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177 · Jun 2018
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
174 · Feb 2018
Internal
Kenya83 Feb 2018
Instinct, desire, life and fire
That burns higher
Consistently fuelled fools
Where there are no rules

I stand in the street
Designed to compete
Despaired by the heat
Of life’s teaching retreat

I’m not weak, I’m often wrong
I seek far from patients song
Appetite for adventure cravingly strong
Time and age not forever long

So take me, I’m here
I’m not living in fear
Lightening I see, thunder I hear
Everything that matters comes from in here
173 · Feb 2019
Read
Kenya83 Feb 2019
Read between lines
Even empty skies
On starless nights
Offers light
From closed eyes
173 · Apr 2018
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
171 · Mar 2019
Love
Kenya83 Mar 2019
I can’t help but love you
And I have no reason for loving you
Except for the love you provoke
I reflect love in your name
The world is solar powered
Daydreaming of bare feet on the terrace
My love heightened for all things  
The ocean, the field, the patterns in the sky, the busying birds...
That list is endless
Like my love for you
170 · Apr 2019
FFS, Your Eyes
Kenya83 Apr 2019
You, with your precious eyes
More wonderful than diamonds
I prefer to compare them to a silky stone
That’s travelled far for its character
One that catches your eye as you walk along the beach with millions more
But this one, this one is special
This isn’t *** luck that I’m crazy in love
With eyes that reduce me to silence
Shyness makes me look away
But one day, one day I’ll be laying on your chest
Looking up through my eyelashes
Studying your face
Working out the journey to this beautiful place
Fingers through your hair, your lips I trace
Your eyes tell me stories
168 · Dec 2017
Smile
Kenya83 Dec 2017
****, your smile
You smile and I come alive
Your eyes, well, they sparkle with so much sincerity my skin shivers

You smile and I’m rewarded, with a gold sticker of dimples and Springtime
Of freshly cut grass, birdsong and warmth

You smile and I smile
I think you might have the most beautiful smile in the world
167 · Nov 2017
Energy
Kenya83 Nov 2017
Electric shot through his body
Sparks fired off her heart
His wired veins pulsated
As the rush of heat zapped her soul
And adrenaline seized their minds
Electrons surged wild  
The curse of heightened senses
Left him vulnerable to pain
Her energy broke his circuit
When she removed her fuse
And walked away
166 · Aug 2017
Sin
Kenya83 Aug 2017
Sin
Night time prowls my throbbing flesh with earnest
Your impassioned promise, at every breath, teases me in to submission
As desire and passion peak,
I dine ardently on sin
166 · Mar 2019
Distraction
Kenya83 Mar 2019
A black sack flys up with dreary breeze
The skyward bird reflects wet pavement
White-grey mountain clouds roll on with weighty sighs
Thoughts on such lovely lips
And the weather could be torrential
But in my mind all calmness
164 · Feb 2019
Rushing to slow
Kenya83 Feb 2019
Saturday night is full
It’s sunday morning where you lay
I hope that you have woken up now
I checked my phone throughout the day
Daydreams of skin on skin feel
Just like the darling buds of May
Spring time filled the air of
This late February day
I’ve dreamed this dream for so long now
I’ve been patient all the way
I don’t know what the rush is
The destination’s here to stay
164 · Mar 2021
She loves you
Kenya83 Mar 2021
"I love you"
she says silently before typing the words to you
She loves you
like long summer days catching grasshoppers in her hands
Like sneaking over the neighbours fence to watch tadpoles morphing into frogs
Like the adventures of the warm dusty ground, looking for lizards
She loves you like her childhood self-belief
The matter of factness that collecting cans from the street and selling handmade things
Would change the world, would save the dolphins and the whales
From Japan, Norway and captivity
She loves you certainly, like the trees she climbed
High, scary
to prove she was stronger than fear
Like the Amber jewel of tree sap and the earthly smell of pine
And things that mattered
She loves you because you have helped her remember herself
164 · Aug 2018
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
163 · Jun 2023
Love Season
Kenya83 Jun 2023
I long for a love I’m yet to meet
‘Cause the one I’ve lost has broken me
Love lies bleeding in my hands
Of memories and unfilled plans

My heart aches and my mind is numb
I’ve cried all night to the rising sun
My endless tears fall like Aprils rain
Mend my broken heart, I pray

The pain it just won’t go away
Melancholy floods my veins
I needed you to feel this pain
I needed you

Clinging to hope, to “one day, “soon”
I cemented my wounds with false promise
One day, some day, well, that didn’t come
We didn’t make it to the seaside

There was no more laughter
There was no more fun
I waited
I waited

The telephone doesn’t ring now
Your voice is left inside my head
With all your broken promises
With all the things you said

