Tag: poetry

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

© GÄ

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?

© GÄ

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

© GÄ

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

© GÄ

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

© GÄ

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

© GÄ

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

© GÄ

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

© GÄ

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

© GÄ