A year since tomorrow

I started a trend
Since hearing a word
Laid eyes on a friend
A sense caught me reeling
No putting back in
My eyes stealing jaffas
Down cinema aisle
My hands itched to hold
Secured under thighs
I smiled uncontrollably
In all the sad scenes
Mind danced the tango
In moments serene
I dared ask another
Calendar moment
A hug and a whisper
Dazed in her glow
Nonsensical laughs
Happy cry the way home
Pouring heart out
To a friend
On the phone
Like a Kinder surprise
A taste and a trinket
Never too old
For love's sinking feeling

All things

You were all things to me
Breathing air seeing none
You meant the whole world
Revolving the sun
Reliving lost dreams
That fled once awake
Exploring new ground
No claiming a stake
Imagining lives
We never would live
Biding our time
For someone to give
kunanyi / Mt Wellington, lutruwita / Tasmania

I woke up

Then dreamt of yesterday
All the days leading
Up to it
Slowly
Surely
Like a breeze
Gaining strength
To power a fleet
Of silent sailboats
Against the tide
So unlike a race
Us two ran last
Holding hands
Did not capsize
Basked in the sun
Caught fish
Explored vast islands
Spent time
All we had left of it
Till the finish line

Softly and tenderly

We tell one another
We have and do
Always will
Love one and another
Forever till
Death do we part

I will catch a hint of smile
Leftover from a lover
Warm myself by it
Like a bedside candle flame
Bright orange
Thank their souls
For loving us so well

Mine is an evergreen
Glint in my eye
That turns to the sky
Drink in her memory
Crossing snow-covered peak
Parade lest it fade
Love is applied daily
Soaking in more than skin deep

She reads me well
That faroff look
Still dances with you alone
Silence falls our music plays
On repeat

I hung on

Your every word
Tossed about gently
Like lost garments
In the night
On the deck
Of a ship at storm
Trip hazard
But loved once worn
In the daylight
As the anchor
Finds safe habour
Among living creatures
Seeking safety
Searching sea bottom
For friends and tidbits
Till bottomless glass
Tilts no more
I set sail again
Longing horizon
Begs me for more
Elizabeth Pier, nipaluna / Hobart, lutruwita / Tasmania

One of my turns

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
Parliament Lawns, nipaluna / Hobart, lutruwita / Tasmania