Poétique

Knock Knock

It feels like it’s ending
Counting petals
My pillars are crumbling
Point blank
I can sense the
Softness of your skin
Between your fingers
Are you hiding
Underneath the bed
Another forest somewhere
I’ve yet to tread
What will it take
To find you
Rebel to myself
Sweating profusely
Not from panic
Drenched only in my
Thoughts of you hard knocks
Maybe I’m enjoying it
A little too much
Though I’d prefer
More than a cool breeze
To take me to my knees
More like your heartbeat
Knocking at my door
Any clue what time
You’ll get here?

Happy

Science and love
The wayside above
Requisite hardware
Is missing I swear
Underneath my back
Rescinded ruptures
Earthquake in my core
Full disclosure
These might be the
Erotic overtures
The devil warned me about
Would you tattle on me
If I told the world
That I loved you?
Embezzle my heart
Runaway from the start
Uncompelled to get up
Even by my own right
Needful sprawling around
I find my body is
Spread out all over the ground
Grassy floor mouth open
I watch the stars trickle out
Dancing up around your eyes
Orange moon changed tune
Sprite bones and a spark
Fold our fingers in between
Glossy melancholy dreams
You make me happy

Beneath Us

I could create a post
About the gossiping stars
I could make a toast
To those lips and the heat
That your frame sends
Up my back as if I’ve been
Laying on a bed of warm crystals
Dreaming of fire
On a pillow of mercy
All my life
Our bodies look good
Glowing neon bright
Like towered searchlights
Scanning the sky
Alerting the planets
To our existence
In case our significance
Has gone unnoticed
By the twinkling lights
Our glittering skin
Blinding all the monsters
In sight with the fright
Of our love
Illuminate me
Overwhelm me
Cast your burdens on
The shores of my heart
I will consume your pains
Round them up and
Pitch them back out
Into a crimson
Shrouded explosion
Of reprieve
Dreaming of fire
On a pillow of mercy
With a bed of eternity
Beneath us

Unsure

How did you break into
My chambers glistening ants
Feasting on my heart
Solitary path lambent
With somber strides
Gliding up my legs
An enterprise of sacred light
Despite the solo climb
Remains a less treacherous
Vine to propel and travel on
Widespread enveloping
The sky before we die
A theater of mystery
And a mouthful of clarity
I am defenseless
Against your wishes
I wear our shared emotions
Like a coat that I can
Take on and off
Too much to handle
To cold without it
It could be a windfall
Of feelings to be catching
Before we truly know
What it feels like to be in pain
If it’s in the absence of a love
We are unsure how to feel

Love Again

There could be more
There could be less
At least two reasons why
Inherently decided
To remove the training wheels
Also say no to the fast track
Mitigate me
Greatly reduced
Microcosm
Seduce me
To endure the
Problematic existence
Up the staircase to the end
Down the hill just to begin
I can’t strategize the
Missing puzzle piece
Buried under a pillow
Somewhere other than here
There could be two of us
Taking this moment in
Two new people looking
Out the window together
Surround heart sounds
Seduce me again
I have an inkling
This is the best beginning
No need to play pretend
If we find love again
Lightening strikes twice

From Doom

It’s how the story goes
The most beautiful self
You cannot share the rose
Too beautiful for the world
When your flower arises’
Hands take lead to heed
And in stolen demise
Tear away at the stem
Your vibrant arms
Your flower of life
They hoard for themselves
Your beautiful light
Those fiery petals
Rising up towards the sky
Are twisted off and pocketed
In a burglars surprise
Reach out to protect you
I will arouse what you gift
To require your safekeeping
Before the bandits of life
Twist off the remaining love
Snap off your precious sight
Come round ringing
The kissing bells
Circular fire blooms up
Stepping over the devil
As you light up the room
Impeccable love to stand guard of
From doom the flaming wings
Of the angel uncovered
Exposed you are to me

Sun Rise

I can see the sun rise
In your eyes
What a bittersweet flame
Warms the heart
But cannot chase the parts
That are deeply reaching
Like stretching for the sky
To feel the blue
Inside but not to actually
Touch it
I can see the amber light
Glowing round the edges
Of your eyes
Your ivory smile on the
Ridge of my lashes
So close to feel the warmth
Just far enough away
To befriend the breeze
Whisking over and around me
Highlights of gazing yellow
Fluorite gemlike streams
Glistening wet your eyes
Are shining in the night
And though the outside whites
May be reflected in
A moon like serenade
A quiet horizon of gold
Remains in flames
I can see the sun rise
In your eyes

Near You

I remember I recall
Maybe I know nothing at all
I like to consider
The time before
I was wishing
Turning back the clock
But not so desperately
Anchored in the memory
If my eyes were open
I might have seen
The rise
I have a feeling
I was dreaming
So my eyes were shut
But I remember what
It was like before
Collectively we’re
All becoming more aware
Looking backwards
Future aware
Panting
Is this real
No backing down
Breathing heavy
How many times now
I’ve remembered
How it feels to be
Near you

For Light

Words on a mountain
Chest to chest
Bone to bone
Insurmountably inside
A quiet terror to surmise
When the point of exit
Is impossible to find
Somewhat lost at sea
Energetically reprieved
By the traffic that surrounds
Every tire that forebodes
An accident of circuitry
A heart attack no one can grieve
Carefully reintroducing
Drops of love like alchemy
One drip at a time
Streamed into the vein mainline
Running fast beyond the sordid
Greed of unjust wars
On shame and lust
Swole up into a canyon of trust
Here comes the sun
Say hello to the light
Say goodbye to the dark
Let the fangs of the perfidious
Past slither away in the grass
Of history gone by
No matter how many decades
Former fate
Previous destiny
New bridge
One broken window
Is another opening
For light

You Again

As the sound of the door opened
My head shifted to the side
And a piano played it’s keys
Like the steps to a museum
Going deep underground
Into the bellows of a sanctity
Found only in the vicissitude
Of a successful dynamic leading
To the bloodline of the heart
In an ancient tomb curled up
At the base of your artifact
A cool breeze whispered through
As the sound of the door opened
And a butterfly came through
There was a message
Something about where to meet you
I can’t remember now but
It wasn’t considered the most
Important thing to recall
For I am sure to find my footing again
When I wrap my way back
To the place where I began
There would be two friends
Holding each hand and a memory
Hanging like a pendulum
Above me distant and overhead
Swinging with the wind
As the sound of the door opened
And I saw your face again
Like the water streaming over
Glass and eyelashes smeared
Against the wet with just
Two small beats occurring
Every other second as a heart
Might beat again in the sonogram
Of a sun and the whipping
Of the wind as the door opened
To the miracle of seeing you again