Manifesto for two
Forgotten tears
Behind erased blue
Eyes beneath blonde years
Of so many feelings surfacing through
But I only have one for you
Would you
Like to go swimming tonight
I know a place
With just enough light
Mythical creature
That you are
I am reaching past the moon
Shining over our lagoon
Into a dimension of us
That is changing
As we swoon
Into the darkness
© GÄ
Cornflower blue
It’s not as easy as it used to be
To be loved implicitly
I am
Just like a little boy inside
Who only wants to be loved
Maybe do I make it
Too complicated
Maybe we are
All this way
Cornflower blue
A bachelor’s button
On your suit
Sewing the oats
As a young man in love
Maybe blue tears
Will bring the fire
That for years has been
Crackling in my heart
Unseen parts of us
Awaiting their discovery
I had once a dream
Of this
Blue cornflower
Floating down a stream
A spinning flowerhead
Like a top that swirled into
My mouth and then
I blew it out
It turned about and out into
Thousands more
Floating through the air
Tiny blue sparks
Finding their way
Breathing in pain
Pure suffering and
Blowing out flowers
Where love could be sustained
On the shores of every chest
The tiny sparks of blue did rest
Cornflower blue
It’s not as easy as it used to be
To be loved implicitly
I am
Getting older and
With each passing day
I am
Holding onto the ones
Who love pristinely
Purely wanting to return
The synchronized glowing
Unmistakably true love
Unconditional breakthrough
Cornflower blue
A bachelor’s button
On your suit
Sewing the oats
As a young man in love
Free from the confusion
Strengthened from the
Trepidation of my sweet youth
© GÄ
We cannot carry
Darkness and bitterness
In our hearts and be
Completely happy
Backing down
Resting our misunderstandings
On the ground
We bury the shame and guilt
Open the parkways to
Great roads of silk
I promise you no expectations
I promise you many elations
Between the both of us
All our baggage
Can be left at the roadside
Contoured warmth
Of being with you
Even as the sky
Could be our afghan
And the grass
Our hammocked bed
Promises held in seasons
Yet to be uncovered
Another reason
To love more deeply
And succinctly
As true lovers
Sunrise sunset
Sunrise sunset
Capable beauty
Enveloped and yoked
As one shared breath
© GÄ
I used to be
Too clingy
Too needy
Too want your every thingy
I have calmed down
Knowing now that love endures
If all was destroyed by fire
If all between us then laid bare
Amongst the ashes
With what we are left
Or ought to be
You will find me
Better than I used to be
Not too clingy
Not too needy
Not too want your every thingy
To behold an albino cobra
In one hand
A sword in my other
Blindfolded with red velvet
Drifting behind the veil
Moving swirling with
Protection for you my lover
Giving up on defeating moments
Licking my lips before a kiss
The milk and honey
Of our upturned gifts
To one another
Romantically
In our afferent love
Almost stretched out
In our freedom
Wings between us
Comforted by how we listen
Are you yet hungry I have
Some tea and blanket
Here my love
And if you want
I’ve saved for you
The other half
Of my croissant
© GÄ
Pull me back from the cold
It’s not up to me what you think
Why let the choices I make
Why hold back from fear
Why question what I do
From concern that you
Might think this
Might think that
What is what
What is that
I’m holding back
From what I would naturally do
For fear that you
Might think this way
Or that way
I am poised with dare
Why should I care
Let you be
Allow you to respond
I am fond of you
I want you
So there
There’s that
Play my cards right
Play any cards at all
Ah ah ah ah ah aha ah
Goes the sound inside my head
Dah dah dah dah di di dah
I want you in my bed
© GÄ
In the ages yet to come
Long from 1931
When December’s meadows
Begin to freeze
And frost over
Following the tracks
Of wildlife
Like the breadcrumbs
We would feed
To hidden creatures
In the black green forest
On a wintry opaque night
Disheveled golden leaves
Left over from the fall
Orange autumn’s breeze
Ripped open wide
With pure delight
In the mystery of night
My eyes are drawn
To floating cotton
In the sky
Frozen waterfalls
Like wind chimes
Sparkling clouds
All father round
The coldest moon
Ever to shine in beams and bands
I’m sewing you a sweatshirt
Velvet crushed in royal blue
