Magenta Maybe written ‘In Synergy’ with “I’ve weathered red storms and fires foreseen” by J. Michael Walker
Crimson skies
Battered by Southern rain
Like empty clouds
Fueled by Northern pain
Maybe my love
We can dance under bolts of sight
Stalagmites of light
Open closed doors
Shut stores
Use details as dandruff
Specifics as laundry
Take your genius
And blow it up
Your brilliance
And sip it up
Tigers and lions
Have teeth
We lay a wreath
They live underneath
We drown in grief
Like soldiers of belief
They cross rivers sublime
We devour mountains of grime
Like sentries without rhyme
Computers in time
Harvests on dime
Monopolies in mime
Amplified Azure ‘In Synergy’ with “Snakebit by love (You Don’t Know What Love Is)” by J. Michael Walker
The dented dragon sashaying like sugar
Underneath the peach cobbler sun
Love is hard
A dogmatic, cement river
Praying like a bent moon
Tent in June
Bayou swoon
Love is Impossible
Always asking too much
Gathering on a tin bus
Until your eyeballs mistake Nixon for Nirvana
Lust for gust
Love is fat
Firing like an old cat
Eel with skin like regret
A falcon with talons of sweat
On which you do not bet
That ache like a Cottonmouth snake
Love requiring a heart of soul
Beginning with no goal
Love is wet
Ocean begets
River without a clue
Swamp brand new
Stream thin as patience
Creek made of breath
So we can let aqua forget
Lagoon born of death
On this blue asteroid of tropical meth
Love is bruised bread
Seeking victims as it dies
Whether white or brown
Swerving in lead
Caught on tongue to give it a song
Marilyn Monroe’s platinum gong
Love is free
Like the cashmere sea
Giving and getting like politicians for free
New Orleans Gris Gris
Cadillac stars above rodent cars
Cauliflower Mars
Bambi bars
Love is a bald barbecue
Looking for two
Never a vixen stew
Forgiven at birth
On blue earth
Love is a flower
Wilted but not wanted
Robust in glare
Trampled by air
Always bare
Petals light as stare
Stems cut to there
Color less for wear
Dead gams like cut hair
Face ever so fair
Love is an altar
Burning night
Out of sight
Sacred might
In the light
Mirror, mirror
God is a fight
A holy kite
Blessed, blessed right
Bread and wine
Give us flight
Love is the morning
Flowing with time
Drawing nine
Dusting dime
Scraping sky
Losing Pi
Crimson dawn
Malevolent yawn
Darkest dusk
Thickest husk
Romance rusts
Reason busts
Clouds a must
Love is a hound dog
Hurricane paws in view
Laptop coat brand new
Brie moon too
Orb kept together with glue
Like the famous thoroughbred Seattle Slew
Who to a Triple Crown flew
Love is a raptor
With broken feet
Dead on his seat
Barking and bantering
To an off beat
Fruit Loop street
Asphalt heat
Cracked neat on
This Gibraltar of wheat
Poisoned by
Supple and salient meat
Given to greet
Love is a tiger
Bloodied by man
Growling under the
Fruit punch sun
Killing a nun
Straight as a gun
Fueled by the run
Murdering fun
Still as a baked bun
And done
Radomir Vojtech Luza was born in Vienna, Austria in 1963 to prominent Czech parents. The Pushcart Prize nominated poet (2012) has been The Poet Laureate of North Hollywood, CA since 2012 and the author of 37 books (33 collections of poetry) since 1991. In 2021, Luza won the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Book Contest with LOSING ME: POEMS FROM BED 23C and finished Sixth in the Broadside Contest.
In 2022, the freelance writer and former college disc jockey placed Fourth in the SGVPF Book Contest with TIN TULIP, his meditation on pornography, and tied for First in the Broadside Contest. In 2020, the Third-Place finisher in the 1983 New Orleans Catholic Youth Organization Man of the Year Contest, placed Second in The SGVPF Chapbook Contest. The Catholic of over 50 years had his One Act Play CURIOUS TUMOR produced and staged by The American Naturalistic Theatre (Off Broadway) and a One Act Play festival in New York City in 2005.
The Tulane University and Jesuit High School (New Orleans, LA) graduate produced and staged his play THE BISHOP HAS LANDED at the Riant Theatre’s Strawberry One Act Play Festival and The Producers Club in NYC in 2004. Luza, who has written, recorded and produced nine spoken word CD’s set to music (Eight of them engineered by the late Barry Schwam) garnered The Irwin Award (Book Publicists of Southern California) for Most Creative Collection of Poetry for 2016’s EROS OF ANGELS which is a Tribute to Los Angeles highlighting one man’s journey from skid row to literary row.
Luza also had his One Act Play, WHITE MAN, BLACK MAN produced and staged at The Riant Theatre’s One Act Play Festival during its stint in Los Angeles in 2008. Lastly, the editor and publisher of the literary journal VOICES IN THE LIBRARY, published by Red Doubloon Publishing, the literary arm of Radman Productions, produced and staged IN HELL, the one person show he wrote and performed, in The One Person Show Series at The White Fire Theatre in Los Angeles in 2008.
