Promise Late, Yet Kept

I’ve said best friend too oft

A phrase given of drifters,

Bright lights that quickly faded.

Cast aside, yet ne’er forgotten

She waited by my side,

Always there to put me first.

She helped me see my foolishness,

My stubborn drunken pride,

Born of sleeplessness, not wine.

She stands here still

While others care to part

Shifting seasons, remorse and farewell.

A monument to friendship

Dedication divine,

Yet comfortable and sweet.

Now she brings a child forth,

A light within her womb

A candle to the darkened sky.

A touch of poverty and sorrow

Rest upon your head

Yet nary a tear spoils your heart.

Kindness weaved like crocheted love,

Threads of silken charity

Intermingled with latent shine.

Clothe the world with thy wisdom,

As you once clothed my neck

With the warmth of a scarf.

J

Justify the jagged jars of juicy jams

Jostled, jolted from the jungle

January’s joke, a jeering jest

Jogging to the jaded Jersey jams.

Jazz of July, June and

Juniper javelins jutting out

Jailing the java’s justice

Judging the jury and jester.

Jotting joyful jargon in journals,

Juvenile jabbering in juxtaposition with

Jubilant juggling of jeweled junction.

I

Ivy intertwines intricately

Ignoring icy interruptions and

Invades ignorance and isolation.

Inching its interface into infrastructure

Interrupts infringement

Insuring involvement and interrogations. 

Itching its infamous intelligence with

Insatiable intestines of intrigue 

Indigestion of insolence is imagined. 

Imploding impossibilities irresponsibly illustrated by

Ink immeasurable in inferences

Infatuated with impregnation of ideas.

Islands immersed in individuality

Ignited by ineptitude 

Innocence Inflicted with ignominy.

Foreign

Her words were foreign

Drenched in eloquence befitting a queen.

Her lips, soft as silk

Moved provocatively in rhythm,

Pale red flowers opening,

Covered in dew.

Her hands were treasonous,

Treachery deep as canyon passes,

Leading me to sin

As an accomplice to her shame.

Her eyes, darkened earth

Penetrate my hardened heart

And fertile shoots entangle such.

Her hair, my hangman’s noose

A hammock for all my thoughts

A final rest. 

H

Halfway heaving, huffing heavy

Hallucinations of hugging hippos with

Hula hoops of hickory.

Hazy hills of helium,

Hiding hangers of hamburgers

Hankering for hunger.

Hunters help the healing,

Hearing heated howls of hatred,

Habitual hyperboles of home.

In huts of hideous hags

Hitchhiking half-heartedly,

Heading for Hell.

Hungover, headaches hemorrhage

Hilarity held hostage in hindsight

Harsh heavens and historic hotel.

Huddled hives of hyenas heckle,

Happening upon my hovel,

And hasten to have his heart.

G

Gently grazing gregarious giraffes

Generate generous groups

Guarding great guesses.

Giants governing glorious growth,

Grieving galloping and galactic glances

Gnawing, gripping, goading.

Gargantuan goodness guiding

Golden grandious guilds

Gloating generalities.

Grasslands graced by gorgeous goats

Gradually graphing graphite gears

Gerrymandered, grinding in gravity.

Grants given to get games going

Gauging genocide of germs and

Graves of gestures gained in gazas.

F

Fetters of finality fashioned in farce

Finalize formulas found frolicking.

Fumbling, frivolous fractures

Fitting fragments of fickle fancy

Forgoing fatality, fall to filth

Fearing foresight, fail to forget.

Faith faltering at faults,

Fantasies fading and fissures fashioning

Flashes of fastidious fortune.

Facades of fragrant forms

Float in flaccid frustration

Framing feelings forthcoming

Yet flummoxed in fate.

Forming fulminating fluoride fallacies.