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288 · Mar 2019
Thrill
AmeriMav Mar 2019
When I see your face
Sensations overwhelming
Thrill my pulsing heart
Haiku form
287 · Jun 2019
Glimmer in the Dark
AmeriMav Jun 2019
In the deepest dark
As just before the dawn breaks
Your light bids me see
Haiku form
279 · Jan 2019
Worry
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Worry is to love
Though not useful in itself
A marker of care
Haiku
274 · Jan 2019
Beauty Unchanging
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Sunrise, sunset, both beautiful
Dawn and the dusk shine, fanciful
Unchanging at source
Just changed by the course
But the force, plentiful

And so goes the beauty of life
Some days come with gladness, some strife
Unchanging at source
Just changed by the course
Grace the force, in it rife
Clogyrnach form
264 · Mar 2019
Look At Me
AmeriMav Mar 2019
When you look at me, with those cosmic eyes
My heart goes full stop and all worry fades
Desire explodes love's fire parades
No more room for doubt, no ifs ands or whys
No thought of the time, or grief of goodbyes
And I cannot breathe, your power invades
When you look at me

Open and honest without a disguise
Shining like topaz your beauty cascades
In that bright moment dark mystery pervades
Words are not spoken, deep love it implies
When you look at me
Rondine form
256 · Dec 2018
Bottomless Bliss
AmeriMav Dec 2018
My heart sinks as I say goodbye once again
Endless loop of loss and ecstasy repeats
You're so very far away and yet always near
I think I could not love you more
And yet your smile always makes more room
I'm at my peak and yet it's never enough

My heart is full, so fill it again

Everyday I seem to find more about you to love
Wondrous spiral of aroma and color
Dizzying display of your beautiful essence
With the clarity of perfectly cut diamonds
Is there ever an end to your facets?
Does this ocean have a depth that one can't descend?
Always finding ever higher summits
Never seeing enough of your golden valleys

My heart is full, so fill it again

Only one thing I know to do
Gaze upon you with my soul, and gaze again
Never stopping until my journey finds its end
Enough will never be enough when it comes to you
I must accept this truth I know
And be content to be always overwhelmed

My heart is full, so fill it again
This poetry form is called “The Bop”
Here is some info on it if your interested.  https://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/personal-updates/poetic-form-the-bop
253 · May 2019
Escapade
AmeriMav May 2019
Oh come away my darling fair
Clasp hands with me and run
Make no delay
Let's fly away
To frolic in the sun

Oh come away my lovely one
On clouds we'll float and sway
In moonlit beams
Of lover's dreams
To midnight nymph's soirée

Oh come away my bright bouquet
Come hear my sweeter themes
This song I'll sing
With humming string
We'll dance by rushing streams

Oh come away my best daydreams
No treasure can compare
Please do not shun
You are my one
Life's stale if you're not there
The Roundabout form
252 · Mar 2019
Blooming Contemplation
AmeriMav Mar 2019
I long to spend my days with you
Like flowers long for spring
Bask in your sun
Til night's begun
To feel the warmth you bring

Just hold your hand and hear birds sing
Until the day is done
Sunlight will fade
All songs be played
And spider webs be spun

Then dance with you hearts beat as one
Moon lit upon a glade
Hair wet with dew
No love more true
We'd move with passion swayed

And soft to sleep all joy conveyed
With dreams of morning new
A wondrous thing
What songs we'll sing
Sunrise shall be our cue
The Roundabout form
251 · Feb 2019
Chasing Time
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Each day I long to see your face
Like flowers chase the Sun’s embrace
The time flies fast, it's quickly past
I wish that I could slow the pace
247 · Nov 2018
I See
AmeriMav Nov 2018
My eyes have been opened to the person who is you
And everyday's more focused, more vivid, and more true
I think you find it strange that I long to look so deep
But I want to gaze at your art, even when I sleep
And so, my dear, I've studied, to pierce your mystery
So in our time together this is what I see

I see your timeless beauty, the glory of your face
The sculpture of your body, your curvature of grace
The starlight of your eyes, the wave of your lips
The softness of your *******, the music of your hips
How delicate your hands, how supple your sweet thighs
This is what I see, when I look with merely eyes

