where still
the windows open
and your arms wrapped around
waiting there
a sign
of other lives –
of love beyond
the making
we have made
of evermore
ravens fill the trees
with sweet surprise
. . .
wrapped ~
07 Thursday Dec 2023
consequence ~
06 Wednesday Dec 2023
Posted in Poetry
how welcome this
deserving ease –
a hand to know me well
words to congregate
as destinies
to start
lest i know
the way was always
more than i could reason
cleft for you
a home within my heart
tis only this
remembering
how it was
that afternoon –
held beneath
a span of wanting pines
wondered at this place
a beginning
waited long
love that could be measured
as a consequence –
a sigh
. . .
promised were they all ~
13 Monday Nov 2023
lest i want for more
than breakfast
from your hands
words to spill
golden into light
the crush of dawn
another breath
surrendered
i remember
how it was to want
for nothing but the night
to pull around
easy
winter blankets
jealous were the stars
for where we lay
feasting on a moment
promised were they all
another time
with nothing more to want
than everything
. . .
away ~
09 Thursday Nov 2023
Posted in Poetry
whatever has passed
echoes of summer
as last year’s winter
three feet below
a remembrance of grace
petals emerging –
revealed as the spring
to our soul
for moments like this
will is forsaken
dreams we let sleep
another one day
far past the morning
came as desire
to seal our forgiveness –
to steal us away
. . .
beneath her sighs ~
05 Sunday Nov 2023
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the cold
however sure
could never crush
her flame
or stifle words
already on her tongue
seasons
unrelenting
snowy morning sighs
reminders of the soul
beneath her sun
evidence of flame
thoughts where none
are writ
story set afire
from a blossom
we became
whole within another
place we burn
again
chasing stars
to question why
we came
. . .
left to surrender ~
25 Wednesday Oct 2023
was a night
whiskey stopped working
haunted hands
held at the gate
where once tempted
by angels
or so it was thought
some other
one day –
heaven was here
unburdened by death
sweet as a voice
to remember
me home
to a place almost
not forgotten
again –
what was left to surrender
of loves
i have known
. . .
by name ~
11 Wednesday Oct 2023
Posted in Poetry
gather me home
before the light scatters
tell me again
of coffee you crave
stay in my arms
a moment
much longer
than yesterday’s news
another to save
i won’t have
i won’t listen
lest the curtains fall
aching –
shattering silence
with more of the same
a delicate balance
your kiss
my salvation
a moment awakened –
remembered
by name
. . .
crush ~
09 Monday Oct 2023
Posted in Poetry
were there words
i didn’t know
at rest beneath my bed
left to die
another
some fine day
verses i allowed
to be gathered like a curse
can’t feel them here
can’t know of them
lest they came
to stay
i didn’t know
i didn’t know
to bear the crush
of seasons –
leaves in crimson shades
yellow beams
of flight
let me feel
let me see
of things i never knew
words i never
thought
would let me be
. . .
first ~
04 Wednesday Oct 2023
Posted in Poetry
regardless the wait
my heart to be still –
to be certain
not once i would move
from this place
assured you would search
another one day
you’d fall from the tree
i found you
as morning –
recalling
the reason
you came for me now
restless
my waiting
to remember you first
. . .
story to wait ~
04 Wednesday Oct 2023
Posted in Poetry
i have waited
with nothing of story
to wait
no pages left barren
i knew yet to write
how was it to know
how much
should i care
when the years
have gathered
black to the lines
crossing the porch
some nights
as i prayed
another would come
sunlight would break
out on the pasture
i loved
as i love
prayed for a moment
to know
as i know
i could be
as i am
everything
. . .
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