This thread is all AR's fault!!!


Linger

The soft curve of your face
On my pillow
Doesn’t look out of place
In the morning.

Soft skin tingly to touch
Warm and smooth and inviting
Belies how I love you so much
Be silent my beating heart.


Lest you wake her
Don’t disturb her slumber
Let her linger
For all time.

Want and need


All the people I know are friends
You love friends but don’t kiss them
I want someone to kiss and love
That is my need and my want

My trembling fingers
Sweep across your cheeks
As they brush their way
Through your strands of hair

I am tired of being by myself
Everyone needs someone to hold hands hug and kiss
If you have not the greatest achievement of all – love
All your achievements in life are meaningless

Your hair drapes your shoulders
And the soft curve of your scented neck
Belies the passion and love
My chest empties leaving me breathless


Our hugs are of passion
And eternal bliss
Your lips are so soft
As if our first kiss

To touch and hold you
I cannot bear such sweet embraces
To end lest my heart leaps from my chest
In an exploding galaxy of pain

They can tell me I’m a good guy, a nice Christian
Compliments are so very cheap
They can compliment all they want
I need someone to love

I will forever and always be in love with you
I will do my utmost to quiet your fears
I will let you lean on my shoulder whenever
Press and bind our hearts together

I need someone to look into my eyes
And mean it when they say “I love you”
I don’t want another friend with benefits
I just want a true love

Much more than a queen to cherish
You are my life, my breath, my surging blood in veins
My peace of mind only exists
Because you are these things
As I gently steal your lips
While moonbeams play in your hair

Sweet Promises


Your soft lips
Ignites fire
Brushing on my cheeks
In a mere whisker of time

Scintillating sweet promises
With nary a word
Heightens my passions
To hold you in my arms

Seeking to quench
Your lips with mine
Our tongues twirl
Engaging our minds

Stone Cold

There is a stirring
Unfamiliar feeling
Woken to strangeness
Deep in the chest.

Yet longing of lost memories
Fluttering to the surface
A light approacheth
Cling to it in hopefulness.

Sands of time have flowed
So long empty and barren
Parched and dehydrated
A stone cold heart.

With the stirrings
And fluttering’s
Is it time to wake
A stone cold heart?

Paper Hearts


Easy to tear
Holes within
Walls are so
Incredibly thin

It is not bliss
For a paper heart
Makes you wish
For love to start

Wrenching your guts
Aside in the rain
Having a paper heart
Can cause much pain

Even if you get up
Because you try
You’re going to fall again
You’re going to cry

Love

How wonderful you are
As your sweet breath
Whispers across my neck
As you nuzzle me.

Fleeting moment in time
I look deep into your eyes
Time stands still
As love birds fly.

Gently seeking out a kiss
Long and deep
So full of bliss
The soul erupts flaming.

To match the fiery beauty
Of your heart inflamed
With love so gently wild
No need to tame.

As I hold you in my arms
Softly, in your ear
My breathless “I love you”
Makes your eyes tear.

For two souls entwined in love
Such as this soothes our hearts
Vagabonds and thieves of spirit
Abound but can never tear us apart.

The long winter has passed
It is ours to share
This blossoming hue of love
A new life together laid bare.

Love Lost

The memories of your kiss
Writhing it drapes across my lips
As it departs with a sigh
Leaving me alone and empty.

What did I do
To deserve this pain
Of knowing in my heart
Never to look in your eyes again.

Your sweet embrace
Is denied me now
Your weightless ghost
Parading in my arms.

Another’s kisses
Cannot wash the pain
My heart is empty and
Wanting you again.

Loss

The pain of your heart thuds in your chest
Keeping passage with the drips of time
People think you handle it best
They don’t know the pain inside.

Forever lost and forsaken
A young life
Too soon was taken
From your world.

You weren’t there to protect
A now precious angel
Still you did not neglect
But feel guilt to this day.

Always youthful and free
More than three decades
They will always be
Always youthful and free.

Lonely

Here I sit in
A lonely room
Full of memories
Of a life that bloomed.

Oh sweet memories
Of children cherished
Vanquishes my loneliness
Like them I nourished.

