dare to dance

 

do i remember

so young

i danced

upon

lamp lit streets

and their dark retreats

upon long earth carved highways

where the wind screamed

so silent

so free

 

before tomorrow

do i remember

when suddenly

who broke upon the mirror

so silent

so alone

 

and now

before yesterday

do i

remember

as i dare to dance

in the silence

of my dreams

 

-       jude

 

 

 

 

 water jazz

 

salt green ocean sky

ice mirror lies

on a sudden bleed

before you die

speak

whisper and sigh

a soft dusk

blood upon my lips

sips

try…

                             jude

 

 

 

is a woman

 

sweet song jazz

sing her eyes

deep

late night

when the moon sighs

beauty is a woman

echoes lie

silent

who tries

to believe

as she bleeds

 

-       jude

 

 

 tomorrow

 

where the sea dreams

when the water breaks

i find my soul

lost

in the sand

falling through my fingers

open

as silence whispers

i bleed,

sing sweet blues

as i dare

to remember tomorrow

 

-       jude

 

 

lonesome boy blues

 

frozen river

ice windows

trying to keep me warm

torn shadows

a cross lies

upon the edge

when it’s time to die

what tears

will i never cry

i will never

sing good-bye.

                                -       jude

 

 

 

 if water could bleed

 

do you hear the silence

as you walk

alone

deep in the night

where

street-lamp shadows

whisper

and truth

wanders without a name

do you dance

in the sand

upon the imprints

of the hands of children

now lost in time

do you dare

to believe

in what you see

and chance

the echoes of tomorrow

would you

drink your life

once again

before you die,

knowing that your

water could bleed

into the sea.

                                -       jude  

 

 

lost on 70th ave.

 

to love

in a late backstreet

broken lamp     dream

alone he stares

at the shadows

at the silence

a cross of time

echoes

crystal mirror

shattered rhyme

lost time

so falls

blood upon concrete

new your city blues

                                      -       jude

 

 

 

 

   

shadow fall

 

beyond

the shadows

of fallen churches

lies a man

searching his

ancient dreaming

so tired,

a soul could die

stained glass

loving sighs

a young boy

left alone

tries and tries

sweet ocean stain

under a warm morning rain

to bleed

or believe.

                                -       Jude

 

 

beyond yesterday

 

whispers in the dark

sings to me,

a moment of beauty

warm,

echoes beyond

the dream

sweet touch

lost

and found

                          -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

 where a crippled man . . .

 

when a man

can no longer

dance,

can he

still dream

where

water sighs,

do his tries

still reach

to where the soul

sings

will he still see

where truth

dares to walk

across dreams

 

sweet spring river rain,

a boy once

wandered his country

free,

his highway dreams

given strength

by the echo

of a last dance

and her warm lost eyes,

alone he sighed

while dancing across

the rocky mountains.

 

inside, so hard

he sighs

still a man

until he dies.

                               -       jude

 

 

 

maybe

 

seasons

across the mirror

walks a man

where a river

runs to the sea

maybe he dares

to believe

as he bleeds

across tomorrow.

                        -       jude

 

 

 

 

 the voice of god

 

i lost my name

where

the silence fell

as i dared

to dwell

as a child

there

before the face of fear

and yet

nameless

i claim

to speak

with the voice

of god,

now

as i choose to walk,

i walk within

the walk of men

carrying a mirror

before my eyes,

and

my oh, so selfish tries

now

as i choose to dream,

i can only die.

-       jude

 

 

 

 

 

dust bowl blues

 

my long dust bowl blues

they have come

to walk with me

i’m just a man

suddenly lost

in a broken world

rivers are silent

as a full moon

casts no light,

will you still love me

in this soundless night

i want to dance

as the wind

blows across my dreams

as a full moon

carries free my sighs,

empty pockets

and children who need

do you see

as i bleed

black-red screams

upon the sand

upon a beach

where once we made love

so deeply

that we married,

 

will you still love me

will you walk with me

in this,

soundless night.

