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Charlie Sea May 2010
You’ve held my hand, across grass, sand, all
And now, I could write with happenstances about sun shine
But, you held my heart across spring to fall.

With bricks & mortar from independence I should build a wall,
Put the reasons I should forget, all in a line.
(Be that as it may) You’ve held my hand, across grass, sand, all,

Clutching my pencil, fiddling, fumbling, I stall.
Maybe my dull sense will away, and I’ll be fine
But, you held my- heart, across spring to fall.

For now I’ll give up! I’m lacing boots in the hall,
I can’t go anywhere! Every encircling finds me at this pine
See, you held my hand across grass, sand, all.

In the moon, the shape of your eyes, by the shore, o enthralls
Pushing to the page, supplies unprepared, stories won’t even be mine.
And still, you held my heart across spring to fall.

Throwing pages, crossing out, crossing, erasing evidence of this thrall
I want them to pull close like curled embers, in a new design
You’ve held my hand across grass, sand, all
But, you held my heart across spring to fall.
Charlie Sea May 2010
Flexing wings
Are they leathery or gleaming,
Fitting a cherub
Or a demon?
Stretching, ready to take flight

Offering transition,
Or leaving behind
Leading to choices
If belief is there

Watch them,

Wide & powerful
Scaly & dark
Unfolding
Belonging to what being?
One to accept with conviction
Or to fearfully withdraw from

Another contrasts,

Delicate & glimmering
Elegant & ornate
Fascinating
With a quiet flutter
Could be a fairy, must be heavenly
Only leading to glory
Stirring thoughts
Of nothing, but safety

Strange & tempting landscapes
From vast cliffs to lush fields
Which a paradise, where’s the desert lie?
Is each defined,
In it’s options?

Taking a leap
Allowing for learning
With every moment
A risk well calculated?
Or naivety soaring
False hope taking delightful turns
A surprise excitement
Charlie Sea May 2010
I’m sorry
I’m not sorry

I wish you were
Here,
The best,

If I could go back
And forget regret


Cloak
Of night
Moon drapes
And in light
Summer
On my face

Snatched phrases
Long
Powerful
Monologues

Or my mind’s film reel

Mermaids

Savoring the tempest
Begging for sand

Sound slips
As dust in wind
And theater curtains

Framing cynic
Tragedy
Comedy
Irony
Serendipity
In a pulse

Taking leaps
Brooms
Hovercraft
Soft lips

Anyone
Just one
Somebody

I’m tired
I’m awake

Breathe
Remember to
Charlie Sea May 2010
First kiss
Hands brushing
Shedding layers,
At beaches,
Behind closed doors,
In cabin rooms

How’s anything holding on?

No college will ask,
How soft were her lips,
How protective his hand,
Why,
What,
What next?
My mother will never know,
And cannot punish
Without broken rules
Lacking a curfew
None will make or break
Job or audition

But
I look up

Rain freckles my nose
Or wind claws coat folds
Dry air holds my waits

Holes in the universe

Recording
It’s all there

To be visible some evenings
Clear next

First to appear,
The first time I loved
Or
Brightest to remain
When I said goodbye
Charlie Sea May 2010
When I’m alone you grasp my hand
And set the tone
Darkened music, reflective thoughts,
You turn me away from anything else around me
The moods right for this melancholy tango
And you whirl me around for a while
Your sadistic steps lead my masochistic thoughts
Onward through this familiar downward spiral
I know it’s every twist and turn
It’s every pitfall, dip, back step
All the questions it elicits
I wonder what’ll happen when it’s over
What will follow?
What did I miss?
What more will be evoked?
Is this one more reminder?
And I don’t even need to bother wondering anymore
I know when you’ll be back
As soon as one day’s sun sets and I close my eyes
Again that song starts
Reminds me, prompts me
Then again I surrender
To the arms of loneliness
Charlie Sea May 2010
A glance slips like a grain

Alone

What’s it worth?

Together

Passionate stares amount to everything



And it’s missed

Too late

Too late

Too much time spent

In wait

And now another listens

To those golden heartbeats



So close

He was

So now

It’s killing her

Like hands replace by a knife

If she’d known

How close

She’d hold him

If she’d known

Not to be afraid

Because anything that could’ve happened?

Couldn’t have been as devastating

As the end of waiting.



Closes their eyes

Letting fate up to anything

Now she holds herself and sways

“Just another lost chance...”

Another glance

“Slipped away...”

Another moment passed

Before the final dance
Charlie Sea May 2010
See her glances enchanting,
And rich scales set beautiful eyes,
Now who may breathe fire?

Long graceful neck,
The girl’s too,
Slender limbs,
Smooth,
Inviting
Even as a tail guards

Will hands caress you?
Their appearance neither coarse nor scarred
Never mind, other talons will tear
Like others pushed away

A fair maiden’s decidedly worth saving
Damsels are so often distressed,
Though, you see no tower?
Still, sword gleams!
And your armors match.

The dragon’s now slayed,
Yes I bid you to,
And she fell
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