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Oct 2018 · 279
Sometimes
Kenya83 Oct 2018
Sometimes just the right words come
At just the right time.
Sometimes it takes a little pain
To realise the gain
Sometimes you forget your worth
And the kindness you deserve
Sometimes, as much as it’s your nature to nurture and to fix
You can’t offer light when you’re broken in to bits
Aug 2018 · 1.8k
Dream #2
Kenya83 Aug 2018
You passed me at the station
We caught each other’s eye
Hugged and said hi

I was returning and you were heading home
There was damp in the air, autumn well and truly here

I asked how it went, I was leaving you a note
We walked up the street where darkness glares at street lamps as they shimmer on the ground

You told me of bad news as tears interrupted your words

I held you tight and pecked your cheek
Against a fence under the cover of an oak tree
It felt so right

You held me as your lips met mine
Delicate almost slow motion
Lips parted, reunited


You kissed a deeper kiss
Moving to a floor of green
Holding you as lips connect
In unison we lowered to the grass

Kisses came with want  
I pulled you in and felt your skin
Under your clothes
Rubbing my hands over your back
Aug 2018 · 4.3k
Dream
Kenya83 Aug 2018
With the most beautiful sincere brown eyes that reveal more than they realise.
Connection.
Touching. Underneath clothes...
Warm oil drips on skin, glistening Candlelight, delicate, sensual...
Hands, bodies. Lips, skin...
It was all a dream
Aug 2018 · 1.4k
Daydreams of nighttime
Kenya83 Aug 2018
I pull the covers of tonight across our skin
A blanket of stars upstaged by your eyes
Every hair follicle awakened with the movement of your lips
Tenderness in gentle dream
The smell of the midsummer nights breeze
The palm of my hand to the warmth of your chest, I press
And leave the shooting-star for another
Who needs the hope of its wish
Aug 2018 · 119
What is love?
Kenya83 Aug 2018
Every unique cloud formation that takes your eyes skyward and your imagination beyond

Every pink-orange fire-sky of tomorrows  promises that fires the pit of your tummy as glowing embers dance on your heart

Every poem and every feeling that stirs emotion and takes me to you
With melancholic lyrics and minor keys

Every grey day with droplets of rain distorting the view from the window
Enticing visceral vision where your eyes glisten
Aug 2018 · 163
Silver stardust
Kenya83 Aug 2018
Observing the night sky
I send stars to you in my mind

