The tongue wishes to go forth
Desire to be unsheathed
Knows not what it speaks
Lies, truths sent forth
Bump, jump jauntily
Across ignorant buds
Unleashed, it ventures forth
Reckless, unyielding
Pain follows in its wake
The tongue ventured forth
To carve up humanity
In one fell swoop
The butcher stands in envy
 

The eye sees more than the heart knows
The heart follows a vein entrenched
Denied its rightful place
Sends errant messages
Ever while the fissure widens
The host walks blissfully unaware
Those enslaved thus enslave
Unknowing, unwilling
Captive collector
 

Sleep

Cast away entangled thought.
Let them run the misty mazes.
Retrospective vision
Searches for passages.
Hidden paths become frontiers.
Cryptic puzzles are the prizes 
Shimmering expectantly
Along the moors of the mind.
 

About the poet:
I was born in Van Buren, but now reside in St. David, near Long Lake.  I got my B. S. in Education from McMurry University in Abilene, TX. I  moved  back to Maine in '94 and started teaching in Madawaska.  I taught at the elementary level for 7 years, including teaching French Immersion.  I've taught high school English now for 2 years.  I am married and have one son.  I love to read and write, as well as, exercise, play the drums, paint and socialize.  One of my favorite things to do is listen to the loons at night.  My first published poem is in Echoes, edition # 57.  Someday, I'd love to  publish a novel.  I'm working on it.