Lullaby

Love, lay down your head
And hear the sighing seas
Of naked crimson in the sheets
The waning sun agrees

The land unfolds its blanket
of warm and dark in me
With this lullaby for quiet
I bribe the birds in every tree

A harvest moon fades
Pushing light behind the breeze
Tomorrow we move again
The honey and the bees

So kiss goodnight, Love
and lay down close to me
Loose our thoughts in slumber
Find our dreams in we.

Sleep within this shelter made
of love a guarantee
Wear a promise ‘round your neck
A life, a home, a key.

For M

Road lays out in miles
across seemingly endless land.
Distance yawns between you, love
and my outstretched hand.

Days for your voice to reach me
when you call out my name.
Without your smile each morning
the sun never shines the same.

Over mountains, rivers and lakes
I wait for you to bridge the gaps
Swim the rivers and the lake
Walk across the snowy caps.

To beat the miles you must recall
to love when I'm not there
Kiss the rain when it falls,
breath the wind like it's my air

Feel the sun like my embrace
Watch the moon glow like my eyes
Know it's love and not proximity
that truly binds the ties.

So though the miles seem daunting
and the days creep slowly by
We will be together again
and greet each other with a sigh.

In a Perfect World

In a perfect world
You would never be out of reach.
Without telepathy I could read your thoughts
And they would be perfectly like mine.
Each morning you would wake up wrapped around me
And my breath would smell fresh
And last night you didn’t snore.
Your kisses would taste like ripe cherries
And I would never miss your lips.
In the middle of the day, you would call
Because we have nothing else to do but love each other.
That’s our job and it pays well.
I would never tell you my secrets because I would have none.
You would never have to forgive me
Because I am perfect
And I would never have to cry
Because you are too.
Instead of waiting, I would have found you sooner
And you would love me forever.
In a perfect world
I would have never cursed us with perfection.

One Morning

One morning
I woke up and I loved you
The date and time remain unclear
But on that ripe red morning
You were the Sun.

One morning
I told you why I fell in love
It was your warmth
Your beams engulfed me
And banish the bitter night.

One morning
I asked you to forgive me.
I still have dark patches in my soul.
Places that remain cold
Even in the heat of your summer.

One morning
I said I am sorry
I can never give you everything,
But know I love you.
I have known since that morning.

One evening
Imagine my surprise
When this bright day ends
And you creep over the hills
To shine on other souls.

I should have never been so greedy.

Supernova

We jumped on the bed to put stars in the sky,
And made them read, “I love you.”
Your liquid eyes held the northern hemisphere
Reflecting my glowing ceiling of plastic suns,
Our world rotates around them.
My love is a supernova,
Growing and gleaming and imploding inside
Fuel for new fires to burn in our hearts,
And black holes to store affection.
Plastic lasts forever
And the stars in the sky are light-years away.
Why would I want to wish on them?
By the time I see them
They could be dead,
But the dying ones shine the brightest.

Saturation Adoration

Dew clings like kisses on green leaves
Your love is moisture to my soil.
All summer long there was a drought
And I withered with pure sun
Waiting for you to come again; to saturate my heart.

With every single drop you rain
I soak it up like affection.
Eagerly I consume your fallen love
As the water rises higher
Remembering a time before you; my soul evaporating.

Rain clouds cover up the sun
But still I drink the rain.
Submerged in water, I beg for more
Liquid flooding out my roots.
No need for light; I have you, my sweet precipitation.

Soak me in waters deep
Inundate me with adoration.
Engulf me in the flood
Immerse me in passion
Love me until I die
Drowning has never felt so good.

equal and opposite...

Look at me with your eyes
like reefs of coral; blue deep
and smile.
When I say I love you,
you can't help
but move
like electricity pulsing through you.
Kiss the small of my back.
Your face feels rough
like pine needles; I want to touch.
Feel me whisper in your ear.
I send a shiver through you
like cold heat; you gasp.
I take you in with a breath
and it feels
like we are whole.
Every sigh I live for.
I see you adore me
like trees love the breeze.
You move me.

Confidant (Revisited)

Move my heart to you,
The direction of my intentions.
Can you help my arms to hold
my love without "I love you?"
What's your reaction to my inaction
When you assure what seems unsure?
Still I speak my truthless speech
And I quiet my disquietude.
Could you save me from my sanity?
Will you dare me to be daring?
I expect that, respect that, accept that.
Revive me, alive.

Scorched

First I loved his passion.
His words crackled the fire inside
And he glowed like embers stoked.
I stared deeply in the flame
the molten core, blue dancing tips.
His fire became my sun
and blinded me straight through.
I couldn’t see the fires burn
consume, ravage, and destroy us.
I was ablaze with him.
But once the fire burned out,
and all was reduced to ashes,
I was left to smolder.

Poetic

Before I knew you, I wrote love
I wrote of adoration and infatuation
Poems about passion, or lack thereof
for I had yet to feel the sensation.

I realize now that all my poems
when written in a loving pen
No matter what the words or whims
Are prayers for you without amen.

And as all poems have their ends
Poetry's endings are prophetic
And as each prior poem portends
My love for you is poetic.

