Morning

As you wrap you arms around me

I feel you breathe against my back

warm and sure.

And the whisper of my thoughts

in that solitary moment

of being

with you.

Intermittent

Rebirth Mandala 2007

Main Entry: in·ter·mit·tent
Etymology: Latin
Date: 1601
: coming and going at intervals : not continuous ; also : occasional

This issue keeps bubbling up over and over and over. This woman without peace comes yelling her obscenities in my ear breaking apart the strength I have found in this relationship. But I guess it's like the tearing down of muscles during a workout that gives them more strength. I have known none of the unfaithfulness. This does not leave me unvulnerable. I keep exercising trust and there hasn't been any trouble. I do not like to speak poorly of him because he has been authentic with me. I will remain strong. I believe in him and this change and hope for good.

"Passed"

I lie near your warm body, the sweet scent of flesh shared between us.
Your keen mind and quick wit; my wet lips upon you, I see with open eyes.

Mind grappling with deep thoughts and heart adrift, I loose my way in this storm.
Fear amidst anger, my mind journeys to and yonder.
Collapsing as I dally, I blunder in this mist of fear and what lays beyond.
Fear and bliss they mix.

I am angry at the story my life tells crying its fowl flowers,
never blooming, wings and tail clipped small.
My story with bad ending, flailing, lonely plight!
How can one gain homing with ashes, nails and rice.

Fleeting are the moments I lay restless in my bed,

my heart crys with loud warning,

my memories fall dead.
Gentle is the juniper and supple is the rose,

quietly I lay waiting watching winter as it goes.

'08-'09

Waiting

Lonely, strangled, imbedded in you
cajoling, laughing, covered in love
color, sinter, bloody at times
ginger, splendor
and all the while
longing for the slumber of winter and mourning to end,
the waiting and wandering 'round you.

'07

Muse

I look across the pillows to see you smiling
If not for this earthly state there would also be
shimmering light and tinkling
of small glass crystals ringing all around your face
It's like a dance in white wind when I am about you
from inside out you warm me
I see in pooling brown eyes the depth of your happiness
and the recovering of your soul
your chest rising and falling at ease
as you slide back into sleep.
Always and forever you are smiling at me
because I stand with you
steady on as we go near and far.

'08

Lover

You really are the most beautiful thing to me. I can be in a room full of people and all I want to feel is you. Yesterday we were at the lake and there were a thousand people and I would scan across the water at all the different faces and always come back with my eyes and heart to consume you. I can't take my eyes off of you. You are like my favorite flavor. You're sensual, masculine and emotional a combination that is hard to find. As a lover you are fully overwhelming and fitting to me in the most organic and erotic ways. I am in love with all of you. You have brought the life back into me.

'09

Women Like Cookies

You tasted of their sweetness took a bite of each one
Chocolate, vanilla, small, hard n crunchy, gooey with caramel and then some
Climbed into the box with two, so committed to them were you
Then ate a few more their taste was waste
and that's where you lost "you".


Not in a wrapper, out of the box
sitting right there on a plate
was the one with the textures and flavors you'd longed for
over all the others debates.
Intelligence of the heart and gentleness of mind
I reached out for your hand as you reached for mine.

'09


At the end of your search was she,
not knowing what she contained.
But your intuition it did find her, not knowing or looking for it,
you succumbed to all of her flavor,
precious is she.

Roses

11/2006



Have you ever heard of love I say, do you know its call?
Have you felt it burning, underneath it all
Underneath the mess, underneath the clothes,
underneath the masks as dapple as a rose.

With thorns and leaves high reaching escaping to the top
You see the petals bleeting crying from their prop.
Velvet are the textures, tender is the shoot
illusion never covers beauty at its root.

Pillows come at night, blankets cover all
laying near your body I smell roses while I fall.

Near You

I have slept in bed
for many nights
and now I cannot sleep
without you near
beside me love
at rest beneath these sheets.

With shallow breath
and waking eye
and plugging of the ear
We roll like waves
and reach all night
with arms that draw us near.

The morning hour
it comes to quick
with penetrating light
I close my eyes and reach
for five more minutes of this night.

'09