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Faded In the sunlight I feel compelled To tell you how I feel But speak too softly To be considered more than inaudible. While stirring voices whirl my aching head I pull from the confusion of l...

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Drowning My soul came to play today But found only the rain From your face. Crowding out the sand; Flooding the dams That protect us From the splashing haste. A fierce calm settles in; The feroc...

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A Bitter Angel A bitter angel With a broken face; Torn wings And lusting embrace. Dropping harshly onto the soil; Dropping soulessly Into turmoil. ©2003 Joe Jenkins

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Run Run along By the river; Hold your breath Until you quiver.    Race heartedly into tomorrow. Run a ring Around the fire. Don’t get burnt! Run to retire.    Run away from poignant sorrow. Run ...

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Underneath Friction below brings out My inner need to analyze. Where it comes from, who knows, Maybe I’ll just deny it some more. Cancelling of alter indentities; Pushing out the demons within y...

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shattered. shattered, open and convoluted. testing the days with fleshed writings. you, once caring and understanding, gone, tattering the bunting of my covenant lands; where were you when fires ...

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Walls Around Looking for you tonight Wondering if you’re alright; Slipping past sleep in you Sitting here, watching over you. Asleep in self; You breathe your wealth And rest blissfully awaiting ...

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Rain On My Face My face is wet In feeling and image; From rain or from inside Or from a fantastic release of rage. Is it rain Or is it tears? Am I happy Or masking fears? The rain on my fac...

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Over and Again An empty hat Filled with nothing – Aching for loyalty Of love last lost. In time I’ll heal And perhaps I’ll feel Those things that bring me home Over and again. I swear to pieces...

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Darkening Side Change in passion With expectations arise While certain emotions lofting To one’s own demise. Fellowship of angels Bringing down the clouds; For certain gentle majesties Are cleari...

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Dying Without You Without words I sit and wait. I long to hold you Oh, how great. With a loss for words Forever I muse In silent waiting Of your rouse. To stir indeed My emotions you floor Fore...

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Reflected ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Every time we speak I see myself reflected. It’s unnerving how just one voice Brings me out of myself. A mirror image in soul Brings forth a shallow light...

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i write a poem i write a poem to state my mind; to open fantasies and record time. i write a poem – about you, about me; so that i can remember all that fancy. in pain, in hate, in sullen lust; ...

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I Want To Be A Dream I want to be the dream That your eyes only faintly remember. I want it to be so real That you believe that I’m there. I want to be the dream That beckons your eyes to remain ...

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Solidify In your heart, Alone and bare. Solidly I hold for you; I wait for you there. When shadows pass Covering the daytime sun, You see things within me – Hiding from ruin. Hushed, sacred dream...

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Always and Forever When nothing makes sense And every thought is blurred Love finds it’s way And somehow I understand. I know why it is And what must be; No matter what arises Love will always ...

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I love you Stronger and deeper My love has grown. Brighter and purer My heard has shown. Hour after hour And day after day, I find it easier and easier And now I can say,    Long past time    An...

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Older poem I wrote years ago… You All of the time That I sit here alone I cannot help but wonder What you would think If each of us were holding the other. I feel as if you sometimes think That m...

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the premise of love is the beginning of roads that travel to rivers; rivers. yes, with water and rocks – the ones that love supposedly unlocks. right? that’s not for me to know; I guess. as time...

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Ledgers Within Presssing forward; The music has arisen Bringing feelings of past latency and despondent emotional intricacy. Mismetered ledgers despite waning details; The rains fall from above W...

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With Shattered Fairytales With shattered fairytales; Aside broken bliss. In the night time she writes Of times while entranced, times amiss. Feeling inner beauty, Beating her own punch; Evading m...

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Broken Po’em Open and shut In nobody’s hut Up on the north beach. With fiddles and wagons And sugar plum biters We push open our hutch. We slide We ride And dig deep inside With rags on our hand...

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Painted Shadows Poised direction Of mounted scenes Left open-chested With acquiescent dreams. Perched on high Above the clouds. In midnight colored-flora She pressed upon my brow. Consumed in da...

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And Then They Leave Us Heightened insight And jolly graces – Happy times And sullen faces. They bring us here In their virtual world – And bridge the gap With their lives unfurled. And then they...

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Shining Stars Shining stars In shining eyes. They’re young and sweet And protected from lies. Is she lost or is she waiting For the answer to her prayers. In hopes that in her begging She’ll draw...

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