I see your sword sharp intellect, your precision wheels that turn
The thoughtfulness in each thing you say, the way in which you learn
The wisdom which through decision you put your knowledge to play
You do not live life carelessly, as you chart the roads of day
Your opinions are worth considering, only fools should give no grind
This is what I see, my love, when I see you with my mind

I see the light refract, when it hits upon your soul
With rainbow colors brilliant, a truly transcendent goal
You don't hold back compassion, you won't force back a tear
Your love is so inspiring, even in the face of fear
The fibers of your spirit flex, ten thousand horses could not part    
This is what I see, such strength, when I see you with my heart

And this is just the start, I know, who knows what else will be
But you should know, my eyes are open, and this is what I see
246 · Apr 2019
Heads and Hearts
AmeriMav Apr 2019
No one can see me quite as true
A single coin we two could be
One side is me the other you

Both set on separate sides to see
We're made of same material
A single coin we two could be

Sometimes it seems ethereal
The way we both seem to emote
We're made of same material

Now true sometimes on different note
I'm still consistently amazed
The way we both seem to emote

And when an argument is raised
The way we know the other one
I'm still consistently amazed

When all is said, and all is done
No one can see me quite as true
The way we know the other one
One side is me the other you
Terzanelle form
243 · Feb 2019
Boundless Beauty
AmeriMav Feb 2019
She is beauty in everything I see
She moves me like the wind blows through a tree
Changing seasons and all the starry host
Mountains, forests, and seas from coast-to-coast
All things lovely are her embracing me

Like the sunrise that's beaming bright and free
Or silver moonlight that shines in softer key
Her's the light that matters to me most
She is beauty

Her smell like flower fragrance to a bee
I run to her like deer to forest flee
With skin so pure like white capped mountains boast
And hue the glow of sun dropped westernmost
Everywhere I turn my heart filled with glee
She is beauty
Rondeau form
242 · Feb 2019
Inexorability
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Time is a hard thing to crack
Can't steal back the smallest shard
Guard best with strongest barred rack
Still lack! You reap no reward


It will be lost while in sight
Trust not might it won't change cost
Frost cannot freeze its swift flight
Each bite to its track is tossed


So we will climb and take note
In rhythm float moment's rhyme
And mime love's light chime gloat
Each dote to stop ticking time
Rannaigheact Mhor form
241 · Mar 2019
Paradoxical Paradigm
AmeriMav Mar 2019
She is a delicate mix, one part raw strength, other pure feel
Rose in form unbreakable, bent to the ground in the harsh wind
My longing to touch the petal, no matter how sharp the thorn
Sijo form
238 · Jan 2019
Astral Delight
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Slayed with complete awe at the sight
Early crisp morning at dayspring
Mind burning with desire to bring
Perfect sketch with word-craft as bright
Description of the sun's first light
Such angst thus paired with heart of glee
When thoughts and feelings can't run free
This poem's not about sun rays
You see! You set my soul ablaze
When your exquisite face I see
Decima form
236 · Jan 2019
I'll Return
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Conversation must now subside
The day has been spent as before
Swirling dreams in my heart abide
And I know I'll return for more

Busy day spins, not much time now
We cannot in a barrel store
Wonder, laughter, or smiles somehow
So I know I'll return for more

Oh your voice rings with such brilliance
My heartbeat is going to war
Overwhelms me at this instance
But I know I'll return for more

In the quiet, in the stillness
When as if my heart hits the floor
Must find a cure for my illness
Oh I know I'll return for more
Kyrielle form
232 · Jan 2019
Intensity
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Memories entertained about you
Lovely, vivid, intensely they brew
And yet I should say, there is not a day
I am not overwhelmed by your view
Gwawdodyn form
228 · Mar 2019
Quiescent
AmeriMav Mar 2019
Quiet is soothing
And silence is deafening
Yet they sound the same
Haiku form
226 · Feb 2019
Cravings
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Pink ribbon so sweet
Wave structure with heat
Your lips
Soft hand carved complete
Smooth shapely entreat
Your hips
Heart racing upbeat
Slow your dress discreet
Unzips
Lai form
221 · May 2019
Howling Hiaku
AmeriMav May 2019
My longing for you
Like howls to lunar skylight
Express without touch
Hiaku form
218 · May 2019
Ineffable Affections
AmeriMav May 2019
The light of love has chosen to reveal
What senses know and hearts can only grasp
There are no words that show you how I feel

