Tending to Small hands Hair flicking wide Glinting eyes Blinking love Up to me Head hovering Under door frame Burly gentle voice Giant young hand Filling holes In roles of family
Tending always My secret garden Inside Giant limbs and roots Of memories To swing on In the dark hours Back and forth Soothing
Tender to End of work Ache between My bones Echoes of words From a whole world Of intimate meetings Human voice evokes Cure for hurt
Tending all Cut stems New roots Shoots and leaves Evergreen Expanding Untouched by Frost or heat Enclosed glasshouse Weighted by reality Preserved by families
Tenderqueer Sharing spectrum Kaleidescope Of fondness Love me tender Sensitive receive Touch of air Words breathing Responds anything Unflinching Appealing Secret smiles Unspoken words Tenderly recalling Time together Fleeting
My heart sings out Every morning Trying on Different melody Not to drown out In synchrony With droning Whirring life All around me Unknown songs Respond saying Who is it You are calling? Waiting for like echo Chamber music Of a heart
Roots and leaves Grounding Reaching above Two affections Opposing directions One hidden one seen
A vast intricate network Tapping into streams When cold and dark Storm rips apart She holds me gently Tough enough Never letting go Of what sustains us
Long limbs climb Dance in the air Entwine Soak rays absorb rain Glorious colour Flower fruits Enough to feed Seven monkeys Birds butterflies bees
Love is looking up Telling us always Who to and where to go Telling feet to point In right direction Or else stumble aside It's the glorious view From below that inspires To keep going Taking everyone with you If eyes are glued - Try it some time - Wherever you look Others look there too So grateful to spy A beautiful soul Chin up to pinnacle To show me how too
The last time I ever Saw her face next to mine My chilled fingers wiped Warm tears from her eyes Shed for another lost Lover long ago Sometimes it's shared losses That waters new growth If time lasts forever We'd live in that moment Rather than swimming In thoughts of our own Giving voice to our stories Of long lost loved dears On the seat right beside Their bodies appear While two are a couple Absorbed in own world A gaggle of lovers Surround sound divide So keep them in storage Where they safely belong Saved up for those moments When long dates are done
Shape shifting countenance Colours refracted over time Telling me all I wish to hear And yet only one line Stands out from others Unsolicited Happy Solstice How a mountain is revered Upon holding a stone Between my fingers How tunnel vision Peering through confetti Glitter tattooed Like spots appearing After staring at the sun When the view in front Is clear and cool As the wintry sky
Queue a mile long Take a number Squeeze in front Unprepared Sending hugs If you want one A string of them Woven into Rainbow blanket Embrace in case of Feelings of isolation Many more skeins Held between Two hands Needing someone To untangle Loosen Make sense of it Never seeming As handsome as My favourite Blue jumper On you
Perched between barren landscapes Far as the eye squints In the distance Microscopic life dawns In open spaces unseen How we relish the resilience Of some tiny show Of leaves stalk reaching Up for sunlight to ignite It's open tongued grooves Into being
Yet we find normalised eugenics Those who exist between the lines Of normativity collectivism Turned aside by one Derided by two Abandoned by three Many mouths to feed Better defend protect Turn inside out Than let another Take the mantle When the woman till Ten works then sleeps A superior breed To exist in such Harsh remote conditions Of isolation Yet to grace the pages Of top ten endemic list For protection Women and children Survival of our species
A tale of modern peril Our cup receives all Gobstopper sized marbles Stress weighs us all Next fit the shiny Glittery gems The friends and family Who never hem in Sift through the cracks The sensory spaces Fine sand of stories A treasure of faces When life's limitations Walls cold hard and thin One love pours over Holds everything in
Count the stars of heaven 