Falling in to the depths of clarity
The vastness of serenity

Strings and keys and poetry seem
To fly across celestial highs

Hitching a ride with shooting-stars
And landing in your heart
Aug 2018 · 145
Clouds
Kenya83 Aug 2018
I climbed in to the cave of the cloud and hid there until I found
The words I never said out loud
Through fear of not being enough
I know you’ll appreciate the shape, the texture and colour changes too
I know you’ll be as fascinated as me
And won’t roll your eyes as mine grow wide
For the simplicities and complexities
Of life
Aug 2018 · 178
Relief
Kenya83 Aug 2018
Why aren’t the birds singing as Day cracks open
Sounds of traffic hum in the distance, but no familiar new day song
Ah
A coo of a wood pigeon brakes the eerie silence of nature
I feel relief
Jul 2018 · 138
Changes
Kenya83 Jul 2018
Observation
Turned to daydreams
Fantasies of fireworks
Yellow, blue, sunset hues
Moved through years
Ins and outs
Sporadically remained
Random just the same
Something changed
The orange sun raged
Wildfires enflamed
My heart beat extra fast
Mornings and goodnights
Things you’d always held tight
Trust unites
Two kisses for the night
Jul 2018 · 920
Destiny Maybe
Kenya83 Jul 2018
Sometimes, if you are really lucky, you’ll meet someone so generously truthful that their energy makes you a better person and conversation flows on and on... everyone’s left the restaurant, staff are closing around you, but you didn’t notice. And neither of you looked at your phone all evening. That’s a friend for life.
Jul 2018 · 115
Messages
Kenya83 Jul 2018
I wonder, achingly
Do you think of me
I send you messages
Via telepathy
I know you receive
Other days I don’t believe
Every poem, every breath
Every beat in my chest
Is yours
Jul 2018 · 709
Endless
Kenya83 Jul 2018
Yes, I’m scared. Scared that endings will come too soon or changes will prevent this path to you. That I’ll waste more time, more years never having touched your skin under your clothes, or cupped the palms of my hands around your face, stroking your cheeks with my thumb. Never swept your hair back from your eyes and pushed my fingers through the length, down to your neck where I feel the connect of our skin and breathe you in with deep inhalation and heightened senses, savouring the preciousness of that moment. I fear never getting close enough to feel the energy pull us closer, where breaths get slightly deeper with attractions magnetic draw as I look slightly to the floor, thoughts of that I want you more. Desire bubbles in my chest as I return my view back to you, we seem to have floated a little closer. I hear the thuds in my chest echo through my head. Your face so close to mine, our eyes meet again. I see your lips and my internal voice seems to speak out loud. It feels like slow motion now, as are lips meet, you kiss me. Not feeling this doesn’t feel like an option.
Jul 2018 · 237
Collision
Kenya83 Jul 2018
Poetry ignites when souls collide
When I look in to your eyes
Your entire being becomes alive
Jul 2018 · 160
Bare
Kenya83 Jul 2018
You tie me in knots
I’m cold then I’m hot
Days pass so fast
Yet time stops
Dreams of ideals
Day stills
The sun lasts forever
Till the moon takes its place
We rewind and retrace
Fingers on skin
Vulnerabilities within
Here I know your scent
Your truth
Your taste
The lines of your face  
Desires are rare
I lay myself bare
#vss365, bare
Jul 2018 · 110
Ride
Kenya83 Jul 2018
‪Each thud of my heart ‬
‪Embarks on that slow‬
‪Rickety ride to the top ‬
‪Where the rollercoaster drops‬
‪My pounding blood red heart‬
‪Beats so fast ‬
‪You’re in the stars‬
‪Out of reach‬
‪In sight ‬
‪Light years from here ‬
‪Just around the Milky Way‬
‪And up the road‬
‪Clouds become stepping stones‬
Jul 2018 · 275
Turmoil
Kenya83 Jul 2018
Conflict batters the doors of my mind
The shutters at the windows crash
Spats of rage in confusions mixed up winds
Turmoil turns inside a grey tornado
Elevated, floored
Love,
Uncontrolled ferocity
Determination of want
I can’t let go, must I let go?
Pained from one sided questions
Deep and slow
Soft, barely there answers far on the horizon
That flicker and glow
The aches in my chest
You will never know
Jun 2018 · 2.3k
Dangerous Daydreams
Kenya83 Jun 2018
Thoughts are drenched in raw feeling
I’m daydreaming
My mind ponders, wanders
...I want to fly a kite with you
I want my head on your lap as you sit crossed legged against a tree, reading me poetry
I want you to hold the book with one hand while the other rests on my chest, occasionally stroking my head
Or I take it in mine, fluidly palm to palm till fingers entwine
Thumb stroking thumb, feeling textures on fingertips
The smoothness of your nail against my skin
I want to see reflection in your lambent eyes at sunset and sunrise
Against powerful rays and calm of night  
I want to know what those eyes see  
I want familiarity, of your kiss
How gentleness craves the plumpness of your lips
Where confidence grows, connection is slowed...
I want to fly a kite with you.
Jun 2018 · 176
Captive Love
Kenya83 Jun 2018
Forbidden love
you’re a bittersweet existence
Daily I’m speared through the gut
With weapons of nonexistence

A tribal ritual of survival in my blindness
I’m weakened by dreams you can’t see
Orange evenings are departing
And raging red commands the skies

Captive love runs in panicked rings
in search of escape from fate
Heads thud to tribal drums
Hearts spill open
A predator of my own kind

