Sorrow courses through my veins
From my heart where self-doubt reigns
I do not want to face tomorrow
With its promise of fresh pains
I can’t stand this constant sorrow
Choking me in iron chains
And dragging me through icy seas
Of anguish through which I cannot row
And tossing me on ragged knees
Onto a shore of miseries
Sometimes I feel that I will drown
In tempests of my own design
Or in serotonin ups and downs
Raging in my shadowed mind
In this state I cannot see
How to row to safer shores
Or drain the sorrow from my veins
Or feel at peace with life once more
But was I ever truly well?
Or is that the past I wish to see?
As I hear the tolling of the bell
Of my desperate heart and destiny
Apr 18, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 at 1:08 AM UTC
Flickering lanterns
Floating in the twilight sky
Lightning strikes far off
Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 2:22 PM UTC
And I Pined for a Warmer Clime
I was lost on a vast, dark sea,
For many days in misery.
I pulled my oars to paddle on,
If only for new scenery.
Some days brought me gusts, gales, and storms,
Lightning flashes and thunder roars.
Then I’d sail in an inky night –
The clouds concealed the stars from me.
What I Found There was Life Sublime
But then came, wafting through the air,
A gentle breeze, its aroma rare.
Its whispered name of beauty spoke,
The fragrant scent my heart awoke.
I found the isle, smooth beaches white,
Red grass waving in sunlight bright.
And at night all the stars shine down,
On this island, my home I found.
I Send You My Heart in a Rhyme
Sometimes still storms will rage around,
But I’m safe now – your love I’ve found.
In your safe harbor, I am now,
Here all my troubles run aground.
I send my bottled love to you –
With you I know my course is true.
A future with you I can view,
We'll plot a course, just me and you.
Jul 25, 2017
Jul 25, 2017 at 6:44 PM UTC
I love you as a deer loves the embrace of sun-dappled groves,
An oak the earth, a robin the nesting crooks of leafy branches.
This love comes naturally.
You keep me grounded, and give me a home in which I am free to grow, entangled in you.
I love you as an eagle loves the lifting currents of the wind,
A dolphin the waves, the tides the pull of the circling moon.
This love comes naturally.
You give me strength, the courage to strive to be a better person, not tomorrow, but today.
I love you like a lion’s roar echoing across the savanna,
A moonlit kiss, Olympian gold glittering in the eyes of a cheering crowd.
This love come naturally.
You awaken my passion, stir my hearts’ depths unlocking feelings I’d never knew existed, till now.
I love you like no one I have loved before,
And for reasons singularly different
Than I will ever love again.
You are my rock, my muse, my fire.
I have never loved anyone
So naturally.
Jun 21, 2017
Jun 21, 2017 at 9:10 AM UTC
Du bist das einzige Mädchen Ich liebe
Du bist das Einzige für mich
Ich will hier mit dir bleibe
Mit meine Schatzie – dich
Rosenrot, du hast mein Hertz
Mein Hertz, er brennt für dich
Diese Welt ist zu kurtz
Für eine so schön wie dich
Ich werde hier mit dir bleibe
Zur ende dieser Welt
Und so ich zu dir schreibe
Und gebe meine Liebe zu dich.
Jun 8, 2017
Jun 8, 2017 at 11:01 AM UTC
I write so memories I can recall;
While effortless at first, they soon dissolve.
I write to crystallize in written form
A vanished space and time while it’s still warm
In my minds’ eye and easily transposed
And can upon your mind be re-imposed.
I write emotions down upon the page
To set them free of this corporeal cage.
I write to clear my mind of dusty moths,
Which overwhelm with multitudes of thoughts,
And waves of feelings that I float upon,
Which build like ocean storms and toss me raw.
I write to catch the beauty of the worlds,
To purify their multi-facet swirls.
I write to sip the essence now distilled,
So when the world in darkness, woe, is chilled
Remember sunlight’s hidden undertow
And needs your heartfelt courage to re-sow.
Apr 18, 2017
Apr 18, 2017 at 4:02 PM UTC
Her smile is verily my life’s bright sun
Her hair a waterfall of autumn leaves
My puzzled mind her wit has solved and won
By kiss of flowers she my heart achieves
I know that I have found my life’s true mate
When her I see my heart is light and warm
With her fore’er I gladly seal my fate
She will in goodness all my life transform
I do not know what storms we’ll brave at sea
Together we will journey far and wide
What ports we visit I can’t wait to see
I’ll sail with her until our eventide
With ring of heavy stone I gave my oath
To love and cherish you, I pledge my troth
Mar 4, 2017
Mar 4, 2017 at 3:22 PM UTC
Zephyrs blow o’er the meadows bright
As flowers dance to my delight
Sweet serenades from birds on high
Float to my ears, on grass I lie
Babbling brooks soft harmony add
I smile for this all makes me glad
Picnics spread their checkered banner
Fill the air with friendly banter
Rabbits do their hop-freeze-hop dance
And squirrels in acrobatics glance
At all us merrymakers spread
Below with all our jam and bread
The springtime at long last is here
This season is to me most dear
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 9:22 AM UTC
New photons scatter through the sky
Refractions enter in my eye
The planet turns on axis high
And I see now a bright sunrise
Mar 2, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 at 7:55 AM UTC
Mountain winds sigh
Mountain winds caress my face,
Hug me in a fond embrace
Pine their needles wave a greeting that is ancient, timeless, now
Lake of liquid sky ripples near my feet,
Waves of past, future in the present meet
Mountain winds breath
Standing tall against the skies,
Mountains, alpine rulers, rise
Clothed with cloaks of aspen, pine, and jeweled with snows and river flows,
And crowned with diadems of wisp-spun cloud
While birds their piquant trills and whistles sound
Mountain winds roar
Rain itself flings to the ground,
Light and sound clash round and round
Huddled under thrashing boughs, I cower, exult, in the cry
Of earth and sky and wood together torn,
The trees and stones by wild west wind are worn
Mountain winds whisper
Water droplets on the grass
Bend the blades like arcs of glass
Fragrance of new rain and dirt, pine resinous and flowers wild
This is but my dream, my homeward yearning,
Of the mountain winds’ great endless churning
Feb 28, 2017
Feb 28, 2017 at 8:27 AM UTC