Poets love intensely because they invent their love long before they live it. Their lover is an active fire that brews in the marrow of their soul. Their carnality is an animal ferocity softened, spiritualized and intensified by their imagination and longing. Poets are the animals of the soul.
Month: April 2020
Haiku # 677
Chemin de poésie
seul je vagabonde
sous un ciel gris
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The infinite universe
no bigger than the wonder
in the human heart
Free Verse # 445 (a lonely cabin)
She hated the camera
yet when I photographed her
with poetry’s lens
she looked into my eyes
asking me to bare her
a little more, a little deeper,
to photograph her soul.
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When I touch you
my heart is still,
like a star being reborn
into the vastness of the sky.
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Her light is nourishment for my soul.
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Dawn
on the still breeze
I feel a window
open between our hearts
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A lonely cabin in a lost wood,
fire in the chimney,
empty bottles of wine,
his voice reading
as her head rises and falls
to the heave of his chest
while his arm surrounds her,
the falling night outside
hiding them
from the eyes of the world.
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Her perfume of choice –
all that touches her skin
burns with the poetry
of his touch
Tanka # 200
Between his hands
her yearning body
became an altar
offering its wine
to the tremor of his lips
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Night over the woods –
alone
in their cabin,
her face buried
in the pit of his neck.
Haiku # 676
Snuggled in his warm voice…
reading to her
as she falls asleep
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His touch
in her skin awakens
the seeds of ancient stars
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Mes lèvres sur le siennes
un baisé chargé
de la rondeur de la lune
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Forgotten love…
an old house visited
by the sound of the wind
Rooted in Love 