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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Love Songs: Twelve Poems

Table of Contents

Love Song 12: Moon

Love Song 11: Opposites Attract

Love Song 10: Memory Quickens

Love Song 9: La Loba

Love Song 8: Dancin

Love Song 7: Eyes

Love Song 6: Conjurer

Love Song 5: Empath

Love Song 4: Sea Change

Love Song 3: Pied Piper

Love Song 2: Lyric 2

Love Song 1: Play Goodbye

Love Song XII: Moon

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Moon

moon
jewel of the night
diviner of
longings unfulfilled
look down

wishing moon
look down
tonight
with tender
mercies
on two lovers
angry and alone

at first sight of you
gentle
their spirits
goddess moon

let fall
from your fair countenance
magic light
full of potions
full of spells
full of
love’s enchantments

whisper
incantations
cast charms
unbridle passion
witching moon

let fall
sorceries
sweet bedevilment
beguile
these two
hearts again

mistress moon
oracle of the sky
and
of the ages
look down
on two lonely
hearts
angry
and afraid

look down
mistress moon
soften their hearts
with the
magic
of your
lustrous glow
and
speak
of
love
to them
once more

speak
lady of the night

speak
and
let fall
shimmering moon dust
let fall
your enchantments
let fall
a golden circle
of love
binding them
together
binding them
forever
in love’s embrace.
9/30/09

Love Song XI: Opposites Attract

Opposites Attract

opposites attract

you and I
are
zodiac signs
opposing
yet
complementing

we are
capricorn
and cancer
mountain goat
and sea crab

I am earth
you are water

we are
tide and shore
mountain and stream

opposites
drawn
by
star-dusted
constellations

opposites
linked
by
sun
moon
and
planets

opposites attract

we complement
we balance
and complete
each other

we are
opposites attracted
working love spells
making juju
on each other

we are
different
but
much the same
on
a journey
together

uncovering
the invisible
and
the visible

on a journey
uncovering
that
which
we are.
10/2/09

Love Song X: Memory Quickens

Memory Quickens

I know the sound of you
I hear
your
breath
in the rush of waves
your heartbeat
in the silent forest
I hear you
the sound of you
in a bird’s call at dawn
in the chatter of autumn leaves
you
quicken
in memory
echo
in summer thunder
whisper
in spring rain
I know
the sound of you
you
beckon
with the setting sun
and always
in every
golden
moon rise.

memory quickens
and
I see your dreaming face
know the sight of you
in morning light
see
your shining softness
the silhouette of
your soul
see
the length and breadth of you
curled
in sleep’s embrace
lying peacefully here
next to me.

I know the touch of you
remember it
as
memory quickens
and I feel
the summer lightning
of your
fingertips
moving lazily
down
my neck
moving across
the diary
of my palms
moving deliberately
to find
each secret
hollow of me
moving
until
I
catch fire
in a fever
in a
cool
burning
that
consumes.

I know the smell of you
stealing
into my daydreams
riding
the heat of day
like a naked Godiva
riding
hot afternoon breezes
carrying
your exotic woman-smell
like perfumed desert sage
quickening my memories
drawing and pulling
me
ever
to you.

I know the taste of you
your sweet bursts of pleasure
tender
as ripe
pomegranate seeds
quickens
in memory's fire
so that
once more
the spice of you
pungent and honey-laced
bites my lips
like ginger
and
lingers
fragrant
on my tongue.

while
we are apart
memory
of you
draws breath
and

lives
here
in my five senses.

while

we are apart

my memory
quickens
returns

night and day

the sound

and

sight

of you
returns

the smell

and

taste

of you

returns

the memory

your touch

evermore.
9/17/09

Love Song IX: La Loba

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La Loba: Women of the Wolves

passing
like smoke
through
cracks in stars

we glide
as one

from
veiled
underbrush

out
of shadowed
mountain fog

tread softly

gliding
beneath
silver moon beams

see us:
beautiful la loba
women of the wolves

prowling
margins
between worlds

outrunning
the winds of time

riding bareback
together
into the unknown.

see us:
la loba

you and I
moving as one
never apart

women wild
born
to run with wolves

born
one soul-spirit
born
paired and
mated for all time

together
we

guard each other’s soul
we
sleep the same dreams
drink each other’s breath
we
swim in each other’s blood.

shapeshifting
mysterious
la loba

see us:

dancing life
back into
our once-deadened souls

singing love
to ourselves
to each other

transforming
our dried and dusty bones
our strangled selves

see us:

slipping
out of boxes
out of cages

crossing boundaries
crossing worlds

la loba
you and I

women who run with wolves

together
we

step out
of the hidden
the unseen

together
we

stand
at the crossroads

cradling
magic
in our
palms.

5/13/09

Love Song VIII: Dancin

Copyright 2008 – All Rights Reserved

Dancin
(To Our 1st Party- 1/08)

1.

ages ago

I wished

a secret wish
on sweet sixteen
birthday candles

I wished

I could dance
my sweet sixteen
with you

wished

us two girls
could dance
our rite of passage
together

when
the needle dropped
and the
music played

dance

just dance
like any
natural born lovers
would

all
night
long.

2.

for
so many years

when
the needle dropped
and the
music played

it was
only
your name

I wanted to see
on my
dance card

it was
only
you

forever
you

I’d set
my heart
on

you

I wished
would come

dance
with me

wished
would come

fill
my arms

fill
my life

for always.

3.

instead
when
the needle dropped

time

danced
between us

time

filled
my arms

with
an
eternity

of
undanced
dances

of
hollow
desert
years

without
the music
of
you.

