Promise Me
Promise me That you will not outgrow Running barefoot In the summer rain When the world Spits out Its schizophrenic songs Listen to the nakedness Of your heart And dance … Continue reading
Spider Webs
Spider webs are woven From fragile egos Damaged and discarded When no one is looking The hypersensitive yarn Magnifies every twinge And transmits it Through the delicate veins Of self-absorption … Continue reading
Beautiful Is
Beautiful is the waiting Of a patient heart It’s a high-rise cathedral To the God of Time Beautiful is the silence Of a quiet mind It’s a resonant temple To … Continue reading
Daddy’s Gal
Don’t you worry child You will never starve Your bubble gum smile Will break daddy’s heart You can order him around He will get you the red car Cause you’re … Continue reading
Wanting
Most wanted is Most wanting Nothing more Nothing less Less is more More is never enough Enough already Happiness is wanting What you already have Everything you want Is straight … Continue reading
Mysteries
Mysteries are unpolished gems Unapprised treasures For a discerning collector incognito Everyone else Wants a piece of the pie But he deciphers The recipe for its fragrance Once a year … Continue reading
Adrift
Through the cracks in the windows The sea whistles its ancient song Waves crash against the walls In endless ostinatos The foam Seeps in under the door Sizzling mysteriously Rock … Continue reading
Pursuit Of
Do you think we are More sophisticated Advanced Civilized Progressive? Their pencils gave us calculus Their inkwells – counterpoint Their sliding rule – velocity of light They spun the Earth … Continue reading
Unknown
The thrill and the agony Of a blank page Not quite the eternal no Not yet a sweeping yes A sketchy maybe Possibly perhaps Adorned with uncertainty And thirdguessing The … Continue reading
Unspoken
After all these years You are still walking toward me In the rain Your pale cheeks beaded With pure droplets Your clear eyes So true and unrehearsed Words are irrelevant … Continue reading
Epiphanies – Artwork and Music Combined
I thought I would experiment with combining my abstract painting with music. The video features 10 of my paintings and the soundtrack is one of my electronic compositions entitled Thousands … Continue reading
Emerging
All my days have been written In your book Before any came to be And then you gave me The chisel and a hammer To carve them out From the … Continue reading
Writing
Why couldn’t life be A multiple choice test? That way you could get it right Most of the time If you had The faintest idea And a sense of direction … Continue reading
Subtleties
Between grayness of daybreak And fleshness of a morning Between already And not yet Between being And existing Lie subtleties and nuances A pale hand of a geisha Pours amber … Continue reading
Unfurling
Be still my soul What is your unfurling? Your trembling Your flutter? What is your ache? A void that’s ever empty What is your shape That I may fill it? … Continue reading
When a Man Loves a Woman
When a man loves a woman He will watch her from afar One quick glimmer from her eyes Will feed his soul for a month He’ll sculpt Davids and pietas … Continue reading
A Winter Night
This bright-eyed morning I was passing by familiar strangers Clutching the remnants of warmth When suddenly I saw her Walking straight toward me In a black designer coat She swayed … Continue reading
Chocolate
Chocolate is sweetest Right before it enters the mouth The silkiness of suspense And vanilla of anticipation Make the cheeks tingle No one likes waiting But maybe the denial In … Continue reading
The Calling
You used to know everything In even rows and columns Effort times distance equals destination Page eighty nine The second paragraph on the right In black and white Exhibit A … Continue reading
Sinner’s Prayer
Almighty God Breath of Life Receive this timid sigh Of unorthodox authorship As I seem to have lost My leather-bound prayer book On the way through A mirrored corridor Of … Continue reading
So This is Happiness
So this is happiness? This breeze from the river That tangles your hair The unexpected wintry sun Painting a grimace on the face Of a fleeting unimportant Moment in between … Continue reading
Loneliness
I am looking at you You are looking at me But we don’t see each other You are a moving target And I am not sure If I am aiming … Continue reading
Espionage
An agent is easy to spot in a crowd He wears a three-day stubble And a white cotton shirt With nonchalantly rolled up sleeves Behind designer shades The dark circles … Continue reading
Sensibility
I want to die with my high heels on And my guns fully loaded Let no one catch me barefoot And pregnant with frivolity Pausing to taste the chocolate I … Continue reading
Close Encounters
Which floor? Next available For here or to go? I’m only passing through How are you? It’s going to rain I know, I’ve been busy I’m not a morning person … Continue reading
Beautiful is the Mention of Your Name
Beautiful is the mention of your name Lovely is the shape of its sounds But were it not for the language My lips would call upon it still With velvety … Continue reading
Nothing to Say
Another useless phrase Another pointless gesture Another empty prayer Of a heart that’s running away And the melody of my first song Is but a shadow of days gone by … Continue reading
Das Wohltemperierte Klavier
I will not be still In the presence of eternity Breathing into a fleeting moment Blessed be the pleasures of the mind The symmetry of the Universe And the anticipation … Continue reading
Shifting Sands
What do you do when love Sifts through your fingers The tiny crystal prisms Refract evening light The sun rides up and down On the color rainbow And leaves your … Continue reading
The Mould
When to buy, when to sell What to chase, what to crave What to eat, what to drink How to die, how to live Whom to love, whom to hate … Continue reading
If My Brother Were In Town
If my brother were in town We would waste no time Discussing the weather I would parade him on the waterfront And with a paralyzing gaze I would let the … Continue reading
Hospitality
And here is John’s study Look at all his books He is so smart, bless his heart Yes, we went to Florence last summer This marble countertop And the matching … Continue reading
Lullaby for a Foreigner
Lay down your strange head On a soft cotton pillow There are no feathers inside That’s not how we stuff things ‘round here Close your Baltic eyes Dream of rusty … Continue reading
Dirty Old Men
Dirty old men lick their fingers When they eat gristly chicken They spit out the bones Of buy one get one free virgins The meat is enhanced With a saline … Continue reading
Cry Not
Cry not for the poet For the poet is immune to tears He trickles down syllables With his watered down ink He sketches fountains and scribbles lakes Words rush like … Continue reading
Music Is
Music is an inward cry a wordless prayer a hunger a yearning for something outside of ourselves a dream an intangible reality an invisible force entering through the ears and … Continue reading
Music Well - Dosia McKay, Composer, Painter, Writer 