This cold night air Reminds me of our first kiss. The moment you held me close, And our lips met. How sweet it was, I'll never forget. It was the door opener To all of happiness, If only for just...
memory
Once again awake,Disturbed from fitful slumber.Images, visions, near memoriesOf something thought dead.Something that never really was.A ghost.I'm haunted by my own desireFor something impossible;Like dragon's blood and fairy dust,Something beyond this world.A fantasy.I toss and turnAnd the ceiling shadows change.Lightening,...
Beware, Beware, the Lover’s Snare
"Sonnet #7: In alternating pentameter and tetrameter, and Spencerian rhyme"
Drenched in desire, lovely the hours Flit away, exquisitely sped. An umbral, knightly presence looms – towers Like memory, over the bed. Emblazoned with eros, swallowing dread, Warm hands scurry beneath a skirt. Words of lust bloom brightly as they...
The start
"A story of a beginning. A birth, a new love, a new desire..."
This is all before I was born Into the real secret of soulful existence, The return of innocence, And the eye of the storm of love. This is before healing, And the gift of beauty, And eternity. This is a...