~

Inside the longing as deep shadows dance
Lost in the passion of you
Offering songs in the key of romance
Violins sing right on cue
Endless this rhythm of love on display
Yearnings melodically free
Orchestras waiting for their turn to play
*Until you are here with me

I wish love was not
just another
four letter word

At sunrise, it dawned on me...
another day without you

Most times I look in the mirror and wonder…why

Within my heart resides
an ever wondrous song
~drenched~
in blush tuned daydreams,
oh won’t you sing along

For you, it was easy
forgetting...
how you felt before

-

At the airport,
wishing I was on a different flight

~

Reflections on a mirrored pond,
deer at play the fields
Clouds of wispy fortunes found,
O’ morning view doth yield
The sky O’ peek thy opal face,
branches touch thy form
Clean the air of filtered trace
*on summer days so warm

The next best thing

Dark shadows hug the ceiling
Like so many helium balloons
Carelessly released by a child
Reaching for the next best thing

Eventually they will fall weary
Cascading in monochrome misery
Suffocating my empty world
In languishing latex and rubber

And I sit on the cold floor waiting
Staring above at my timely demise
Finally coming to the realization
I am not the next best thing

~~~~


Wept this dream, my thoughts they fill
Take me from this weary place
Where darkness screams a painful chill
In torment of the mind does trace

I wait here thick of splintered thorn
My tears they fall upon the seed
In hopes the bloom of perfect dawn
Will light the way of what I need

My hands are sore of calloused fear
Scars my skin they carve a line
Neath bramble branch of broken cheer
A breast of this near mortal time

Your hand I long of feathered feel
So soft the touch, my heart does wane
These eyes, a love to then reveal
Within your arms, ignite the flame

Lift me for my body weak
Desires but the breath of you
To breathe within this soul I seek
Allowing dreams to mend the true

Or shall I die alone this eve
Beyond the moon of wicked glow
Lost of every captured dream
And nothing more I need to know
~~~~~
When there, atop, a shadowed form
With torch in hand of flickered fire
Eyes so wide to fend the storm
I reach for her which I desire

Upon my brow a single kiss
Of angel wings in silken twine
“Arise” a voice, melodic bliss
“I’ve come, my love, to make you mine”

The sun appears on eastern shore
As flowers bloom in petal’d faire
Of wishes I do cast once more
My fortune now to find you there

“Come, let’s dream, let’s dream as one”
You sing to me harmonic voice
“And fall in love till time is done”
My heart has only but one choice

We leave this place of fractured doubt
My hand in yours, my life the same
A feeling but the need to shout
Dear heavens, thank you once again

For I was lost, a wilted soul
Alone of this and every breath
Of counted stars to take their toll
Awaiting but my coming death

And now my world has filled the brim
With love I find so deep inside
My dream is you, has always been
No longer do I run and hide

So now we dream, we dream as one
Such beauty does my life exceed
Perfection to my sight has come
Sweet angel, all I’ll ever need

Channeling dance steps on heart beat desires

Melodies drift in endless echoed whims

through the still valleys of our minds

Volumes of favorite pulled titles

vinyl placed orb’d grooves,

hold out their hands,

reaching for us

in memories

of days

gone

by


we

smile

and sway

to the rhythm

of this love we feel

Pure harmonic embrace

meets us on the dance floor

as our bodies touch and our eyes

fall deep within the sounds of affection

when we find were are one with the music

channeling dance steps on heart beat desires

~

On the wings of
                 a watercolor rainbow
Fluttering turquoise
          tinted blushings
Paint in swirled
               illumined visions
Finding my eyes
                         a’ wandering

In melodic hypnotic
            wiltings
On a lonely summer’s day,
when all my mind
   seeks
is the wondrous beauty

Of your sweet smile
lighting
         my world
In delicate hues
of rose petal

Daydreams,
        caressing
              my eyes
                        in pure
                                 *Love

Without you…
I find I can no longer be…
me

~

Down here I sit as the moon rises high
Melodies float on the air
Songs of affection rain down from the sky
Oh how I wish I were there