I waited
I waited
162 · Aug 2019
It’s All You
Kenya83 Aug 2019
You’re the light in my eyes before they open

You’re the strength of my tea

You’re the joy in my smile

You’re my gratitude

My hope

And my dreams of tomorrow
162 · Nov 2017
I Muted You
Kenya83 Nov 2017
I feel bright,
I see light,
Lifted burden,
Self inflicted to uplifted,
One simple move gave me a whole new
Energy,
A focus on the here and now,
The sky, the ground!
I feel free, unshackled and me!
What a relief!
I’ve been so blind not to see,
I put myself inside a prisoned mind,
I’m looking at the sky,
The sun the clouds,
I laugh out loud,
As I finally see,
The strength in me
The excited , anxious, consumed feeling of waiting for a text that takes too long to come.
161 · Feb 2018
Your Colours
Kenya83 Feb 2018
If you were a colour I’d struggle to discover
One that represented all that’s comprehended
There would be bright and mellow hues, tones of multicolour zones
Depending on multiple factors, you’d transmit watercolour attractors
Technicolour passions formed from synchronised, monochrome fashions
Ever changing patterns, rotating kaleidoscope lanterns
You give your yellow to me, I stare at it till I see
Orange, it’s heated with fire
It cools to purple without losing desire
The passion in your charcoal grey, you shared
And red declared I was prepared
To share tie-dye techniques, however unique
You rinse off your paintbrush in artistic rush
Diluting my balance, for a moment I’m crushed
Then colours touch, creating rainbows and such
Chakras align, bleeding colours my lifeline
161 · Jul 2018
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
161 · Feb 2018
Nothing Lasts Forever
Kenya83 Feb 2018
Nothing lasts forever
I can’t bear those three words
Truth is acceptance
That endings are inevitable
My dog won’t always greet me
You won’t always bring my morning tea
Comforts and consistencies have to end somewhere
Though I know this to be true
It scares me
I’m still frozen with gut-wrenched dread
At the inescapable
Though I wholeheartedly know
Nothing lasts forever
159 · Jun 2018
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
159 · May 2018
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
159 · Aug 2017
That night
Kenya83 Aug 2017
I don't care that she's known you long before I
You'll never do with her what you did with me that night.
We kept the fire roaring despite the outside rain
Even after parting, I was left a ball of flames
158 · Apr 2019
Should We Kiss
Kenya83 Apr 2019
You move like water
Over my body
Your wet mouth enticing waves
Visceral and tangible collide
In to the silk of your skin
In slow motion
Until we reach the shore
Of stillness
156 · Dec 2021
There You Are
Kenya83 Dec 2021
There you go, moving in the wind
I see you, under the Red Kite's wings
I feel your shadow, I hear you sing

There you are, among constellations of the open sky
In eye contact of passers by
Even in the tears I cry

I watch you, in the rug of fallen leaves
You're there, even when I don't believe
You hold me when I find release

I feel you, in the presence of the peeling bark
In the starkness of the lonely dark
Dear Spirit, you're in my heart
155 · Oct 2017
Nourishment
Kenya83 Oct 2017
Your smile is more
Than a craving
Of a sugary quick fix
It’s as essential
To my survival
As water
And food
154 · Mar 2018
Meditative Sea
Kenya83 Mar 2018
Harmonics glide off the violins string and bow 
Without consciousness or deliberate control
Heavy with sorrowful darkness
Lifted on turquoise glow
Eyes close to mimic the graceful song
Breathing controlled, deep and slow
Feeling enchanted grace of rhythmic flow
The deeper I go
Hearing all the separate segments
Complete the whole
Waves like butterflies flutter by
Lifting my soul
153 · Aug 2019
I love your eyes
Kenya83 Aug 2019
Your acorn eyes
Look at me
Brown, earthly