I thought perhaps that I
Could place it over you
Underneath your new hood meets
Our lips might soon commence
If you agree
In a somnolent pace
How slow can this kiss be
How drowsy are your lips for me
We could take the rest
Of winter off
This way
© GÄ
Before we met
We said not to regret
Anything we asked
Anything we did
Discovered in a lovely shroud
There are no monsters
In the headlights of our love
Nothing pending that
We cannot keep
No snowstorms that
Could make us weak
Rolling round in twigs
And branches sticks
Bundled up like notes of love
Ready to be cast away
Like a message in a bottle
To inspire some other lovers
On some distant shore
To find each other
Unwrapping one another
Piece by piece
Like some intimate gift
I’m having distant memories
Before we’ve lived them
Like an awakening of what
We’ve planned on living
In a village or at the end
Of Scheveningen Pier
Exhumed like riches
Buried for centuries upon years
Sung with the wisdom of a song
Near to the dreams of
Canyon wren calls
From the west of rocky cliffs
Among the words lulled
We will hear
There’s nothing better
Than to be with you my dear
There’s nothing better
Than to be with you my dear
© GÄ
If I told you everything
Would you leave
If I am honest
And say how much
I love you
Will it scare you
Would you retreat
If you knew
Everything about me
Would it be enough
For you to want
To turn your back on me
Would this be the end
Or would we simply
Start beginning
I would walk
Through walls for you
Telling all the truths
I find myself trusting
You so much it’s like
Sleepwalking into you
One eye opened
One eye closed
Both eyes burning
With pure love
Wherever you’ve come from
Whatever you’ve done
If you can love me as I am
I will love you as the one
Nighttime awakenings
Drowsy with your lust
Parasomnia divine
Deprivation of you
Is like an empty bed
Without you
I would walk
Through walls for you
Telling all my truths
I find myself trusting
You so much it’s like
Sleepwalking into you
© GÄ
Have you seen terror
In ones eyes the way
I’ve seen terror and demise
Like something could be pried
Open and ripped away
Without ever knowing
Where it went
Or where it could go
I find myself
Chasing you down the stairs
Into the fortress of your heart
Inking up all the paper
In near sight
By candlelight
With poetry both day and night
Just to quill the words
With cursed delight
To tell you how I feel
Fumbling into a kingdom
With you after
Falling all over myself
To champion our thrones
I find our crowns
A little bit slanted
Crowded with jewels
And heavy stones
That tell the story of our robes
Where they’ve been and
Where we’re going
Intricately sewn
The fairytale of every thread
I cannot stop
I will not stop
As Gypsy Vanner’s tread
For any chariot
Acceptably shaken
Thundering by
Clatter the windows
Open to breaking
Moments for taking before dawn
Rolling across the mud
Drenched in the oasis
Of every grasshopping creature
Multiple dark tones
Once trapped between the panes
Thankful hats are tipped
To singing crickets in the rain
Flying off
In melodic warm refrains
Cold rocks pressed beneath our backs
If the mattresses are stacked
I’ll meet you in the tower
Of our love
Where chastened limbs exposed
Retract their vows to be abstained
And making love with you
Is emanating every day
© GÄ
Freedom from forgiveness
Freer yet from selfishness
Anger hatred fighting rising
Always mindful of a kindness
Truly wise never disguising
A hurricane flung free from blame
This is why we are amazing
This is why we are terrified
Impressed with imminent disbelief
Better to do than to have not done
So many sides to each of us
You see the things that even I
Refuse to show
Refuse to know
Refuse to
Question anymore
Truly wiser than before
Truly better than the absence
Of an old abandoned shore
Dried up is what once was
Crammed with tantalized
Beach goers
And flocks of seaside birds
Forget these words
Forget me not
I will forget thee ever caught
In nets for fish
Or butterflies
Far away from what
We thought
No salty rock
Can hold the strongest
Wave when sun can soon
Evaporate the water
Like the truth
Much like our youth
Much like the hillside sifting
Down down down
In disrepute
The end is quickly swept away
In careless
Public space displays
Of lost affection
© GÄ
Poétique 