No doubt we know affection's soft appeal
We hadn't know the limits bite like asp
The light of love has chosen to reveal

My joy in you is stronger now than steel
And yet each time I fail to raise the hasp
There are no words to show you how I feel

Visions of you are heated and surreal
But lack of warmth comes grating like a rasp
The light of love has chosen to reveal

I'm running endlessly upon this wheel
Stumbling with soul-tied, breathless, choking gasp
There are no words to show you how I feel

To music and to rhyme I will appeal
Perhaps with time and touch they will unclasp
The light of love has chosen to reveal
There are no words to show you how I feel
Villanelle form
217 · Mar 2019
Simple Wonders
AmeriMav Mar 2019
On the rocky shore of a calm mountain lake
A small stone smooth and simple was cast in joy
Fast upon the serene waters did it break
Sending ripples fitting to the caster's ploy
What once was still with excitement now did quake
And though the scene was changed it did not annoy
But caused a wonder, "How many waves would make?"
Much like the pleasures love to hearts can deploy

Love has struck upon the face of our hushed hearts
Like guitar strings now impassioned souls vibrate
And caught up in sensation amusement darts
Not knowing how many trembles now await
All that can be known is when the movement starts
No person, though still they try, can bliss dictate
It, the lot that must be seen by all sweethearts
Enjoy the splendor and seize uncharted fate
Strambotto form
215 · Apr 2019
Sparks of Desire
AmeriMav Apr 2019
Each day I see my lovely one
My heart ignites with stirring spark
Burst of eastern rising sun
A lighting storm in deepest dark
Intensity of Dante's fire
Whirlwind heat of my desire

My heart ignites with stirring spark
The moment that your eyes appear
Those windows of your soul so stark
That run me through like topaz spear
With golden glint, and glassy shine
They capture me, and state "You're mine!"

Burst of eastern rising sun
The way you move upon my scene
You shine o'er me til day is done
Without a single cloud between
The colors brighter in your blaze
Life is fuller in your rays

A lighting storm in deepest dark
Your brightness it inspires me
Honesty your soul's hallmark
Thoughts you share, they help me see
Acuity within you gleams
I love to hear your hopes and dreams

Intensity of Dante's fire
My blood heats up when you are near
And all my senses go haywire
When your accented voice I hear
It's possibly my favorite sound
I'm captivated and spellbound

Whirlwind heat of my desire
My treasure I have found in you
Without you life is a quagmire
Compass to my heart askew
My heart, and soul you fill with glee
You mean so very much to me
Trenta-Sei form
212 · Mar 2019
Raw Need
AmeriMav Mar 2019
I need you more now
Deep desire is building
With passing of time
Haiku form
211 · Jan 2019
Light
AmeriMav Jan 2019
I remember the starlight of your passionate eyes
Even in the dark when all lights have gone out
I can see by the light of your resplendent love

Many times it feels as though I am alone
Blank and empty as a cavernous abyss
I remember the starlight of your passionate eyes

They guide me in the swirling emotions of loneliness  
Like the heavenly bodies that guide a ship
Even in the dark when all lights have gone out

All I want is to find my way to you
Though stumbling and failing often
I can see by the light of your resplendent love
This is Cascade poem
Find out more about the form here
https://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/personal-updates/poetic-form-cascade-poem
207 · Sep 2019
Hard To Let Go
AmeriMav Sep 2019
Seems I search your name
Like a deer returns to stream
Unquenchable thirst
206 · Jan 2019
Morning Rituals
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Alarm rings, I wake
With more ease than recent past
My mind full of you

Screen full of your words
Reminds me of your morning
And how you miss me

Exciting moment
I shower for the day now
Thoughts of you cascade

Ticking away time
Like the thunder of spring storms
Bringing needed rain

Breathless pause I wait for you
"Call me" on the screen is "Read"
Haiku Sonnet
205 · Mar 2019
My Light-bearer
AmeriMav Mar 2019
Perhaps this poem is not bold
With no great sense of gall
The truth is more than can be told
Though you should hear it all
You're well acquainted with my mold
You lift me when I fall

The truth is more than can be told
Though you should hear it all
Your love's a wonder to behold
It never seems to stall
You're well acquainted with my mold
You lift me when I fall

