I’d lie to you A thousand times over and still Seek your trust with My grand gestures and Pretences – you’d be drowning in them And I would dive in Deep to […]
In your moment
I wanna live in your pocket And hear your muffled conversations And sense your subtle ideations In those moments of hesitancy When I can feel your muscles flex With the weight of […]
Want
I never want to End our transactions – each time I’m riding high and Side saddle to your gracious Repartee and I want you.
Unknown.
I could write a poem about you Writing poetry for a stranger And me, another stranger Laughing with glee And playfully toying With the innocent joy Of being appreciated And unknown.
Batting above average
Don’t wanna seem neurotic and so I Flounder in your presence Drowning in awe inspired desire For betterment, you are better meant for A doer and a sayer – a life slayer […]
Every Body
Everyone needs a Mickey in their life, like mine who lights up dark and Shades me from the harshest of days Her beating heart my life blood.
Body Pains
My knee aches today But not my heart, that one is Pumping baby, like I am ready to face this day just right after this coffee…
And me
Revolutionary? To say I love me and you It is not a war And there is no either or Just an I love you …and me
Aching
A dying cat sprints Over the last finish line Innately hopeful Heart breakingly valliant And blind sided in defeat.
I inherited My father in law’s walking Stick. It has sticky Tape and a sticker with his name I think I will paint it pink.
goodbye Tanka
Three months ago you Sent us home made Rocky road We spoke on Facteime And optimistically Made plans to see you again.
A Tanka for Vetti
Defy gravity Crush crimson berries on ice Embrace falling rain And raise an alchemists glass Salutation joie de vie.
A tanka to you
I don’t know if you ….Love like I do and if you… Give love, being known – and do… You take up much space in time? Or could you hold space in […]
A tanka to me
Crushed by massive waves That break as I stand naked And lit up with sun Warming up and slow baking My cheeks and arms and shoulders My body soft, heart bolder.
The Tree Hugger
The cadence of your limbs swaying Outstretched they reach the sky as I cling to you. Solidly, you sing to me pulsating: Roots pumping miracles – To quiesce me.
Gluons in a Car Park
Your hand outstretched against my breast as we brake too fast: My fist clenches just the way you hate it- As I stare at the approaching distance. ‘Don’t do that’ you ask, […]
Think of You
I’m a Tanita Tikarim song Her dulcet sadness Haunting me And in my head I sing along “I think of you”: And as I breath – I think of you, And if […]
Love just yet
A time when so much lay ahead And you lay in my bed When we were young And not yet old Battle Scars Life None of it set in just yet Just […]
Miss Otis
What if we say goodbye For the last time today? What if you stay Over there to decay? While I am here Dining without you ? What if I chase you And […]
Don’t feed the dog
If you animated grief I reckon it would be one of those dogs on the beach in Thailand. The kind that hobble along a few meters behind you, and sleep at the […]
the Reinvented Poet 