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417 · Oct 2015
A Bay Of Jewels
Jack Aylward Oct 2015
My head is filled with dram
After dram,
Dream after dream
And teenage girls hurry by with red hair
And red lips
Like tulips;
Holding ice cream.
Some washing their beautiful naked bodies
In rivers of red
As I sit there
Having just read
'Women' by Charles Bukowski
Over a nice cup of tea;
Whilst the Greek ochre sun
Sparkles upon
The blue sea.

©Jack Aylward,
2001
411 · Aug 2015
Without You
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
It was a warm sunny day.
The sun like a warm breast,
Soft against my cheek.

There was a fantastic mackerel sky
painting the blue.

The mountains were golden
Like eagles wings.

I walked by the hum of the river
And thought of you and I.

As I walked, the sun made love
Through the trees.
I remembered the touch of your hand
As I held it in mine....

I remembered our kiss whilst walking
Through the whiskey ambered leaves
That made the sound of dancing lips.

The smell of steaks in passageways
Came from the graveyard of white
Caravans along the riverbank.

The sweet tobacco-like fragrance
Of peat filtered about the Old Bridge Of Tilt;
made me think of summer holidays
When I was a young lad in Orkney.

I could have written a sonnet
Of birdsong for you;
The songs of thrushes.
Timeless and always sweet
You come to my mind.

The day was wonderful but I wished
That I had spent it just one
More time with you.

©Jack Aylward,
18/4/14
407 · Apr 2016
Yellowtail
Jack Aylward Apr 2016
I kiss you
On tiptoes
Under the
Butter of
The sun.

                                           ©Jack Aylward
                                                 29th April 2016
405 · Aug 2015
In Flames
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
The night city
Embers;
Glows and burns
Its heat with fire.

Torches blazes,
Scorches, grazes.

I lie awake
At night
Listening to the crackle
And the spitting sparks.

©Jack Aylward,
19/10/13
396 · Feb 2016
The Sleepers
Jack Aylward Feb 2016
The sleepers
Echoed their nightmares
Into the night
Bringing with them emptiness
And sorrow
Into their everyday lives.

©Jack Aylward
395 · Feb 2016
Beauty In A Thousand.....
Jack Aylward Feb 2016
Beauty in a thousand
****** pictures
Of beautiful
Women.
Beauty in a thousand
Miles of your mind.
Beauty in a thousand
Bulging *******
In flimsy low-cut cotton blouses.
Beauty in a thousand
Motion pictures
Of Marilyn Monroe.

©Jack Aylward
388 · Sep 2015
Eclipse
Jack Aylward Sep 2015
I gently kissed
Her moon-cupped
Breast.
With a sigh
She gave
Me a sun.

©Jack Aylward,
15th January 2013
383 · Oct 2015
Confluence
Jack Aylward Oct 2015
Like a necklace smelts with gold;
Two rivers meet and fall in love.

©Jack Aylward
376 · Feb 2016
Why Has God Forsaken Me?
Jack Aylward Feb 2016
I bark at the moon
But no-one has heard me
Not even God.

©Jack Aylward
373 · Sep 2015
Castaway
Jack Aylward Sep 2015
I removed myself from the darkness
Of the dead
But soon became a demon
On the run from the Gods.

©Jack Aylward
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
Your hair is like a sea of waves
As the moon manifests with swathes
Of hue
In my heart the sweet sensation is you
As the visions of your
Face eclipses with the moon's allure
Which blinds the mirrors of my eyes
Where the light transcends to rise
Like a ghost of light
In flight.
As your beauty turns into a reflection
Your face most eloquent in complexion
Folds into the back of my mind
Where I leave it later for me to find....

©Jack Aylward,
19th February 2004
Jack Aylward Oct 2015
Faces were coming and going
In places
That were once always
Hard to find.

But now they fold
Within light
Upon the prisms
Of my eyes.....

