24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Wait
Stop
Don’t go
Not yet
I am not done
I am not done being explored
I am not done being
Admired and adored
I have yet to believe
When you say i’m gorgeous
Yet to believe
I am so desirable
I have yet to come to terms
With my beauty
You discovered for me
I have yet to inhale
My fragrance
I am not done
Basking in the glow
Of your adoring eyes
I am yet in lust
I am not yet ready
To move into soul love
I am yet with my body
The monolith sits reaching for the sky
My gun in hand I aim and slowly fire
Time slows, I watch the bullet as it flies
I wait and watch I know I cannot tire
She waits behind me with a book in hand
She watches too, although she cannot know
After this moment here upon the sand
The bullet’s distance is where we must go
A boat will take us to a distant shore
The water: time, we travel to our past
The world we knew was never so much more
Than rocks which tower never built to last
The bullet strikes I put away my gun
The monolith collapses in the sun
I’ve missed you,
Actually I never knew you,
I’ve been waiting, and I know you’ve been waiting for me too,
You come and you surround me whenever I’m feeling blue,
An agape love, this is what this is,
I’ve awaited your gentle kiss upon the crest of my lips,
You flow through me like the wind on the sails of a ship.
I hope that you forever remain in my grips.
Hello love, I’ve found you.
how easy
when the shadow
falls between us
when the sand
enters the sea
when the mist
blurs and blinds us
how easy to forget
when we are
we are now
©Ardelle Hollis Ray
If you could imagine it…
Where would we be?
To me it seems that we are
Like two ships passing
And briefly connecting
Then sailing off again…
Each to their own destination…
If you could imagine it…
Just try to think of
Where we could be right now?
Imagine…
Antoinette LeRoux © 2016
don’t say a word, it’s been said, it’s been heard
leave your head hanging, just like that,
the moment’s dreams have been seen,
the moment’s needs have been met.
MOONLESS SKY
Fairy dance
A vacuous void above me
Around me
Twirling me into space
I am unleashed
by their brilliance
By their melodious whispers
They feel close enough to touch
They dance at my fingers
Incandescent fairy-light
A transfusion
A glittering glow
A gracious gift
I spin and sputter
A mere mortal
Tasting the heavens
It was unlike anything I could have ever imagined.
I never thought it would hit me that hard.
He was supposed to be there
But I should know by now that nothing ever goes as planned.
I never even got a chance to say my goodbyes.
It’s probably for the best.
I was never good at those anyway.
Forgive me, love.
I feel you pacing, your feet wearing a path back to the past
Only to have the present creep in with each dawn.
Forgive me, love.
I hear the little hiccup-sobs you try to hide in the folds of your pillow
Tucked away with all the other tear stains you won’t let me wipe away.
Forgive me, love.
I can see the lines of your body stretched rope-taunt with anger.
(There’s fear too, but you won’t admit that, even to yourself, and certainly not to me.)
Forgive me, love,
For burning bridges instead of building them.
Compared to the vast gulf of our silences, how can a hand-span seem so far?
A smile and a ray of sun
both can brighten someone’s day.
A smile is a twinkle in the heart;
a ray of sun is a twinkle in the soul.
A smile is like giving a flower to a child;
a ray of sun is like a hug to a parent.
Everybody needs a smile and a ray of sun.