the rest

daring

to

dance that last dance

across an ice stage

a mirror of chance

if an old man

in a young man’s stance

when

a northern river calls

                      - jude

 

 

 

 when tomorrow

 

across a rhyme

of broken sighs

i tried to see

tried to believe

in the blood

that touched as life

time

ocean time

midnight

nyc subway dream

alone

where no one

can feel

my scream

water covers my soul

when tomorrow comes

but

never goes.

                        - jude

 

 

 

if on the road

 

when it’s time

to say good-bye

and tomorrow has come

days

they do grow longer

songs are sung

walking the land

rhythm has begun

wind blows

tracks in the sand

maybe

deep in a mirror

i’ll remember

to love her

just one more rhyme

if i could believe

yet, when it’s time

and tomorrow has come

                                                  - jude

 

 

 

 

 sweet mercy

 

cry,

sweet mercy, cry

the girl

she walks down my street

she dances

in full stride

across

long china sea winds

late night

shadow dreaming

when she bleeds

memory

where wooden doors

concede

her subway singing

dares

in her lost summertime sighs

warm summer night streams

an open window

calls

between, an empty street

and where i

long night dreams

sweet echo seams

cry,

sweet mercy, cry.

                                        - jude

 

 

   

paints the rhythm

 

within a frame

within a picture

deep i drift

where the whispers of art

makes my dance

dream

in a moment’s stance

 

maybe

 

if i believe

in what i see

 

maybe

 

seasons fall

to the call of the sea

blood paints the rhythm

of my heart’s breath

of light

if mirror sight

deep

within a frame

                    - jude

 

 

returns rhythm

 

lost

on a ledge

on the edge

where

one sees

eagles die

trying to sing

the wind

within

where the blues

returns rhythm

to your soul

when lost

watching      as

the earth cries

trying to believe

daring to sigh

if eyes whisper

if eyes bleed truth

a sweet rhyme

across time

                              - jude

 

 

 a morning’s sorrow

 

and on the eight day

god cried

music whispers silence

angel’s sigh

a child bleeds to death

alone within a desert scream

for all the world to see

still again

still again

can one remember when

reason painted

across a season

of change

of birth

a morning’s sorrow

just another tomorrow

and on the eight day.

                                               - jude

 

 

a lost man blues

nighttime on the edge

of rhyme

 

we were

a long time

on a road

endless rhythm

watch-less

no time dared call us

home

 

homeless

with only sighs to

call your own

when “bobby” died

so the sky cried once more

a boy became a man

while wandering across

the graves of children

who were dying from

the vietnam war

daring to bleed

lost

to a rain of tears

and where a

wandering man

began

 

long dreams

stare

across the sky

homeless man

still

daring to wonder why

                                        - jude

 

 

 

 

 mirror wall

 

light against shadow

deep

within an autumn dream

where falls

the call of rain

soft against the silence

all across

a woman’s

earth rhyme stain

time believes in

the moment of her eyes

touching upon her sweet sighs

if a mirror wall

never falls

across

as dusk whispers of color

and a woman

still dances

sift within the quiet

long between

light and shadow

                                  - jude

 

 

 

 

 last autumn sail

 

clouds dark

within the shadow of clouds

a light chill

draws a quiet wind

between

sky and river

a last autumn sail

movement up a slow river

a soft dream

life

across a portal of death

is a soul at rest

river water

and no rain

a moment to belong

before

tomorrow breaks light

upon

a long way into rhyme

and lost words

upon a current’s refrain.

                                         - jude 

 

 

 

 shades of autumn

 

long ocean dream

dancing

her sighs

deeper

from within

a woman who tries

is always

born again tomorrow

shades of autumn

soft eyes

across a morning warmth

she walks sweetly

upon her own water

believing in

her

long ocean whispers

                                                     - jude

 

 

 

 

where children dare to believe

 

sitting on a

new york city stoop

painted red

just below a darkened

railroad apartment

2 bedrooms / 5 people

1969

autumn has fallen

no trees grow within concrete sidewalks

to notice /

winter whispers

long wind rhyme

cold

across a late evening

windows are lit

walking in time

 

a poet begins his crawl

across my mind

as a boy

doesn’t believe in believing

there is death and war

in my eyes

and so deeply he sighs

long wind rhyme

i sit

lost within a street-lamp

shadow

drifting

light shifting

looking for reason

in a season

where children dare to believe

 

suddenly

1976

death and war

still a loud echo

in my tries

yet

in my eyes

whispers the breath

 

of a child

within the shadow

of christmas tree lights

softly bleeding her sighs

in a season

where children dare to believe

 

in a poet’s find

adrift

within a man’s mind.

                                             - jude

 

 

winter tree

 

snow-rhyme dreaming

where

winter children are dancing

warm

ice drawn

across cold windows

a child’s whispers

can be heard

echoes

as a winter bird

flies free

and so stands the winter tree

snow-time dreaming

where children dare to believe

                                                         - jude

 

 

ghost dreams

 

lost within

just a room

filled with ghost dreams

ancient screams

they fade to echoes

in the silence

 

winter calls to me

from deep within

the rhythm of my breath

is it life or death

 

time is tattooed upon my soul

no fear

just one last road

lost upon

naked feet

lost in a ghost dream

evermore…

                      - jude

 

 

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