a fold of seasons

 

silence

between moments

where blind men

sea and frozen moonlight

cross time with dance

bloodless cries fall

where reason calls to

a fold of seasons

echoes

distant walls

tick-tock

 

                                                         - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

conservations with an undying man

(rhythm of the strings)

 

he stands between

water and music

where dreams

fall to waterfall mirrors

and all his screams

call to the silence

I refrain from believing

if to dance

where sight meets

perception

time waters

rhyme on the echoes

of earth rhythms

music man

long finger walks

across string theory

where tomorrow concedes

and only music bleeds

 

                                        - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dancing winds

 

sand falling

upon

quiet trees

i see tomorrow

time falls on me

loud silence steals

my name

and so i believe

in everything

in nothing

caught

within frozen sunlight

counting the fractures

across my soul

dancing winds

call

as into the sand

i fall

                                 - jude

 

 

 

 

just one more day

 

within a deep refrain

a black box

black walls

glass

light

as an image

an idea

solitude

in drift

learning to forget

atlantic ocean

waves

calling

to catch love

falling into tomorrow

(i want to dance with

you

i want to dream

in the mirror

of your eyes

i want to love

you

once more)

within the emptiness

of where i die

i want to believe

in tomorrow

in tomorrow

in maybe

just one more day.

 

                                      - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for Richard Brautigan; If only she would say good-bye

 

girl: ever her eyes were quiet

boy: kissed girl

girl: kissed boy

boy: watched her quiet not go away

girl: ever her eyes were quiet

boy: what do you have to say?

girl: ever her lips were quiet

boy: do you want to say good-bye?

girl: hands him his class ring & silence

boy: couldn't see another's kiss on her lips

girl: turned away quietly

boy: walked away, with just silence breaking concrete echoes across his soul

girl: empty steps and shadowless doorway

boy: silence, with nowhere to go

 

                                                                     - jude

 

 

 

 

 

waterfall without dreams

 

raggedy man

sidewalk dancing

concrete wind

cold night calling

falling

time in a long slow

rotation

box without sand

waterfall without dreams

deep sleep screams

life without walls

never lost

no echo sounds

under church bells ringing

where gargoyles face inward

hear

the raggedy man

singing

 

                                            - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 frozen wills

 

darkness

within black

white chalk writing

while a child dreams

seasons call

shadows fall

upon concrete sidewalks

circles

walls against tomorrow

frozen wills

recede from truth

white eye fear

grows

and blind men are born

if

cold screams

ice cream greed

seeds stain

the loving game

if

yesterday

frozen tears

streak the mirror

of reality

 

                                            - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

if trump

 

man within a jester's dream

seeds

fall from his eyes

like death

sings the banshee's breath

man dressed

in a appealing freedom

only too much money buys

stands

in front

upon a stage

of words

and ice water tears

"believe in me!"

"no one can control

a rich man"

(not even you)

man within a jester's scream

wants

to own even more

and stands

a golden idol

the mirror of

godless eyes.

 

                 - jude

 

 

 

 

 

  

walking shadow echoes

 

a long dark street

3am street lamp

shadow defeat

deep in a teenager's bind

echoes

martin he dies

in the shadow of

bobby

a line between black

and white

unseen

on that long dark street

echoes call to an

aged man where

time crumbles

before the

rhyme of reality

still again

deep in a man's

fingerprint find

echoes

a long dark street

 

                    - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a long dance

 

long song

sung

water dance

of light

full moon

winter night

words

adrift

words alive

a woman's heart

a poet's soul

just a moment

in the mirror

of tomorrow

just a whisper

of forever

sweet chance

on a long dance

 

              - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

blind love

 

traveling between

in pictures in time

a man's mind

a woman's late night sighs

if to believe

if to perceive

lines across space

darkness deep

somewhere far

where light whispers sleep

blind love

daring to see

wordless poems

written

silence as whispers

touch across her lips

 

                         - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 with painted skin

 

if i could hide

within

those dark grey clouds

moving

always moving

sunlight caught

held tight

morning is night

 

if i could dream

where i walk

a shadow man

with painted skin

and empty hands

 

if i could catch

the sand

falling

calling as echoes

 

if only time

dared bleed

mirror seeds

carrying

yesterday

 

those dark grey clouds

 

                              - jude

 

 

 

 

 

looking for reason

 

just my imagination

first love

really only a boy

walked like a man

1069 USA

elsewhere

looking for reason

desk hiding child

atom bombs falling

empty calling

somebody to love

dare to believe

and yet

from where

did tomorrow come

sunrise over warm western skies

with the rocky mountains

a mist

a dream

1970

still

looking for reason

carrying a broken shell

mirror of a young girl's eyes

her sighs

just my imagination

Vietnam child draft blues

thin lines between anarchy

and treason

street theatre season

15 years on the road

looking for reason

just my imagination

 

