There are worlds behind your eyes, I long for them to envelope me, draw closed the lonely spaces separating our hands, the words we've been scared to say to each other. Like sonnets written with your voice, place your lips on me so I...
Love Poems
She Got Highlights In Her Hair
"Her lover is thrown into doubt when she threatens to cut her hair."
“I’m going to cut it all off!” My girlfriend said wearing her spicy saucy grin. As she headed for the top beauty salon My nerve-wracking hair anxiety did begin. I love my baby’s long thick brown amorous hair I nuzzle...
Next to the strand, upon the tortured shore,I wept the tears of wretchedness once more.His faithlessness had me bereft and torn,While wavering be-chilled beside a bourn.A wistful face was drawing him away,She did not care that he was drawn astray.Delighting...
Here at the helm Surrounded Laughter and jubilation Sweeping the halls I stand eternally In thought. Maning the helm Companionless Unattended Unchaperoned Alone Without Your embrace Your kiss The inner reaches Of my mind Have yet to prepare me For...
How do I tell you how much I love you? What way would you understand? If I were to write you a sonnet, I don't think you'd comprehend. I would take you to the moon and back, To the stars...
I can’t be what you need. I watch your lips as they form a smile, tell a story. But I will never kiss them For I am not for you. My heart is not only mine. I gave it away...
Nightshade and Blackberry
"Sonnet #2: In hexameter and Petrarchan rhyme"
Hunted in starlight, haunted, consumed by shadow; Night overwhelming, all bodies awakening. Fluttering eyes blink like butterflies, blackening- Onyx with enlarged pupil, piercing the window. Darting swift, sharp like icicles, through ebb and flow, The storm has come, and the...
For you the snow is always falling, As it was on the day you died, You had passed through basic training, Even though about your age you had lied. The sun shone bright upon that morning, The air cold, calm...
The Cusp of a Breaking
"Prophetic..."
In love -feral, unbroken, andunaccustomedto your waysof thinking, of loving, of being, my resolve is suffocating - drowning in asea of assumptions. Assumptions, sorted presumptionshave a way ofdistortingwhat is true. What may be trueturns into misconceptions,misapprehensions, and misinterpretations. Ultimately, Miss-Understanding...