The end

Source: Journal ~ 2015

Affection for a close companion
Can grow should a spark
Be fanned into flame
- if a spark existed at all

So yes, I could reasonably 
Imagine growing 
Attracted to someone 
Based on a mutual friendship
Over a long period of time.
Good looks and physique
Have never been 
A precursor to attraction 
For me

I am mindful of the heart
Of another
- this is all I see 
On the skin and face
The smile and eyes
Come from within 

For the sake of joy
To preserve 
my future life and family
Shortly, my desire to live

I remembered what love 
Ought to feel like.
A careless abandon
That let go of
Self-consciousness...

This ignited in me
A fire that can never
Be put out

Framed

Deciding upon
What to adorn
My walls
To keep me content
In case we need to
stay in again

Thick oak-look frame
Appearance is everything
Sandstone smiles
In the shade
Sun behind
Holding up a glorious
Bouquet of natives
Flannel flower power
Blue gum leaves
My own arrangement
By request
Selected anything
With white bloom
Tea tree in season
Looking like
A big cauliflower
Dried nicely
In my room
I remember

The next a mirror
Painted frame
Like retro glam
Gold and silver
Telling me
Look at you
-How you've weathered
So nicely
In the stormy seas-
Looking at me

Another gold
Circular seal
With purple
For royalty
A lineage
When born again
Not feeling it
In fact it tells me
Yes you studied
Greek among men
Not so different
From the halls
Of Plato
Ecumenicum
Blending in
With other
Women
Carry a Grecian
Jug on my head
So as not to attract
Attention

A bold shot of blue
Spread from end to end
Covered in blossoms
From a shaky hand
Eyes near blind
World inside
The mind of Monet
My dear almond blossom
Friend
Telling me it's time
To leave these walls
Behind
Remember the branch
Severed at one end
Can bloom and grow
Again
View of blossom tree, from the ground.

Neverland

Never heard a ticking clock
Inside a crocodile
Never seen a fairy nymph
Darting firefly

Never seen a league of beings
Rise up and take a stand
Never felt the heartache
Missing touch of human hand

Never felt this way about love
Though seen it in their eyes
Never heard the silence speak
Revealing a surprise

Never knew with certainty
That life would turn this way
Never knew that happiness
Could lead a man astray

Never met someone who could
Turn heads with words so few
Now never want to hope or have
Another 'cept for you

Tandem

The most devastating weather
Can be made wonderful
Beside a fire
Locked in embrace

The most tragic happenstance
Can somehow be made bearable
By walking it together

As the fear of falling
Becomes a daily grooming
The delight in calling
Another love

Takes the pain out of
The air pressure
The impact when
Sky is spinning above

Like skydiving in tandem
Feel the weight of air together
But even if you go alone
The rush lives on forever

Those who've had their livelihoods
Unfairly swept away
Cling to songs and memories
Of love in better days

It brings them smiles
Laughter, singing
Stories on repeat
This is love's most noble task
In case again we meet

So powerful is love's lament
Like smiling through the tears
It gives us all our decades worth
Reminiscing happy years

So if by fortune I would live
Into those golden years
Rest assured my smile will sit
Firmly past my ears

Blitz

Keeping you at arms length
While holding on to life
Silence so you'll never hear
The danger and the strife

One day V day will arrive
And in your arms I'd fall
To stand on every corner
Friends and family and all

When sheltered under door frame
To avoid roof falling in
Imagining a life with you
A fantasy we're in

Like stepping through a cupboard
Into frozen landscape bare
Meeting little furry friends
Sweet treats if you dare

The realm of fiction is complete
With swords and battles too
But surely it's the safest way
That I can be with you?

Love parade

Darkness lifts like a curtain
Raised to the rooftop
Of palladium
A stage

Dancers, jugglers, seers and wanderers
Mill around in their thousands
Wondering who will speak
On that day

Mumbling and speculation
Fill the open sky with heat
Distress and devastation
Trampled under feet

No authoritative voice resounds
The cacophany dies to a whisper
The only words recited 'tween
The lover and the listener

Mind matters

I wish to be your human
And you could be mine
-My feline friend says proudly-
I hope you don't mind

Such bravery to crawl on me
And underneath the covers
To twirl between my legs
Kiss my nose like I'm his mother

Such boldness is endearing
For what else really matters
Than telling your favourite human
That their absence leaves you scattered

To be near you every day
Or even once a week
Would make all of the difference
To the life I'd wish to lead

To be with you and drink
In the regular everyday
When I run out of words
And hear all you have to say

But dare I say I am
With you always anyway
Only river between
Not an ocean or a fray

- Rest assured I'd gladly swim
The distance any day -

Can you believe my thoughts
Are often interrupted
By the time you liked my shirt
Or by a joke, at me, directed

The time you sat beside me
Every word believed as true
Reciting leaves and lemon trees
Realised was all for you

Painting of a picture
With those stories far and wild
Imagine all those places
From your thoughts to ease my mind

A literary meeting
Like some tower here in Oz
Where heart, soul and mind
Find out they were there
All along

Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse

Pulling me in closely 
Like moon and tide
Always the atmosphere
Between us

Watching waves coarsing
Supposedly on their own
Nothing to do with
The bright light of the moon

Turning dark one night
Super Flower Blood Moon's
Power over me, pulling
Closer every night

Long distance drawing in
Accidents and happenstance
Near misses and stresses
How did I get here?

Land eventually
Wondering if I make it
Through to you
Never leaving

Moon and tide dance
Back and forth
Two great forces
Land on her shores?

Eternally beholden
One to another
Moon starved of water
Tide drawing closer

Sea rises to meet
Rings round mist
Kisses moon light
Returns to earth beneath

Love like

Ice cream and jelly
Vanilla and strawberry
Soothing and sweet
Giving rise to voice
In the aftermath
Silenced

Thousands of times
Imagined the delight
Touching to lips
But only on occasion
Moderation

Comfort food
Not only sugar hit
Telling me
You are worthy
Strengthening

Lashings of frosty cream
Red jellyness a dream
Given to patience
For inner healing
Like me