Every time he smiled
I was awash in
Full-bodied
Toe-curling
Ecstatic
Warmth

I can't wait to have my
Knocks Socked off!

Wicked drips
Upon my lips
Of milk sweet honey

Little miss *****
Sat on a bench
Enjoying her overcast day
Along came a raindrop
More plummeted... plip-plop
And ran miss wenchie away

I like it when time stops
And SNAPS us to attention in the present
So many wonderful things to see
In the Echo of that Snap

We are living verbs
Love is gravity
Truth is Function

The purpose of life is to learn
We are the inheritors of a portion of time
We can dissipate it on futile things
Or utilize it to our everlasting benefit
The seeming imperfections of Earth
The hazards and inequalities of life
The cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference
To suffering and affliction are not what they seem; as it is,
Earth is perfect for its purpose
It is ignorance of that purpose which makes it appear imperfect
Tribulation and adversity, sorrow and suffering
Are not to be thought of as needless burdens
Imposed upon the difficulties inseparable from earthly life
They are things of value which open the eyes to Truth
Tempering the spirit, as iron is tempered in the flame.

To find love you must give love
To find anything you must give it first
We are products of our own circumstance
We must give with no expectations
You give simply because you want to
Because it makes your heart happy.

Let me make you
My own private slip-n-slide

People are art
The villains. The Heroes. The Humor
The Struggle. The Story. The love
We are all pieces of moving art
A testament to our perceptions, desires, and purpose
Everyone as a role to play in reality
In the system. The cycle
But that's just one side of the coin
Half the story
The other side is the Connection
Emotions. Moments. Choices
Character. Laughter. Love.
Agony. Despair
We are all Endless Possibilities
We are Choices
How we find hope
What truly touches our heart
Then there is the edge of the coin itself
That is where I dwell
The magic. The in between. The bridge
Bridging the two sides
Here dwell the observers
The Writers. The Artists. The Performers
The Bewitched. The Disciplined. The Free
The ones who express because they have no choice
It enraptures them to the point that it becomes their very essence
Overflowing and spilling out in Determination
Devotion. Dedication. Passion. Purpose. Poise
The moments that matter most
Touch our hearts in truly profoundly ways
These are the entire reason I live
Regardless of the record spinning
There is so much life in the grooves and peaks
Spiraling ever on
Moments of plateaus
Open space
Cresting Inclines
Summits. Peaks. Pinnacles. Apex
That **** right there is transformative.

I've Got Your Back
Forget all the ******* explanations, beliefs,
Pre-programmed epic genetic associations to perceptions kind of ****
Here in the physical reality of life
Emotionally, human to human, one soul to the other
I've got you
I am a safe place to just let it go however you need to
Whether through complaining, crying, laughter, or just gentle silence.
In every second of time
I am a judge free zone
I create and hold witness to the space for you
To release and to heal, however that looks to you
I've got your back
My heart see's your heart
In appearance and depth

The funny thing about alone
There is no one trying to tell you otherwise
My voice ever so faint
Whispered to me, I listened
It asked questions. I listened
It got louder. I listened.
It comforted. I listened.
It nudged. I listened.
Until I Believed.
Slowly listening turned in to action
“You are valid” it would poke
Believe in what you say
I rose
I stared down fear
Leaning in with a wicked smile
You left me alone for too long
Or in fact just long enough
I changed
A metamorphosis
I am poetry in motion
The verb in a sentence
My body speaks in tongues
My soul unconfined
I am that point of exclamation!
Dotted exuberantly with intention!
Gusto. Bravery. Determination.
Tenacity. Passion. Surrender.
I am focused, honed, excitement.
Electric
A Generator
A live wire
Sparking
Lighting others up.
I am Love
Tender, Strong, Permeating
Patient, Forgiving, Wondrous
A torus of energy, forever folding and renewing
I found me
I found
I AM
The best gift I’ve ever opened.

The wind
A temptress
Always willing
To dance and caress
Revitalizing
She Resuscitates me

I know how you stare
while I'm sleeping under the stars
At my moon-kissed face
I feel you trace
My every outline

I know how you feel
Pounding heart
In the shadows, stand
Heart in hand
Oh, how it shines

I know how you love
Stolen breath
Just one kiss
From your lips
Forever entwined

Darkness needs no fancy tricks to mess up your whole day.
He simply must sit and wait for you to go astray.
There is plenty here without his help to bring you down to size.
He laughs and watches from his perch with amusement in his eyes.
For rarely does he need to act in any special way
He simply whispers your own fears back, toying with his prey.
A rude remark, a sneer or glance from someone you don't know
Are just some tools he can use to keep you down and low.
So look up my friend to the sky and try never to forget
That life is short, but oh it's worth not to heed his threats.
For once you learn his secret tricks you see them rather quickly
Allowing you to shake it off and move along more swiftly.

Let my poised obedience
Tip the scales and quicken your pulse

Let my body be a smorgasbord
Feast for your hungry eyes to devour

Let my silence speak in volumes
Resonating ardent desire

While your smile widens

A ***** I am on open seas
Where I feel completely free
Adventure my notion
Movement my lotion
Won't you come and sail with me?

Spectrum reflection
A blessing disguise
What's out is what's in
Swivel sidewise

Molehill mountains
Storms in teacups
All muss and fuss
A far off close-up

A wing and a prayer
A chance and a dance
Face and Embrace
The mighty expanse

Magic breadcrumbs
Twinkle like stars
Giggling while hiding
Tender memoirs

Voodoo whispers
Finespun intention
Vibrating and swaying until
Magic has snuck in

Enticing while Splicing
Singing me along
Via my senses
To where I belong

Daring to be found
Anticipating you
Suspended exhalation
Timeless rendezvous

My body
Was the battleground
Of hand-me-down emotions

She is the zest
Of lemon skin
Her eyes are hopes
Eternal grin
Her voice is soft
Like a gentle wind
She is loves
Long lost twin
She is the why
The where and when
Chewing gum bubbles
Are her sin
She is the center
Of a wild spin
Dreams and magic
Are her kin
Sunbeams and stardust
End where the other begins
Infinitely swirling
Without and within

Hope she has and hope she gives
So that other may truly live.

