Reaping my sighs
on the altar on her absence,
sharp the moon’s sickle
in the sea of dawn.
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Hecatomb of desire,
caught in her scent
a thousand flowers
melting to the floor.
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The sea at dawn,
a peaceful child
lulled on the bosom
of his tender mother.
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In the garden
where silence
is flower and fruit
for her I wait,
my heart against her lips
weeping to be the dawning sun,
the cup of sacred wine.
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Dawn’s breathless shiver,
upon my cheeks
the dew of silence.
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Wielding your breath
as though it were a flame
you burned all my poems
then into the ash wept
a sacred tear and lo!
my heart in dawn’s sky
a secret garden.
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Under his fingers
her skin quivered
as the surface of the sea,
leaving him drenched
in salt and foam
and a yearning to sail
for eternity.
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Drenched in his breath
the layers of her heart
he slowly peeled,
revealing the silence
vibrant at the core
of fluxing life.
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The gray of dawn was an ashen cloak beneath which she hid a thousand burning suns.
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Thirsting for your sea ~ my dewdrop heart.