Dreaming of lyrics a’ flow on the wind
Harmonies whisper my mind
Voices so sweet touch me so once again
Memories past to remind

Feel you and me while they’re playing our song
Soft as your lips they do sing
Hold me so deep in your heart all night long
Wrapped in your lullaby wings

Staring to heaven, the stars that do shine
Hearing the beat of your heart
Praying the day that forever you’re mine
Never again we will part

So we may sing in the verses of love
Soft of our symphonies pure
Ballads eternal a’ wing up above
Sung with the one I adore

~

Desperate on this darkest star
In stagnant air to breathe
Jagged reach of tended far
So much I can’t believe

A’ chained upon the barricade
Locked this welded form
Broken of mistakes I’ve made
Waiting on the storm

As here upon my knees I weep
Head within my hands
Crying tears forever keep
Aside from promised plans

My heart now sliced in silent view
The end beckons me home
This which I have done to you
My life it sits alone

Shadows hung on shouldered fall
Mud encrusts my feet
Pain besets this lonely call
As endless sorrows seep

“I’m sorry”, echoes in my head
Engulfed in rhythm’d flow
Offered of a broken man
Who prays for you to know

Pleadings from this sectioned seat
I beg with all I am
Calling out in sad repeat
This empty place I stand

I ask for your forgiveness
Myself I can’t forgive
This punishment lies endless
Of fractured days I live

The pain is ever coming
Though nothing I shall share
I face the sun so stunning
In hopes that you are there

But still the time is passing
Sand in glass does fall
Desolate amassing
And I deserve it all

The moon’s
reflection in your eyes...
eclipses my heart

~

Of worth, I wonder, oh I plead
This man of very simple means
Alone in truth my love does bear
If only you were here with me
~
A tiny touch of fingertips
Invokes desire to my glow
A brush against your supple lips
My blood a’ boil, starts to flow
~
So tight within your arms I see
My place, the world I long to share
O’ cast of shimmering moon beam
Now shines upon your autumn hair
~
Of eyes so dark, intense thy form
In prayers ago, to find me true
Cold winters fierce, I’ll keep you warm
To cry, I’m so in love with you
~
So am I worth what I so need
I stand before this evening light
With scars where once my life did bleed
An anguished soul of sorted sight
~
To dream in darkness shedding fear
Till death does come to find my day
I’m worth it if your love is near
Within my heart along the way

-

Kissing you would be sweeter,
if you weren't a pillow

I dreamt of you again,
how I hate - love sleeping

Can you hear it?
Soft on window pane followings
Long of sunrise shadows
Paced in steps of fountains calling
Drifting in and out of silence
Tempo’d in graffiti sign language
Pouring out internal meanings
Rhythm’d vertical thumping

Blushed in muted tones
Standing in the rainbow’s arch
Drenched of weeping welcomes
Locked beyond early futures
Singing sweet praises of you
Moving in metered time
To your wondrous love
Can you hear it?

~

Rushing upon slippery stones,
smooth textures fall
far below glistened riverbed smiles

White foam visions reflect,
gathering within misted whispers
as I stand naked, breathing in the day,
drenched in warm poetic waterfalls

Rhyming to the sun’s glare, always aware,
baring my soul now flooded in
this beauty which saturates my eyes

Fern leaf dreamscapes
trickle my fancy and dragonflies
skim the surface as love washes over me, cascading
desires in unending streams
*of your words…

~

When your heart screams,
look inside your dreams...
find me

Walking backwards
One foot behind the other
Straining my neck to see
That place where we can
Start all over again

~

You and me and the moon
and no one else exists
on this silent night
when only the sound
of our beating hearts
are heard
~
Stars stare down
with smiles glistening,
giggling among each other
at this love they witness,
and I imagine them
reflecting in your eyes
~
Many are the miles
that stand between us,
winding endlessly,
yet shortened by
this sight we both share
on this night when it’s
~
You and me and the moon
*and no one else exists