LUCIUS (Part XV)

My poems are
dreams and memories,
fantasies and realities,
emotions and observations,
past, present, future,
all this and more
that I've attempted
to capture, like
holding a soul, or
riding a cloud, and
though I've failed,
still a glimmer remains
that sparks a feeling,
a memory, a thought, a dream,
and stringing the poems
all together I can see
large pieces of my life
like snapshots or a diary,
moving in my mind like
home movies, a documentary
of where I was,
and perhaps even,
of where I am going.

November 20, 1993

(NOTE: Many readers, editors, friends, etc. have asked me about my Lucius poems. I came across the name when younger, it means 'of the light', and I liked that concept. The Lucius poems are usually short pieces and they have great personal meaning to me in many aspects. They are among my favorite poems I've written and have been well recieved and published in various chapbooks and small press literary magazines. There are 15 Lucius poems, a series of maxims entitled the Proverbs Of Lucius (which also has 15 parts) and various other poems with the subtitle (A Lucius Poem)).