A love poem Can I rest under this floral sky? Nestle in and listen to your heart-song’s fluttering? You do to me what summer does with buttercups and honeybees. Like botany I study you — your mind is wild fields and flowers buzzing like a violin you make me garden, dance me golden — sway … Continue reading Flowers
Wine-stained in December
To that December I’ll always go back to place my feet in your snowy tracks ( to remember every crunch : crushed cold white sugar on a fruits of our devotion ). Love, don’t you remember? That glass of soft red last of autumn sunset when the trees were lit and time was drunk, and … Continue reading Wine-stained in December
Autumn Leaves
You came to me like the first of autumn, gently awakening my every leaf to the crimson ribbons of your breeze — and to you: the dream of my deciduous heart. Our souls had always been older than the summer — interacting with each other without us ever knowing, and September was something harmonious to … Continue reading Autumn Leaves
Ocean Passions (Poems)
Ocean I’m hypnotized by the rise and fall. I try to match my breaths in sync with the waves — soak in sights, smells, tastes, ( galaxies... too vast ) the breeze on my neck ( too much ) . I will sleep with just the thought of you. Mermaid Lost at sea, sound or … Continue reading Ocean Passions (Poems)
Little Love Poems
Flowers I would have everything perfectly planned before seeing you — what I would say and what I would do. But the minute you walked in the door I forgot the world becoming a field of flowers and all —it distracted me.Your scent filling the room. Breathtaking Me breathing is a prerequisite forme singing,which made … Continue reading Little Love Poems
Sea of Dreams
When I wrap myself in the world you write I can fall asleep for days. Every word washes me — over, under, rocking me from sand to pearl-star. And I know it’s only you, the infinite ocean I taste and crave. It’s only youwho knows my darkand glows my dreams this way. Before I knew … Continue reading Sea of Dreams
Liquid
I try to find the words —try to sculpt a form that shapes you, but then I realizeour love is liquid ... and that everything I feel through mealso flows through you — through my veins from a river :hiddenrivulets of rhythm or droplets in a lakethat rippleinto a completesoftness. Like an oceanblurspale to deep … Continue reading Liquid
Lemon bars + poetry
A lemon’s role So quicklyLemon learnedshe would never get the lead … Her role was alwayssupportingwith a zestor a squeeze. She had accepted her career as :“the faintest essence”or “the tasteful garnish.” In the business ofbreakfast, lunch and dinnershe was alwaysthe slice of bitteron the dish. But thenshe learnedshe could be a star in changing … Continue reading Lemon bars + poetry
A moment in the sunrise
I try to never miss a sunrise to paint my intentions within a landscape completely indifferent to me. I can seamlessly slip through the spiderwebbed crackson my little patio and into the sunlit glow of a sacred space, exhaling my prayers and wildflower hopes to breathe in peace made with the day’s groundlessness; understandingthe unknowingsand … Continue reading A moment in the sunrise
Poems on my heart
Five poems My Dearest Crippling Expectations, If I do more will that be moreof what you like? If I contour my armoruntil it’s contorted just right? If I suffer a deathby small paper cutsand fold into yourmost perfect origami will that beenough? At least for tonight? A Love of Learning In loveI’ve : bloomed inirreplaceableburning … Continue reading Poems on my heart