Oh American!
oh, you’re from America? They question me.
yup. I sat back.
what state? I tell them.
what do you miss most about America?
honestly? The food!
what else?
that’s all! I’d give it all up, too
to forever live in London!
Unbreakable (Hour 12)
there’s a place where kindred spirits gather-
where the souls of men are made stronger
and no barrier can stand the deep hunger,
the deep resolve to move farther, together
where each draws from within and without
contending with the demons of his fears
breaking barriers with visage so fierce
to bring forth a gem from the ashes of doubt
Mother Muse watches and lends a hand
as the souls of men swirl and soar
and with a victory chant, roar:
“We’re unconquerable as a band!”
Hour: 12 Astronaut of the Sea Come for me
Lust… a longing untold for someone or something that cannot be possessed.
An indulgence of the heart, body, and mind.
Now I know wholeheartedly that I seek all three exclusively. The trinity. No longer will I open my heart to one, or two. I desire all three intrinsically.
If you are the trinity I will not ever know at the rate we vibrate.
I need human touch, mind connection, soul seduction of the purist kind.
Come to me only if you are ready for true love.
As long as it is real you will have my heart.
My energy rivals the sun and the moon who know how to play hide and seek without jealousy.
No rivals necessary. I need our love to express the male and female energy equally.
I’m competitive when necessary so don’t challenge me unnecessarily.
There is too much in this world to tackle globally, nationally, and locally that need my heart and mind to be in-sync. I need to fight only the good fight and possibly get into good trouble as John Lewis would say.
Let’s not fight each other in the future even though we have not ever shared a harsh word or thought… only love over the airwaves.
Doubt is the only demise of any relationship friendship or otherwise.
The tides are controlled by lunar vibes and the weather is impacted by the solar flares.
I do not need inconsistency or surges that interfere with a mercurial mind.
I am pure energy and and I seek only pure energy exchange.
I need a steady hand that has no reason to rock the boat other than to fight the good fight for all that is plaguing the world today.
To make it a better world for future generations.
Why tempt or tease unless the purpose is to please?
The world is already difficult… all I have is genuine love to give and receive.
I thought it could be the other “L” word yet you proved to me it was only lust.
For years we teased and flirted. I did not take you seriously.
You said that you watched me from a far. You were my star gazer and I became yours.
You an adonis of the sea and I a lover of all celestial, complimented by science and art.
I did not mind being in your orbit. A star gazer at heart too. You mysterious yet balanced and kind or so I dreamed you to be, connected to the the heavenly constellations in the sky and I an admirer of astronomy the scientific study of the stars. Too shy to make the link to astrology, I was becoming more open to ways of the world ancient and modern. I thought the stars were aligning, and the universe making way for two beautiful hearts that were following passions all on their own.
Why couldn’t we two be? One who did not want to be possessed but wanted. There is a difference you know. I allowed my heart to indulge, yet I could not go all the way.
Some questions arrived and I needed you to show up, in action and with a clear conscience clear concise.
You instead slipped into the background, yet I can not play behind the scenes. Not for very long. I am a leader, yet I do not need to be out front for everyone to see. That was the old me. I need to be front and center from the jump start. If your heart is too shy to see the depth and genuine nature that is me then you answered every question I had or will ever have.
I can be skeptical. My heart is strong. My love is too. I choose though not to let the softer side of me show until I am in the presence of the one that I can be me entirely.
Will we ever now if the power of attraction is in the air.
I know how to allow my uncertainty turn into shy insecurity. Its the clock and dagger that I wear. I do not want to sabotage this connection yet I desire a strong connect to change my mind.
I am not weak yet I can fool you with my natural naitivity, if you do not challenge me positivly.
Then somehow your forwardness allowed me to let down my guard.
Yet I should have known.
As a woman I have no qualms about being the fantasy.
The fantasy is me in reality,
I can allow my heart to roam,and go off course temporality to give us both space so our orbits can collide only when the time is right giving birth to the most glorious birth a of a start. I do not want a brief yet brilliant supernova as some do.
I need a slow and steady burn to increase over time to fuel the entire solar system and beyond.
I aborted ship early to see if you would seek me and you tethered so far away that I lost track of you and me.
Did you want me to chase your shadow. Like an eclipse that paints all the leaves in the shape of crescent moons. I’m a trendsetter I cannot follow what I do not know. I listen to the flow.
When you know you know.
I think of you still. Yet, that’s just it… we can see each other in our dreams as you told me.
I sent you pictures of nature all around me and you said wanted only me.
This caused me hesitation and second guessing what and who I needed to be true.
I am a multitude of thoughts, action, and mind therefore I need my mystery man to be as multidimensional as I am.
I thought time would tell and I was willing to wait and see, yet my curiosity and imaptience got the best of me.
The stars seem to be aligning all the time.Maybe I’ll catch you on the flip side. I won’t hold my breath. I’m an stargazer too and a mermaid seeking depths that challenge the constrictions of mankind. The universe is my playground like the ocean is uncharted.
Both represent the desire I have for life. I can not focus that on man alone. Nature is my muse as he is mine. The is my dealing with lust.
Come find me when you can share me equally and at the same time allow me to be exculsive to you.
I know not any other way. So many conventions of love are expanding as I am.
As you said you would not ask of me what you wouldn’t do.
Mutual exclusivity… unless there is a another way.
I need to know you to love you and so if I do not get to know you then how can we be more than that four letter word?
Prompts for Hour Nineteen
Text Prompt
There are so many nature poems out there. Our prompt for this hour of the night is to write a poem for a city, real or imagined.
Image Prompt
Beethoven’s Pastoral (2022 Poem 18)
Hooves thud across lush green meadows
Manes and tails flow with each stride
Inhale fresh wet clean earth
On muscled flanks, raindrops glide
Crunch sweet juicy apples
While playful foals dart and hide
Watching, a mare nickers to call them back
Dark beautiful eyes shine in pride
Coats gleam in rays of sunlight
Stallion and mare huff, necks side by side
(Prompt: Write a poem about a moment of joy.)
monsters v. Monsters
I have always been the one to say
That darkness is a friendly
The foe is when the lights show
Daytime monsters never ending
The monster in your closet?
Don’t you worry, they’re an ally
The boogeyman?
She’s nothing but a guardian goddamn fairie
The darkness is a blessing
The shadows are your safe space
The light is when reality begins to play the game
Real life Monsters always want you
To memorize their face
Beholding Joy (Hour 18)
Years of endless wait finally end
years when, like a leech, you clung
to the tail of hope
seeing, as medical reports go,
you stood no chance
You clung to your pillow
shedding nightly tears
calling on the powers above
to dry your tear-filled eyes
cursing the day fate pulled
a trigger on you; you were
bruised but not crushed
Now all you see is a mini you
giggling in your joyful hands
Hour 18: That moment of joy…
When after tireless months of constant wailing
And diaper changes and anxiety over every burp, every gurgle, every hiccup,
Your baby’s large eyes, one day, display a bout of recognition
And that darling face widens in to a smile for the first time,
It is a moment of joy, frozen into factals of time…