Tag: poets of WP

The Way of Intimacy

Lost in the heart of One Too Few
Or One Too Many, who never knew
The rhythms of a soulful heart,
The need of love that could barely start

Lost in the minds of More Than One
Who called to mind when love was done,
Who feared love's loss more than its life
I need love more than to be a wife

Why do I hide from another's fear?
Why slink away for another year?
Why withdraw my love because you do?
I am not one to love so few

To fear openness, fear honesty?
How can you consider this to be
The way to true intimacy
When this, the way to love's simplicity?

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A Sonnet of Me

You asked that I to write a song of me
And, humble, I could never think to be
So bold, so arrogant - if yet true;
But this is me, and of me, just for you:

A soulful one, am I, depths fathomless
To most, currents lost in my soul's progress;
And, losing most while wand'ring through my life,
Alone, I find myself, at times in strife

And so, seeking for still a better way,
Beyond culture's customs, I'm known to stray
More pleasure, perhaps, I earn than peers;
Stirring sometimes, unwittingly, human fears

Chafing often at such consuetude,
Exam'ning life's and love's true magnitude -
My mind and heart swelling with all I've found:
That love and life and beauty yet abound

When willing parties will dismiss affray,
When expectations dispelled today,
When we let live and grow our hearts' true bliss,
When we dispense the fear of two souls' kiss

You asked that I write a song of me;
And song I write, impassioned wish to free
My heart, my mind of cloistered walls of time,
Released into romantic seas, sublime!

With all my heart and mind, I love; it's true
Some paradox of love: Many, and you —
Always my heart and soul munificent,
Yet I find, still, a mind's predicament:

How may one prove such a love is true
When love is shared by many, not by two?
When love is bound by only truth and trust?
When love is love, and lust is merely lust?

A poet's words flounder when love is lost;
A lover's words decline, if you accost
Her alimony, disesteem her way;
So, suspend all your fear, let love allay

An uninhib'ted life; let love be free:
I've found this truth proffered most sensibly
The depth at which I founded through my life;
The core of me, infused with love, is rife

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Birds of Love

Aching heart and rattled mind,
I seek a friend, and few I find
With open hearts and willing soul

I remember times of old
When love was easy, love was kind
And we were friends, all lives entwined
And we could live our lives half-blind

It behooves me yet, to see
That you're yet coming back at me
That you're yet coming hard and fast
That you yet want some love to last

When you cannot begin to know
That it's not lust that lets love grow
That it's not ours to find and search
When we're not left on that high perch

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Simple Breaths

It was simple,
A breath,
And I slipped from now to then,
And I saw your face again,
And your face remotely yours,
As we stood before the doors...

It was simple,
A breath,
My voice catching on the past,
My voice catching on the pain,
And I saw your eyes again,
And the feeling grown, fondness at last

It was simple,
A breath,
Two friends holding hands, at last,
Two hearts still held from the past:
I found myself, now, kissing you,
Kissed in ways I never knew

It was simple,
A breath,
All the time, it would not cease,
Two hearts yearning for release,
Seeking confirmation this was real,
Two souls seeking love to heal

It was simple,
A breath,
And your arms around me stayed;
On your chest, my fingers splayed...
Must it always go this way?
Must I await for days and days...?

It was simple,
A breath,
I don't want to watch this death,
Don't want to bear another flight
When such simplicity feels right,
Can't switch off this feeling like a light...

It was simple,
A breath,
A needed breath, no wasted time,
And I was yours and you were mine...
Please give simplicity its due;
It's only me and only you....

It was simple,
A simple breath....

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Acquaintanceships by Night and by Day

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have been lost in the depths of a vast universe,
Lost beyond the reaches of his highest height -
And whence his words rippled from kindly to terse -

Where were you? Where were all of you who feel cause to judge
Whilst I searched the covens of all space and time,
Whilst I sloughed off all that you all begrudge,
Whilst I delved into depths of my heart and mind?

I have become one with the night,
Taking fireflies and monsters to become my friends,
Learning from cats to see with a feline's sight
That my soul and my heart could see my paths' ends -

And where were you? Were you shielding rays
As family, friends, children from far and wide
Came to embrace you in light of day
Whilst you did hold to your ego's pride?