                                   -       jude

 

 

whisper

 

young dreamer

whisper leaves

moonlight

casts its shadows

as song

long roads

carve as echoes

where screams a soul

before life

old man

sits alone

on a river

believing in

the language of water,

                                        -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

 silence

 

water dancing

dream chance

whispers call your name

if you dare not hear

then where

will bleed your soul

tomorrow

you blow so cold

with nowhere left to go

one

can only grow old,

water dancing

dream chance

gone.

                                    -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

 water mirror

 

in the wind

across the fall

of dusk’s light

whispers a river’s dreams

where within

a man’s eyes

in the wind

drift his lost tries

his white bird eyes

sings

songs of tomorrow

sing words

paint sighs

with the colors

of lost rhyme

just somebody to love

to dance

to chance

in the wind

as the rhythm of water

breaks…

                         -       jude 

 

 

 

listen

 

tree-top sky

whispers

leaves talk

carve free a moment

blue eye

mirror try

just

wonder why

or

dance across

that

tree-top sky

sing to me

believe in me

sweet dream

mirror try

 

-       jude

 

 

 

 

   

when you love a woman

 

she gives nothing

just makes you sigh

she stands at your side

and offers no reason why

she is a moment of beauty

in your eyes

yet dresses without love

and would never

say,     good-bye

she is an echo

as is she in your dreams

when you love a woman

deep in the silence

of her soul

will tomorrow,   dare

ever

come or go . . .

 

-       jude

 

   

1969

 

if he could dream

when dared he scream

to dance alone

within the fall of light.

                                      -       jude

 

 

 

when dragons die

 

got lost yesterday

in the place

where

dragons die,

silence across my soul

lost a friend

empty world

with no place to go

when children lose

their dreams

what empty rhyme

is left,

without music

how will they grow.

                             -       jude

 

 

 

 

1970

 

lost

deep cold water

dreams which only

echo

her eyes had

once broken open

his sighs

song

bleeds beauty

and on nowhere street

a young man

turns

and dares

to long for.

                            -       jude

 

 

silence walks  (for Jen)

 

girl walks

streets of concrete

of lamp lit retreats

wearing her mother’s smile

evening talks

where a girl dreams

in light

are the seams of a woman

and shadows echo

her silent dreams

where walking feet

dance

on the edge of believing

will she bleed

before tomorrow

in truth beyond

sorrow.

                                  -       jude

 

 

 

 

somebody

 

silence

in the wilderness

of her rhyme

touched by

the simplicity

of flesh,

eyes own

sighs carve

love

where illusion

casts light

upon reality

yesterday

bleeds time,

silence

                          -       jude

 

 

 

 

   

1971

 

walking blues

war time news

highway sand

on the soles

of my shoes

long summer dreams

hold to the silence

of all my screams

lost days of

running free

from sea

to shining sea

                           -       jude

 

 

1972

 

midnight sky

long rockie mountain try

so huge were

those star dreams

that

 on free earth

in thin air

i felt my soul

grow

large

alive

where whispered

a universe

a pulse

a truth

morning sky

long rockie mountain sigh

i heard her footsteps

her sweet beauty

recede

from a boy

lost

to a season

new york city sky

long rockie mountain seed

where rhyme bleeds

across tomorrow.

                               -       jude

 

 

 

 1973

 

loved a child

lost a child

loved a child lost

san francisco hippies

fog across my vision

i danced

one long night

so alone

loving the one i was

with!

so alone

within a song

within a

san francisco dream.

                                    -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1974

 

just a poet sketching

hard concrete

on a canvas of silence

just a man

young and dancing

believing

trying

to paint a child

free

trying to own

that

which could never

be,

new york city talking

walking

dying

beneath the

quiet tears

as she pleaded

to carry her away,

child of light

child of night

just a poet lost

just words

just a man

leaving

breaking

learning

to say good-bye

and silence.

