Jeff’s Poetry

Undocumented. A surplus human whose work’s never complimented. Tossed aside. You don’t wanna leave but you’ve got nowhere to hide. You and your family, y’all have no rights. Powerless; such a strong person but you have no way to fight. Lost in the rushing wind. It blows hard, and I’ve […]

Devalued, like a failed currency.Swept away with administrative urgency.A crumpled paper overwritten too many times,Covered with ideas and illegible rhymes. I was thrown away. Like a bank note from a country that no longer exists,Faded, thin and torn by insanity’s dark fits.A spent razor trashed cuz’ it was ejectable.A coin […]

The things we hold His hand closed. Surely, it wasn’t empty; something must be there. It had to have weight or mass or meaning, it had to be anything other than air. For he was taking it with him. Was it a palmful of aspirations, hopes and dreams? Thing’s he’d […]

The waves rush, curling this morning, their cusps golden in early light. Gilded edges spilling towards inevitable ends. They become gold flecked foam on dark sand, a part remaining, hidden between the grains, sinking below, half earth, half sea. Neither the one nor the other. I’m rolling now, feeling the […]

What is the glue that binds, Scattered bits of time Into seconds that rhyme, Making the cadence of life? Deconstructed moments, broken bits of eternity; What is the stuff that fixes them together? I seek that mysterious stickiness. It holds secrets. How are my moments of present Bound so thoroughly […]

How will you paint me today? What colours will you use? Will I be a burst of fiery red, or a mass of mixed-up blues? What is my palette? What figure do you see, while you’re busy painting me? Do I stand straight, or slightly bent? Am I the devil, […]

They say some things are better left unsaid, That some poems, are better left unread. ​It’s best not to share all, I’m told. ​​Please conceal the truth. My voice is stilled with a righteous gag. They heard the truth, then stuffed that rag. ​What I am is not what they […]

Radiant drops of eternity rest in your soul; Perfection. Perfect, they are your truest self; Radiant. Time alters life in changing cycles; Seasons. Seasons bend the strongest of oaks; Time. Infinity abides within the moment; Eternal. I came with nothing. Guilt’s cuts weep tears of crimson. I go with nothing.

An empty space, eternal in size, abides in us. Integral to being; our hearts crave its filling. Ambitious, we seek spackle, divine and pure, It putties the gap, devotion instilling. Terrified by faith, we build walls. Old, thick stones, cool and dark, Tempting us to believe in obscurity. Our understanding […]