Willing prey, praying for your love
To release me from freedom
Sonnet, poem, love
Jun 2018 · 132
Your Name
Kenya83 Jun 2018
How it looks, like bold perfection floating on a cloud
Strong yet round, palpably profound
How I see it in my body and my eyes
Gripping to my mind, dancing on my ribcage
I taste hot excitement of metallic and wood
Fresh cut grass and sandalwood
You come alive inside my mouth
Layered complexities arouse my tongue
My eyes are alive, my heart races to the beat of you
The garden sings with life and eagerness
When your name is around
Jun 2018 · 237
Tan Lines
Kenya83 Jun 2018
Sun beats down on bare skin
Beauty surrounds me
Nature sings
The sky, a canvas blue
I think of you
Penetrating my mind
I try to pass thoughts by
As strong as the sun
Admiring lambent buttercups
I daydream of your smile
Migrating plane of climbing heights
The tail of fuel it leaves behind
And I’m back to you
Index finger tracing my spine
Tan lines adjust with time
Sweet notes roll in the gift of breeze
Reaching my corner where I pretend to sleep
I should water my pink roses
Jun 2018 · 275
The Moon
Kenya83 Jun 2018
Come
Lay with me
Look at the moon
Silvery
With one leg under the covers
She still pulls the sea
And you closer to me
Jun 2018 · 126
Lost Gravity
Kenya83 Jun 2018
The night slipped away
Through my fingers
I lost all reason
I clung to rhyme
But the words were as fluid as water
Seeping back to crystal rivers
The moon desired one last look
I saw your eyes glisten
I lost gravity
Suspended, sporadic love
Reminiscent of your touch
Clusters of tiny stars
Cling to my skin
Even galaxies dream
Jun 2018 · 158
Fairytales are Extinct
Kenya83 Jun 2018
Poetry doesn’t speak of monotony
Routine unplanned forever
Life and love and risks of lust
Down secret, leafy walkways
Hypocrisy regularly meets contradiction
So I dance on the knife edge of life
I toss fairytale endings in the street bin
At the end
Of simple times
Picking blackberries
I stopped searching for the moral in the fable
Desire will break rocks to get what it wants
The sun won’t stop until it explodes
Cold steel blade takes away my breath
Momentary rush of untimely death
I feel alive
Jun 2018 · 187
Unscripted
Kenya83 Jun 2018
Life comes
It falls at your feet
You came
You fell at my feet
With smoothed pebbles
And calm confusion
With the familiar taste
Of unfamiliarity
With one leg out of the covers
Playing guitar hips
With soft lips
We conversed in silence
Jun 2018 · 226
The Stranger I Know So Well
Kenya83 Jun 2018
When eyes become thoughts
Dimples dreams
And lips fantasy

A stiff starched collar
Can’t disguise
The depths of passion
Within lambent eyes

And in your smile
Despite turns of time
A boyish innocence
Emits unknowing

Through maturity
Ups and downs
Joys and frowns
A halo crowns
Light spills out

Healed scars
Days of sorrow
Overcome with strength
Inspired by tomorrow
May 2018 · 127
Earth Brown Eyes
Kenya83 May 2018
I look in to your eyes and the rest of the world slips away,
like melting butter under flames
Im not here nor there
I am ethereal, consumed by the universe
The shore retired revealing golden bed
The sun was set to rest
The moon full, withdrew, declined to speak
There were no need for words or a language to seek
The vibrancy from your earth brown eyes set me alive
The fire from your parted mouth sends meteor showers raining down
I touch the wetness of a tear
my body and my mind
The third time I cried
Forever hypnotised
I submitted to your eyes
May 2018 · 193
Captive
Kenya83 May 2018
Yearning years of freedom
Clipped ethereal wings
Once fated unicorns,
uniformed we follow our horse drawn dreams
Intrinsically, a steady same
Restraints of captive rhythms pain
Others join along the way,
empty aches remain
Polluted smogs of grey
Visceral strangers
Intangible friends
Consumerisms branded web extends
Confused in suffocations gasp
Perfection in florescent, plastic grass
Hopes for our future lie in the past
Striving for pretension can never last
Fairytales aren't where forever ends
A wrapped view through a cracked lense
Without breaks or bends
Is this how it ends?
All grace depends
May 2018 · 183
In Finite
Kenya83 May 2018
A tiny atom of the infinite
A path of chance or universal intention
How could change effect if the draw was luck
How could this ultimate connectedness come to be
There’s so much beauty in the energy
Dark tides worship pulls of silver moon
Female energy dances till dawn
We are children of the Earth
Granted a minuscule taste of life
In finite space
In finite time
May 2018 · 213
My friend the Forest
Kenya83 May 2018
Those visceral notes
Aloof, complicated
Feelings, art
Distant lover
Forever touch
Trust

