TO :_____ _______ & ________ _______
Life, oh Life, oh, Honey, Lend me your sweetness. Help Me to adore her Whose beauty I implore. Giving heed to unbridled passions. Always confining Ourselves, never loosing ourselves to one another. Being With others and knowing It is different than as it should... My dear sweet one, Mine eyes do but pale To colors magnificent of The hair which is yours. It creates its own light, Recalling memories of your ancestors To be relived once again Through eyes unyielding. Your memories scream Of triumphant losses. Allowing Livelihood newly founded to be passed along. Mothering oddly placed Characters playing parts in the performance That is now your life. Loving you with That enamourous love of friendship. I do love you. THE NIGHT ENTERS Feeling the night come in It pours over me and Flows around me as I envelope it. I become intertwined with it As I breathe it in And feel it within me. It effuses into me I float, hover, stay where I am With the new night It feels like it never has before I know its every thought, desire I feel it throbbing with life I hold still and let it carry me anywhere Feeling it go deeper and deeper within my soul With every gentle, light breeze and every harsh gust of wind. Writhing in agony (extacy) I let it control me Holding my breath as if to stop breathing would stop time and let me save this moment I clutch onto the night which I embrace, to my bed, to my windowsill, Completely tearing off the curtains I open my window wide so as to let more of the night in Opening my eyes I see clouds in the sky and fresh dew lying all around The night shoots out of me, leaving my spent body to lie alone again. The night is gone. I am drained, having drained it I sleep as if not to sleep, But to block out all Except for my one night Who I have found And need only to open my window again To call World of Light I live in a world of light, A light that burns bright, A light that engulfs everything near it, A light that shows all, And when all is shown, Nothing remains hidden. So I hide here in the dark, A place that is so obscure and so foreign to me, That I do not really understand it, But I hide in it, Because it hides me. The darkness does not last long though, And when it goes away, I must return to the light, the light where I flourish, the light where I exist, the light where I must live my life, Until the darkness creeps over again. THE GENTLE TOUCH OF A WARM HAND The gentle touch of a warm hand Brings joy to the one it touches It brings the caring of a loving mother and It brings the devotion of a protective father The gentle touch of a warm hand Excites a person's heart- While it cools their mind and soul Its silent song and mystic ways Sing of a friendship undying, of a restless spirit wanting freedom, of a person within a person who rejoices at that one splendid moment The gentle touch of a warm hand Holds the warmth of all the known world and even that world... known as love One of the Last Unexplained Phenomena on Earth As the clouds roll across the sky I sit and wander. As the rain falls, I stare in awe. The smell of the air surrounds me. I feel each bolt of lightning. I become engulfed in every clap of thunder, As it rolls from side to side. The lightning strikes, Only for a second. Its bolt disappears from sight, But lasts forever.7 of Hearts Heart ache Heart burn Broken-Hearted Palpitations Vascular surgery Coronary love Heart beating rapidly Blood losing all its worth Heart ache Head ache Dizzy feeling Hard of breath Heart feels heavy Inside my chest Broken-Hearted inside pains Gnaw right through me in to out Leaving the shell of this blood-pumped vessel To beat empty Eternally Creep In I creep, I come in through the dark, Creeping through the shadows I can see you As I crawl nearer Studying every aspect of your face But you cannot see me The Rain The children danced and played in the rain The rain that poured and quenched the drought It came down and lifted their spirits Their spirits hovered high, soared through the roof The roof that went pitter-patter as its rhythm provoked others into wild gyrations The roof that went pitter-patter as it consoled broken hearts Filling the missing spaces with the warm moisture from heaven Softening their wizened skin through its gentle bombardment Allowing the plush, soft skin to feel again as if for the first time Lightning shoots across the sky and through the clouds Exciting the air and the hair on the transformed skin Scaring jubilant screams of excitement from the children who couldn't care less The older the children were, the louder they screamed, the more they danced The rain created puddles that the most stingiest jumped into first And as I watched through my window I lived every moment of each of their ecstasy And as I watched alone through my window the euphoria never seemed so real (UNTITLED) I proposed to her, down Next to a pond. It was like a dream, Surrealistic, The flowers on the pond were brighter than bright. I remember them because I counted each of those flowers As she cried and held me close I kissed her on the cheek, And she kissed me on the lips I would have a son No sooner than I had kissed her. He himself will be nineteen in no time And I will no sooner be retired Than see my seventh great grandchild And I will die an unhappy man, Surrounded by my loving offspring And I will dream of a life That progressed less swiftly Where I would be an old, forgotten grandfather Who had seen better days (UNTITLED) She falls gracefully Like a swan being shot Still trying to fly As her path drops to earth And she beats her wings tirelessly Stopping her decent Long enough to see her home As she falls from the sky She thinks she's flying, but She lies in a puddle of mud The Craving The craving Oh, the craving is driving me mad. I need it, I want it, I won't stop until I have it ! It's here somewhere, I know it is This frenzy is confusing me. I can't find it ! I left it right here and now it's gone. Someone must have taken it- Someone must know ! My horrible secret is out ! My horrible secret is going to be revealed to the the world! Oh, thank God ! Oh, thank God I found it right here on my bureau. The instrument of my desire and livelihood has been lying right here all along! I'm safe, yet I still need it ! I have it in my hand, I can feel its power. I have it in my hand ! There's no time to remember this moment- I must use it ! Taking the pointed object of my relief I plunge it down. It all becomes a blur... A thought that became an idea has turned into a craving. Endless images that are palpable but aren't memorable Endless scrawlings that stop only at their own accord ! I breathe heavily- I feel control slipping back in my body. My instrument has done me well - my pen slows. This one idea has come out, my craving has satisfied itself once again. This is one that I haven't gotten back to in order to straighten it out, I kind of like it how it is, though. I decided to put the hythmic parts in italics in an attempt to smooth out the reading. The whole poem fades in and out of rhythm like waves or like the dreamer waking. That's how it ends, out of italics. Mermaid Mermaid of My mermaid dreams Come dream with me Your eyes so dark Your scales so bright Your fish are pets? I wish I might Be one of them Be one with you Be under water; Skies so blue Do you dream your dreams tonight? Dreaming pleasures and delights Untold 'cept by mortal men of yore Dashed to bits upon the shores Of mortal wanting Thoughts, lust, desire Yet your beauty does oft inspire Puny mortals to propose A tropical paradise meeting On shores unopposed By the beauty Which is not your beauty But the only one that I can understand Being a mortal, And only a man Mermaid of My mermaid dreams Do you dream your dreams Of me? Do you feel me, Warm and free Holding and walking contentedly On the land Or on the beach The swaying of a gentle palm tree Our only guide for the day Soft winds and gentle kisses [skies] Would ravage the savageness Of our tales outside this realm Mermaid of My mermaid dreams You feel so cold, Where are we going? Luscious life giver Holding my heart Do we return to the sea? Will you return without me? Will you not tempt me? Do you not want me? Can fate be fake? Our water-sky so cloudy? Mermaid of My mermaid dreams My dream has ended I will miss thee