Yet lonely I sit
For decades have past
A loser in love although
A wide net I cast.

Maybe the seine was too large
I did not want to strangle them
Or make them a slave
I offer love with freedom.

So I sit alone and wonder
If I will ever meet a face
In a mature age that will
Be with me in this place.

Knife


It slides in easily
As if no resistance
Shiny and bright
With a hint of persistence.

As your pulse flows and ebbs
There is no darkening red
Grasping firmly on the haft
You yank with force and dread.

Pay no attention
When I scream and yell
The crux of the matter is
It hurts like hell.

I Want You

I want to
Make love to you
In the pouring rain
Wash away your pain.

So you won’t be sad
Over past loves bad
Your soft skin to caress
A measure of my success.

I want to
Make love to you
As long as you want me too
Is how badly I need you.

I want to
Taste your succulent lips
Let my hands roam
All over your hips.

I want you to
Enjoy the sheer pleasure
Of how deep my love
Cannot be easily a measure.

I want you to
Fall asleep in my arms
Dreams of happiness
And never coming to harm.

I want you.
I need you.
I love you.
I kiss you.

I thud like a rock


Dense, hard
Impenetrable
Emotions flow
Over me

Sometimes etching
Grooves in the surface
Of my consciousness
Creating channels

Where rivulets
Of thought
Run not deep
As a flash flood

Is it any wonder
I’m alone
When I can’t decipher
Another’s feelings for me

I did not know


I did not know
Your lips were so soft
Until I got
To kiss you slow

I did not know
Your eyes were fathomless pools
Until I got to
Look lovingly into them

I did not know
Your mind was so deep
Until I got
To listen to you

I did not know
This stirring in my chest
Until I got
To realize it was you.

I did not know
A lot of things
But let's be together
And see what love brings.

Heartstrings

What if your heart pulls you
To a land you don’t want to be
Those strings that tie and bind you
Never letting you be free

Can you ever
Live and let die
Or will your heart shut down
Will you even try

What if your heart pulls you
Into a forbidden place
Where all you ever see
Is their gorgeous face

Fragments


Sublime
Messages hurt
When spoken with
Cold and cruel barren voice.

Passion
Ignites anew
Fires long dormant
With their inflamed world voice.

Magic
Brief, fleeting
Lights the path
Trod upon for other worldly voice.

Forlorn

You lead me on
Hinting things to be
Giving me the love
I need to be free

Laughing and smiling together
We walk hand-in-hand
Down the beach
Our toes together in sand

The idyllic life abruptly ends
You say you will never ever love
Put me in a box
Where push comes to shove

Why do you
Play with my heart
Don’t you know
It’ll tear me apart

Perspectives

Will I rescind?
Soft, smooth,feminine
Delicate as a flower
A woman in all her power.


Will I rescind?
Rough, scarred, beard edged
Seasoned such a warrior
A man is much furrier.


Together two as one they entwine
Polar opposites sensibilities so fine
Making each as peaceful as a dove
Both Easily a Fool in Love.

Desire

The delicate touch
Of your fingertips
Traces across
My feverish lips

My hot trembling body
Aches with so much pain
I have a burning desire
To feel you again

Burning, aching, feverish
Emotions of desire
“I don’t want you”
My body calls me a liar

Kiss my lips
Quench my thirst
Free my emotions
Before I burst

Wow, hippie, you are quite the romantic poet… I read the first five posts and your sensual words stirred my emotions, though I know they weren’t meant for me directly… I thought you were just teasing me about this thread… but it’s a really cool idea to have all your work displayed in one place… I got the idea to put all my work together from Leigh’s thread… who knows, maybe a new trend will come of this… I'll read more of your work as you post it...

Daddies

Anger
Throttling
To where he
Can’t breathe

Then bashing
And smashing
Picking bone fragments
From their lips

Don’t abuse
A daddy’s girl
Daddies take exception
Abuse at your peril

Daughter make a choice
A man who loved you ‘ere you were born
Or a lousy abuser
A boy who “loves” you with nothing but scorn

Daddies may not
Always be right
But they will love you
With all their might