What if looks could revive
We are found in the dark
Blinded by sight
No tricks up the sleeve
Memories guide
Senses won't believe
Words come easy
On sips of wine
Silence speaks
How you are mine
Silence speaks
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Category Archives: Poetry
To keep her
If you love her
Keep her any way
You are able
For this, be brave
Keep her warm
Yarn laced fingers
Curl round nape
Feather linger
Woven holding
Tender kiss
Forehead whisper
Only hears
Keep her hopeful
Words entwined
Stories ebb
Like evening tide
Keep her safe
Biding space
Contentment cups
Heart weary race
Keep her trust
Alive in truth
So idly by
No thoughts invade
A brilliant love
Will break if kept
Enclosed admired
On show in cage
This love wraps round
To keep in ways
These arms can't hold
When she's away
Love like
A tender ache
Waking crisp
White morning
Hazy gaze
Over hills
By afternoon
Floodlight
Adorn footfalls
Evening swoon
Face shines
Only constant
Beneath the moon
Longing
Enveloping my whole body
I dive in tentatively
The cool surface shocks
My skin pricks lightly
My feet shake it off
Pressure builds in ears
Presses on eyelids
I feel the warm embrace
Of weightlessness
It surrounds me
Cradles softly
Like mothers arms
Holds up backflip
Lifts to lie breathing
Grateful for air
Contemplating its gift
Longing of water
Fills my mouth and nose
Ears and hair
Every crevice tenderly
Seal broke free
Finding new colony
Rest on her shores
Till we meet again
Ocean and me
Old fashioned
Mine an old fashioned
Kind of silent movie
Secret smiles
Behind closed doors
Writing captions
Never spoken
Lying in bed
For hours
Only thinking
What's behind
Velvet curtain?
Sending flowers
Anonymous note
The rush and glitz
Glamour of colour
Took over my world
In the stillness
And quiet
Reminisce gentle images
Black and white
Sepia tones
The colour of my dreams
Hers the only rainbow
That matters
Words
When words fail to capture
Thousands fall away
Freedom belies
Breath escapes
A sigh
Love
Unrequited
Mirror image
Standing here reflecting
On how many ways
My body is here
But the rest
Is somewhere else
With you
Falling softly
Petals of intention
Fell softly on my ears
Floating to the floor
Covered over many years
In every gentle way
She shed truth that I'd forgot
Yet all the choice I heard
Was 'she loves me'~ yes or not?
In this land of make believe
Is where I've made my home
A hundred paper cranes
Tell me how to spot fool's gold
Lover, sister, friend
Only three chords that I play
Spiralled round a seashell heart
As tea sipped smiling fades
Love like
A tidal wave
We all want to
Be bombarded
With love
Post-service
As desert rose
Where the dirt
Lapped up
Falling droplets
Thirst a daily
Familial ritual
Now I turn and see
The high tide mark
Since last week
And beg to breathe
Bloom and grow
Among kindness
Where gentle waters
Steep near
Woolly Tea Trees
By the creek
Quietly
Tempered
Did you notice the subtle ways
Women temper one another?
Like fine blades of steel
No, softer
Turning coarse wool
Into fine threads
Fondled softly
Between fingers
Three strands
Lover, fighter, friend
My freedom ride
To secure my attire
Take me into
Foul weather
A message received
'Yes please!'
Knowing not meant
For me
One to be
The cool breeze
Telling me
To tread carefully
Love is not all
That it seems
As lanolin coats
My fingers
Threadbare
I watch and listen
And wait to dare again
Never to let
The sharp ones
Fray your thread
Count the stars of heaven 