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In silent ways I speak to you in silent ways the stillness you hear in you is me I am the breath when you awake the warmth that fills your heart when it aches the light you seek when you despair you will know me in what makes you smile the tears you cry and when you die I will be in your last sigh Sign in to see full entry.

A TRIBUTE TO THE IRISH For Saint Patrick’s Day March 2011 Makers of myth Chanters of songs You sing your words Smile your thoughts Bring magic to reality You are rainbows and emeralds Ivory and gold Hearts of fire and steel You are our poetry Sign in to see full entry.

SAMBA[English and Portuguese verses] 1 Will someone dance the Samba The Samba with me The way they do in Rio In Rio de Janeiro Quem quer dan car comigo A Samba A samba como fazem no Rio No Rio de Janiero? ii Will someone come to my arms Through the night we will go To dance the Samba Before... Sign in to see full entry.

DONE There is so much The body can suffer The mind and heart endure Before w e break We who are made of glass And w hat we call the soul Life’s fire Electric Crashes through In a painful birthing Atoms shattered into cosmic dust Carnal separation and decay Thundering into the Unknown Consciousness... Sign in to see full entry.

A cliché [inspired by ECCCLESIASTES] There is nothing new under the sun It has all been said and done before And will be done and said once more To the old we add the new But the new is soon the old I too am a cliché. A redundancy of Nature’s way A repetition of a matrix Planned and formed by design... Sign in to see full entry.

Lethe’s Waters Would I the waters of Lethe drink To forget what remembering is And my mind to oblivion bring For Suffering is not in the knowing But in the understanding My heart is in conflict with my reason My soul speaks a reason of its own I endure my duality God’s grace and affliction And live... Sign in to see full entry.

On Butterfly Wings [updated] I send my soul this sacred thing in body wandering on butterfly wings flying to horizons far to sing in openness and innocence melodies strident and sweet lyrics of my singular humanness surprised by existence stunned by my own dying but I no longer sing as before my... Sign in to see full entry.

PLACES you brought me to places I didn’t want to go places I never want to know again I hurt so I could not bear the pain I think it was then I found my soul had death come to take me I would have gone along you had your daemons. I saw them in your eyes but I was losing and they became mine weaker... Sign in to see full entry.

FACES I wear many faces In metaphor and rhyme All different and the same The quintessential me Lives in between the lines I sing with one voice only The lyrics change with time But the songs I sing Are uniquely mine Reflections of a mystery hidden Deep inside I am a simple complexity Exceptional.... Sign in to see full entry.

Napoli I still feel the warmth o f your sun. And taste the blue o f your bay. I still hear the stillness o f summer nights And melodies fading away. You were my first love and my last, I was so young and happy then. I listen for the voices of my past. But they are gone and tear at my heart. I... Sign in to see full entry.