My Brother (English Sonnet)

Youth made sense when accompanied by mates
Though lonesome complex lessens one's esteem
Praying to God seemed natural to wish
For a brother by blood as mind to deem
Years gone passed in expectations since then
And a sibling have I to keep, but--
Challenges thwarted our loyalties
As mother's favoritism cut...
By influence without discipline
I was bound to baby this boy of age
Losing my individualism
Crushing my list of hopes in privilege
We are now in bondage to each other
Though still I wish freedom from you brother

New Years Resolution (English Sonnet)

Kick off your old shoes and try another
Fit them to your heel as they will contour
Practice and exercise can change your mind
As new footing in foreign grounds will assure
It may be tight- uncomfortable even
But take those first few steps and sign your name
To personalize these cold feet to fit
Making amends to your neglecting blame
And cherish those past familiarities
That helped your legs shake off the worst of them
Marking progress to your unknown potential
Pacing this lap for faster momentum
Until the day you understand its means
The ends may continue regretful scenes

Science of Colorblind (English Sonnet)

Take two colors and place them next to each
Vibrate with contrast, compliment by tints
Use red to green or yellow to blue hues
Changing in pigments by blinking in hints
Reversed through one retina perceiving
A handicap to both eyes managing
Placing recognition in standard swatch
Blends all the difference to their matching
Step outside or lounge indoors, go and see
For prisms don't allure the shades of night
And electronics can't mimic the sun
Deterring your confidence to trust sight
But lose not hope for the right eye's defect
In dark our vision light can reflect

My Mother (English Sonnet)

Cigarette would burn and pile useless soil
Granting the earth broken dreams to recon
In ash of grays delivering her son
As sick as he is, she continued on
They count to three of the mouths they would feed
Children for hopes, ones that remind them of
The life she hand and him that cared for her
Leaving the hell they'll never need to scoff
One day, worse than any other it changed
She worked harder so to wait much longer
For the spring that would come through forgiveness
Calling God, praying for patience on her
In hopes by faith that they would all just learn
The family whose hearts can someday return

My Dad (English Sonnet)

There was a man I never knew
Whose jests were sung and thought of much too
For years to come like proverbs referred
In days alone, he'd be wished back to
From memories of bliss that he'd return
To ride motored wheels and challenging life
Savor the ink, professing ideas
Hiding alias by phone, coy to wife
Many a mischief spread gossip afar
Testing his love and integrity reprise
Faltering by economical change
Replying with what his hands could enterprise
Leaving legacy to a now foreign place
Dreaming of tomorrow to see his child's face

Nostalgic Song (English Sonnet)

Oh shallow thought of cynical origins
You've demolished my sacred innocence
Replacing hopes and dreams of what could have been
Deterring confidence from my once known essence
But listen to that- that foreign sound
From where my heart beats in recollection
To what might have been familiar music
Resonating soft melodies of passion
Uplifting the soul to the blue beyond
With gospel wings away from worldly flings
The lost song we all once knew way back then
A euphoric mantra that 'til now sings
Please forget not myself, as I did you
Nostalgia so refreshing, though few...

Cafe D'Amour (English Sonnet)

Closing the store after hours of work
Tuckered from busing delivering to
"People, people," amongst them I am with
Dressed as I am, smelling that dark brown brew
I long for us to sit once again Miss
To kindle what was our chance to be
Hesitations before regret today
What you, if could, would have thought about me
Your scent allures the heat from my furnace
As a wish to taste you presence returns
I have chocolates to share between us
And petals for our romance to burn
Arriving to kettles sing, I peek in
Catching a sparkle as your smile within

Best Friends Suck (Epigram)

In the event that I might die you must take my old cab
Back to Chinatown with sixty dollars and pay my tab

Debt (Blank Verse)

Reach within and open the envelope
Ink stains a marker of success today
If not progress to further your own door
Resting tomorrow's fate to accountants

Cellphone (Vers Libre)

Ding ding ding!
The phone is ringing

Ching ching ching!
The phone is ringing

Bang bang bang!
The phone is ringing

Beeeeeep!
I think I should answer that

Gift of God (Vers Libre)

Tell me I'm crazy
For discerning truth
'Cause while you were speaking
I could swear
I met God

The Snake Won't Bite, I Hope... (Curtal Sonnet)

There is no room for unopened green eyes
When legitimate sparkles shine for me
Those snakes will coil my day 'til their sun rise
Adjourning mine own with my tears as prize
Leeching from neck to brain, I will not see
As pride may trench upon my guise
Instead, I say, open my eyes- perhaps
To mend the heart's cynicism, and yours
Pending discouragements, dividing gaps
From which the good will birth within hours
To hope truce, perhaps...

Forgiving Phrases (Vers Libre)

It's of the loveliest day
I must admit
That love in trial
Cannot
And in confusion
Will not
Change a cynical heart
For a stone cannot swim
And ice will never fly
Until God's hand reaches in
To form a miracle

Once, Life was Kind (English Sonnet)

As your sun may set in our west
Your east dawns the illuminating sky
From the entry of open doors
We dine in honest nicety-reply
Lending hands place the luncheon spoon to
The empty pocket of whom once had some
Though times may change the heart turns warm
In winter cold bringing, comes His kingdom
Upon open windows when there's no door
Hope's breath casts in singing the gracious song
For the sparing and kind give more in treat
To gleam a candle from match girl's who long
This is your life and theirs much so in part
Living it once; your sun- that golden heart