~In the Shadow~
In the shadow’s inferno
it quickly burns to ash
a love longed for and lost
in a war of silence
in a battle of words
The lashing and cutting
went to the very bone
slicing the marrow and
bleeding all the
poems and stories of
gentler times of lush red
In the valley of memory
times lingers for one more
moment in tender honor
to what was and never shall be
for the Phoenix cannot rise
from this holocaust of fire
~Willing~
You gently part
my lips with yours
Stroking my hair
drinking in my eyes
pulling me to you
and even though
you are right there
a single breath away
I miss you
yes
right now
come closer, Love
I want your heart
beating against
my flushed skin
need to feel you
learn every inch
of who you are
over and over again
~When Gods Die~
When Gods die
The world undulates
Oceans tremble
In the wake
But mortals
Our tale is loosely spun
We Pass through the veil
With barely a sigh
As for me I hope
There will be a whisper
A remembrance of
How I lived and loved
And who I was lucky enough
To have love me
All that matters
Are those touchstones
Which last forever
Through the storms
And the eternal stardust
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Miss Lucy’s
You say you need to
take another look around
the chambers of my heart
A tube will be snaked through my vein
make sure the blood is flowing
the muscle pulsing to its best
But it will not, can not
show the life of this woman
the history I have written
into the marrow of my bones
the stories tucked away
in the folds of my soul
My culture dancing on
the surface of my skin
the laughter like effervescent bubbles
gently stored in my belly
The luminescent light
shimmering in my hazel eyes
My gains and my losses
my loves and loss of love
You will see only a snapshot
of pure body function
which allows me to
create, live, breathe, be
Fix me, if needed
please
so I can heal
become
every new day
more than I was
each yesterday
~Round Three~
“We Can Feel It”
I feel the sun warming us
as the heat building
between us rises
a burst of kaldeioscopic
colors dance on
my closed lids
The cool rock
presses against me
under my spine
while my head rests
in the crook of your arm
butterflies dance
around and within us
Words flow easily
but silence also settles
upon our skin
like soft cotton
Our bodies shift in unison
We open our eyes
just in time to see
two hawks soaring
above it all
the wind gently
cradling their wings
We feel it, sense it
the grace and majesty
of the hushed moment
as we become one
with the sky and earth
In my memories
for all the days to come
I will visualize
how on that day in May
I wrote your name
in invisible ink
across the afternoon sky
and across my heart
Today’s adventure.
~Visionary~
There is a pebble embedded
under my tattered nails
they are raw and ragged
caked with grass and dried mud
full where it should be empty crescent moons
Scratching at the surface
of the frozen ground
I was powerless
but once I felt
the heat radiating from
the core of the mother’s belly
I knew Santorini wasn’t so far away
after all
In the blink of a poet’s third eye
In the bluest blue of the sky
In the blossoming of a lotus I
I could be there and experience
the scent of the ebony sand
the ocean smoothed stones
My fingertips are the guide
as the blackest black ink
travels across the
virgin white parchment paper
creating synapse avenues
completing the circle
Like bubbles of air
I slowly rise to the surface
where this time the earth
is my sister awaiting
my return home
~How I Ache~
You’ll never know
the depth of my desire
to stand in front of you
naked and trembling
waiting for you
to come
to touch me
in all the forbidden places
At night, before I sleep
I imagine
your lips, your mouth, your fingers
exploring
my neck, my thighs, my tongue
I’m tied up, knotted
and I ache
oh, man, how I ache
Unbound
Stripped
Primal
Scream