                         -       jude

 

 

 river club on my mind

 

drift sweet drift

river water

sings to me,

full moon falls

light calls

true

good friends

a glass of wing

or two

music live

an evening breath

a man is his family

and all the rest,

walks a dream

carves a moment

on a river flowing,

long water dream

some good food

a moment to believe

the 60’s on my mind

a glass of wine

a moment to believe.

                                     -       jude

 

 

 

late night broken rhyme blues

 

what do your eyes see

past reason

have you ever learned

to bleed free

ice falling

a warm summer evening

a calling

do you still fear

deep truth

your soul

loose within the echoes

sighs pressing warm

upon your wet lips

and where do you

hide your years

have you ever slept

alongside the road

without a home

without a hand to hold

echoes calling

across west 4th street

evening

with seasons comparing

shadows falling

from silent doorways

have you learned

to dare

to believe

what do your eyes see

on those late nights

with your children gone

as you sit alone.

                                   -       jude

 

 

   

life

 

dancing on bleeker street

as a cloud

translucent

casts no shadow

deep within a summer rhyme

dreaming

long into

stars so bright

a new hampshire

mountain sky’s

night

singing

across rhythm whispering

guitar strings playing

hippies swaying

friends in song

living

sweet child born

into a woman torn

belonging

where waterfalls call

where long hair falls

to a simple summer day

to words who dare paint

a picture of beauty

life.

                              -       jude

 

 

 

 

 of reality

 

but for the illusion

within my brain

i think,  maybe

i’d be insane.

                          -       jude

 

 

 

   

where a woman

 

she walks

where water believes

drifts as evening wind

calls

in her eyes

a mirror

where truth dreams

tries

as

the universe

believes,

beauty is

carved

where the

rocky mountain sighs

breathe

where water believes

where a woman

is born

                                 -       jude

 

 

 

 morning sighs

 

silence lies

within the air

morning sighs

with no one there

tomorrow holds

yesterdays dreams

rhythm

sweet

rhythm

some tears

need

never fall

in a heart of rhyme

silence dares

call

                          -       jude

 

 

 

 1975

 

late night

new york city shadows

all night walks

caught between echoes

caught alone

far away

where

trees carry shade

where

leaves walk color

into death

small town silence

falls upon

late night walks

caught alone

within the words

as the play

written for the day

a long breath

across an actors fall.

                                      -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1976

 

caught within

a woman and child bleed

a cold spring

in philadelphia

where was planted a seed

a dance begun

a touch of sun

a man dares

to carve

a family tree

without a genetic stain

his dance

sweet rain

just a poet

just a chance

                        -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1977

 

an auguste rodin museum

a mummer’s parade

rhyme in discord

a child runs away from

home

just to escape

an explosion of

truth and bricks

as a city takes a stand

against a stain upon

religion

a child hippie jailed

for riding a bike

a job lost

on a call of honor

the liberty bell

finds another crack

starting

and all unseen

with vietnam

a war ended,

no one cares

dares

to see anymore,

 

lost in philadelphia

                                       -       jude

 

 

 

 

  1978

 

a little jazz

a river song

life

trying to belong

manhattan refrain

new york city blues

hard loving

deep stain

                          -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1979

 

castle on a north

manhattan hill

sword fighting

upon a medieval field

dance

young child

such beauty

in a white dress

education

bicycle riding

stain upon stain

dance

woman learning guitar

lincoln center calls

sigh upon her refrain

a man loving

walks within

a hudson river rain

just a family

without a name

dancing

                       -       jude

 

 

 

   

1980

 

songs on a highway

long hair and

a vw mini-bus

deep within a poet’s dream

a man smiles,

young my daughter

sings her broken songs

across an open window’s

sighs,

no time to forget

no time to remember

no time to bleed,

a woman turns to see

as the seasons cal

motion sweet ocean.

