A dance in jest
Most compromising
Steps two back
One forward
Tete a tete
Longing looks
She is leading
Backwards reel
To the lightfoot
Sound of five eight
Skip hop akin to
Bounding over rocks
Fit as a fiddle
Keeping in step
Plying me with
Stout and chips
Surrendered only
To the trip
Heart ticking
In time to a lover
If anything goes
Not you, nor yet?
She marches in time
To another
A one-way street
Obey all signs
No turn to meet
Long road travelled
Further away
A mind map daunts
Crowd pervades
Lest crossroad take
You winding back
To where the flow
Returns both ways
An ugg boot
Slide on skin
Warm meet-cute
Spark the fire
Velvety thick
Soft to touch
Liqueur sip
Massage all
Aching places
Best worn
In private
Never take
It off
Soon as second summer fades
Gold leaf heralds the change
Climb atop pinnacle feast
Yearning eye spectacle
Brilliant openings abound
Underfoot and far
As the eye wanders
Missed by only a week
Left behind late bloomers
Scarce, rare and welcome
Shot of red against
Hard rock, lucid pools
Dreaming what came before
Never gazed upon
Rigid timing of fair nature
Meant never saw one other
In full bloom and open
Ready to receive a lover
Blank canvas
So tragically
Uninspired
Make a mark
So daringly
Invented
Happen upon
A feather
To conjure up
Full plumage
Light upon
Beached hull
To envisage
Wooden ships
Pluck remnant of
Blue white shard
To dine at
Ancestral table
Treasure cover
Ancient amulet
Embark adventure
Neverending
Seed on breeze
Now sown
Imagine the tree
Full grown
Gaze a smile
Short story
To enter your
Worlds unknown
Eyes averted
Hiding under hair
Meditating upon
Whatever's down there
Over your shoulder
Thrown without care
Showing me all
Pearls and chapsticks
In silent return
Mine replies
Yes I would like
To kiss you
One night only
Tomorrow knows
Every morning
How many ways I'll tell
Lengths and miles I'd go
To prove what you
Already know
I'd win Master chef
Learn to cook
World's best
Find tea of Ceylon
Brew delicious
Breakfast cup
Kick start business
Buy your dream
Beach house
Licence to fly
Drop you in
Western Wilds
Sail boat to ride
Marine exploring
Ocean tide
I'll take you all
These places
On our imagination
But only time
And place I have
Right here and now
Beside
Held on tightly
To mournful delightful
Words shedding down
A certain slant of light
Carried me onward
Into my enlightening
Years oft slighted
Hands held tightened
Let go realise
I never knew who
Bold and bright
She was me in spite of
Centuries between
Longing look at frond
A delicate hand
Responds to us not
Forget blue floral
Tongue tied knot
Unraveling over endless
Sails swept away
As long as the storm
Brews on horizon
Grip is tight
Bow turned windward
Fears stilled inward
At first sight
Of love
Pay attention
Naval gazing
To the heart
Inward looking
Realising
Affect affords
Little openings
Where thoughts
Seeping in
Under skin
Elevating
Heart making
Every day
Tiny delights
Intermingled
With spice
Grounded
Deeply rooted
Interconnected
Signs of life
When I look within
It's you I find
In the harvest moon
Gathering in treasure
From earth’s bed
Storing up long winter
Sometimes applied
To endearing friends
Just as the chill
Sits heavy on mountain
Ringed peak
Like dormant volcano
Absorbing peach sunrise
As ancient desert rock
Sky tinged with frost
Reminiscent golden
Long summer days
Glinting in eye
Love’s storehouse
Slips through fingers
Like shiny coins
Offered to buy freedoms
In a time of plenty
Store and save
Simple pleasures
For long dark days
A treasure is she
Whose girth rings
Pale in comparison
Wise watching over me
Count the stars of heaven 