                            - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

jester's try

 

child on a train

a subway car

in refrain

silence  across a

jester's try

a young dreamer

who offers her

belief in magic

for a moment

that matters

or not

 

         - jude

 

 

 

 

 

circles carve circles

 

whispers

from where speaks

this silence

 

rage from an

echo

 

what would i hear

if you were near

and called in the quiet

where black was light

and morning

believed in night

 

dance wind

empty sins

circles carve circles

balance

if you dare

the moment

between

 

to be seen

 

             - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

sympathetic vibrations

 

color in the air

will she dare

to see

to believe

to bleed

sweetly

carving lines

when sight perceives

sympathetic vibrations

when souls dance

touch

waves of motion

empty canvas

when a girl dreams

in silent music

her dance across blank space

leaving her trace

in color

 

                   - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 empty sidewalk

 

lost voice

singing

a saddest song

nowhere to dream

a man without a mirror

circle caught

deep longing

to belong

empty sidewalk

late night shadows

walking

endless walking

lost voice

singing

tears of silence

carry

 

                     - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

within a moon's night

 

my shadow

walks before me

what does it see

when it is me

who am i

star drift

carries a moon's

night

black light

bleeds of forever

 

                - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

just wind

 

she danced with me

such a lonely night

i dreamed to be

warm

and held tight

yet

a broken mirror

saw us both

as fractured souls

a couple shadowless

under midnight lamp light

where the wind walks

alone

 

                    - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

moon water exception

 

i am

lost

north of time

the echo

a path

long past

chosen

i long

to walk again

i long to

feel the wind

call to me

of tomorrows

yet to be

i choose

to shatter

this mirror loop

moon water exception

between birth

and death

i am

lost

a broken man

yearning

to be free...

 

             - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

distance and light

 

deep

concrete wall

 echoes

i walked

all the open

roads

this world

dares

i danced

all the dreams

left

as stains

marking

distance and light

i touched

my fingers

open and free

until dusk conceded

i sleep

deep

where

mirrors whisper

lost

between earth

and sky

star seasons

scream

till tomorrow believes

 

                - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

when young boys dream

 

needed to believe

needed to love

needed to bleed

in my youth

i learned to

walk

the long walk

where time is free

where tomorrow is tomorrow

summer rhyme

carries

all the echoes' silence

summertime

she danced with

a young boy's dream

within the arms warm

of a young man's walk

talking rhythm blues

rocky mountain skies

deep desert nights

cold

warm pacific ocean

rain

where the long walk

carries a young boy free...

 

                          - jude

 

 

 

 

 

rolling fog religion

 

reason

torn to shreds

belief

water across my fingers

ny

cross legged sitting

back to a closed door

the actor's church

watching

too young prostitutes

walking by to

daytime schooling

where no one dares

to care

long hair ride

1974

the vietnam war slide

tv news evening blues

just empty relief

unconstitutional draft

curtains close

eugene o'neil theater

49th street

playing to an vacant line

time to hitch a ride

go west young man

just a girl any girl

just her child any child

golden gate green grass

all the young in celebration

once again

on the turn of another season

endings mark beginnings

rolling fog religion

dancing naked dancing

earth stained poncho warm

tears lost into

last year news

as tomorrow falls

shatters

water across my fingers

as tomorrow calls

where reason

lies dead

my country tis of thee

 

                               - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 when silence calls

 

into silence

they walk

dare we sing

our tears

falling onto

the empty rhyme

rivers carry

their souls

freezing their water dreams

and no tomorrows

left to bleed

blood across god's

open palms

into silence

reason lies frozen

where even

poets must concede

 

               - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 waterfall sky

 

child

sand in her sighs

girl

lives with no reason

why

woman dances under

a waterfall sky

talks the long walk

man finds

the cost of reason

and if he dares

sees

child/girl/woman

dancing under

a waterfall sky

 

                 - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 shadow on the wall

 

shadow on the wall

do i know you

as a mirror calls

light upon

a final road

 

if

tomorrow's seeds

moon water light

where night falls

calls

to a banshee's needs

 

as you please

my fingerprint's

final voice

 

                - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 between breaths

 

in drift

wind cradled

snowflake tears

empty highway nights

distance without light

when she is a song

music across the years

what dares a man

concede

where tomorrow is just

a forgotten stain

caught between breaths

all that remains

water truth

droplets upon skin warm

fingerprints

rhythm tapping

echoes

in drift

 

                - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 to walk the long shadows

 

upon a wide world

her gypsy dream

tattoos color in blood

as raven's sing

ancient castles echo

watercolor stains

a lost morning's sky

reasons

to walk the long shadows

into midnight

circle talk

mirror rhyme dance

seeds adrift

from fingers torn

across a dawn bleed

 

