poetry – Page 12 – Poétique

Quiddity

Nobody’s meant to
Walk this earth alone
Can I wrap my head
Around you?

Remonstrate me
Take my birthday away
I’m fasting now
For your love

Hear the carnival sounds like
Their love that destroyed me in
Many ways I may have prevented
If I knew how much it would hurt
But so do many expectations and
Giving up the greatest love
To know what it looks like
To find it again is worth
Every second of the pain
Internal echoes of residual
Torture self inflicted
But only because letting go
Is impossible when the notes
Of the songs that you wrote
Are already an intrinsic
Part of these bones

Eat a sandwich
Blow your nose
Count your blessings
For those that let us go
We can always relive the memory
In our music and our poetry
In our letters and our photos
One two three
Do the next thing
Shake it off
Dig a hole in the beach
And bury that old part of me

Archery

I don’t want that old memory
I’m craving a new one
I need more time to forget
It’s a process not an event
Knife in the chest make it
All go away like the rest of
Yesterday and the stones
That are ripped apart by the
Earthquakes of everything
Happening around me but
It doesn’t matter anyway
I’m craving a new one
Turning in with the heartbeats
Of everything could be
Turning out with all the
Explosions that are honestly
Accepting things as they’re
Going to be ultimately as it is
In the interim of anything
Sad eyes lift up thine light
Buried under the grounds
If hidden moves behind the
Shutters of emotional archery
Are pulled back and stretched
Shooting for the one with existing
Leftover arrows that strike the
Hearts of grief with perfect love

Heartchatter

Chest beats harder still
Electric rhythms unexpected
If I’m honest nothing to hide
Let it all out never outspoken
I want to give you so much
More than a slice
Nothing matters when you have
Something greater in life
No one knows that you don’t
They expect that you have
A million other things to do
No crushing dreams
What you didn’t think to say
Because whatever you are doing
Is outstanding
Stretching humility

Feeling alive where
Parts of us were dead
What is freedom awakened?
We don’t need to sound like
Savages on the way
Clear the headboard
We could tear the
Seams apart
Decorate the room
With your charms
It seems harmless
Simple is good
Adorn what embellishing
Basics will like a rug on the beach
Probably all that we need
Topped off in a concert
Of your eyes and a smile
To quiet the guise of
Vibrant patterns engaged in
Boundaries crossed that
Never needed our permissions

Lifting

Lifting the tree up
By its roots like we do
When we sink our fingers down
Into the earth of one another
Are we appointing the other
Or anointing each other
Love is friendship on fire
I love you too is something
We say with our eyes
Not with our lips
I keep writing about this
Dark romance that calls
From the leaves that burn
When they’re wet from the rain
Sunlight through the prism
Of a line that leads like a rope
Towards the sky rather easy
To climb with fulfilling love
Upper body strength ascends
Up, up, up
I can’t remember when
It felt this good
Reminiscent of a daffodil
Petal at the bridge of
My everything and the scent
Of your heart like a gorgeous
Starlike jasmine that vines
Through our veins together
In the form of similar flames
On similar planes
As the essence of wet like
Tear ducts resembling the pools
In another lifetime perhaps
Exactly like Neptune or
At least as beautiful as
The Gods would have us
Believe if not in some
Dripping wet dream but a
Salty swing that rises up
From the Dead Sea where
We come to find ourselves alive

Peau À Peau

It didn’t work the way she tried it
Like an acrobatic performance
Turning me into a trapeze or a
Trampoline screaming violently
Is this a happy anger circus
Call in the clowns what
Happens next, lion taming?
My legs were jelly and the
More I thought we were
Connecting the further I
Slid away down the bed
Out the door what just happened
Woohoo ride ‘em cowboy
Let’s have a party
Not sure if I was invited
Every moment leading up to
An accumulation of
Emotions that were present
Because they exploded
From the womb like a factory
Of bliss waiting to kiss
Every part of you or him
Even eating you alive
More mascara less blush
A tavern for cocktails
Before and after with
Moody music
Something to look forward to
Do better make it worse
Something to look forward to
Cigarette on the back porch
Nothing left but the wishes
Of a gypsy after the cards were
Turned the vibe left us
Both wrenched
Better off friends

Observation

What happened to June
Was our love so noisome
That we could not bear the
Fragrance of one another
Blue broomed I chased you out
We have forgiveness still
Birds overhead when flew
Overheard what I thought
In my head questioning you
Nose to nose we meet
Making history with every
Breath we breathe and
Intimacy is running
Streaks of color up
My back and back to
Where you’re at attracted
To the magnitude
Between and then
Rejected by the
Unpredicted feelings of
Life that come and go
Same as the door squares
Opens and closes
Hang me up marked for
Battle with eye black
To reduce the glare
From sunlight and
Future arguments that
Have nothing to do with
All the roses thriving outside

Embrace

Rejecting who I’ve become
Is the art of embracing who we are
Bricks on bricks finding out
What we are in the mortar
Nothing can chase the heart away
All that binds the fire inside
Deep and wide
Fills the left side
Fills the right side
Enough love this is
Enough but there is
Never enough
Ça suffit
I will be here to
Remind you always knowing

Lay down your head
On my pillow and
In the bed we understand
Everything the sheets say
Between us everything
And nothing
Dreams seep into
Our cases of deeper meaning
Not to miss a single moment
Is my magic working
Or is it pained
Remember that I tried
To love when it cannot be
To hide her love
Behind every other woman
Except herself for me
To rescue
To defeat
Compelled by more than one feeling
To dress the place with lies
Covered in your stains
Embrace me

Apparently

A strong desire to survive
I’m going to take that kiss
Whatever it means
No need to respond
Just let it rest there
And with the confidence
Of angels on horses
I can feel myself rising
With a sword and a bond
Towards the sky the deeper
Argument the truer self
Misfit to the decertification
What is it really?
Where does it rise up from?
The desire to be everything
And the pause from saying
Good-bye bye bye
Wendy, I need to take the day off
Can you manage without me?
It’s what stands apparently
To never get the chance
To know yourself
Apparently there is more to you
Than meets the eye
I knew that there was something
Special but what about
A horizon of light that views
Regarding excitement
To say what is false
What is true
What are we thankful for
A good time or a longtime
Lucky day chance betrays
No one

Quaternary

What is the harmony of nature
When can we make a bed in it?
What use do we have in being glum
Self criticism episodes disrupted
A dorsal cortex show for sure
To flee hastily, like a cat
An ocelot mimicking a python
Measuring quaternary heat
Just a piece of fruit causing dreamy
Contentment at the lips
Momentary forgetfulness
To take a drink from the cup of
Roman and Greek Gods
Deliciously secreted
Raw honey to render the bees
Balls are in court we play
The last word you would
Ever speak again the best
Words that were ever spoken
Still tongue tied and
Unable to speak
We keep cut flowers
In position free from
Simpering guilt and
Relinquishing an innocent rank
A term for incurring freedom
Not confinement lose the best
Of the attention
No good
No bad
Pierced by the holes
If a past has gaps
Filling in the separations

Impressions

If I ever lost sight
Of your beautiful face
Where would I be
What is the decision
That could make you
Stay to remain happy
To do what you want to do
Put my own happiness aside
Selflessly devoted
Treating you with grace
In the same way you
Respect me
Everyday is our own
Hung up to dry
By the love that’s alive
Seven dollars an hour
Wouldn’t matter
A cardboard box with you
Give you everything
I have to give
Live every moment
Every breath there
Is to breathe
To live
I would choose you
Before me
Just tell me
What you need