Oddest moments
Tease mercilessly
Caught unawares
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Love more
Do everything you can
To tell someone you love them
Even if they don’t understand
Why someone would.
It is a given
That one who struggles
To see themselves
As loveable
Need it more
Than those who
Love themselves more
Than you
Never erased
Tears spilled
Into ink well
Until overflowed
Onto blank page
Of future days
Now never erased
If I'd begged
Bowed down to power
Where would I be now?
Holding the broken limbs
Of my worn out pride
Barely alive
Against all odds
Christmas miracles
Each year I gift myself
A new year calendar
Full of native flora
From my chosen homeland
To tempt myself
To go out and explore
To fill each day
An unwritten space
With wonder
A plastic Christmas tree
Or ailing pine struck
From side of road
Does nothing for me
Summer draws you out to
Parade through tracks
Winding into hidden
Vales to find
Berries and blossoms
Winged creatures calling
You into the forest
A place of miracles
Magical moments
Let it bee
Murmuring of nations
Surmised in vibrations
Of one bee
Pang of loss reaches
Extremities diving
Into cool stream
Countless words
Native tongues foreign
Fail to reach ears
Floundering has its moments
Articulating the speechless
Over all these years
Now I know
Oft repeated question
now erased
Answer to that look
upon your face
Gaze of ruminations
awe and wonder
In the presence
of a lover
never replaced
Sweet rush
As time is short
No kid could live
In a candy store
So sweet revival
Of my soul
Happens in a week
Unmeditated
Two minds collide
Barely sleep
Smile and stories
To be shared
Tea and toes
Limbs entwined
In brief space
Of our lives
Delving into
Love from afar
Greeting new day
Goodbyes harder
To say with words
Sacramento
There's a time not so long ago
It still plays in my mind
Like the little girl who giggled
Hung her monkey arms around
Your neck and made you laugh and smile so much
Across the crowded venue
Now the size of an adult
She sits squarely at me and stares
Just like my girl does
I stared back too
Masks up to our eyes
What does she want to know?
A silent reply
Yes, I love her too
Moments like these can be found on the brink of never after
They live on as an image that can never be erased
Come what may
In her likeness
Feathery down on tender leaf
Bare skin of trunk
Velvet grass under feet
Grazed by lush grey coat
Pressed gently in hand
Distinctive scent arose
Sensory pleasure all around
Evokes a smile of fondness
Desire to know once for all
Mysteries under its surface
Count the stars of heaven 