My mind the forest
My friend the Forest

Enticing stranger
Complexities, lust
Anxieties, but
Never enough
Changes,
Longing

My mind the forest
My friend the Forest
May 2018 · 158
Syrup Dipped Fate
Kenya83 May 2018
He came to her despite it all, with embers clinging to candescent soul
Fighting blackened ash of times untold
Eyes intense, her gaze they hold
Darkness dims a sunless cold
But your hands are as warm as hope when spring is close
Destructive years blown away in muted winds of pain
The palpable breath of night draws in and out and near
Syrup dipped fate sweetly gravitates you here
May 2018 · 284
Reminiscing
Kenya83 May 2018
I gasp as I reminisce
Soft hands, soft lips
Strokes of kindness beneath fingertips
Bemused by that magic trick!
Gentle depths in fluent tongue
The language of your eyes, your touch
With all the red and black
In the pack, wolves call to the moon
As your eyes close, I open mine to see
The impact that was had
When Greenwich meantime stopped for me
May 2018 · 216
Connection
Kenya83 May 2018
Thoughts and words spill from my mind
Some make no sense at all
I write them down in scribbles in a notebook
Sense forms in time
Thoughts align
Adrenaline powered tears
I think
Sorrow for my mixed up mind
I read your words but not your mind
I know there’s so much to find
Aches and pains
What’s to gain
Hurt, regret
I can’t fight the connect
May 2018 · 218
Longing
Kenya83 May 2018
I’m not alone
As I miss you
My memory is short
My longing is long
Heart and lips and heat
Touched my open soul
There’s no too much
There’s not enough
There’s so much more
May 2018 · 199
Love
Kenya83 May 2018
Sentient, untameable love
You are not to be trapped, cut and dissected
You move inside of me every day
You float on bees wings
Penetrate radiance in flowers hue
Offer a sacred goddess in the form of the sun
Cultivate in nature’s nutrients
Reflect through his gentle suffering eyes
May 2018 · 207
Truth
Kenya83 May 2018
Contradiction comes with my desire
I ponder possibilities
Of ill fated fiction
Of fake feelings
My heart is tied too tight
Loosened to the steady beat of truth
Feels right
When you stroked my hair
When your past made me weep
When the depth of your kiss
May 2018 · 115
Paralysed
Kenya83 May 2018
Undulating thoughts have me paralysed
Are you in disguise
I’m hypnotised
Tribal dancers dance all over me
Numb me to the pains
This reality
Questions raining down
Drowning me
Closer to the end
The more I see
Rains that touch my soul aren’t cleansing me
Will we save us from this tragedy
Are these cracks dependency
Dark and light come relentlessly
The birds still sing
There’s hope for me
Apr 2018 · 120
Endings and Beginnings
Kenya83 Apr 2018
As quickly as I sinned
Grey moved in

Heavy minutes tense with pressure
Bright white blanket skies

Plump, mirrored drops started decent
Towards darker grey endings

Before beginnings begin
And new stories end
Apr 2018 · 112
Warmth and Light
Kenya83 Apr 2018
The mattress caresses curves
The clouds have cleared
Warmth and light flood bare skin through the window
Feeling these feelings in this moment
You trespass on to my land of thoughts
And I feel more
Apr 2018 · 302
You Are Poetry
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Words escape my mind and my tied tongue
Your uniqueness stuns  
Complexities and hypnotic eyes
And that old cliche
Of butterflies
Rise
You are poetry