                              - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 is tomorrow

 

long shadow walk

new york city

dirty sidewalk late night

slide

words as echoes ride

west 4th street

inside is out

when every word means

more than yesterday dared

when 1964  danced as soles

on the feet of 1969

when the seasons

as river wind

calls to lost rhymes

where old men dream as young men concede

how

stained onto concrete walls

the lost souls

our country called forward

our sacrifices onto the alter

of judges blind

blindfolds crafted by children

born to gold

how a long soul believes

tomorrow

is tomorrow lost

how a long soul bleeds

 

                           - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 untitled

 

indigo deep

song of night

summer warm

lost her eyes

within

moonlight exception

 

                        - jude

 

 

 

 

 

billy's blues a laura nyro stain

 

unsteady guitar slide refrain

low tide dreams made of glass

wood stained with the souls

of

songs long unheard

blues white washed tries

carry no echoes

where

whisky tears

watered down  drinks

"sing me away

from the pain

dance me till

the death of night falls"

it's the empty glass

who remembers

a gibson's sweet song

a deaf man who

still carries the rhythm

first light

still dancing till

where has the music

gone

tomorrow is coming along

last sweet song

 

                   - jude

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

a frozen tear and a drop of blood

 

smoke wood and late night live jazz

lost in a tequila dream

dancing

17 year old boy

gone astray

within an evening

of chance

walking man

carries

the shard's of his heart

dared to love

dared to believe

in

the empty american dream

midnight wind calling

empty sidewalk echoes

black street shadows

whisper

unheard

as he dances

holding her close and slow

rhythm timed

soft lips sipping

aching for more

her eyes emerald wisps

adrift

dancing

smoke wood and late night jazz

a young boy tastes

the long road

hello good-bye until

always leaving behind

just

a frozen tear and a drop of blood

 

                                     - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stroke

 

falling

suddenly

small nova

within

your brain

implosion

black star

sucking

rushing

a soul lost

almost

 

                                    - jude

 

(and just before i'm gone; i'm back. As they say, life is strange.  And yes I seem to be coming back. Cool!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

In the early light

 

lost in silence

wordless

caught within

to dream

a poet can only

try

to scream

in where

time knows

in where

time goes

without tomorrow

desert sand

cold within your command

a long ago

summer defeat

whispers to one

till night echoes bleed

as music

across a morning' drift

from where

dares an artist

draw a breath

no, never death

it's the early light

that calls a soul from

rest

where words carved into wind

are the paint of

tomorrow

for

who knows from where

rhyme blows

                                                   

                                                   - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

when mad men rise

 

sand

locked within

my tears

children

blown as ash

where blind men

paint windows

onto empty walls

from within

where the calls

of women

along a mobius

bleed

their mother's seed

there is no sand

left to fall

when mad men

rise as oil

coating their eyes

while sane men

within their blind dreams

fall to the side

sand

locked within

these years

 

                                    - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

black mirror truth (a samuel beckett incision)

 

we see everybody

we see nobody

black mirror

raven shadows

cross your eyes

do you dance

a circle rhyme

do you remember

your childhood sighs

when alone

do your eyes shine

or

does an empty heart

bleed

silence

so loud

do you fear your death

or still believe in dares

dare to run

dare to jump

across

dare to believe in

empty boxes

black walls

shadowless falls

in the quiet of

a soul which sees

dares nothing

everything

within the black mirror

empty room

jumpin' jack jester

images betray

all your

morning dreams

where the

mime's silence

is

what it seems

where only water

really perceives

reality before truth

 

                               - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 searching for water

 

hawk flies

wind glide

dusk hunting fall

genocide

god and greed

people in democratic

need to believe

patterns

from a universe

ignored

not gold

but the dream

of

revolution before

a child's rational

solution

of

genocide across

a new tomorrow

blind men walk

holding tree branches

broken earth

searching for water

 

                    - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

no one sings the blues like

 

color light

evening vibration

touch

flesh to flesh

tree limbs

still

till warm breath blows

across cool dreams

begin

to tattoo souls

caught on the drift

if music plays

truth

till the blues

carry you free

 

                 - jude

 

 

 

 

 

a moment more

 

shadow puppet

moon night

mirror revisions

a lost moment

where dares a man

alone

searching on the edge of

a window closed

counting the vibrations

adrift

the dreams of cold winds

blowing as feather-light diamonds

against glass old

a young man

cast as an image

carved into age stained wood

ageless

possibilities when a man

believes in the abyss

 but perceives just a moment more

where dares a man

 

                      - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

frozen waterfall religions

 

if you steal her

name

where cold seasons

sigh

who would you see

frozen in the mirror

ice river

windless lights color

her hair

brittle as subzero waterfalls

call

break a girl child

and the woman bleeds

away her seeds

forever

it's within the warm seasons

where rivers flow

oceans drink deep

and the earth dares

to believe

in god

 