'Hello faces
Fellow faces
Mellow traces
Of disguise
Your eyes
I see
Glow
From the skies'.....

Autumn hair
And summer skin

I see their light
Turn to gold
As I breathe in
Their perfumes
From the air.

Lovers eyes
And lips
Are melting
In sun
As they turn
Only once more
To burn
Lifting
The oceans
Of my heart; undone,
Sending
Ecstatic
Waves
That signal
Across
My brain.....

©Jack Aylward
349 · Aug 2015
Oralental
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
My hand gently squeezing
Your soft milky *******.
Your ******* hard
Between my fingertips.
I reach down
Between
Your legs
Pressing my lips
To kiss.

My tongue
Enters
In.

©Jack Aylward,
8th April 2008
349 · Aug 2015
Flint
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
You are here: with me.
With little strokes of fire
With warm *******,
Strong embraces
And kisses like flames
Burnt my lips of paper.
Our hearts are flint
Rubbing together;
Igniting the flame
To the match.

©Jack Aylward,
24/4/08
347 · Oct 2015
Evading Memory
Jack Aylward Oct 2015
Love we both envied;
Even in death
We shared
The same skin,
The same smell,
The same waste
Of insanity.

....We broke away
From each other's touch;
Entering the last few
Dying seconds of humanity.

©Jack Aylward
345 · Oct 2015
Used
Jack Aylward Oct 2015
And slowly it all clicks
Into place

The other night
You slept around

Love had slipped
Under your door
And later made its way
Out of the window

You had crept, crawled
Into a magnet,
Through a web
And had fallen after being thrown
At the wayside
Into the dirt.

©Jack Aylward,
27/7/08
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
Into the mist of our daydreams we socialize
With watery eyes
Peering at another's disguise.
Our dreams like liquid worlds
Of cris crimson lake;
Sensuous as we make
And break love
Where we fold
And hold
One another
Like lovers,
Lying like flowers
As we lie
There for hours
Watching the sky
Above us
Move....

©Jack Aylward
324 · Aug 2015
Gravestone
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
The sign of our ending is marked here.
Our bodies are left alone
In caged lettered boxes;
Donating our realistic uncovered corpses
To the ground.

©Jack Aylward
324 · Oct 2015
From Broken Love We Parted
Jack Aylward Oct 2015
From broken love we parted.
In death
We touched
Single-handedly
For the last time
With the tips of our fingers
Each other's numb brains.

....We touched
Each other's
Numb little brains
Through the cracked
Mirrors of each other's eyes.

Turning to the skies
Where we would soon part-ways
Our souls
Formed oracles
Around the moon.

From broken love we parted
In life
We touched
Far too soon.

©Jack Aylward
304 · Sep 2015
Illumination Lovers
Jack Aylward Sep 2015
Under the stars
We fall back
Onto the grass.
In open arms we form together
To kiss each other's lips.
Our naked bodies eclipsed;
Embraced
By the moons
Light and water.

©Jack Aylward
298 · Aug 2015
Whisper
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
Love is like an echo
Of salvation.
Without love you
You cannot live;
You could not possibly
Live without it.

When your lover
Kisses you for
The first time
Your heart
Begins to float,
Sails like a boat.

Afterwards
As lips
Part from
One another
Your heart
Is filled
With life
And incense
As it flies
To the skies
Like a fire-bird.

- Only then you
Know
You're in love.

©Jack Aylward,
29th February 2004
297 · Feb 2016
what is....
Jack Aylward Feb 2016
..... The colour of water?
The colour of the world?
The colour of the wind?
The colour of the air
We breathe?
The colour of your kiss?
The colour of your mind?
The colour of your soul?
The colour of your life?

©Jack Aylward
294 · Aug 2015
The Beauty Of Love
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
The beauty of the kiss;
Your lips,
The burning of the mouth
Of inhaled perfume.

The beauty of the heart;
Your breast,
The eros of our copulating
Bodies of intoxicating music.