Your lips  
That delicately powerful trip
Of your kiss
You touch in midnight blue
Calm as the universe
Before galaxies set off shooting stars
You are poetry

Interpretation, things unsaid  
Pains of hopeless love and untimely death
Sea of planets beneath your skin
Synchronisation, acoustic vibration
A gentle heart, a genius mind
Maybe misunderstood at times
A kindred spirit came to find
You are poetry
Apr 2018 · 248
The Hexagon
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Because you’re in to numbers and I think we both expressed an appreciation for bees.
And because our conversation, when we last met got me reading about geometry, sacred geometry, metaphysics and metaphysical cosmology!!
... something went in along with the copious amounts of alcohol.
Also because the hexagon is found in nature, in DNA structure, in space.
But mostly because the hexagon and the number six symbolises balance, harmony, union, soulful integration, equality and life  
My curiosity is awakened
You ooze inspiration
And although I recognise your symbolic reminders of inevitable mortality, reminders of life, it’s beauty and this moment, can’t hurt.
Apr 2018 · 98
Mindful Analysis
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Words, I crave their salt and sweet satisfaction on my tongue
Tears well in my eyes because of time
Knowledge tastes like childhood vegetables
Loneliness ridicules ridiculous self pity
Anxiety simmers steadily, till my chest bubbles and my skin burns cold
A halfhearted teardrop clings to the corner unafraid of falling
Apr 2018 · 93
Something
Kenya83 Apr 2018
I was meant to become something

I became nothing

I became something

Something weak and strong

Something curious

Something open

To simple miracles

Beautiful happenings

Spiritual awakenings

Something

Non tangible

Something lazy

Something tired

Something less

Something

Something passionate

Something powerful

Something dedicated

Something

Something distracted

Something hopeful

Something trying

Something

Living

Something being

Something learning

Developing

Growing

Gaining

Failing

Something

Compassion runs in my blood

Love isn’t transparent enough

Selfish ego lusts

Kindness combusts

Something
Just words and feels and something
Apr 2018 · 111
Flashbacks
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Intoxicated smiles
Found on the sofa at the back
Intimacy reacts
I can still taste your kisses
Apr 2018 · 172
Metaphorical Collision
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Intoxicated Sakura heights
Freedom fins dance
Black never looked so colourful
Death never became more alive
Eyes sting with happiness
Inward turning souls
Release desire
Apr 2018 · 215
No words
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Words pour from your mouth
as dry wine kisses
Without existence of time
Thoughts translate
to my skin
from your hands
To what was intended
In the beauty
Of authenticity
Apr 2018 · 117
Mermaids Tale
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Lifted from impassioned sea
Where destiny awaits
Silver curls
And deathly rips
Gilled fins and fingertips
Turquoise-greens
Scales that shimmer
Hooked and speared
Dark gets dimmer
The Mermaids tale
Will coexist
With other legends
Who became extinct
Apr 2018 · 178
Aura
Kenya83 Apr 2018
With the frictional strike of a single match
Two full moons in crescent eyes
And forever in your smile
You fire up intensity
Lighting eternity
With crackled insecurities
And contradictories glow
Sunrise and sunset
You emit them both
Inspiration is found here
Perfectly, impossibly flawed
Apr 2018 · 112
Power
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Tsunamis flood my flesh
Internal heat simmers
External skin shivers
Physical reactions happen
The power of imagination
But more compelling
Are your lips
Your hands on my hips
Connecting with my mind
Your eyes fixed on mine
Apr 2018 · 108
Wild Flowers
Kenya83 Apr 2018
Wild flowers creep up your skin
Relentlessly Spring finds life through the cracks
Feeding off your tears
Emitting floral scent
Without consideration for regret
Hope never stopped to think about hoping
Nature never considers early death
Apr 2018 · 319
star
Kenya83 Apr 2018
I sent you a message via shooting star
With faith in gravitations path  
Unable to track delivery
A celestial display of high-velocity
Where unique reference numbers lack
Idiosyncratic constellations react  
Trusting in the universe
My wish upon a star
Travelled lightyears
Disguised as whispers
On your soul
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