4.

now

after years
lost
and
long
with
waiting

tonight

my wish
of sweet sixteen
comes true

tonight
this night
we dance

when the
needle drops
and the
music plays

we dance
our rite of passage
long denied

dance
our dance

at last

two women
smiling in each other’s eyes
dancin

two women
movin and groovin
dancin

two women
fearless and free
dancin

two women
natural born lovers
together
forever

dancin

all
life
long.

6/15/08

Love Song VII: Eyes

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Eyes

how
youreyes
your
sun-gold eyes
stirred
my blood

that last time
that last moment

stirred something
hungry
parched
something deep

youreyes
that last moment

how
they
seared
into
my brain
my
soul

branding
you
into
the
hidden corners
of me
now
open
like a flower
to
your light
to
your sun

youreyes
forever amber
taking me
branding
me
into the marrow
of
your
bones
aching now
with cold
at
my
leaving you

youreyes
that last moment

so full
with
the what
the when
overflowing
with
the
how
of
me
and you

taking
the measure
saying
the measure

shining
with rivers of goodbye
that last time

eyes
that last moment

telling.

2/23/08

Love Song VI: Conjurer

Copyright 2007- All Rights Reserved

Conjurer
(To Stacey)

speak
my name
and
let
wind
rise

restless

whipping
slipping
through tops
of trees

summoned

invoked
by
you

say
my name

whisper it
to
the
wind

send it
into
ripples
of
air
to
ride
across
the
sky
like sails
full blown
carrying
precious cargo

conjure
wind

conjure
gods
of air

implore them
entreat them
beseech them
bring
me
to you

stir
bird wings

stir
shadowed mist

stir
old bones

and
bid me
come
to
you
bid me

rise
like smoke
to
crisscross
treetops
peaks
cloud banks

rise
on
filaments
of
your
breath

rise
on
whirl winds
trade winds

rise

fly…

and
come.

9/27/07

Love Song V: Empath

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Empath (for N.D.)

gather
the pieces of your wounds
packed neatly in dusty attic boxes
swept carefully under the kitchen rug
dropped haphazardly in bedroom corners
gather the pieces
like hard candies…
wounds
alive
denied
but never
forgotten

gather
the days of your pain
the days
liquid-red
once bloody
and throbbing
now years-hardened
into stiff
brown streaks
lying in bottoms of coffee cups…
gather
the leftover
signs
of hurts
yet denied
but alive
and well

gather
your night terrors
strung together
and hanging
about your neck
like
a noose of pearls
strangling
all breath
cutting off
all life
terrors denied
but still alive
still
well

gather them all now
and
bring them…
wounds, pain, terrors…
press them
etch them
release them
into
onto
me…
for I am your empath

your empath
wounded…
as your scars become mine
your empath
broken…
on the wheel of your pain
your empath
tormented…
by demons of your nights

I am your empath
I am
a balm
to restore
an elixir
to heal

I am your empath
come now
to you
with love
unconditional…
your empath
come
gladly here
with love
for you.

9/9/07

Love Song IV: Sea Change

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Sea Change... Summer of 2007

your lodestar

shifted
the angle
of the sun

bent
the radius
of my perspective

folded
linear time
past
present
future
into
triangled planes

while
your
moon power
raised
sublime
possibilities
exponentially

placing them
just
there
above
my horizon…

your force

disturbed
the poles
of
my world

charged
changed
their
magnetic direction

while
like
a riptide
you
pulled
my sea
into
to your
sphere

displacing
my currents

drawing
my tides
skyward
to
arc
upward
evermore
to
you…

your moon

imploded
the mysteries
of you
of me
of us
together

shooting us
like stars
somewhere far…near…

somewhere
into
parallel universes

where
the equation
of us
burst
into fire
and sparks
and
circles
unbroken
without end
or beginning…

circles
spinning
out
beyond
eternity.

9/15/07

Love Song III: Pied Piper

Pied Piper

ain’t no turnin back now.

you
beckoned
you
summoned
you

compelled me

to

follow you

play my role

in this here

love story
where

there ain’t no script

well
never mind that
since

ain’t no turnin back now

you
set the stage
cued me

you
figured out

how to get me

and here I am
standing center stage
with

no lines
no directions
with

no blocking
for my moves

well
never mind that now

cause

ain’t no turnin back, my love

ain’t no turnin me back
ain’t no turnin me round
ain’t no turnin us off this road we on

cause
the curtain’s already up
and the house lights are down
sho’nuff

rehearsal is over
and

baby, this show
is

already
all the way
ON.

8/3/2007 and 9/5/07

Love Song II: Lyric 2 - To Stacey

Lyric 2: To Stacey

play goodbye
frankie

drop
a coin or two in the box
and
play
goodbye

listen to
the blues
listen to
the muse
the song
that
tells you
why

you
have to
finally
say
goodbye

go on
say your
last
the cards
are stacked
the die is cast

say it
now
while daylight
fades
play it
now
in twilight’s
shade

play it now
frankie
so you
can
forget
to
remember

the lyric
and melody
of her
spinning round
in your head

drop a coin
for goodbye

because
you never
wanted
to play it

drop a coin
because
you never
wanted
to say it

drop a coin
even though
you will
never
ever
say it

your goodbye.

8/28/07

Love Song I: Play Goodbye, Frankie

Lyric 1 Play Goodbye, Frankie
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play goodbye frankie

drop a coin or two in the box

play that song

goodbye

listen to the blues

the muse

the song that reminds you

why

you have to say goodbye

you

never

wanted to say it

but play it

this goodbye

play it now

in fading light of dusk

play goodbye and forget

the sound of her

play goodbye

say it now

and soon

(god please make it soon)

I’ll be too old to remember

what used to be

too old to remember

what I can never forget

too old

remember her hello

just say goodbye

frankie

drop

a coin or two

in the box

and

play

the sounds of her

saying