Category: romance

Gems of Dawn and Sunset

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If I could gather a handful of dawn and a handful of sunset,

I’d cut and polish each handful into gems

                       For you to keep,

To take out and wear as you would wish,

For there are no stones of value containing beauty enough

To give you but these that are not true stone—

 

Yes, a handful of sunset,

A handful of dawn—

Their beauty ever constant,

Yet ever changing—

Daily renewed—

The only things containing beauty enough

For you.

 

The Power

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Who is to say

From where her power came?

Did it flow from her silken curls?

Or her painted red lips?

Her white skin that glows like the fullest of full moons on a cloudless night?

There’s no way to know

From where her power came

To break through stone.

of stone and blossoms

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I am unsure how this happened,
but the stone grew, encasing me,
protective and cold, a walking grave
of comfort for many years.

Now, having grown moss over
the passing of so many seasons and
used to the weight of stone I carry
into the calm of night,
blossoms burst forth from this tonnage
of comforting cold stone,
this grave of a home I have known.

I would like to twist,
turn away from
such blossoms,
yet find I cannot.
I cannot gather dust to me,
creating stone again.
Cannot piece shards together
for there are not enough left
in this remaining dust.

As I rest in this place,
I will tuck these blooms away--
Until they bear ripened fruit,
Readied for picking.

Fragrant blossoms
that they may only be
for now.




	


	
	






	
	

		
Petals of Words
	


	

		

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I swore never to give my words away like blossoms in the spring.


Yet, I marvel at all the words I’d gather,


arrange for you in artful, elegant bouquets.


I’ve keloid locks where my words are stored.


I possess not the oils to soften those locks,


Trapping my words deep in their vault,


My words may never know freedom.


 


Yet, I find myself streaming petals of words for you


In hazy, lazy patterns,


Knowing you have the wisdom, the soul


To read my words much like braille—


A code of sorts–


So you can hear and know,


Though unspoken,


All my words bestow.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 
	


	
	






	
	

		
Meadows of Distance
	


	

		

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The meadows between here and there,


an impediment now,


like the roads, sky, cities.


I’ve no time, no time


to appreciate the colorful heads of wildflowers


or any verdant greens of tall roadside grasses,


or swaying graceful golds of fields.


All these measuring meadows of distance—


           Sky, road, cities, fields–


meadows of separation,


meadows of longing,


meadows of want—


           should know a burnless flame        


 
	


	
	






	
	

		
Beneath The Surface
	


	

		

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Beneath the surface of the night


Flailing fitful, restless


A dream slept wrapped


In a syllabic, heavy blanket, 


Waking drenched in a sweat


Of moon touched light.


 


Upon this awakening,


Her shining skin did give


Away no secret of her wings or flight


Beneath the surface of the night.


 
	


	
	






	
	

		
Water
	


	

		






Turn





Breathe warmth





Rest comes easy now





Curled around you—





Poured would be better





Yes—





Become liquid





To be the bath water 





Surrounding you





Or the water droplets of a shower





Cascading over you





To possess for a moment





The ability of water





To touch you everywhere at once