Safety net
Borderline scent
You draw the shades
Where I confide
My soul’s secret
Sound admiration
Where the truth
Meets destination
An intellectual
Resort for contemplation
String to string
Cord to cord
Thoughts put on hold
Are free to speak
And sigh relief
Words and ears are free to meet
In disbelief
My choked arrest
Can never find
An open breath
That could describe
What grateful eyes
Safely surmise
When they confide
What truly lies
Beyond the surface
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I will twiddle my thumbs
Till the seams come undone
And the aftermath
Of love is a crackling core
Splitting wood
Vehemently stroked
A single simple chime
A serpents tail
Whipping altered states
Making out
To meet you in midair
Run my fingers through your hair
Cradled scales curled up
Japanese redfish
And a moon to catch your bare
Echo of a voice
The inner twill
Black water and bread
Make for us a meal
Bite down on summers
Misty stammered sweet
Drips of lucid steam
Two love gashes
Torn in cryptic memories
Mended in the
Mysteries as our hearts
Call out the weathered
Wide eyed fantasies of yet
My almond prize
A gold red hallucination
Sparkles optic
Nightmare visions
Awakened by our
Hot tears
Dancing vertically
On a blanket
In the sea
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Blisters on my heart
Cool me and soothe the
Painful insights
That arrive unannounced
From underneath the
City lights
As thoughts
Confide in me from where
I know not but receive
The sidewalk path
Made up of concrete
Feels of solid mass
But breathe dreams
Once dreamt
Of those
Who passed upon and on
This ground beneath
An allowance
For the virtues of
Communications needs
Requests permissions
To grasp the souls
Whose dreams
Have never been retrieved
With hesitance
A gentle yes
Answers before
Time takes to think
As their beliefs
Cloud and fill my mind
They become their memories
And then transform again
Accepting what has entered me
Is like a thread
It moves so swiftly
As is with life
No warning sign
Questions flow in
And then beyond
The needles eye
Disguised again
In visual imagery
Revealed its entry
Unfamiliar sources still
Pushing through the soles
Of both my feet
In every wave
A different life
Coursing with heat
Upwardly into my
Mental faculties
Projecting pictures
Of each face
That enters
Onto a movie screen
My mind displays to see
Another face not me
I’ve never seen before
Softly I do not coincide
Just to define the substance
Dream reality
Or to discover that the only
Answer found provides
Uncertain destiny
An opportunity
Or way in which to slide
Outside the arms
Responsible for guiding
What we see
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Like to have a friend
Takes time
Like to make love
Takes time
If I could paint
A flower exactly
As you would like to see it
No one would see precisely
What you have shown me
And I see it because
I would depict it
Like the flower that you are
So I tell myself
I will mirror what you show me
What your flower will bestow to me
Painting it enormously
And everyone will be pleased
When they are taking you in
On the walls of a museum
I will make the world
Appreciate what I see in you
Portraying the flower I displayed of you
What I saw when you patiently
Played with me while you laid with me
Who you are even yes
When you tasted me
A painting to remind us of
When we made love
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Why is it you can see it
When others don’t
Turn the lights on
Look around
I’m not hiding that well
Mostly in plain sight
Friendship turns to love
Once upon a time
Lines drawn around
What is actually allowed
Wouldn’t want to screw that up
So I dream of things to say
Words resting at the tip
Of my tongue
Ready to take off
When the moment is right
Perhaps never being said
For if I say too much
You just might turn your head
So percolating silently
Approaching moments at tiptoe
Sliding around in socks
Without a noise to shake
Or rock our perfect balance
Friends can become lovers
Lovers can walk away
Better to be friends
Safer not to say
Or is it
Compromise
With my heart
Take what I can get
Hold my breath to get ahead
Just don’t turn blue
You can’t love me if I’m dead
Hopped up on lust
Fantasy breaking trust
Building courageously up to
The moment where I almost
Say it all
It’s the angle of the pass
Fumbling while trying
Not to fall
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Strategically you could in a way
Create a space to be with you
There is nothing more desirable
To me than a lack of
Complications
Me there with you simply
To see what your heart sees
During the day
To wait for you impatiently
Hold me
I am more than one way
You are absolutely right
Every moment for me
Takes a drink from your glass
And if not love at first sight
At last
What you say I need
Is all I want
So far in distance but so close
In the way that you’re discreet
What
Uncertainty can be strong
But loving me is even stronger
And this reflection of your love
Would be enough to create
A gem that has not yet existed
In the world between us
A most coveted ring
Imagine me around you
When you close your eyes at night
Know that dreams have a means to
Build a bridge before the alarms
Wake us up in the morning
Just as the dawn would find me
In your arms
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I don’t want to forget
What reminds me
Of hopeless endings
There would be no
Reason to want something more
Something worth defending
I’ll never give up on
The hope that it could be
But I can’t stop
Searching out every possibility
To convince me
Of our truth
You need faith
And in time
I believe it would prove
What it’s looking to see
I must be willing
To risk the chance of losing you
In order to feel
The hope that I could love you
I would love you
And the fact that I could
Is more powerful
Than actually proving that I would
If you only knew
What I wish I could do
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How much how many times
What is the balance
To find work and love
Someone to go home to
Someone to celebrate
Someone touch my lips
Working hard is what for
If there is no one to share it with
Affection calls
I feel it strongly today
Underneath the mystery
Turn me upside down
Find a way for you
To find me too
If I knew where or
How to ask you
Just to stay with you
Hold you
I want to
Kiss your neck
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Little words
Neutral love
It puts to sleep
What round and rivet
Thumbing
That tic-toc
Like clock
Time of misgiving
Do not let
Your bitter belly
Crawl through
Acid incisors that might
Eat you like a child
Who cries to feel
The umbilical cord
Unreel
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Farewells can be so odd
Awkward almost
Unlike burying
These treasures in your heart
Before you go
Can I hand you a torch
To guide you
Tell you a story
To bide you on
Your journey
A ripened pear
Soft on your lips
Warmed once riding in your bag
Wound round your hips
Traveled nourishingly
With you
On your boat
Or saddled to your horse
However you choose to roam
Voyage off or gallop out
There will always be a mattress waiting
A see through curtain draped about
Loosely round the bedposts
I’ll gift the finest kiss goodbye to you
But I am best at my hellos
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Poétique 