Your love's a wonder to behold
It never seems to stall
In trial or pain you're my handhold
You'll answer when I call
You're well acquainted with my mold
You lift me when I fall

In trial or pain you're my handhold
You'll answer when I call
Your love for me shines bright as gold
No matter my shortfall
You're well acquainted with my mold
You lift me when I fall
Roundelay form
197 · Feb 2019
Wandering Words
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Here missing lovely smiles
your gazing eyes topaz brown lost
you are fading  
quiet and empty
roaming mind
lonely prison
in search aimlessly
wandering
aimlessly search
in prison
lonely mind roaming
empty and quiet, fading
are you lost
brown topaz eyes gazing
your smiles lovely
missing here
Palindrome form
195 · Mar 2019
Sound Delight
AmeriMav Mar 2019
In day or in night
My ears will delight
Her sound
She's ever so bright
And to her soft light
I'm bound
To always excite
When captured in sight
She's found
Lai form
AmeriMav Dec 2018
When you sleep my dear
I wonder how deep the color
Your dreams might display
A Haiku. I wanted the title to be longer than the poem itself! lol
190 · Jan 2019
More
AmeriMav Jan 2019
You're like the sun's golden glow
The peace of soft rolling tides
The silver moonlight shadow
But worth so much more
Dodoitsu form
189 · Jan 2019
Darling
AmeriMav Jan 2019
What person would capture my love
Like hand in glove
Could hold me tight
In day or night

Beauty planted, visible, sure
Complex and pure
Lovely to see
Strikingly free

Epitome of all my dream
With star-like gleam
Constant and true
My darling, you
Minute Poem form
188 · Mar 2019
Blossoming Love
AmeriMav Mar 2019
Her body is grace like soft petaled rose
Enchanting the bees in summer gardens
Her fragrance so rich that when the wind blows
Their engagement she knowingly pardens

She’s delicate true, but strong in her heart
Her body is grace like soft petaled rose
Elegant fine lines the brush strokes of art
Ever quite splendid in sunlight that glows

In her dark essence pure ecstasy flows
In the dusk dim she opens her flower
Her body is grace like soft petaled rose
Ever wondrous in the light of her power

Dropping her petals like silk evening gown
Dressed in the moonlight sweet music her pose
She’ll rest on my chest her head she’ll lay down
Her body is grace like soft petaled rose
Quaternary form
186 · Feb 2019
Rush of Love
AmeriMav Feb 2019
I'm always rushing to find you
Whatever time, or place, or whim
In the cool of the morning dew
Shinning of day or moonlight dim

Before the sunrise, when I wake
I'm always rushing to find you
As I rise my heart starts to quake
The idea of your smile its cue

Then as sun turns the sky bright blue
You're the color that fills my day
I'm always rushing to find you
Your life-light's my every ray

And as the moonbeams softly glow
With candlelight's warm gentle hue
On my love-stream will ever flow
I'm always rushing to find you
Quatern form
184 · Mar 2019
Bare Essentials
AmeriMav Mar 2019
The beauty of the winter would not be
If not a single flake of snow did fall
Its brilliant shine doth fill the heart with glee
And every childlike eye does it enthrall

So too the beach without the ocean wave
Deserts too are filled with golden sand
The roaring surf and salty wind we crave
We love the way the sea invades the land

And what if flowers did not come with spring
No rainbow colored show upon the ground
It'd be as if the world forgot to sing
What is the worldwide dance without the sound?

Your presence fills my life with brighter hue
My world would lose its "lovely" without you
Sonnet form
182 · May 2020
New Dawn
AmeriMav May 2020
I yearn for your smile
With patient stirring delight
Like songbirds toward dawn
178 · May 2020
Saving Sound
AmeriMav May 2020
Endless spiral of deafening decay
Shadows stretching toward fragile heart and mind
Falling backward and losing sense of day
Stumbling, staggering, senses numb and blind

Madness closer with every gasping breath
Sinking deeper with every bitter choice
Screaming silence aching for my death
Stopped with trembling the beauty of your voice
176 · Feb 2019
Awaiting Love
AmeriMav Feb 2019
The sky is blue and clouds are soaring high
I daydream as they're softly floating bye
And sitting warm beside the window pane
The sun is rising high into the sky

The beauty from the window view is plain
But so much more than this could I attain
If I were standing in the breeze outside
To journey deep among the rich terrain

