At Risk of Trespass by Josh Bond 

There are parts of me that remain untrespassed
and I wonder whether to invite you there
or check them out alone
one more time
before I dare ask you to accompany me
along the ridge path
that drops away to both sides
a fine view to the left
the air clear and bright  
and to the right the fog of despair 
which is also part of me
I wonder whether to steer your eyes
in one direction 
through clever distraction 
or whether to admit that
this is the ridge-path 
between two worlds
and I inhabit both 
depending on the moon
I feel I can wait no longer 
please walk with me 
look where you will
I will face the killer rejection ~
I'll fear no ill
offer you my hand
should one of us stumble or fall
for love is unconditional
or not at all

__________________

Beyond the Impasse: A Becoming of Broken Hearts

by Pablo Cipher_O Martinez

To forever exist beyond the impasse of the untrespassed

universally rejected by the projected artificialities
having outlasted the hurt

turning returns
wilderness deserts of howling winds against skins
silent reconfigured

every belief became in the forlorn

sculptures in the sun
reaching forth in roots

dark being seeing through drifting cliffs
the fire within as the only warmth

magician of madness – seeker of sadness

black wings burst
no matter the say or utterance
grey skies race over gutters
collectively connected
gradients of solitudes
I will make a place
by the twilight of the moon

I shall gaze into forever forever

being seeing upon a fire

thorn-ed roses of gnosis

impervious to forthcoming rejection

renaming the self
coronating I is another
to sit upon this throne of aloneness alone
for love is unconditional

or has no home

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Cipher
Pohms
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12/30

Author’s Note:

It has been a profound experience to work with Mr. Bond…

Sir Joshua…

<#3

I feel I am with him in his studio…

And he with me in mine…

I think of how my path has brought me here…

And it’s beautiful…

A beauty with just the right amount of melancholy…

I find this poem “At Risk of Trespass”…

Very powerful…

Something that I have come to love about Josh’s

works are the love component…

Josh is a deeply loving person…

Perhaps all artists are, in some form…

However, to see this manifest in the love

of father, husband, poet and human…

It manifests something like…

Beethoven…

A cosmic force – A force of beauty…

It is the best of things…

It made me think…

About what a beautiful and intimate

thing it is…

To show others [the untresspassed]…

Thinkin how this effects self actualization…

How so many in the modern age are

giving up on love…

Which is perhaps a pre requisite of

such self disclosure…

Thinkin of my experience…

I suppose I did get my heart broke…

Perhaps I turned to solitude and writing…

Perhaps I crossed into the untresspassed

of my self…

And found a sacred location…

Or…

Was:

Found.

Tis thought provoking….