                                  -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1981

 

late night

walking

central park west

footsteps echo

singing the blues

my woman

my child

singing the refrain

just a moment

in time

which still calls

falls

sweetly

one recalls

before

one dares to dream

before

one dares to see,

autumn in its season.

                                       -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1982

 

river talking

walking across

the silence

within my dreams

wandering

fathering

believing

in the water which flows

daylight dancing

long roads

carved within

the circle of life

chancing

the shadows

which cast

deep across tomorrow.

                                       -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1983

 

street-side windows

old woman leaning

watching

children play

between parked cars

and their young

street dreams

just a week-day passing

in new york city, queens

bicycle riding

your child learning

apartment living

not the dream

but

sweet, sweet wind

blows so free,

when life

speaks from the heart.

                                        -       jude

 

 

 

 1984

 

saturday afternoon

6th avenue

greenwich village refrain,

an irish bar

a concrete sidewalk

a glass of wine

a young girl

without a last name

a young woman

watching people in dress

a mad man

poet

aging hippie

writing words to stain

warm air

cast in shadows

slow in crossing the street

no clocks call

as time falls

across the rhyme

of a saturday afternoon

                                   -       jude

 

 

 

 

1984b

 

when family screams

and it rains all day long

when death breaks

across all the rest

time shifts

and honor calls,

north florida sun

when one can walk

then

why run

where sand stalls

water reaches deep

where footprints stand

and then

water retreats

long summer dreams

just what do they mean.

                                       -       jude

 

 

 

 

1968

 

just a boy

just another summer

heard a death

walk in silence

across his breath

suddenly

just a boy

turned

to see

a man in the mirror

it was he

just a boy

took a chance

to see, to believe

wrote his first poem

for bobby

wrote his second poem

for a girl

a girl who

never heard his name

just a young man.

                            -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1985

 

if

your mother-in-law

lies

caught deep within

a long

north florida rain

washes clean the sand

good schools

a deep nights refrain

nothing is

and yet

all is the same

“almost cut my hair”

no despair

young man cut his hair

ever warm days

fall

where mountains

never stain

slow dancing

in a north florida rain.

                       -       jude

 

 

 

 1986

 

slow afternoon

sipping beer

music playing

live guitar

and musicians swaying

rhythm in song

thee milltop

st. augustine

soft afternoons

watching the river

child at my side

dolphins playing

swimming in song

just a moment

a bit of love

a young hand in mine

a universe

who echoes true

sweet poet blues

love jude

                     -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1987

 

where northern winds blow

time

a daughter in high school

time

old

very old

white house

still standing

time

child to woman torn

new york

armonk

small town illusions

turn

mad poet to writer

burns

life returns

greenwich village

bookstore blues

time.

                               -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

 1989

 

what if a man

or hippie

opened his house

opened his home

would friends

become family

wood they

therefore remain

once the days sun

set

when light turned to rain

what would the years

whisper

time

time again.

                         -       jude

 

 

 

 

1990

 

a father’s moments

they come and go

when his daughter

rejects his love

starts college

begins to grow

deep

seeds

he touched the blood

which isn’t his

just

to watch her

just to love her

just to feed her

to believe in her

a father’s moments

they come and go

                               -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1991

 

silence and rhyme

lost fingers

across a long dream

a paris street

wine

and walking feet

losing words

written

upon a windless desert

dreams

a tired man’s sleep

defeat

and no reason why

                               -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

 1992

 

when the words are gone

lost upon a winter lawn

dreams are found

and

empty souls abound

a man could die

or

fight the water

and sigh

but again and again

until

                                 -       jude

 

 

   

1993

 

in of quiet

within a broken mind

barely walks

barely talks

if

evermore

                  -       jude

 

 

 

 

 1996

 

when a river calls

dare

a crippled man

listen

he always moves

nature

forever and again,

accessibility

river

talk to me

another moment,

in nyack, ny

                        -       jude

 

 

 

 