I'd touch the grass upon the green hillside
The wind its cool caress my senses ride
No end in sight to where my feet may go
No smell, no taste, no sound would be denied

I feel this feeling as our love does grow
The distance like the window pane aglow
Allows the beauty, but denies the taste
That everyday my heart desires to know

Until at last your body I've embraced
And my hands your outline I have traced
The fullness of your love I cannot sense
All time til then is simply a foretaste

So until then I'm stuck in this suspense
Desire for you grows ever more immense
But patient I will be until you come
The moment's pleasure bound to be intense
Interlocking Rubaiyat form
175 · May 2019
Attunement
AmeriMav May 2019
Intensely my thoughts they revolve around your presence

Senses fixed to spring at every reminder of your essence
My heart strings tune themselves to your siren song
In every fragrant flower I see your soft petaled skin
Sunrise is ushered in by your sultry smile
Sunset cued by your soul shading absence

Yearning always to hear your sweet chime
Overwhelmed by the dazzling cosmos of your eyes
Utterly yours
Acrostic form
172 · Feb 2019
First Stirs of Love
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Each day at dawn
I rise and yawn
And look upon
What you've written

Then smile bright
To my delight
Beauteous sight
Of your love song

With many words
Your heart records
And spins onwards
So romantic

Ignites my heart
Like match head start
Strings like Mozart
In my heart ring

Then I reply
With simple "Hi"
Let out a sigh
As I'm thinking

How can this be?
Her love for me
What does she see
That compels her

Cause everyday
My heart you play
Each time you say
How you love me
Rhupunt form
171 · May 2019
Strongheart
AmeriMav May 2019
A steadfast stronghold
My heart for you unchanging
I’m your guardian
Haiku form
169 · Jan 2019
Heartwarming
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Warm scarf swept around your soft neck so cute
Smile that could make shadows shine
Jeweled eyes glint like stardust
Kimo form
148 · Apr 2019
Swirling Thoughts
AmeriMav Apr 2019
Swirling in a soft dark affection
A foggy nocturne plays in tune
The dance is ever spinning
Dizzy with a blank stare
Thoughts refuse to stop
But words won’t come
All I want
Is your
Smile
Nonet form
145 · Feb 2019
Soulfire
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Your wild stardust glow
Dazzling flash our fire dance
My soul ignited
Haiku form
145 · Feb 2019
Shaking Truth
AmeriMav Feb 2019
You shake your head in disbelief
Cause deep inside you can't embrace
Though stirred to flight like wind blown leaf
You still insist you're commonplace

Cause deep inside you can't embrace
The light I tell you that I see
You still insist you're commonplace
While burning bright and full of glee

The light I tell you that I see
You say it's fiction in my head
While burning bright and full of glee
My compliments you try to shred

You say it's fiction in my head
I wish you knew, the truth I know
My compliments you try to shred
These seeds I plant will one day grow

I wish you knew, the truth I know
Though stirred to flight like wind blown leaf
These seeds I plant will one day grow
You shake your head in disbelief
Pantoum form
139 · Jan 2019
Heartburn
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Sometimes saying bye
Burns with such pain it feels like
Blisters on my heart
Haiku
135 · Jan 2019
Worthful
AmeriMav Jan 2019
In vain I try to count your worth
Try to open long sealed up jars
Finding dazzling gems I unearth
It's like counting the night sky stars
Love, the soul prison soon unbars
Your vast value you soon shall see
Cracking like light pierced, life long scars
You'll know your importance to me
Huitain form
132 · Feb 2019
Timemaster Fancies
AmeriMav Feb 2019
If time could bend and twist at whim
We two would never part
For I'd suspend, filled with love's vim
It's passing from the start

And if, when pressed to task we must
Remove our eyes from gaze
I'll move with zest spin time with ******
It'd seem we n'er part ways

Then in this bliss, reposed we'd stay
The moment ours to own
We'd hold each kiss, our song I'd play
Content, never alone
131 · Feb 2019
My Measure of Happiness
AmeriMav Feb 2019
What scale can measure happiness
And what weight is a smile worth
Can you count the size of bliss
And is there a number for mirth
Is the sum of joy here on earth
Ever it’s formula be found
I know my heart has found its birth
Your laughter my joy-sprouting ground
Huitain form
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