However Brief

However brief our meeting
Time well spent
Touching
Our bodies
Our lives
Our love
Time well spent


Ken Goree

Unreal

It’s
Crushingly sad

The tangled mind
That spins time wrong

Such seeming lucidity to one
Who is trapped within insanity’s grasp

What looking glass took hold of reality
Pulling one down into reflected  lands unreal

Where’s the wonderland elixir to heal
And shine reality back within

When no word reaches
Into false façade

Praying for
Light


Ken Goree


It just seems like I have been meeting more people who are actually delusional, lately.  I’ve tried talking, but it doesn’t seem to work.  I wish I had the solution.

Bare

When your breath catches
Because I noticed
I am bare

When I see something in your eyes
No one else can
I am bare

When life crushes and threatens
And I know how to hold you
I am bare

When you are strong and bold
I see your hidden frailty
I am bare

When you hold yourself back
I know your fears
I am bare

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When I am bare
I sense and grow from your love
I transcend

When I am bare
I keep no protection for myself
I can be cut

When I am bare
I have opened myself to one
I can bleed

When I am bare
I feel your destructive anger
I can scar

When I am bare
I recoil from cold sarcasm
I can callous


Ken Goree

Sleepy Pitcher

My daughter stayed awake all night
While visiting a friend
But now it’s well past noon, you know
This sleeping has to end

Her softball game, it starts at two
And she’s supposed to pitch
I’m worried that she won’t play well
Or be a little witch

Because I see a trend with her
When she stays up too late
Her brain which is a smart one, is
Good as an empty plate

So now she’s clumping down the stair s
Searching for her uniform
It looks like she’ll be ready, but
Dangerous as a thunder storm


Ken Goree

All right, five minutes until we have to leave for the game.

Emerald Fire

Bright green leaves sparkle
After short, night-time sprinkle
Emerald fire sparks


Ken Goree