1997

 

easy time

easy rhyme

long river

ever moving

passing

leaving just a man

behind,

and in his quiet

empty carving

starving

river sand

dry and blowing

                              -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

 1999

 

when the banshee sings

rhyme upon

an emergency room floor

a man can

but wait

outside

from where a

a stopped heart resides

listening

watching

to live

or to die

waiting in the silence

a kiss for luck

in the darkness

                       -       jude

 

 

 

   

 

2000

 

bones, bones

dying bones

faces carved on

empty white

dare you live

dare you die

hearts break

as souls shake

live

die

man still won’t cry

never asked why

suddenly

a spring wind

blows

an open window

echoes

a taste of the river

life within his eyes

a poet sighs

                              -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

and yet again

they began

their dance

of death

of murder

of rape and pillage

of lies

america

my country tis of thee

sweet land of

circles

such weak minds

those christian fools

once more

i stand

as a poet

against a war!

                           -       jude

 

 

 

   

 

 

2009

 

a rhythm of years

passing

carving time

deep

within the silence

of

just a poet’s words

life,

a daughter to love

a wife to hold

friends

still they come and go

memories

lace upon a butterfly’s

dreams

and always tomorrow

until you die,

                      -       jude

 

 

 

 

 

 before time

 

upon water

eyes see

what dream

man dares

to be

tomorrow, tomorrow

light

and touch

before time,

sweet is the

forever rhyme

                         -       jude

 

 

 

 

 where witch-light falls for shelly

 

inside deep

words

written upon

your soul

dare you breathe

where the wind sews

and walk

where footprints

hide,

sunless shadows

and stars

they confide,

sweet breeze

of light

one might almost

see

where water dreams

and man bleeds…

                         -       jude

 

 

sweet night  for jenM

 

deep

lost

as shadows fall

street-lamps

carve light

where

doors reside

a young girl

bleeds

dare she believe

nothing left

sweet night

between,

her eyes

her soul

her tries

maybe

just for a moment

a young girl

dares

cares.

                    -       jude

 

 

 

   

water stain

 

when

my years

fall to the wind

does time

begin or end

do these trees

really bend

or is it

just a reflection

a river water

rhyme

just lost in time

with still

no one

to believe in

water stain

sweet song

sweeter refrain.

                             -       jude

 

 

 

 

 untitled

 

as your smile dances

light walks

the truth

as your daughter 

in her waterfall blues

dares believe

light in a rainbow's delight

music

time to believe   

                              -       jude

 

 

 

 summertime

 

a long rhyme

lost in the sand

where

summer dreams

dare

will she believe

in tomorrow

when tomorrow calls

and

a hard wind

whispers

her name

will she bleed

truth or illusion

when the mirror

sighs

deep in the silence

darkness

and sweet love

beneath

a summer moon

as water

touches

summertime

                           -       jude

 

 

if never

 

singing a song

dancing the blues

longing to believe

lost in the shadows

and all reason

turns irrational

whispering

dreaming

across your sighs

on a cord change

between seasons

daring

such quiet moments

when your eyes

your loving tries

when you know

it’s time

and never to say good-bye

silence.

                      -       jude

 

 

   

witch shadow

 

shadow of a cloud

a woman

in full dream

walks the water

silent breath

without a name,

empty mirror

a child’s eyes

nowhere rhyme

and never born

loved her twice

with full refrain,

where morning is slow

sweet, so sweet

forever rain

no rhyme

no season

the sweetest stain.

                                    - jude

 

 

 

 beautiful girl

 

met a girl

she had

no name

dark eyes

and a bit of fame

while

on a long run

between oceans,

i fell in love

just for a moment

when i was young.

                                  - jude

 

 

 

 

 late night fire

 

mountain stain

lost eyes

within a west coast rain

almost

                  -       jude

 

 

 

 wet fingers

 

a sound, an echo

silence

feeling cold

a night

bleeds young

forgotten tries

longer

good-byes

sunburned feet

and no retreat,

warm earth

wet fingers

a taste of love lingers

to late

for

tomorrow ever to come

and as always

to early to cry!

