People who meet you
Comfortably add sugar
In your life.
Funny people most likely
Are spices in life
It makes your day bright.
A person sparkle your eyes
Makes a good companion
The rest of your life.
Mind marooned in complexity
Intricacy singular in each living
The psyche shapes unique entity
On alien attribute it won’t cling.
In reserved recess riddles hide
Sub-conscious search can’t find
Probing plea of the world outside
Can’t contrive the closed mind.
A pining prisoner of own making
A cocoon in introvert isolation
I see all the faceless faces fading
Me wedged in web of self-adoration.
My morphed mind turns Nemesis
Makes a mirror of mirage for me
I look into it lurching to the oasis
It is only me that I always see.
In self-veneration, a false perception
I notice Narcissus in me lonely lurk
A secret switching over to obsession
Lies latent, languishing in the dark.
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February 10, 2023
For Brian Strand Upto You Contest
And so
it is nearly
done.
A galaxy
trembles
as we
coalesce
unify
as we
merge.
Soon
our matter
will collide
we will
ignite
no longer
orbiting apart.
No
instead
we become
one
whole
omnipotent
our lifeforce
amplified.
And oh!
how
brightly
we will
shine
and
how mighty
will be
our
presence
in this
our
universe.
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Only in our dreams my sweet
share we two this haunting love
Only in my dreams I fear
dare I touch your silken skin.
Only in my dreams my dear
dare I feel your soft embrace.
Only in our dreams my girl
share we two an eager kiss.
Only in our dreams my sweet
do we have this time.
Only in my dreams my love
can I tell you how I feel.
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I want you
in the sunshine
and the rain
on every day
to defeat
the pain.
I need you
around me
surround me
beneath me
above me.
I want you
in the winter
during the fall
through the spring
and hot summer
through the
seasons all.
I need you
to hold my hand
let’s make
a stand
let us fight
the tears
let us defeat
our fears.
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On and on
thus
passes time.
Listen to me
within
this rhyme.
As the day
gives
to night.
I wish to
hold
you tight.
Too much doubt
within
your head.
Too much woe
within
your bed.
But this won’t
ever
be true.
I think of
me
with you.
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Adrift sleeping deeply dreaming
flowing hair is softly gleaming
endless so that joy is seeming
over our skin lightning teeming.
Sacred temple where we sow
wonder worship want to know
longings urgent ebb and flow
amorous this love shall grow.
Strewing starlit divine dust
atoms far in space we thrust
clinging tightly stay we must
in this cosmos fueled by lust.
Fervor pining burning rising
wanton carnal longing flying
loving rising falling sighing
night for living not for dying.
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Whisper to me
share your essence
speak in earnest
under the moon
mutely it gazes
as silent witness
stoic its promise
even as your
hypnotic voice
wondrous words
falls in shadows
where I worship
silently in wonder
in adoration of
such deep secrets
where I kneel
spent in rapture
over pictures
drawn by you
painted by you
etched by you
this art bleeds
silently beside me
laid before me
impressions of you
in the abstract
all these realities
reflections drawn
mirrors of images
which echo beyond
your sighs explode
like distant stars
that break away
escape and hurl
so far and fast
into the dark cosmos
oh the wonder!
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I fixed my gaze
I fixed my stare
toward this girl
just standing there.
She was alone
she was a dream
her look forlorn
so it would seem.
I took a stroll
I took a chance
I went for her
I met her glance.
And all at once
the clouds blew by
the moon came out
of the darkened sky.
And side by side
a trance took hold
and in that silence
our truth was told.
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Open your skies
deluge me
with
your life
your blood
your pain
wash over me
soak me
with you
pour relentlessly
into me.
Rain down your
essence
replete with all
that bathes
your soul
all that is
your creation
that I might
drink you
swim you
wash carelessly
away
with you.
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There is much
impermanence
in this life
stars die
brilliantly
as they were born
life’s gift
but a moment
dread time
swift steals
color of youth
the great shores
from vast oceans
slowly slip
reluctantly
into their cold
indifferent seas.
But oh
my love
is constant
rules over
the death of worlds
swallows planets
whole
and will take
you with me.
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True beauty is all around
lovely things that make no sound
pretty sights which can be found
on this earth to which we’re bound.
True there are things which are sweet
when he and she distant meet
to scorch dread time burns the heart
never neither longs to part.
True, awe comes from many things
an elephant with golden wings
a snow-strewn path newly made
rows of pines in a winter glade.
But, of these things I write and speak
long I yearn and long do seek
about you divine most of all
you are Winter Spring Summer Fall.
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My heart has these many dwellings
such dead cold cautionary tales
long disregarded and condemned.
And then there is this secret palace
eclipsing all true loves desolation
where deep resides your essence.
A rapture of all your many graces
this mansion of your many riches
this residence of many memories.
And then there is your portrait it
hangs formidably in the great hall
duchess over all these dominions.
Oh how grand is this stellar view
how lovely in its awesome repose
mute witness to all my sad despair.
My heart has these many dwellings
but to only one loving abode do I go
to one haven where I will always be.
Portrait of all my heart’s affections
my desperate insanity’s sweet relief
where I will yet languish evermore.
Your glance follows my every step
as smoky embers hotly choke me
as I tend to sorrow’s dying flames.
I die willingly over and over again.
entombing myself so I may forever
remain in these hallowed silent halls.
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Let me reside
within your room
gather the anguish
gather the gloom
cast them far
with a spell
into the fiery
depths of hell.
Let me rest
my weary head
upon your pillow
upon your bed
and gaze into
your loving eyes
hold you until
the dawn arrives.
Let me abide
within your heart
to never leave
to never part
grow a love
pure and true
within a place
called me and you.
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Loving words dictate the days
of the rhythm and of its ways
sweet it rests and surely stays
until love’s portent softly plays.
A quiet sound can seem loud
loosens my lonely sullen crowd
from a mind which can be proud
renews a hope shreds a shroud.
In this park sweet children run
playing at games and having fun
shout and laugh under the sun
joyous loving this day is won.
Her voice soft such joyful things
buries dead all my sullen kings
to my heart to my soul it sings
such revelry to me she brings.
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