I’ll be okay, just not todayI’ve lost someone dear to meAlong with them love profoundEntrenched in my heartTheir love knew no boundsWith loyalty and trustThey stood by my sideIn their presence I knewI had nothing to hideI’ll cry and I’ll...
Love Poems
Moonlight on your skinreminds me of the coast,a Santa Monica winter where I grew up,the ocean sprawled Into those eyes edged with sunset flecks,that coastal shimmerghostly and beautiful.You took the stars, made them your eyeswhen the sun fled,I wonder if...
You lied to me, spinning tales so grandYou treated me badly, leaving scars on my handsYou promised me things you hadn't the right toYou let me love, hate you and told me we're throughYou made plans time and again and...
The warmth of your breath
"All the things I love about you..."
The warmth of your breath and a brush of your lips. The touch of your hand and your sweet finger tips. The smell of your perfume, the smell of your hair. The sound of your voice in the cool night...
The Sound of Slipping Away
"Do you hear the sound?"
It starts out softly Barely registering to the ear More sense than sound Like the beating of butterfly wings Whisper quiet as they lift Hear it, a feather louder now Audible in sense and sound The humming beat as it...
Remember Donnybrook in the dark? We wandered around the park Looking for sticks for battleships or Toy soldiers you painted line-perfect stark. Remember Chinese food and Chilean wine with TV? The shows I watched you hated. "The Hills," the thrills,...
Servant’s Quarters
"Forebidden rendezvous surfices and satiates the servant's ache."
Comely ye oh fair thee beCommingled glee flows free,My weld to you grandiose, completeCum well thy maiden sweet.A purposed duty undiluted,This swelling staff non-concluded, Mi eunuch saber, yours to whiskUndo mi brooded, odalisque.No high reigned tyrant's need to know,What in...
The Portrait
"Have you ever looked into a portrait?"
Have you ever looked into a portrait?And were drawn into it by their eyes;eyes that seemingly pulled at you.Eyes that you could swear were trying to tell you a secret.Deep dark pools surrounded by white sand.Pulling you deeper, seducing...
It's different for you,wanted just as you are,believed just as you are,but would never once let me be set in stone.You'd rather examine from a place of cold calculation,cutting into the angles you thought went unexamined,even when such surgical perceptionbecame...