From hair and eyes like oak and pine
Words poured from cherry lips
Sweeter and fuller
Than honey, maple or wine.
Verse sustaining and sustained
Founding and finding
Secure foundations for hope
Entangled like roots and rain
Rising from her lungs whole
Devoting air to the single phrases
I devour in form like rivers
Sending chills throughout my soul.
Yet, even fixed I cannot comprehend
The priceless nature
Within this goddess
I call friend.
Filled my heart with love–
Where once stood walls and branches
Founded oasis.
Your name catches in my throat
Like a breath I feared
Abated
Before it struck my lungs
And rendered paralyzed my disposition.
I am lost
In pursuit of fruitless acquisition
For words too heavy for exhalation
Invalid explanations
For all you make me feel.
Yet, failing proper respiration
I’ve still discovered systematic devastation
And traced the cause to you.
Savor the breaths spent so
Haltingly in circumstantial bliss.
Awaken fading shades of rest
Nestled in centric lullabies
Trailing bits of silver gleam as
Illumination inspired by forest eyes’
Rhythmic captivation…
Your face is a symbol of my happiness
In so many ways.
Your smile,
Shadowed by waves of mahogany
Stirred by midnight whispers,
Ruffles leaves like tiny fingers
A graceful gale
Concise and disarming,
Yet enveloping and warm.
Jealous of where the sun has kissed
I lie awake
Tossing and turning,
Clutching
For some vague representation
Of all you are.
Yet even dreams cannot begin to trace
Slanted lips and soft brown
That both brings peace
And takes it from my heart.
You are peace
And rightly named,
But also maddening
And all that is tumultuous,
In the best of ways.
You are loved and you are love
And one day
I hope my words are worthy
Of one
So sublime.
Moonlit Poetry 