©Jack Aylward
294 · Aug 2015
Woman
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
You fall onto the bed
Posing like a goddess
Of dreams.
At the mirror
Your reflections
Twist and turn
Draining all the light
Into a stellar force
As your magnetic grasping
Fragrance
Breaks the silent moment.

Under the floating flirtatious thought
Your kiss softens the numbness
Of my lips
And we part....

©Jack Aylward
292 · Aug 2015
A Walk In The Woods
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
Under the silken moon
You wandered lonely
Among the trees that soon
Would only
Transpire
As leaves move in muffled flight
With light
And Fire.

©Jack Aylward
292 · Aug 2015
The Mind (Haiku)
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
Broken, bent with words
Crippled with bad illusions
Approached by still dreams

©Jack Aylward
287 · Feb 2016
Voices
Jack Aylward Feb 2016
In the dark hours
Of insanity
We howl at the moon.
In quiet desperation
We stab our eyes out
So we can't bear witness
To the crimes
We commit.
We make ourselves deaf
Till our ears bleed
So we can't hear the voices
That tell us to engage in ******.

©Jack Aylward
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
Silent walkers architect
Their perspective minds.
Mirrors change the light of their visions.

15 years alone together have passed away...

Holiday snappers
Caress in a bus shelter:
Waiting, releasing
Into loves bitter end.

A thing, a body, a figure lies still
On the tarmac.
Warmed by love;
Burned by death.

©Jack Aylward
284 · Aug 2015
Moon-God
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
We stand in open arms;
In awe.
We stand like crucifixes
Praying and thanking it
Like it were a god.
Its eager eye
Penetrating your brain.
You obey
It like a slave.

©Jack Aylward
271 · Aug 2015
Coffee
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
She sleeps.
She wakes.
She makes love.

She sits.
She sips
Her coffee.
She reads.
She weeps;
She remembers
Her first love.

She remembers
Every detail,
Every moment,
Every touch,
Aroma,
Taste,
Sight
And sound,
Every kiss,
Every beat
Of her heart...

©Jack Aylward,
11/10/04
261 · Oct 2015
Experience
Jack Aylward Oct 2015
Time is a wound;
We age
With scars.

©Jack Aylward
260 · Aug 2015
Love Remembered
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
Maybe we shall think at night
Now that we are old
And wish that we were young again....
In youth are lips would rise
Like the moon
And ripple like waves
Over other sugared lips;
Our lovers we embraced.
Now they too are much older
And some are gone
Left without a trace.
Maybe we shall go out
Together tonight
And make love again.

©Jack Aylward,
26th March 2004
258 · Oct 2015
Vice Versa
Jack Aylward Oct 2015
Its not unusual that the heart
Is lost; its the mind.
The mind can go mad
The heart not.
If the heart is broken
Its through love's own doing.
The mind simply cannot control it,
The mind thinks different.
The mind can go mad
Even though the heart still has love in it.
The mind holds all evil,
The mind can go mad.
The heart is of love;
It has the anger.
Yet the mind may think
Otherwise.
Often if you love through the heart
At the same time
You can think evil ways
Through the mind.

©Jack Aylward,
26th April 2004
255 · Aug 2015
This Night
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
This night
Is for lovers,
For people who kiss.
This night
Is for song,
For romantic endeavour.
This night
Is for sharing
Love for each other.
This night
Is for sweet talk
And beautiful things.

©Jack Aylward,
17/10/13
233 · Aug 2015
Your Eyes
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
Your cute brown eyes shaped like angel wings
Move me, excite me with passion and desire.
I can't help
But fall in love.
The way you look deep
Into mine
Makes me want you more and more.
I enjoy looking deep
Into yours too.

- I want to lose myself
In your beauty.

©Jack Aylward
7/8/15
196 · Aug 2015
Broken Heart
Jack Aylward Aug 2015
The leaves hear
The rain first.

©Jack Aylward

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