Let’s you and I take the golden gate, my love. Let’s leave our breath like wisdom on morning’s window.

Heart clambers flights of steps Touring empty hallways Between each chamber in The enigmatic maze that is you. Within, I had once lost sense of direction, Curling around the flitting green foliage Only to happen upon another stalemate My stride to pursue trips On overturned…

Chasing The Sky Chasing clouds with bottled rain With hope still rising, it left a stain From bleeding colors of a bow With a promise of riches down below. The brush of clouds, fingerprints in sky Distinguished the patterns of another goodbye As wind shuffles…

Paramour  The quickening of desire feeds the flickering fire raising emotions higher The truth of heart required Earn your love-I conspire Your soul, I want acquired Whatever transpires, in your arms I can respire.

  in those so-long-ago     days oh.     how felt born to dance with you i know     none      of those dance-dreams jiggled in you nor   loosened arms in tingling      wingling circles      about your hips   nor tilted the slight      quiver of a mouth alight with      unspeakable savor…

Author’s Note: This poem is dedicated to my Darryl & Diana series. In the origin story, Darryl is dead, and Diana is not. This is a poem describing Diana’s longing for Darryl. Her longing is strikingly similar to the longing I have for someone who…

The first heart I ever broke was my own you could call it a ricochet I’ll go with stupid   though immature is a reasonable copout when I am feeling self-charitable   at nineteen, we were in love – not lust well defined lines obeyed…

Wooden boards beneath my head, Cool sweet darkness Hangs like a canopy over the lake Sky full of stars share their glory But this dance belongs to the moon. Hour by hour I wait for the show. Curtains up! Watch the tango of the night…

Candlelit dinners create conversations And sounds of silent spaces Inbetween Words  Or exchanging of looks Give samples of you Revealing interests Causing revel in imagination We intoxicate to sedate Our minds, and not to deny Our bodies We rather be sublime And in the moment So…

As the night falls, I will gaze in your eyes And see the stars’ light reflected. Up close, I will hear your heart beating And feel your presence Illuminating the essence Of your bottled hopes and dreams, Like a moonlight projection Floating in a sea,…