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Time capsule
For the weight of days
When you don't believe
Love's melodies
Dig up memories
Remind yourself
That we existed
For a time
Just like the movies
From wake to dream
Every thought captured
In a time capsule
To treasure unseen
Restore hope
For decades
Time well spent
Wandering aimlessly
Talking shamelessly
To the clear blue sky
At passersby
Whispering hello
And goodnight
Only one
Immortalised
With love
Ten past the hour
Fingers curl
Firm and fine
Tender and strong
Curiously hide
Brushing away
Wounds of yesterday
Laughing reciting
Memories opening
Adventures in love
Happening upon
Fragrant finds
Drinking in senses
Rarities afew
Treasures abound
Waiting minute more
With you
Begin again
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
Beautiful
“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.
Late bloomer
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?
A tangle of tentacles
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
Hear me
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...
Fragile
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?
Opening
Count the stars of heaven 