Sunday bonny Sunday

Posted on February 2, 2023 by aperture

She worships the sea
Sacred rituals on
Tepid tide 
Sunday mornings
While I hide
Under cover
Worshipping
Its maker for
The very heart
Of her

*View from Maria Island, lutruwita / Tasmania*

Vows to an unknown lover

Posted on January 27, 2023 by aperture

Here I write
Words we might aspire to
Though we'll likely disappoint each other
But we will try not to
In moments when we realise
Our needs did not come first
We will hold our hurt for a little while
Then allow time and space
For the other to grow
Be nurtured, then return,
If she may.
These vows may increase
Or slowly be erased
Their effect will be life-lasting
But if we find ourselves
Staring at a blank page
We can write new vows
Afresh with hope or
Fold it lovingly
Into a sleek airplane
and send it on its way

In my mind

Posted on January 24, 2023 by aperture

In my mind 
We meet secretly
On the hidden stairwell
In the evening 
Where I can hold
A hug for longer
Evading prying glance

In my mind 
We go everywhere
On the hidden trail
In the wilderness
Where I can hold
A breath for longer
Exaling view entranced

To be alone
With you
In my mind

Attraction

Posted on January 23, 2023 by aperture

Need not reduce
The sweetest allure
To set of predictions
Hypotheses
Tested by a swarm
Of intelligent 
Counter-arguments

The beauty of attraction
A mystery unfolding
A universe ever-expanding 
Discovering new worlds
Within, by chance touch
Of your hand

Brace yourself

Posted on January 22, 2023 by aperture

Filling my senses
With the sight of you smiling
Chilling submerging

Rise!

Posted on January 21, 2023 by aperture

Water lily blooms
Languidly laze on surface
Abuzz sunlit show

Poised

Posted on January 21, 2023 by aperture

Downy white hairs 
Kissing your cheek
Lines hugging face
Curves cling to waist

My eyes wrap round
Your whole being
Love who you are
In every possible way

A painter poised
Dips nib on palette
Tenderly caresses
Curves and shades

From whispers
To grand gestures
Silence fills blank space
What's left unsaid

Presence like a guest 
Stepping backwards
Canvas a kaleidoscope
Never erased

Hidden figures

Posted on January 18, 2023 by aperture

I'll be your mountain 
You be my sea
For all onlookers 
We are divided
On the beaches
But really
I fall 
At your feet

Love that keeps you warm

Posted on January 15, 2023 by aperture

Finest ink bleeds in time with percussive beats
Knowing well each drop more precious than gold

Unlike the burst of black cloud shrouding fear
Tentacles shooting across infested waters

Knowing where to find the spark for perpetuity
A lifeline in veins of penned prose

Splayed in restless phrases seeking
To be absorbed by stark gaze

On the pure chance her and I might be the same
Apart from desire to pour presence into silence

Stand fast like a tidal wall as passing rush
Tsunami crawls back to capacious sea

Entranced with affect, she pours into me veritable
Encyclopedia of past dreams evading dust of settling

Vain hopefulness turns weather crow 'round
Conjuring up necessary resistance to passing storms

Time together a transfusion
A love that keeps you warm

Here be dragons

Posted on January 15, 2023 by aperture

Mine is a joy of colour
Burned in my brain
So brightly borne
On night forlorn 
I hardy seem the same

A name so entrancing
It fair evades the jest
The sound of it
Steeps pride within
Its brush long stood the test

Spent many a day observing 
The detail in its grain
To widen gaze 
A spellbound daze
Defies grande window pane

Blue as the sky opens, timely
Cool as the vast southern sea
Ancient creatures 
Surely teach us
How humans ought to be

Wise as blue whale roaming 
Fear kraken, now mythical beast
When power and lust
Turn forests to dust
Here be dragons, man unleashed