love – Page 14 – Poétique

Love Dream

To be in love with
Something or someone
That is as close as
You can get
To the one that
You had hoped to love
To feel
To share one breath
Even if it was
Only a fantasy
And you never touched
The person you’d
Been dreaming of
And yet
Though you found a lover
That is mostly the same
Almost in all gestures
In their face
In their words
In their eyes
To fall in love
Differently with
But almost
Exactly the same
In their hair
In their scent
If they smile in that way
Is it close enough
Not really
So what the truth
Becomes reminds
Us that the fantasy
Was never
Real anyway
In their hands
In their embrace
In their feet
Would I want
Someone to love me
If I wasn’t their
First sweet(heart)
Would they
Eventually love me?
Different scenes
An old video store
Someone else’s
Silver screen
When the affection
Is delectable
And real
The kiss makes it
Hard to reveal
Leaving to wonder
Do we love them
Or the person we
Hoped them to be
If we are always
Yearning for the
Thing we
Wished we had
In love to be

Chevalier

Dark embittered thoughts
Early morning on the rise
Laying with my ruminating
Trying hard not to disguise
Their uglinesses
Face it to face it!
Where is my dauntless knight
To shield me from the
Mornings’ fright
There are so many
Bones to pick
I am only one person
My narrator
My storyteller
Where do all the scenes
Rise up from
Is there one thing?
One thing only
That can wash away
The droning
The haunting drops?
Is there something unspoken
To empty out this brain?
Fountains of roses
Waterfalls of comfort
How can we reach around?
Where is my knight!
Rescue the harmed ones
Deep in my dreams
Float out of the chaotic
Nightmarish scenes
Open my eyes to
One more morning
One more day to be alive
One more day to be untied
Rattle all disturbances
I’m ready to fight
For my joy
Bring me my knight!
Shining armor
Made of magic and steel
No more bones to pick
No more stones
No more sticks
Maybe the astral light
Delivers me to you
Riding in with strong winds
Galloping against grievance’s
Castles not coffins
Bliss has brought sadness
A gift of deliverance
A kiss goodbye
For whatever forever
Might look like
To a knight
To a best mate
To an erasing embrace
Of blue harbored drama
Start anew
To see my reflection
In your eyes is
To feel the freedom
From my minds’ misdirection
Dark embittered thoughts
Early morning on the rise
Laying with my ruminating
Trying hard not to disguise
My instrument of forgiveness
Wield your sword
Within the veil
Sever morning and nighttime
Where is my dauntless knight
Shield me from the
Dawn of fright
Your strength erupts
The bubbling of my heart
Unbroken and protected
Behind your chainmail
Cotte de mailles
Translucent perception
Face it to face it!!
Visually perfected
My storyteller
I wake up
To the distraction
Of your smile

Archaeology

I want to make love to your voice
Nearly stardust in your chords
Grandiosity of creation
Alas not in a hurry for excellence
To be patient is to call out
To greatness

Like a lost tomb my heart
Lies untouched and undisturbed
By the chance of grave robbers
Heart stoppers and passion killers
To be dusted off by the echos
Of the most exhorted breath
Of love

Inside glimmering caves of hope
A buried light that was protected
For a journey into the outer realm
Of indicative miracles
There is a galaxy unhinged
By a romance that is promised to
Puzzle and cure us in
Strange and beautiful ways

Hands wrapped and intertwined
Bodies spooning and charged
In a metaphysical light
Our sound together as one breath
Inhabits momentary shelter
When bound together in ancient
Tether stretch and reach
Around the bend of
The last universe
Left intact with rosy splendor

Up down in out push
To reach you from behind
And carry you further than
The distance of a possibility for life
An existence filled with love
Excavated by your touch
I can once again
Feel love

Anymore

Are you evil
With all your friends
Or just the ones
You want to miss the most?
Devouring all innocence
Hungry for more hearts
A secret cave
For killing love
Black eyed
Black heart
Ignorance plays
A solitary part
A bit like getting
Shot in the ass
I just wanted to connect
But I was met
With a world
That was too busy
A face that was
Too pretty
Your absence
Makes you guilty
To the murder of
Our friendship
Your silence is a
Criminal impersonation
For the deceptive one who
Used to plan their
Destination into my arms
Pretend to be there
Pretend to charm
But what you really end up being
Is alarming if you think about
What we used to have
Think about love
The meaning of flowers
Funny how nobody wants
To think about that
Anymore

To Another One

Like a dark tide
Wading low out in the distance
There was no comfort
To keep me on the shore
So the dark blue
Electric feud
Calls no one
The bleak empty sea
Of our past memories
Swept away with today
In a boat of irresolvable
Friendship
Not even the
Illuminating scent
Of our past
Could be unsunk
Whatever moon was meant
Whatever time was spent
Whatever sun descends
On the horizon
Of what we once possessed
We will no longer commend
For what we cannot apprehend
To close the door on one love
Is to open up the heart
To another one

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?

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

It Just So Happens

It just so happens that I
Like the taste of salt
But share I not of your tears
For they are both sacred
A revolution endeared
In the obvious clearing
Of a love grove manifested
By the planting of such trees
One by one in an orchard
That needn’t be mentioned
Further past my lips
Than the whispers to your ears
Perhaps you remember me
Once upon a dream
Floating through your memory
By cause most likely
Difficult to see but certainly
You have an image of a time
We spent together when
You were feeling what some call
A reverie of momentary joy
And the cloth between us is cream
And the words between us
May seem of Sanskrit ages
Old and antique like the rotted oud
Of the most beautiful tree
Tangled up in our hearts for
All kingdoms to see where
The blood of roses pool up
Into our great eternity
It just so happens you see
You might remember me

You Are Love

Before we expire
Before I predict the future
What were you trying to say to me
Through the fire in your eyes
That I am loved?
That I should not be solitary
Confined to a hopeless heart
A chamber of nothing and ashes
Reduced to the end of an empty glass
Or the last ember of a flame
Cancelled by my own nature
Could you pray for me
Could you ask the spirits to
Send someone to love me
For who I am and would it be
More than a fantasy to know
That even in all the good that has been
Anointed in me by the hands of
True love on my head of rectory
That I should know love the way
A flower sees the sun
That I should know no shame
The way a rose opens up to the wind
That I should fall in love with love
The way that nature has no name
Or that creation should bow down
On the sheets of amber grains
And cry tears of rain to the earth
Where from each drop that drips
Will grow the love over rose hips
Whispering again before we expire
You are love