                            -       jude

 

 

adrift

 

clouds adrift

upon a whisper of light

shadows call winter

time across my soul

a deep rhyme

just

won’t let me go.

                       -       jude

 

 

 in-between

 

a life in-between

where echoes disturb

a rhyme unseen

young

and looking to believe in

but never quite sure

what they mean

a shadow-less day

and whispers

sweet misery

when you care

to fall in love

just a season

that seems to

never end

if but children

searching

dreaming

daring

bleeding

lost in-between

                             -       jude

 

 

 

within the water

 

across

the cross of death

life whispers

time bleeds

seeds fall

within

a hall of echoes

one

needs not believe

to love

to die

but

to perceive the rhyme

maybe

eyes within the water

where life whispers

                                 -       jude

 

 

 

 if wind

 

thermal winds

sky flying

eyes dreaming

believing

                       -       jude

 

 

 

 if fireflies dancing

 

north atlantic

cold

there upon the fingers

in a dream

in a drift

water speaking

moon in light

rhyme across sight

lost

within

where lovers bleed

long night

found someone to love

lost

within the whispers

of fireflies

dancing

long long night

lost

within sunset light

where echoes

in music

believes

where moonlight and forever

recedes…

                        -       jude

 

 

 

 moonlight delusions

 

if i remember

when loving someone

young

when i believed

in magic

deep in warmth

moonlight delusions

sweet contradictions

warm sand

fingers casting no

shadows

long nights

alone

and a poet’s words

unwritten

when i believed

just a stranger

lost

walking

within a human hand

i once dared

to lose

i once dared

to be forgotten

to become

just a trace

an actor walking

within

another’s

open curtain

revised script

postscript illusion,

if just looking

where does one find

lost fingerprints

still within

those

moonlight delusions.

                                   -       jude

 

colors

 

as a child colors pictures

dream a child’s dreams

dare what you mean

dare to be seen

 

her sky, it’s always blue

long nights where the stars are cold

water whispers like blood

dare to be young, dare to be old

 

(refrain)

(simple is a child’s dream

never knowing what they mean

deep nights under colored lights

a child grows within the colors she knows

sing your song

when color is right

when color is wrong

sing your song)

 

if the sun is colored yellow

breathes a child in a mother’s arms

when shadows curl and hold

deep in the light morning holds warm

 

(refrain)

 

ocean water if drawn with a blue-green hue

tomorrow, tomorrow sweet thoughts born

daring to believe in something new

yesterdays smiles need never be torn

 

(refrain)

 

clouds adrift in their white and fluffy

reason if not pleasing, just ignored

floors in grass meant for feel

where a child wanders what dares be real

 

(refrain)

 

and always grass is the color green

until a child dares what she means

memories unborn hold till they’re torn

toes tingle as days come and move on

 

(refrain)

                                                    -       ben & jude

 

sweet spider silk dream

 

you call to me

a sound heard

a wind

touching deeper

deeper then dare I go

winter light

within an autumn moon

an echo

within

a long black sky

into forever

one looks

from inside

the eye

a call across reason

is silence

when seasons fall

if a wind

sweet spider silk

dream

carries me away…

                                  -       jude

 

 

sings the silence

 

silent, silent

deep

in a dark

behind the night

lost my soul

lost my light

no breath

no tears

no walking

no fears

just for a moment

for

i dared

to ignore my death

and sip

from

the blood of truth

and just for a moment

i heard

from where whales sing

                               - jude

 

 

   

 

butterfly’s dance

 

play me a song

where dreams belong

dancing

under a moon in blue

breaking free

the night

ever ever light

sweet rhyme

carved in water

steps

across time

dancing

where dreams in song

believing

as music whispers

perceiving

as the mirror falls

bleeding

across a butterfly’s dance

just play me a song

                         - jude

 

 

