poetry – Page 92 – Poétique

Unexpected Ways

So then
Just as you received
My telegram to meet me
At the motel
I found myself overflowing
At the mere thought
Of our reception
Enduring love is
One of those things
Like calling out your name
In the middle of a field
Sometime after midnight
Hidden in the grass
Regarded twice as tall as me
Not quite as tall
As how I felt when I saw your lips
Mouth the words

‘I think I love you’

Like nightly dreams
Painted on plaster
Across the ceiling
Like morning light
Creeping across
Your body one ray at a time
You can always counsel me
On the way that I should reach out
To get closer to you
To understand your maze
To walk your labyrinth
In any way you most prefer
There’s a fire waiting for us
In the living room
There’s a fire waiting for us
In my heart
There’s a fire waiting for us
In every corner of the world
Your love bursts through me
In countless unexpected ways

Climb

A star shall arise
Up out of me
As a cub shall rise
Up from her mother
In sands of dune
To follow and to guide
For which to seek out
And to find you
As dark as the sun
As bright as the moon
If Egypt should lay down
The first horizon
The stones of pyramids
Made square and not
Bruised round
Extant ashes
As the soil breathes
Acacias like savory records
Eaten whole at the ends of mouths
Licked up by gold giraffes
Watch this thing
Inside my heart
As honey drips
From wings of bees
As did the mouths of those
In cribs of ancient Greek philosophy
And as then Ra should cry
The tears of years gone by
Watch as the pinkless night
Turns into twinkling sky
And wipe the lipstick off
Before the morning light
Centuries of lust catapulted
On the back of pale blue Sphinx
Through the grains and
Scarab shells of endless time
Regard me as I walk the line
The span of every distance
It would take for me to find
Yes just to find you
I would climb
To the other end of
Every manifested vine
I would climb
Yes I would climb
And climb and climb
To get to you

At Your Fingertips

I have a friend
A very best friend
Who had to make some room for me
She loves my crazy
As she said she would
How much more room is there do you think
Do you love me from a distance
At arms length
Pure love is succinct
What is this sacrifice
In thee that you should give
Your heart for me or to make room
Or how much space would
I be taking if you have
Room enough still in your heart
Of that to give left there for me
Would there be any emptiness
If I was absent from this green
If I was absent then from thee
If you do not believe
In this my spiritual being
Would you then reach out dear to me
Would you know that
Even in my absence
Or as a phantom in your mist
That you would always have me
At your fingertips

Of You

What if I could be your mystic
Falling into ecstasy
Only a tiny atom but also
A giant in your heart would be
Like a drop in the bucket
A romantic sacred fossil
Contemplating the scent
Of baked cinnamon in the air
Drifting from the kitchen
An ancient heir
As you are
Loitering about my everything
Though my heart is racing
There is no running from you
Members of one body
You and I to fantasize
Imaginations artifacts
A lack of loneliness
Spills out onto the floor
Before us both
Flames of unborn love
Restituted in our shrine
What even would we taste like
If both of us were wine
Fifty percent you
Fifty percent me
Half and half
Of ecstasy
What is it like
To be the other part
Of you

My Passionate

My passionate tortures
On the ocean waves are riding
Like red lights
On the freeway
A deep rhythm and echo
Resonating in my memory

Needy waves
Thirsty and smothering
All at once

I should come up for air
No matter how unfortunate
Yet still how lovely

Dreams Between

For you because
And with all knowledge
I find you
Full of intensity
Roaring hot like the sun
Nightmares crash
On lions backs
Rocking in the
Shadows of sharp claws
Hardly is the passion lost
Missing between the reeds
In dreams with you
Of all romantic deeds
For which you unwrestle
Watch one spark leap
Twist up and turn
From which you smile
To receive a beating heart
Pounding from me
Suspended discreetly
In the cosmic air
Between us

Aureole

Resting in a dark chamber
Run round like a circle
In surrounded brightness
I find you at the center
Of an aureole
I went running
Out into the forest
Naked with disbelief
Jumped into the water
That wraps around the property
Only to find myself
Soaking cold and shivering
But satisfied with the delight
Of my arousal of you
At you only you my secret
To hold my secret to tell
A secret I want to know
Better than I already do
If only I am just a little less shy
A little less trembling
A little more forward
Like running over broken glass
I should only find the hootspa
Maybe if the meadow was
A little less gold that day
Perhaps if the sky was
A little less blue
I shall not be vacant
Hoist by my own petard
Like a dancing knife
Between your fingers
Afraid to kiss
But not afraid to cut
Staring at you
Without watching the blade
That was the light
That lit up the field that day
Chasing after the shadow
Of an almost moment
That still might happen
Resting in a dark chamber
At the center of your aureole

Into Your Eyes

You are my rock
More like a mountain really
Cerebral and everything
An infinite cluster of love
Blue moon swoons
Down to the null
Resting just above my tongue
As I look up
Your immortality stands
Firmly before me
I could climb the trellis
Of your strength
Unshaken as an architect
Would be so proud
Of such a building
That cannot be torn down
You resound the meaning
Of such a fortress
Earthquakes tremble
In the opposite direction
Fear lays down before your feet
Courage makes a home
Inside your full fleet heart
An island of light
Determined on the frontlines
Battling to save the lives
Of others
Compassion cries at your
Ability to outstand
What pure stability can be found
In just one person
Even in a dark and sunless place
Calling to the power
That is offered up for all
Your stature beholds
Caressed reflections of
Delectably enthralled
Constitution
Meteors will dream the dream
To have the lust to throw about
Their weight throughout the sky
As you do
With clarity
It can be seen
With just one look
Into your eyes

Charmed

What is this wicked stance
Not a lover with a cold heart
But another with a fresh start
Enclose me in your certainty
Make breath of bright
Fluorescent lovemaking
Walking into me
An open door
Without a key

What is this tragic trance
Not a raising of our voices
But a song for sensual choices
Wrap yourself around me
Making noises
Unforgettable kindness
Constellations that remind us
Of the imprint that we left
On daybreaks bed
Wet dreams beamed
Into reality

What is this sinful dance
Textures raised up from the sound
Passion rolling through the silk
Onto the ground
Chords of lustful breathing
Make all that once was just believing
Could be true when suddenly
In actuality this mood
Is deliberately driven
Like at the coast
On some late afternoon

Here With Me

Inside you’ll find
A piece of my heart
From inside my heart
That is just a piece of you
From inside of me
That is the part of you
I feel connects with me
You can also hold it
If you need to find
Your piece of mind
Or love from me
I am with you
Just as you
Are here with me