Dream petals fall on a once young face
A distant bell chimes of love’s union
The smell of roses intensifies
Young lovers speak vows to live in love
My dream petals continue to fall
Waiting for you to return to me
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A kiss to the moon
Let me sleep without bad dreams
The heavy clouds cry
Perspicacity
Shore gazing,
the cold sea,
a look, a smile, a nod.
Gone within a gaze,
I mistook charm,
wit, and intelligence
for perspicacity.
Swimming in the sea,
I didn’t enter,
you teased me with
the depths.
Pulled under, gone.
Missing, then
washed up on a beach,
you didn’t need
to impress me.
Sorrow is a single bed,
alone with my
thoughts about you and
erased dreams.
Insect Music
Howling through the houses,
insect music plays us a song.
The windows rattle and shake,
fluff balls whoosh from hiding.
The clouds move undecidedly,
sun, grey, sun, grey, sun, grey.
We have a lazy mixed-up day,
undecided about what to do.
The Look
The point of your toes.
You dance around the coffee table to a guilty pleasure.
Wild, sweeping, undulated 80’s dance moves take you back in time.
Unaware that the blind is up, you look across to see a passerby give you the Lummox Look.
Unperturbed, you continue dancing naked.
Stormy Sea Longing
Insufferable
Longing for the stormy sea
Green hills surround me
Be My
Touch my cold parts
warm my refrigerated heart
Take me on a journey
flam throw me with your love
Touch my aged skin
be my fire in the winter dark
Sea-Swept Soul
Saltwater soaked skin
Sand and shells in between my toes
Sea-swept hair lightened by the sun
Saltwater soaked soul
Anti-Work
Take me from this place
where work is all-consuming
sleeping until noon
In a Foreign Land
In a foreign land
we look around with the west in our eyes
the east in our minds
the north in our hearts and
the south in our ears.
So many directions
our vision is clouded
our minds sharp
our hearts with the old gods and
our ears listen to the sea.
C & K 