Brisk pinch of crisp rivers tears
Whitewater noise fills my ears
Trickling down all these years
Solace soothes heart fears

Brisk pinch of crisp rivers tears
Whitewater noise fills my ears
Trickling down all these years
Solace soothes heart fears

Vivid recollections
Dreams wash away blues
Dust collections
Blown by southern front
Lucid imagination
Crosses over into
My everyday world
A parallel reality
I breathe to dive
Into temptation
An undersea world
To find you

Dear lover, in absentia
I whisper into shells
Over whether all I gave
Was yours or for myself
Rigid cool of cave
Calms inner storms
Black ink air stale
Smothers fright and fawn
Tentacles do weave
Embroider heart strings
Plucked ruefully
Timbre displeasing
- of course-
To thine ears

Desire chose me
It felt powerful
Yet, my achilles
Object of beauty
Beholds natural world
But never oneself
As admirable
Longing to tell
Though never believed
Truth which burns
Within me

Smooth places made
Turbulent
Delighted smiles turned
Strained
Vulnerability is
Compromised
Intelligence used to
Detonate
Childlike innocence
Smothered
Wisdom sown
Uprooted
Voice of justice
Silenced
Creative forces
Unglued
Elders presence
Ghosted
Protest voices
Dispersed
Shed a tear
For all the years
Silence
Made things worse

Counting down the years
Unknown
Warning signs gone
Nest of softened fears
Like feathers fallen
Lay our downy rest

Sheer gravity lures
Decades forces pulls
Finally free and yours
Pinnacle of wave
Break over rocky shore
Thrill bouyancy
Every time she responds
To me
Takes to the edge
Bright white sandy smile
Flashes behind eyes
Everywhere I see
Words etched into
Cliff face story
Eroding crumbling
Debunked history
Tideline moves along
With moonlight spree
Voice like wind on waves
Whispers to me
Adrenaline fades
Until next ride
Point break

Beauty is in the eye
Of wisdom planted
Years borne
Force of nature
Mother
Shaped by winds
Rain and storms
Buried deep
Eternally
Bearing seed

...until the end of time

I miss you, dearly
So much so
I recall clearly
Lottery days
Sunning ourselves or seeking shade
Silence listens to our breathing
A seat at your picnic table
Winning
How lucky I was
Like a billionaire
With nothing in hand
But love and admiration
Need I say?
A past never erased
Nor wished away
Held onto, still as
Cool aqua tarn
Smiles to the gills
Though I recall
My anxious face
Mirrored in yours
How I wished
Upon lucky orange belly feather
Sacred shells under webbed feet
How to make you happier
Than ever before, shall we?
Need I say?
I regret one thing
We are a culmination
Of all that had been
I longed for sweet escapism
Take your hand into the blue
Drift on cloudy scenes
From breakfast till noon
Ride the racing waves
Till breath escapes
Revive till night
Closes our eyes
Once again