                          - jude

 

 

 

 

 

shadow

 

between   a wall of

words

and

a wall of water

falls

if i

the battle of reality

a perception

belief

the sounding of delusion

if i exist

i am a shadow

dancing

on where the sky dares

to fall free

 

                       - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

black moon blues

 

i miss her lovin' eyes

her deep late night sighs

the taste of salt and lilac

called to my morning lips

life in long sips

i miss the truth when she cried

i miss

not being there

when she died

past midnight

black moon full

i dance

with this young girl

i hold her tight

that might she

not have died alone

circle shadow

cast

upon a long walk

shadow of a black moon

 

                       - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

slow river hope

 

weather stained

bare feet

wooden pier

autumn shade falls

across

lost dreams

late night screams

echo

behind

slow river hope

if you dare

to perceive

the water truth

you dance

upon chance

where belief

sings

a bluesman's truth.

 

                 - jude

 

 

 

 

 

shadow of a woman

 

an image in the sky

trying to believe in why

deep moon sigh

if to try

girl is a woman

adrift

where light is but a

reflection

where

tomorrow falls upon the breath

of today

slow in dance

always a chance

to live the dream

light across her eyes

shadow of a woman

dancing slow

 

              - jude

 

 

 

 

 

  

sings the long songs

 

deep

within the heart

where

water falls true

rhythm

sings the long songs

from where dreams

are born

echoes upon the

water's edge

are words carved

into moonlight

a shadow cast

true

is the walk

fingers touch

skin sings

the earth rhyme

waterfall freedom

such a breath

across tomorrow

such a love

upon it's

long walk

 

         - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

water earth wind fire

 

do you see me

i am young

i still dare to dream

i walk my long days

with empty pockets

yet dance with my eyes

open

mountain wind songs

do you hear me

i am middle age

sweat lies frozen

as do all the dreams

carved into black light

clouds

adrift

far from where my soul breathes

north eastern storms carry

the cool winds upon which

i watch my dreams

dream

do you believe in me

i am old

who now will carry my

dream's mirror

when i dream of water

water dreams of me

when i dream of earth

sand falls slowly

through my arthritic fingers

when i dream of wind

i dream of tomorrow

of yesterday

of truth

of need

of sorrow

of hope

when i dream of fire

i dance once more

a last chance to bleed

my truth

to love all my loves

to walk free

upon the mirror of reality

do i see

ocean to river

river to mountain

mountain to

the endless sea

 

                 - jude

 

 

 

 

 

jester dance

 

the crazy man

with

the crazy hair

on the edge

of a long dance

wild dreams

standing

a crazy stance

 

autumn riding on

a north wind

ice carves all his sins

free

reboot in silence

if you not believe

if you perceive

in the quiet soul

just a man with

nowhere to go

 

jester dance

echoes of chance

a crazy man

with

the crazy hair

 

          - jude

 

 

 

 

 

free dance

 

early dusk

soulless shade

darkness is

but a name

dreaming

"I believe"

says the blind man

he cannot see tomorrow

living

within sound

sky rhythm

in free dance

where echoes bleed

 

                   - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

strings

 

strings tied deep

where rests

beliefs i carved

free from time

riddles

of folded paper kind

who speaks

what nobody means

melody

coughs an old man

blind

long into a dream

only money can buy

sweet song

fear refrain

i stand naked before

this man

no pockets to carry

coins of gold

no hat to carry my shade

the old man lived within his

mirror

do i stand reflection-less

without my soul to hold

balance cries the world

money cries the old man

strings hold me cold

just above where rivers die

between truth and reality

 

                                    - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

within a child's eyes(a)

 

starlight whispers

fall

where the dreams of children

call forth

echoes of hope

rhythms' of need

seeds

cast aloft

if to

believe or perceive

sighs across tomorrow

mirror light

deep within a child's eyes

 

                                     - jude

 

 

within a child's eyes(b)

 

starlight whispers

fall

where the dreams of children

call forth

echoes of hope

rhythms' of need

seeds

cast aloft

if to

believe

why's across tomorrow

sleighs on snow

deep within a child's eyes

 

                    - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dancing

 

the feel of

winter light

cast

upon your soul

standing

a specter

within a mirror blind

shadow dreaming

dancing

out across

star drift

ghost silence

 

               - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

night dreams on a grey day

 

when a blind man

who lives in a house of

mirrors

chances to call your

name

 

empty rivers

in silence

voices wonder

dreams bleed

 

you concede the truth

to a world without!

 

                   - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dust falls

 

lost upon a dream

of yesterday

an ice water dance

she learned

not to remember

somewhere between

her hope lies

covered by the dust

of

fire death

time without rest

 

she dreams within a life

without memory

walls in plaster

covered by paint

rain

early morning sweat

 

i danced once

with her

or did i

 

             - jude

 

 

 

 

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