I used to play the cloud game in the stucco of my bedroom walls.
My eyes confined to the few feet surrounding my pillow,
finding hippos and continents before I drifted off to sleep,
always comforted they would be there when I woke.
I’d start the next day carried away
by the dreams I failed to recall.
Chasing thoughts like kites on a string,
blown through the sky by the sharp spring breeze,
tails spinning in the wind.
I don’t have those same walls to look at now,
so I settle for the sky. the clean and clouded sky.
looking for familiar shapes in the silhouettes and shadows
of the crisp, clear clouds
as I watch the sun fall down.
I can no longer see those cartoon shapes,
the way they would stay in just one place.
If you ask me to find them now,
all I see are nail holes.
this way, I don’t feel like I’ve pinned through the sky.
Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 12:41 AM UTC
diamond eyes above the prize
dancing below the darkening skies
Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014 at 1:28 AM UTC
give me the nectar from your lips
whispered words separate the innocence between our hips
Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 1:46 AM UTC
I can feel you in my palm
holding on to your hand
connecting lines, drawing dots
seeing more than I'd like to say we are
I can feel you in my chest
my arms laid to rest
across my eyes, above my heart
lying further away than I'd like to say we are
I can feel you in my mind
writing stories left untold
pens flowing, lead scratching
asking for more than I'd like to say we are
I can feel you in my world
together intertwined
steps and leaps, floating faith
building more than I'd like to say we are
Through all this wonder I can feel you finally
we're falling as one
you and me, blindly free
and I'd like to say we are
Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 2:24 AM UTC
pull me in and rinse me off
wring the sand off my shoulders
sanding corners thru covers
coveting light like lovers
'til we depart from one another
Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 1:29 AM UTC
soak with me the summer heat
dripping from branches
dangling over the street
tell me all your secrets
every one you keep
you'll remain a mystery,
even to me.
Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 8:02 PM UTC
sing me a song,
said the songbirds loved one
we'll float up in the drafts
of the seasons as they pass
the leaves will fall down like crumpled papers
across the ground
sing me a song,
before you leave for too long
they'll be left to study the sharpness of his scratch
all the while knowing it will last,
compared to the curves of her pen
looking through a memory filled lens
sing me a song,
and nothing will go wrong
Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 3:13 AM UTC
I want for you to freely come to me with flowers in your hand and your heart wrapped around your wrists. These things come swiftly but can’t be forced. It’ll be like a bolt to your chest that you’re not ready to feel. I want you to look into my eyes like you’re seeing magic fluttering around my pupils. Stardust that we both came from is floating in between our lips, careful not to crush it though - it might only appear this once. I can’t tell you how to feel these things, only that they should come with ease.
Apr 27, 2014
Apr 27, 2014 at 11:13 PM UTC
when it slips down the stairwell
only then will you revel
in the light of the moon
passing strangers at noon
lit by the spring sunlight
imagining futures too soon.
when it all goes to hell
ignoring the noontime bell
ringing with presence
breathing remembrance
always there to remind
of your first winters hesitance.
Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 11:01 PM UTC
these hills bring up a lot in you
wind blown waves flowing through and through
seasons in our lives, eager to find the prize
of companionship and comfort falling from the skies.
Apr 14, 2014
Apr 14, 2014 at 11:39 AM UTC