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
Following the fairy tales
Interstellar Cinderella I knew time too intimately. Her imprisonment, like an evil stepmother, reduced me down to just a pulse and steadily stole beats away— left only crumbs of memories. Not even fairy godmothers could break her spell or deathly grasp of entropy until that night a force revealed love’s transcendence of time and space... … Continue reading Following the fairy tales
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
Beach Finds (Haikus)
A nameless beach rose Only it knows why it’s here How love finds its way Goggles left swallowed Swimming in forgotten day’s Memories of sand No better magic When shells fit on fingertips Like the silky seas Writing and photography by: Katy Claire Funke
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
Watercolors
In the twilight we marvel at this watercolored world. Our eyes, a blend with the marbled sea and the sky’s pearlescent peach. I try to outline the horizon, but in dampened air my pen just bleeds. The sea breeze paints ussoft and blueas we slip into the mist. We share a sacredintimacy — within our … Continue reading Watercolors
Just Romance
short poems Spring Spring danced carefully…then,goodness,it didn’twhen summer leapt recklessand kissed every season! and then you say and then you say, I know everything about you.Just think of me as your diary and I smile —start leafing through your pages, showing you every word you’ve written and then I writeyour namea hundred timeson your arms … Continue reading Just Romance