summer dance...

Moon eyes,  so they seemed,

gentle like the rise of night

when dusk gives way to dreamy ways

when rest means more than effort

when we seek solace of our wishes

and wonder if in this night’s heat

passions find us again…

In a slow dance like the way we reach-

joined in time and place to another-

to make a bridge of warm wet air;

I watch her dance, and moon eyes speak

as in the silence of soft silver beams

of mysteries sought and found in her face

as if beauty answered each question—for now

Moon eyes float above a seductive dance

and a hot summer night, begins to steam…

seven fifteen...

Across sky

time gives birth to day

flow of morning light and cloud -

strands and filaments, roses into violets;

on breath-brush of wind,

a moment simply felt

from eyes to dry lips

I am humbled by beauty…

my thoughts float to you-

a moment in your eyes,

a soft word in the air between us;

and I am there on a city street

dry lips and…so humble

there, you are

 

A pale blue afternoon moon

tilted half afloat in God’s own blue sea

I wonder of you - half this world away-

if  this were what you’d see?

Perhaps, clothed in darker shades of evening

embraced by glows of distant stars

Moon listens to you- sister soul, ever

eager for warm breath of thoughts.

When you are in ebony, I in blue; reach

beyond the tides of this day

beneath the skin of all we touch

inside the tremored roar of busy life,

there is the voice that speaks all one knows.

There…you are

remembered from moment to moment,

whispered soft, sung aloud—you are

the poetry that lives within my words.

slow...

I found a slow kiss

in a verse she left, an idle thought

in a distant moment, another

in a word used to imitate my laugh

I found one the day before

in a kind moment when I whined

about this or that, some busy day spat

when she listened, in her beauty

like the ever glowing face of the moon

in her grace, as if a gift to my life

and she glows in my thoughts each day

which is the slow kiss, I truly remember

the one…in a universe of miracles,

only found in her eyes