Love Poems
What is it that I'm so afraid of?To never feel your fingertips hush my lipsbefore I spill everything I'll never say againand your incandescent eyes will burn brighteras if to say you already know what I hold inside.To be reminded...
Evergreen
"Our love is forever evergreen"
Forever always,Deep in my heartYou will forever dwell,Wherever I may goYou will forever remain,In my thoughts where you will stayAnd throughout all these years,That I have lived thoughAnd all of my dreams,That I have dreamed of youMy love that I...
Broken Sonnets for a Departed Lover – I
"Night can be the loneliest time"
Waking at three in the morning, my eyesDamp for some reason, I lie silent in the darkListening for the familiar fall and riseOf your soft breathing; but only the starkEmptiness of absence surrounds my frailVacuum. My heartbeat throbs like your...
Broken Sonnets for a Departed Lover – II
"You're never more alone than when you're in a crowd"
Standing on the bus, I finding myself weepingWithout control. Solicitous old ladies, leapingShakily to their feet, offer me their seats,Along with tissues and mints, as the streetsBlur past through rain smeared windows.I feel like one of those scary weirdosI used...
Broken Sonnets for a Departed Lover – III
"Why can't I just forget?"
My phone mocks me; shiny screen blank,Exuding smug silence. I deleted your numberIn a rare moment of honest frankAcceptance; an attempt to disencumberMy life of your memory. Fuck you;And fuck your pathetic needTo call me every day, as if you...
Logic Personified
"The entry of S"
I stand looking over the water to where her physical presence resides.Plotting to capture her body, and her very being.She has some perfectly radiant qualities Educated and living in the depth of her soul.How can I be sure of what I seewhen she...
Map of Love
"exploring the delicious touch"
She lies beneath himAs he explores the curves of her bodyLike a traveler studies a mapA map unfolded for for his eyes onlyNo GPS required toFind the treasures he seeksHer treasures are for him onlyHis strong hands explore her curvesSlow...
Phoenix Love
"Not two but one"
As we walked throughthe flames of timeSearching forOur true one Love Hand in handComing throughStrongerRenewedPureNot as twoBut as oneLove Phoenix singsWingspread Warmed by LoveAs one we riseSong of loveSung to the GodsMortals giving praiseCircle completeLoveAs we walked throughThe flames of timeSoulmates reunitedBrought through timeBy the...
Jasmine
"A rewrite of a much older poem"
I knew the shape of your face as well as my own, but true contact marks us deeper than skin, beyond flesh and vapor into the ether,realizing that we can never go backto a world's beautiful axis without being suspended inside its crippling...