The impact of a loved one ripples outward
The wind has changed direction
The ripples are now waves
White capped knuckles of grief
Memories escape cradled in saline
Slipping out of the heart
Tear drop ripples echo back
            Plip
                      Plop
Adding to the turbulent beauty
A lifetime shared
A moment of forever
Time slows to weightlessness
Hanging on the cresting inhale of the heart

Where is my mind?
Sometimes behind
Sometimes ahead
Sometimes laying still in my bed
Is it confined?
Sometimes blind
Sometimes aware
Sometimes like M.C Escher's stairs
What does it mean?
Sometimes clean
Sometimes *****
Sometimes a little bit flirty
Always between
Sweet and obscene
Parity and rarity
If ya know what I mean

You dastardly devil
How you dishevel
Hidden spaces
With ****** traces

Fingertips sublime
Let pain be mine

The time is now
If I know how
To leap with all my might

Openly trust
Myself I must
Life's acolyte

Standing Steady
At the ready
To let go of this ground

Leaning in
Trust the wind
Absence of all sound

Eyes close tight
Fear I might
Plummet to my demise

Hold my breath
Brace for death
The Illusion does belie

Backward Rules
Make us fools
The answer's in the trick

Decend to rise
Counterclockwise
A new bailiwick

10, 9
Your body's my shrine

8, 7
Fingertip heaven

6, 5
Sensation drive

4, 3
Intense apogee

2, 1
Coming undone

Words are like containers of glass
Determined by the size of their mass
Naughty or nice
They are quite the vice
Unless speaking out of your ***

Groove, move, dance around
When I'm lost I am found
The rhythm is the only sound

So far in, I'm beyond
Take my hand, let's abscond
Heartbeat meter correspond

Pacified distortions
Unequal proportions
Blind absorption of value abortion
Reapportion extortion.

Spoon fed sensitivity
Generation of ME ME ME
Captivity of passivity

Infinity held
Rise and fall of precious breath
Inhaled and expelled

Nestled back
on the cul-de-sac
within the jungled yard

In disrepair
sitting there
Showing all your scars

Left alone
Just boards and bone
Speak of your neglect

Shadowed Debris
From your last lessee
Your banshee dialect

Tiptoe approach
Tenderly encroach
Upon your property

The right touch
A friendly crutch
To lift this poverty

Skeletal remains
framework veins
Weighted in their silence

Times erosion
Your eclosion
Birthed from gall defiance

I'll restore this wood
Back to good
Preserving stories within

Robin Hood pieces
My extraction increases
Patches of woven skin

I'm not lost, I'm not found
The reflection of me watches
Your reality, my mirror

Magic in a touch
Gentle caress of a sound
Hearts held enraptured

Pounding like a drum
Each cough the hit of the snare
Explosions of white

Clap of thunder
Applause of the heavens
Natures approval

Presently present
Flow of time irrelevant
The moment is now

I'm never worth the time
It seems
To invest in, in any way

Unraveling seams
Silent screams
No matter how I splay

I fail to see
What you see in me
Based on words you choose

Unless of course
I'm your dead horse
Hanging from your noose

Dragged around
On the ground
Through the muck and mire

Gripping blight
Unseen plight
In shadows, I expire

Loveless love
minim shoves
Kept at arms length distance

What must I do
To get you to
Notice my decaying consistence

Actions and words
You infer
Splinters of remiss

What it shows
In my woes
I'm easy to dismiss

I long for the animal you hide
Won't you come out to play?
You won't know unless you've tried
This space is safe, promise it's okay

I am going to leave my mark
One way or another
Raw untamed fervid spark
It is you I am going to smother

Let the voracious hunger mount
Escalating each minute
Primal breathlessness paramount
You are your own limit

I'm not going to make love to you
I utter rather sweetly
Neither am I going to *******
But own you...... completely

I want to tear you apart
Don't make any sudden moves
Pulsating beat of your heart
Every inch of me approves

I want to forget my own name
While I'm busy moaning yours
I promise to start quite tame
Until you are out of your drawers

My body I do herby bestow
Let me show you how
I whisper in your ear and let you know
The time is Now

Swirling
Spiraling
Circling
Down the drain

Weeping
Crying
Disappearing
Tears in rain

Swaying
Swinging
Creaking
End of rope

Gasping
Coughing
Clawing
Strangled choke

Fading
Fazing
Dispersing
Cellophane ghost

Silence
Dead air
Hush
Deaf as a post

Hands up
White flag
Relinquish
Signal surrender

Body
Mind
Soul
Legal tender

Pulling a Rip Van Winkle seems appealing,
Though my time it would be stealing
Keeping me from dealing
With all of this feeling
That leaves me reeling.
But like an onion, I need pealing
To accomplish inner healing
Revealing rather than concealing
I find myself kneeling while congealing
My past I am repealing

Yearning for burning

A kind of returning

Unlearning learning

To fix my own kerning

Churning adjourning

My rebirth I'm earning

A moment of peace
No bigger than a thimble
Strategic retreat

Pervasive silence
Lurks out of fingertip reach
Tippy-toed stretches

Rejuvenation
Constellation of prospect
Predestination

Early morning fog
Obliterates everything
From my mental reach