NAKED DREAMS

1990-PRESENT

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The poetry in Naked Dreams are for the most part in the order of writing from getting out of the Navy and heading back to Houston where I met my wife Chris to the present.  We have two beautiful daughters and have had more than our share of ups and downs.  Sometimes it's a bit daunting to showing my life in verse like this...kind of like that dream you have where you go to school or work and realized you forgot to put your clothes on.

1990

     Rings
..there's nothing like watching your brand new wife lay there asleep after you've made love to her

     Celebration
..about the crazy overwhelming feeling of being in love

     Snooze Alarm
..written about the that sweet time of day when I snuggle with my wife before getting up for work

     Hypothermia
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.about love turning frigid and dying
 

1991

     Ol’ Ticker
..a silly little poem about feeling so much love you could burst

     Mosaic
..a love poem of two people putting the pieces of their former lives together to create a beautiful relationship in the present

     Nyctophobia
.. nyctophobia is the fear of the dark. Stephane Trahan's painting makes this piece...make sure you click on the Empact Image to get the full effect...this feels like "Child of the World" lite...less words, but more filling

     Succubus
..so evil, but so wild you can't resist her...ummmmmm

     Orion
..that ancient hunter haunts us from the heavens once again
 

1993

     Sleepytown (Emily’s Lullaby)
..a lullaby I wrote my for my daughter when she was baby...my brother's family was visiting when I wrote this and I hide in our bedroom so I wouldn't be interrupted while the words flowed...everyone wondered where the heck I went.  I used to sing this to my girls when they were little as I tucked them in

1995

     Almost Dawn
..about the feeling of lying in bed with your lover but feeling like you can't touch them

     One Current
..about the fear of dying alone and the fear of being buried

     Will to be Wicked
..about a rowdy guy feeling the pressure of dealing with a young family and all the responsibilities

     Picture
..about the secret place in a loving relationship between a man and a woman
 

1998

     Pair o' Ducks
..about the paradox of the hopeless feelings of a strained relationship

     Nocturnal Voyage
..a portrait of the magical odyssey of two starry-eyed lovers

     Reflections
..an old man looks back on a life of adventure to forget the lonely, sad place he exists in now
 

1999

     Destiny
..yearning once again for the woman of my wildest dreams...have I met her and don't know it? will I ever meet her?

     Lullaby
..a little song about being on the road, missing your lover, and trying to sleep

     Becoming a Browning
..
about a love so deep "it" becomes a metaphor...the ultimate love poem

     How do I lust thee?
..a bawdy, humorous poke at the Victorian love poets

     I Still Love You
..about thinking back on an old romance and wanting that feeling back.. and fooling yourself
 

My father passed away in November of 2000 when the country was still trying to decide who won the election.  I didn't want to live in the big city anymore and we decided it was time for us to move back to the heartland where we could raise our kids like we were raised.  I got online and submitted resumes in Ohio and Iowa where Chris grew up.  I had lots of interest in Iowa and not even a nibble in Ohio.  I guess they'd had enough of me.  I was a week and a day into my two week notice and had hired my own replacement when 911 went down.  Somehow we managed to sell our house and rebuild our lives in rural Iowa moving in my birthday in late November.

2002

     Eulogy
..about the death of my beloved father. I was angry then, but have since overcome it

 

2004

     When You Shine
..a song I wrote for my lovely wife on Mother's Day in 2004

     Dance Demon
..about a human's struggle to keep his temper and mouth from destroying what he loves
 

2008

     Window Seat
..sometimes when you think back on your childhood and who you really are, you end up disappointed in what you've become even if you're what's deemed "successful"

     Almost Amos
..about the fear of becoming famous

     Terminal D
..about a chance encounter with a beautiful woman but then just having to watch her walk away

     Rikki
..about how the runt of the liter usually turns out to be the best dog a family ever had. Rikki got injured and had to be put down two and a half years after this poem was written at the age of five...she was best damned dog I ever saw!
 

2009

     Rainy Day
..about letting go of this world on a rainy day and soaring through the cleansing drops into the next realm

     Paradise Lost
..about taking a good woman for granted and regretting the choices you made and the things you've done

     Windsong
..this piece says volumes with few words...love will find a way

     The Black Maple
..about overcoming the trials and tribulations of an almost failed marriage

     Glass-Bottom Boat
..about a person dealing with clinical depression

     Mistress Youth
..
mid-life crisis is real if your lucky enough to get there...an older man's look back at his youthful lust...funny how the stories become better in retrospect than actually happened

     Behold, the Crossroad!
..about the cost of what we're doing to this planet

     A Perfect Game
..about my favorite game in the world. I wrote this after reading an article in Sport Illustrated about Mark Buerle's perfect game. It may be my most popular piece. The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame asked for permission to use it sometime

     The Flow
..about how the arts are in the eye of the beholder and how you wonder what great work we missed because it was never noticed

     Cosmic Psalm
..a prayer to the universal mind
 

2010

     In Thru the Out Door
..about a guy who always skirts around the rules and figures he'll be doing it to the end

     Faith
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.about the glimmer of light that keeps us going

     White Elephant
..about the how the games people play are captured and made public through technology

     Chain Mail
..a humorous look at loathing entering poetry contests

     Death of a Genre
..about the obsolescence of a genre.. nothing last forever. Even Homer and Shakespeare will be forgotten in time

     Bridge to Heaven
.about the bridge that binds use with our loved ones who've passed on...written with my daughter Abbey

     Girl Next Door
..about a little boy having his first encounter with the fairer sex

     The Fight
..based on a true story from my childhood...even being raised old school taught me women still ruled the roost

     Calling Out God
.about a christian who questions god's motives

     Damnation
..about the decline of a great nation and a generation that thought they would be the different

     Broken Bond
..about a sailor leaving a lover and heading back to the call of the sea

     Zenith
..a sappy poem about love and nature

     Honeymoon in Paris
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.about lovers in Paris who make the town their own

     Shaman Trance
..an edgy escape into an ancient shaman's trance

     New Jerusalem
..a look at the current political climate with implied biblical references
 

2011

     Saturday Morning
..a portrait of a man's love for his mate and their everyday life

     Supernatural
..a look at how the love of a good woman becomes a man's savior

     The Enlightenment Lounge
..a tongue-in-cheek dream about dying and meeting the great minds of history in limbo

     Echoes
..about how art is the only thing that truly ties time and space as well as religion and myth together
 

2012

     Rape of the Republic
.a testament to the frustration and shame at the current political situation in the US and around the world
 

EPILOGUE

     Bitten
..the epilogue of emotionography and my life
 

 

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