Leapt

Remove my lyric and bury love's intent.
Sensibility, nigh my breath, composed for those eyes;
Arrested yielding moment & there my spirit leapt.

--

Sight

Lay me by a distant shore and sew me to earth’s edge
‘Til breath in tune, my northern wind and light,
Secure to ocean’s overture, to thy cliff of weary ledge,
Shepherd me to look no more for first sight.

&

Remove all melody and reveal thyself.
Lay upon the pier of weathered wood;
Stretched far to ocean's wealth
To whisper where the poet stood.

Fire

I close my eyes to find the absent light:
Alone, I can't see, I can't feel,
Lost am I amid those words I've read.
Fight to find soul's sense; a melody:
Once the frequent fire of my sleep.

write me

write me, write me from the meadowland.

autumn winds sigh relief where i belong

by craggy shores and with ocean's hand,
in the ecstasy of sweet robin's song.

there awaits a changing tide;
for northern winds hum our names
lighthouse, speak volumes and guide
until aurora summons my one wish.

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look at this face of mine
these hands that love a rhyme,
this heart that beats for rhythm
these feet fit for a northern hem
do sail amid words of two
& navigate the realm of you.

again

it's october again and i'm awake
wide awake with streaming thoughts
musings of fervor & for quiet's sake;
forage feeling once caught--

just lie there.

with

find me in every coffee shop,
rereading old letters of mine
written for blue eyes; those eyes.
i await fear's response:
will there be another song?
a melody for all time.
for now, i'm with reverie.

room

this room of mine is starless!
riddles do imbue nearby divisions
those words uncloak to confess,
and yield for your reflection.

a vulnerable impression he'll undress!
the dithering runaway emotion
releases our mystery in excess--
fashioning these spells for the oceans.

pirouettes

go now, greet the blue light
far off & with noted distance
a pirouette in the azure bright
flare of night's soul trance.

sapphire silhouettes manifest
voicing warmth for lyric's tune
with time impressed upon their breasts,
the vanishing of the cerulean moon.

sway

silly of me
threading these secrets
for those eyes to see;
brimming as cygnets
upon the Norrström--
though the waves do swell
where this song softly quiets
voicing the rhythm we befell

not

i'll write and i'll kiss
but within this heart of mine
design is caught in the web of miss
etching sadness of rhyme

for one is not two
but two is one.

snow

tender sends the voice
wintry warmth of choice
for the mountains we'll seek,
climbing 'til beauty's peak--
snow-capped with sigh
to blending aurora in night's sky.

memory

if memory were to fail me
mere moments of things said
i'd cradle them in the deepest depths
of my guarded heart
i'd carry them to the sea
upon a weary wave they'd sail
& come back to me in sweet reverie

proof

capture me & send me to the sea,
find me upon a foreign shore.
might i reveal hidden melody
swimming amid memory.
navigate me, hold me in your words:
to the lighthouse, to the lighthouse.

listen!

listen! heart's voice calls to me!
fire & uncertainty
the path is delicately lit--
i tell myself to stay, stay
listen! heart's voice calls to me!
telling my soul to see
ocean's depth! a parallel found
by the willow, a note will sound.

where

where are we; we are
with mutual thought -
tell me, is it far?
has your soul fought
back against all prose?
make for bodies blend -
clarity in the raw grows -
pause! breathe, & never mend.

heart

the lack
there of -
--
what shall i do?
rest here
who am i-- i flew
but once, twice there

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sitting with silence
the hair falls,
a piano sounds
til voice calls!
we're here.

light

make for life in wind of sail
look up, blue eyes, and see-
this need to be, from sky to sea

afraid

find me ambling lost, in chambers of heart
in want of light am i, acquaint with nights apart
direct this familiar warmth and summon that feeling
relieve me of foreign absence; i fall quieting
adrift the rambler's path

reflection

through the watery reflection
wanting only moon's company
delicately mirroring
hand upon hand; lifting--
us in a kiss

gently, gently, dabbling
our words afloat--
sail amid the stars

--soon immerse
in celestial sphere

empyrean

ever near empyrean
in amorous aim
our souls entwine
& marry
ever near empyrean

escape

i've found a nature within
a woodland for my escape

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he sits upon the steps of grey
a cap pulled low with sketching pen
green eyes raise and meet my pair;
wondering if this will be
years of promise now hope drawn close
body language embellishes the words,
the words we’ve kept, kept hidden
gently, a smile, a warmth so familiar

as one

go now, to the river bank
a bed of clover will invite you;
rest there, amid posies rank
as rapture fills a pair of robins
i'll be there, i'll be there
in your arms; a harmony,
a rhythm of heart
so long apart, now as one

a place

give me a ticket, ticketmaster
to a place where father is
somewhere in the tongue of arabic

with you

a journey befriends my wandering feet
where weaving paths soon move as one

hesitating once more
in dreamlike state,
wondering where we'll meet

i think of a message
a message
to follow the swan of avon's hand
expressing all we've felt

there, there

find my heart
by the willow

with you