A Fresh New Start
"A short poem for the woman I love"
When I first saw you I knew it was true, That I would fall In love with you.For four whole months You loved me true, How could I Be over you? I tore us apart, With regret in my heart, But...
patience
I The Dandelion
"About this girl I'm falling for, who is already kind of taken. It's complicated."
So close,Yet afar.I a dandelion,Blending into,A field of daisies, Just a dirty weed.On the horizon,A beautiful girl,Skips along,Without knowing,Trampling I,The dandelion.My seeds,Blow gently.Wind carries them,Taking root,Growing again,A scrawny yellow flower.I watch,She's happy.I the dandelion,Await the day,You make a wish,To be...
Days Like Today
"You patiently wait and your patience makes me want you even more."
There are days where I don’t knowWhich way to turn.Pulled in a thousand different directions,Everybody wants something from me.Except for you.You have been patient and understanding,Even when I know my silence isFrustrating.Disheartening.Heart-breaking.But you send words of kindness,Of longing,Of desire.Of patience...
The Debt Pays Dividends
"Continued from the Debt Payoff -- Time and distance work magic"
"If they sacrifice you to the Dragon now, he'll flame the village."Hello. It's Patty again, continuing the hijacking of Vickie's novel. I hope you don't mind. I just didn't really thank Vickie for all she's done for Charlie and me...
Laying on the disarrayed bed,gazing out at the unfamiliar city.Hands shaky yet experienced, being placed upon the blushed face.Mouth gasping for air, but the ends are curved greatly.Body is radiating a sweaty glow.Clothes hurricaned around the moon lit room.Skin moments...
From Poems of Farewell: To Sleeping Beauty
"The prince longing for Sleeping Beauty waits outside her tower"
For all these years—has it been a hundred yet,you’ve slept in a tower high above the world.No one could crawl through these thorns,these vines,these obstaclesto wake you.I’ve come before--not even knowing you--and stood here by this wall,looking up,straining for some...
The Voice of God (Chapter 5)
"Where my Chinese lover wakens to pleasures undreamed."
I wake with a start. The sky outside the window is pink with the dawn. The sun has not yet risen. I have not yet adjusted to the time change since arriving in China. You are lying on your side,...