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..dreaming
..a promise
..though my soul is gray
..the admirer
..midnight in my heart
..To Laura
..while I'm gone
..In her arms
..In January
..origami
..nature alone
..her words were a melody
..your love divides me
..lovers lament
..held to you
..kisses











Dreaming

I'm dreaming of you
an angel drifting on my thoughts
your arms enveloping me..
bending the window moon shine
into silver slivers of your lips
so close i almost feel you
warm like air between our skin
my eyes though silent and still
watches the flicker of our shadows
dancing together, wavering like candlelit flames
i hear the short passages of my breaths
taking in the air of a moment that isnt there
its release lined with a soft touch of your name
my eyes catching the reflection of tears
against the face of the morning clock.

 

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A Promise

I'll hold you all night long
to quiet the fires that ride
along the slow beatings of your heart
I'll sing you a sweet soft song
till the demons by you subside
and the iron grips of sorrow forever part

I'll caress your every despair
and smooth it in my hands
set these wrongly things right
I'll weave your name in the air
and write it on the sands
sleep by whispering it each lonely night.
 

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Though My Soul Is Gray

though my soul is gray
when hope has gone another day
and sorrow has finally made its stay
everything is not lost
if you just come my way

though my heart is blue
when today's messages are few
and sadness has finally ran me through
everything is fine
if i just hear from you
 

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The Admirer

a perfection
my world does not know,
your face is an addiction
I've watched painfully grow
deep within my heart, too long
an emotion
I no longer will to control
an angel in motion,
only heaven can fathom
your attention
is a dream
I could only imagine
 

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Midnight In My Heart

its midnight in my heart
when you aren't around
the way it grows silent and still
sighing low against quiet walls
each beat, a reminder of your steps walking away
a slow steady rhythm current
that my mind sails in quiet slumber
with thoughts you gone and past
transfixion against my dreams
piercing the hours and filling it
with the days past, us together laughing
a slow memory without you by
makes the hours in my heart remain still
each hour and minute always at 12:00
 

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To Laura

You are to me
more than the sky
that holds me everyday
and the April night
that drapes overhead
like air that settles in my blood
you, are more than that...
when I lose you in the constellations
and mistake the moon
for a shadow of your face
that distant cloud, that fading sun, that red rose petal
you are all and more to me...
even the feeling of hard concrete against me
or the April rain by my cheeks
and the taste of chow fun
alongside my lips
escapes me and leaves with a wonder of you...
peach orchids, yellow dandelions, red apples
you are more than these...to me...
even you are more then you
you are forever a part of me as I am a part of you
but you are more,
more so than all... than dreams possible...
wzll.always.forever
 

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While I'm Gone

I'll think of you
amidst the distances of clouds
that separate me and you
and paint each step away
with an unbroken smile
remembering the last minutes together
and dreaming of the firsts again

 

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In Her Arms

her warmth surrounds me like a winter blanket
kept close to a chimney fire
under the light of a soft moon
i can hear the steady currents of her heart
beating in lapse with mine

in slow stirrings of the night
your eyes!
they move me like a brilliant spark
seen through infinite skies far
and reaches to my inner depths
strings a single chorded thought within
these words resonating in my heart tonight
how beautiful and wonderful you are to me~

the beauty of her by the autumn leaves
that carpets the road in velvet red splendor
give soft echoes of Falls passing,
her every self wrapped in the seasons blessing
like the sudden radiance of her hair
seen under quiet nests of soft snow
and the forgiving coolness of my lips by hers
sweetness stretched cross benches on sunny days

how all these things that have passed before me
make a keystone of a thought...
how she's the everything i live in and for

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In January

In January,
I was the snow
that kissed her passing face
and melted away without letting her know
the love within that was to grow

I promised myself I'd never let it show

and in February
Fire was my form
a flicker of my passion
kept her through the days warm
and braved the cold nights harm

