You nurture in me: The song of a loverThe vision of a poetThe inquisitive questions of a child A heart for a tin man Courage for a lionA new mind for a scarecrowYou have planted within me:Courage, so that I can speak my...
love
The Fire That Burns
"The gift of life and love"
You have seen the shape of my mortalityThe inescapable struggle of loneliness and pain Yet, you choose to give me the gift of life and loveAnd I am unflinchingly aliveIrrepressibly aliveFully alive Full of experiencingEvery fragileMiraculousJuicyAchingTenderBeautiful ounce of loveIgniting the fire that...
Nurture (sonnet 2)
"Your care is what I need"
You, nurture within me, The song of a lover, The vision of a poet You quicken within me, the gift of humour So that I can brighten tarnished times Be with me as I live out my life As I dare to be authentic, in a...
I know it will pass by soon enough.A part of me leaves with you now,an illumination that even my lovewill never quite know the fleeing of,some glows never get to return.Even when ravaged by a familiar continual fury,your voice knew...
Atonement in you
"The hopes and fears of all the years, are met in thee tonight"
In the stillness,In the darkness after the midnight hour has struck, When insomnia bites,My mind wanders, of what has been,And then I think of you.My bed half empty,Warm yet cold,Longing for it to be filled by you,Bringing warmth like the summer...
The Bluebirds in My Heart
"How the bluebirds came to roost"
There's a bluebird in my heart thatWants to get out, But I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingTo let anybody seeYou- Charles Bukowski - When loneliness became a part of meIn such a way that others could not...
Just A Kiss
"Just a kiss in the moonlight"
It was a cold, gray January day in 1955. Fighting the chill, Tammy pulled her coat tighter. She was only five feet tall, but had just recently turned eighteen. Her shoulder length brown hair pulled back into a ponytail only added...
“A man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures. That is the basis of all human mortality.” Winston ChurchillI have been in the room for three days. Observation, I am...
The night belongs to you,its spectral glows upon your framereminds me that there are pieces,fragments of you with me thatI won't be able to give back.Such pain once made us dangerous.It's become something much morethat will bind us together.And I'm...
I went all inI showed you my handNo feelings were hiddenYou now know where I standI exposed my heartNow how do I showI feel I have no way leftTo display what you knowMy love is bursting outMy heart is ready...