johnqpublic

"I've just stumbled from a cozy diveto my favorite late night coffee shopprepared to share my wisdom with the multitudesHeavy music fills melike God's heartbeat.Whiskey inside me fuels my pento scatter..."

"I wish I could break the bonds that hold you but I have no key to where you are I wish I could hear your laughter again, pouring over me like sunshine But you've retreated to a place where the sun i..."

"Raised in the blue glow...I was seven before I realizedI did not live on Sesame Streetthat the men of Five-O were not thereto protect me from evildoers(and anyway, my neighborhood did not look like th..."

"I awaken from you, cloaked in sweat;in my dream, you stood on a French Quarter balcony,dressed in lavender lace.You waved your silk handkerchieflike a red flag;I answered your summons in a blind haze,..."

"Her clear gray eyes see beauty all around her even where other eyes see only misery and squalor Yet she doesn't see the kind of beauty hidden only to herself she doesn't hear the wisdom and insight i..."

"I am too old to kneel before a goddess in blue jeans She sees me as kind & sweet & cuddly; I see her as the dream I missed when I was young (& full of promise, like she is now) I see her, in my inte..."

"It was a chilling night all over the city; the internet explorers' ship was grounded. The city was plunged into darkness as all the explorers' screens faded to blue. meaning no more instant stock quo..."

"Darkness descended on the 6th floor, usually known as a place of hope & light. Darkness came disguised as light & warmth, offering promises of love and nurturing. I accepted those promises gladly, a..."

"I will not pretend I can relate to you; with your orange & purple hair & fifty acres of tattoos I watched you dance so wildly to your linkin park songs you invited me to join you; I said no, I cann..."

"You are a rollicking stream & my toes dance to the music of your voice But I wade with care I know you're on your way to building mountains one pebble at a time Written December 11th, 2001 © on Dec ..."

"She smiles at me from my screen as if I were the man that haunts her fantasies; her posture is an invitation for me to slide inside; her curves are draped across a chair inviting an urge, to touch, to..."

"The lover he writes about has silken skin & a voice like honey she whispers softly in his ear as her delicate hands caress his body Never does she have a harsh word for him; only words of love & kin..."

"There's a jazz band playing in my head (& man, these cats sure do swing) I hear them every time I read the work of Wendy Words stand at attention until Wendy plays her tune & then they dance swing, ..."

"At a favorite neighborhood coffee shop we sat at a corner table looking through each other's pages, the conversation laced with shades of awe Somewhere, deep in my hall of dreams she found a special ..."

"i want to go away; die & be resurrected at a time when you are here you hear my cries of pain from your safe distance and tell me in conversations & poems you are sorry that i hurt & i say that's ok..."

"A flock of pigeons flows from gray stone ledges wheeling about the wintry sky The air i breathe today is the color of tears Bread left over from Thursday is scattered on a cracked sidewalk pigeons ..."

"She sees a broken world & wants to mend it she wants bombs & hate & hunger, & sorrow to stop at her command as if the world were hers she sees broken lives around her & wants to heal them because ..."

"though sated for the momemt it remains undimished eating through my soul like flames roaring through a doomed house the curves of her invade my dreams; i wake to reach for the emptiness where she wa..."

"She kicks off her shoes and tells me "No work for me today" despite my anxious pleas To please her I rub her shoulders (always soft & warm) then brush her tangled hair Butterflies & bumbleblees flo..."

"I am a forgotten one though you see me each day on random street corners, and in the parks that are your playgrounds My home is the concrete outside the elegant building where you work each day or be..."

"i ride on my arabian mare through dusty fields of chapparral and bleached bones on my way to your village i come to seep into your mind like the daydreams that wander into your idle moments i come t..."

"I hated poetry dreams distilled in graceful words I hated the honeyed voices of poets who stole the musings in my head & made them as beautiful as stars that fill a cold night sky I despised the ..."

"He can be found on a park bench, pen in hand recording his dreams & nightmares, invisible to passersby His life story has been heard by an audience of thousands but his life is a mystery to those who..."

"Two feet of snow coat the ground where she lives; through her window, she sees houses, cars, & trees shrouded in misty white Her heart is cloaked in winter's gloom; from a thousand miles away I pray ..."

"A stony winter sky frames a world of bare trees & dirty snow last week's ice crystals crunch underfoot as she exhales white clouds of mist She craves warmth A bitter morning chill penetrates her sk..."

"She's known him for two weeks (or is it three?); a quick courtship led to promises of eternal bliss She's just regained custody of her brood of six; he's just informed his parole officer of his new a..."

"I know you don't hear from me often not even in times of crisis but, please hear me out; I don't want much just a request for a gentle friend the one I turn to when I need to turn my sorrow to smiles..."

"She wants a little drama in her blood (just a sniff) she receives it, then she dances through her liquid world, intensified by the drama in her mind [Flashback] Golden Gate Park (her idea of a posh a..."

"The numbness you purchased with your last ten dollars begins to fade and a tiny voice within you wants to scream but your larger voice whispers "hush, here is comfort" and you clutch a gilt-framed..."