I'd often dream of her in my arms

Then I shaped a Robin
all March long
that heralded the spring
and the hopes it would bring
Her joy became my song
 
I told her I'd love her eternity long
 
Past March came April
and I was the wind
I combed her long soft hair
whispering of her beauty rare
and of my love then and there

How I wanted to lay my love bare

I turned to a cloud
when May came
who brought in the spring
I rained her with my tears
in thought of the feeling same

the longing to call out her name

June crept by and I became the sun
In painting her face I drew the dawn
And passed the time playing with my light
My passion made the summers day bright
and glowed red through the summers night

end June come July
I donned the ocean tide
that cooled her from the summer fire
The songs sung by the ocean ride
were sung to the lapse of my desire

In august I was a seed.
that drifted in the sea
and felt for a moment forever freed
I still thought of her
and i wondered if she ever thought of me
I came back for Fall
to paint orange hues for her delight
for October made me an autumn leaf
When she had showed no sight
the Rain became my somber grief.
and then.
I sought to set my love right.

I searched for her all November
to confess the feelings never said
I found her face in slumber
her eyes grown cold and dead
with slow breath three words drew
she said "i always knew"

She was my one love true

In December
i laid my love under the snow
of where we met first a year ago
I last turned to a flower
that forever tended her side
Accompanied her in the eternal hour
and talked of feelings i no longer hide.

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Origami

i gave her my love
folded like origami
as to prove
the depth of my intensity
a careful fold to testify
and crease to represent
every close moment passed by
the happy days that came and went
If shed ever let it unfold
whether line examined together or apart
a simple love story told
folds etched from ones own heart.

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Nature Alone Tells Me

Written on river paths and swooping trees
are entries of my loves diaries
The January snow she so softly tread
are a poem his creatures have read
Her "I love you"'s; shaped on a distant cloud
The depths of her given smile
are secrets the wildflowers wildly shroud
And with passion lips the words construe
the Natures rose will betray with its red red hue
Her heart alone with love conspire
burn brightly in the mid nights fire
and even the splinter of a garden leaf
breathes deep her scent so sweet
All of natures secrets and pleasantries
tells me she loves
loves none other than me
What smallness is Season..
an imitation of truer petal passions
for Nature services loves confessions.
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Her Words Were A Melody

Her words were a melody
rhythmic in my ear’s orchestry
an ounce of her consonance
surpasses all harmonic equivocalance
music where angel choirs dwells
her voice clearer than all their angel bells
The songs the wind sing through her hair
Sings past my lady in mute despair
Her hello and goodbys that slowly unfurl
Come to me like soft silken strands of pearl
And linger in my heart with poetic vibrancy
Resonance beautiful as all natures symphony
Timeless as all infinity.

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Your Love Divides Me

your love divides me
my emotions two horizons apart
how quick your hands hurt me
as fast as they caress me
your love conquers all of me
theres no territory unreigned
no expanse of mine
that isnt already yours
my heart thats finally surrendered
and desire
the first minute won.

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Lovers Lament

if i was rich beyond compare
i'd buy you the stars
and lay them by your feet
for you to dance upon

but i am poor,
and have only dreams instead
that i can lay upon your feet
where you must walk with care
for these are my hopes you tread

-wz (borrowed from Yeats)

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Held To You

i am held to you,
like earth to sky
surrounded and loved by you
the horizon between us
is a kiss shared since the beginning

your face that shines before me, 
dancing in my eyes,
reflecting a hundred times over and over
an eternal brilliance within my heart

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Kisses

Heaven rarely weaves a cloth
as velvet as a kiss
Craft from an angel
that threads Fates loom
two destinies perfectly stitched
Stars gather close from far,
and Eternity pauses a moment
to delight in heavens gift,
When two souls find, each others lips.

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Welcome to my book of poems. poetry has always been a strong way for me to express myself and has allowed me to better understand myself. Click on a chapter on the left to get started. my hopes are that you enjoy reading through them and through them perhaps help me in better understanding myself. -weijian