 

in water time

 

deep in water time

a simple rhyme

as a willow casts it’s shadow

across the dream

lies a woman

lies a whisper

lies silence

across her scream

daring

wind soft upon

closed eyes

caring

years turn

unstoppable

within the dream

she tries

believing

deep in water time

                      - jude

 

calls of the shadow

 

deep

within a dream

deeper

within a lost dance

a woman

falls a shadow

as water

beyond inside

silence

calls to the willow

reasons upon

an autumn light

morning

cold

evening

whispers

they come alive

deep

within the night

dancing in her dreams

a woman and silver light

daring to believe

daring to concede

calls of the shadow

dancing

between

morning and night

                    - jude

 

 

 

autumn light lost

 

if in the dark

you still believe

as you bleed

in truth and time

autumn light lost

where shadows

call

will you walk your name

dance

in a dream-time refrain

where before tomorrow

does hide

sweet mountain snow

sorrow

held deep

wind on hard worn skin

always just before

in the dark

if you still believe

                                - jude

 

 

 

frozen windows

 

what dare

ice in fall

carved onto glass

as the wind

long cold night

dreams

simple songs

carry

across the silence

of yesterday’s

broken crystal wings

where sighs whisper

screams

if

to believe

what dares a soul

lost

cold

deep within winter

and frozen windows

to dance

believe

where time recedes

                                           - jude

 

 

 candle light

 

within

an angel’s eyes

seen

through frozen glass

a window dream

deep

a long winter night

cold

crystal butterfly whispers

calling

sweet winter

falling

where

fireplace yearning

burns life

candle light

deep in

the eyes

of a child believing

dancing across

your human soul.

                               - jude

 

 

 

 cold across a windowsill

 

if

just for a moment

seasons change

as river water slows

morning dreams

wake upon

the sweetest of memories

you are lost

between years

and nowhere

are there tears

a wind whispers

cold

across a windowsill

open

where lingers

the flavors

of a young man’s summer

snow

lies frozen in the

still of silence

as air holds like ice

in a throat

just about to speak

rhyme

across an acoustic guitar

strings

eyes go closed

where autumn stalls

a voice sings

across chance

a man

sees

water

fall across his sighs

as sweat upon

his tries

if just for a moment

you believe

in the mirror

nailed to a closed door

where less than nothing

                                   is only more.                                  

                                      - jude

 

 

 dance free

 

if to dance

within the dreams

of stars

when the moon

calls to the water

walk quiet

alone

with your fingers

lost

in a deep winter beauty

believe

in eyes who see

love in the warmth

if to dance free…

                      - jude

 

 

 

song

 

if

within the song

of stars

adrift where

light is born

if to believe

in the beauty

of change

where

a life can dare

to be torn

will you love

or sigh

to be loved

or just maybe

will you dance

within

where music sings

starlight free…

              - jude

 

 

 

 

 winter silence

 

early morning rhyme

where dreams whisper

quiet

walks across

a river’s time

slow

in moments between

cold

cold

water

washes across the silence

so sits a soul

almost lost

almost found

trying

in the shadow of

to grow

sighing

to know

in a child’s moments

just before

just after

winter silence

                  - jude

 

 

 

   

river bell

 

seasons come as reasons go

darkness on the edge of shadow

light

dreams within the echo

somewhere in-between

a man sits on a long

wooden pier

washing free his eyes

where whispers a river

where tomorrow begins

years unspoken

fall

river bell

sweet sweet sound.

                        - jude

 

 

 

 

 silent light, homeless night

 

silent light

cast

shadowless

a homeless night

to lose your name

cold wind

across your dreams

lost between pawns

in the human game

blood falls

within your child’s tears

frozen moments

frozen years

empty eyes

shattered mirror tries

and a man

is left with only

questions

and maybe a scream

of what

does this all mean

no god walks across

these cold lonely gutters

under windowless

church walls

in where

a silent light does fall.

                         - jude

 

 

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