I have become acquainted with the night,
With the darkness of my soul, and with others' too
That I may face with a whole heart my fright,
That I may learn to forgive and to love even you

Who judge. Where were you when my soul was alone?
Did you come to my aide? Did you reason to give?
Or did you only miss what was given, well-known?
Did you think to reach out, give me reason to live?

I have become one with the night and the day
Breaking reasons, unfettered by common restraints,
That I may find reason to live well, as I may;
That I may find life without common complaints -

And where, pray tell, where do your judgements lead us
Whist I, on my own - my heart oft torn asunder,
My life and my mind leaving you in nonplus?
I find myself, day and night, filled naught but with wonder —

For I have become acquainted well with the night,
And I break, at last, into dawning of days;
And I find I shan't run, though my wings take to flight
As I find myself, now, understanding your ways.

(First line borrowed from “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost, http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/47548 )

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Fire & Water

Fire at your fingertips
Fire that leaps from your perfect lips
Fire that heats all of what I am
Fire that burns in your epigram

At length, you and I are endlessly drawn
You of the sun and I of the sea
Slipping through sunsets and rising at dawn
Flames crave to be quenched only by me

Water drips from my eyes every night
Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight
Water connects me to all beings that are
Water surrounds us, no matter how far

Roil and boil in our yearning to grasp
Groping to touch as hearts at distance clasp
Fire and water barely meeting, and then
Into the ether, we rise again

Fire at your fingertips
Fire that leaps from your perfect lips
Fire that heats all of what I am
Fire that burns in your epigram

As soft as I am when I wash over you
As hard as I come when my fury's released
I fall every day as the morning dew
Wash back again, back again, passion unceased

Water drips from my eyes every night
Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight
Water connects all the beings that are
Water surrounds us, no matter how far

Can you claim what is mine with all your soul's heat?
Can a sun claim an ocean and neither retreat?
Can two beings so strong make a life that will last?
Can two such hearts meet, make a love unsurpassed?

Fire at your fingertips
Fire that leaps from your perfect lips
Fire that heats all of what I am
Fire that burns in your epigram

Heat me, embrace me with fires that burn
I'll cool you with kisses, none sweeter than mine
I hope and I wish and I want and I yearn
Fire and water make a love genuine

Water drips from my eyes every night
Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight
Water connects all the beings that are
Water surrounds us, no matter how far

Haunted

It's never
"I don't love you"

And it's never
"I don't care"

It's always
"I crave you"
"I need you"
"I want you"

Forever
"Please, baby"
"C'mon, baby"
"Why not, baby?"

I'd do so much more for me and you
I've done so much for me and you
I'm just asking that you do
This one thing for us, too

And it's hard,
But I will dare

And it's hard,
Much more than "maybe"

But, step out of comfort, baby
We'll have much more than "maybe"
Love's far deeper than just caring
And those close to me are daring

I'm just asking that you do
This next thing for me and you

I can't keep pulling you along
Can't keep up this lonely song
But if you force this solitaire
Please release me from this snare

And I'll step out of comfort, baby
We'll have so much less than "maybe"
Love's so much more than wanting
So much more than two souls' haunting

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Running In Circles

So, the obvious 'comes apparent;
Does this change 'nything in truth?
For our friendship leaves the aberrant
‘Fore I come home to Duluth

And I found another lover
And your soul and mine depart
And my freedom, I recover
And I find again my heart

There was never any answer in the minds rejecting love
There was never any truth in those blue skies, so far above
There was only I and you, two lonely souls stood, side-by-side
There were only two hearts calling, though but one love could abide

And I found this other lover
And your soul and mind depart
And my freedom, I recover
And I offer him my heart

So, the obvious 'comes apparent,
And all life is changed, in truth
And a friendship dies, inherent,
For each choice made in Duluth

But, I found my only lover
Ne’er his soul and mine depart
And our freedom, we’ll recover
As I share with him my heart

There was never any answer in the minds rejecting love
There was never any truth in those blue skies, so far above
There are only I and you, together: souls here, hand-in-hand
There are only two hearts ‘twining, exploring love and life, unplanned

Scorpions

Give me a reason not to erase us from me, not to complete the job you are already doing so well.

They drop bombs, here in the desert, where they harm no one but the scorpions and the snakes.

Give me a reason not to throw out all we are and were amidst our brothers and sisters to be likewise obliterated.

Because, although I find myself afraid and do not know what yet I will become, I do know this:

I, at least, will rise from the flames and become something beautiful, renewed, in the death of you-and-me.

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