Streets of my town
Taken to wits end
Edge of the precipice
Dark history amend
Not long since
A new breeze swept
Through winding lanes
Rows of vines well kept
As if breathed new air
Kept pace petite feet
Leading me down
Swans and starlings greet
Once again sandstone town
Sits longingly by river seat
Stands tall and proud
Once again, my retreat
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”
F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby, 1925.
Galaxies in their multitude
Where is she?
A simple spectrum stripe
Across her beating hearts
Taking lifetimes and bodies
Rapidly evolving
Lives unfolding
Hapless helpless followers
Falling in love
With her magnanimity
All knowing and seeing
Never saying
Beautiful mystery
Heartache of lost worlds
Secrets to keep
For eternity
Loving her draws many in
Along for the ride
Seeking a dangerous high
Do it all by lunchtime
Saving planets and universes
Hope and souls
Beating time
Mark of divine
She is only and one
Do you know who?
Dip in to the black ink
Flip feet freely in the wash
Slip my whole heart heavily
Trip submerge willingly
Into swollen tide hiding places
Slippery fingers tease faces
Wide eyed glassy gazes
Wonderment as smile erases
Never you mind, never with me
A tickle teases out a single tentacle
She breathes into me
Avoiding tangle in community
Inner spacial, inter species
Perfect love is never easy
Daily ritual flirts with danger
Obsession dances take your cue
Never see another in a lifetime
What's hurting yours is hurting mine
Taking care is taking its toll
Take a bow the stage is yours
Tiny feet patter away on waves
Never know to where
Loving a mother life giver
Attach, match, hatch...
Love is all and all is love
To find such beauty takes us all
our waking thoughts rise above
A breath we cannot hold
What is it like
To love another
like you?
To let their name
linger longer on lips
cited and recited
Incantation
To close your eyes
see lightness pervade
cut through blackness
Meditation
To draw the lines
around your face
as smiles evade
a knowing gaze
Repartee
To lie in wait
until the day
catch a ride
see a face
Resignation
To know the same
happens every day
some place and time
yet never again
like them.
To know what is meant
when they say
love is love is love...
Admiring beauty
From afar
These empty vessels
Won't hold warmth
Nor bear handling
Forgive accidental
Fall from grace
Tiniest touch
Out of place
All seeing
Though clearly
Conversations
Simmer gently
Hands clasped
In dainty laps
Licking jelly slice
From fingers
Longing gentrified
Special ones
Reserved for whom?
Reflections Light disperses around Casting dancing shadows Until the sun hides Shapes erase Gentle budding offerings Shower like rain 'Till leaves overtake Newness delights no more Still nestled by banks Close to source Roots go deep Shadows grow tall Setting not forgetting Till tomorrow
Who decides when to leave or stay?
Presence is a twist of fate
A state of mind
A lovers' debate
Soaking in all the senses
A lifetime of inspiration
Absorbed in the space
of a day
Words cannot describe
the affect on body and mind
But if you wish me to
I will try
Some choose to Live and let die Watch a mother cry Hear an old man grieve Turn a cold hand, leave Avoid another vow Furrows in the brow Take another's toil Feed the ego, spoil Eternally asking Am I one or the other? Do I love? Do I bother?
Count the stars of heaven 