Perfect

We joke about our first date
being at McDonald's and sharing fries.
We watched movies in my dorm room
and talked until half past four.
That was the first I saw your eyes,
Blue and green like a coral reef from above.

We laugh about our first kiss,
how I teased you until you smiled
our eyeglasses clicked awkwardly
We took them off and felt our way.
That was the first my fingers felt your hair,
Dark, sandy blond though you still call it brown.

We now smile when we speak love.
The first time I was so shy to say.
We tried to make a word for in between
What not yet love but just almost.
That was the first time I fell in love
Real and awkward and utterly perfect.

Beautiful Love

Beautiful Love,
Stay awhile,
It hurts when you're away.
The strings we tied
around our hearts
weren't meant to stretch that way.

For You

For you I sing of life unbridled

For you I live a tale without fear

For you I dance without recital

For I am wishing for you here.

Loving Lost

Love unexpected

Loving clear

Love unbidden

Loving here

Love unsafe

Loving crossed

Love unequaled

Loving lost.

But Still

Questioning, unfaltering
my sense of confusion in this state.
Your muted tongue tells
stories of love, but still...

Mysterious, delirious
your actions in this room.
My bare skin sings
your fingertips, but still...

Unlikely, unearthly
this lightning striking twice.
That night echoes
a history in my life, but still...

Gloriously, notoriously
our fusion of catalyzed bodies.
The world sighs
I shudder for breath, but still...

Desire, uninspired
that may be all we have.
I keep you in
so you can't leave, but still...

...But still I love you,
But still I question you,
But still I let you in.

...But still I need you.
But still I don't believe you.
But still I whisper,
'You are my gift.'

Alder's Song

I.
My lonely Alder
Deep rooted at water's edge,
Wait a season more.
I am a Willow growing.
You are my King unknowing.

II.
From a simple seed
I will grow up in your shade
With our roots entwined.

III.
My lovely Alder,
Watch my eyes turn up to you
Yet my leaves hang down.
I am a Willow growing.
You are my Love unknowing.

For a Moment

You wrap arms around me while I wrap you up
And for a moment we're ready.
Almost never
Ready
When its time for this.

You pull me to you while pulling me down
And for a moment we're sure.
Never more
Sure
Have my feelings been.

You move in to me while moving me out
And for a moment we're together
At last we're
Together
I've been waiting so long.

You breathe out while I'm breathing you in.
And for a moment we're one
I'm finally
One
With you like this.

You come to me while I'm coming with you.
And for a moment we're alone.
Maybe someday
Alone
For the first time.

And I am in Love Again

I try to blind myself to your sight
Somehow forget your beauty's depth
I lose sight of you inside a crowd
I open my eyes and think I'm free...
But then I see you next to me
And your smile is my only star
It shoots deep into my heart
And I am in love again.

I try to tune out your voice
Somehow forget those words you speak
I lose your voice in crowd of words
I sigh and think I'm free...
But then you whisper in my ear
And I hear the quiver of damselfly wings
They fly deep into my core
And I am in love again.

I try to evade your scent
Somehow forget the smell of you
I lose your trace in a crowd of aromas
I inhale deep and think I'm free...
But then you breathe upon my neck
And I get high from your scent
It lifts my spirit to the clouds
And I am in love again.

I try to stop thinking about how you feel
Somehow forget your hands on me
I wipe my fingertips' memory clean
I relax and think I'm free...
But then you touch my lower back
And lightening bolts strike the earth
They electrify my very being
And I am in love again.

I try to disregard your taste
Somehow forget your lips on mine
I speak words to give them strength
My last chance to let go and be free...
But then you kiss me hard and strong
And words of passion, now, resound
They echo though my soul
And I am in love again.

Wordsmyth

No word I speak marks word on page
To pronounce what hopes I wish to say.
I would read you poetry if you knew
how much each lyric heavy-hearted weigh.

And people say I read to much
I look for a world beyond my door
And yet no matter what I read
I am still longing for something more.

Perhaps I hold too much tragedy
For tonight I read the saddest lines
When even true love I see can fade
And every fair sometime declines

Yet somehow I love with words so deep
Words of gladness and not of woes
But how my cheek still blushes pink
to think of my love as a damask rose

Words and pride are all I have
when all I breathe is breathing you.
Still I doubt the words upon my lips
Because reading words can't make them true.

Countless volumes cannot help me now
Though countless, say I, is love for him.
Shamed am I to lay down love
And wake Diana with a hymn.

And all my words from borrowed ink
can't spill the secret no one knows.
Three spoken words from tongue and lips
can speak to you my heart's true prose.

I find the choice is mine to make
or to sweep under the rug beneath.
Shall I make our story a happy end
or a happy daggers bitter sheath?

The Hole

Digging down to make a life,
I dug one hole and named it.
I stayed at the edge of the hole,
Waiting calmly, yet impatient.
Weeks went by and I forgot
The hole I christened awhile back.
Until I embarked out one day
To follow along a lost one's track.
And though I was the only one
Who named the hole I fell into
Too long ago I named it "love"
And so I fell for you.