My heart thuds
As all the worlds clocks
Take their last strike

Time ceases
151 · Jan 2018
Grey
Kenya83 Jan 2018
What happened to me?
I think I lost my integrity
Maybe it carelessly fell out of my pocket like the train ticket I lost last night
Perhaps it slowly dripped away
Along the grey pavements above grey skies on grey days filled with dread and grey-blues
I possessed such morality
Or was it naivety?
It was probably naivety
Back then it was all black and white
All right and wrong
Then adulthood came along
My tastebuds adapted with my mind
I now enjoy olives and red wine
I now see more clearly
Black and white doesn’t always come freely
151 · Jul 2019
Growing
Kenya83 Jul 2019
Lying here alone  
I feel more alive
More pain
Sadness
More hope
More peace
Than I felt the entire day
Surrounded by people
Spiritually I’m growing
Leaving the ones I love behind
There’s a blessing in that
I whiteness the beauty
And loneliness of truth
151 · Jan 2018
You
Kenya83 Jan 2018
You
You’re pure inspiration
There's no denying that
How on earth do i converse
The indescribable feelings you unearth
I wish I did possess the words to get this of my chest
Maybe there is no existing vocabulary
Which can effectively portray me
But I can’t just keep it in
I’ll try from deep within
To put this down in words
Though it’s a complicated verse
Perhaps such feelings are not to be expressed
Only intensely felt not shared with the rest
But I was always taught to share
And these feelings can’t compare
To reality or fantasy
It’s an entirely unique entity
149 · Jan 2018
Last Nights Dream
Kenya83 Jan 2018
In my dream last night, you offered you to me
You put your arms around me, I returned the embrace
We walked inside a garden abloom with grace
Adjectives, there are many, but none capable to tell
Of how connection to your skin made me feel
I fell
Straight down a well of smooth silk and clouds
Where romanticism flew with nights shooting stars
And flowers smiled at suns morning dance
149 · Oct 2017
Virtual Embrace
Kenya83 Oct 2017
I could make excuses
Defend my ways
But
I enjoyed the virtual embrace
Your voice
Your face
I was feeling displaced
In a state of haste
I won't deflect the pace

I pictured your hands on my body
And my body in your hands
I longed for foreign lands
Where the seashore lapped the sands
Entwined like our hands
Sea and setting sun become one
Without dusk, dawn would never come
And the song birds wouldn’t have sung
149 · Jun 2019
Forever Foolish
Kenya83 Jun 2019
Am I foolish
Is this love
Am I impatient
Am I in lust

My heart lies bleeding
For your touch
I run to him
You don’t give me enough

Baby I want you
Darling I crave you
I don’t know where I’m supposed to be
How can I feel so deeply

You check them
Before you check me
I can’t give my body
And feelings for free

I wanted this
I admit
But I didn’t expect
To feel like this

Baby I want you
Darling I crave you
I don’t know where I’m supposed to be
How can I feel so deeply

You’re not mine
I realise
But who would I be
If I didn’t believe

Who would I be

If I didn’t believe


148 · Aug 2019
Vibrations
Kenya83 Aug 2019
You are the most beautiful thing to fall upon my eyes

But underneath your flesh and bones

Is where your precious soul does rise
146 · Aug 2018
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
146 · Nov 2017
Physical Illusion
Kenya83 Nov 2017
Your hands are intentionally keen
Though you’re nowhere to be seen
Your soul a glowing sunset
Penetrating heat
Through my bones
Though my eyes are closed
Your energy speaks sensual prose
Your breath lights my flame
Controls the flickers of my frame
I become the universe
We become one
As I pray
For an ever setting sun
144 · Mar 2019
When you find that poem
Kenya83 Mar 2019
See, when that first line picks up speed and carries rhythm
Rises off of the page and off of your tongue
When there’s no rhyme but a beat
You feel it in your chest
Everything lifts, everything feels light or heavy
Where words conjure scenes in imagery
There is hope and satisfaction
And release
143 · Jan 2018
Pretty Cloud
Kenya83 Jan 2018
Oh, petite pretty cloud
You move with elegance and grace
Illuminated by the sun against the canvas of hazy blue
Offering hope to the trailing fluffy parts of grey
Eagerly following for a brighter day
143 · Feb 2018
What Ifs
Kenya83 Feb 2018
I don’t know how to live without you
So many ups and downs we’ve been through
I don’t feel independent, but I’m not sure if that’s right or wrong
We used to walk for hours and drive while singing along
Is boredom inevitable?
Is it just the way things go?
You cling to a security blanket thinking without it you couldn’t cope
But we are adaptable to change and growth
Stood at a crossroad, you can’t choose both
Do you stick to the familiar path you know
Dwelling in ‘what ifs’ glow
Or throw it to the wind
Where nothing’s underpinned
142 · Mar 2018
Love Letters
Kenya83 Mar 2018
She wrote love letters
To a lover never known
She dipped in ink and scribed the notes
With all the things she loved
About a lover never known
141 · Mar 2018
Earth Cries
Kenya83 Mar 2018
Staring at the crescent moon
Knowingly she smiles back
Om becomes everything
Everything becomes me
Molecules dance
The earth spins so fast

I feel luscious rain
As acid pains
The African planes change
Eco systems strained
Greedy gains
As bullets clash with endangered skin

Forests fired to desolate ash
And it’s all just for cash
Murderers hired
For your hearts desired
Civilisation long retired
Humans attack  
Humanity half heartedly reacts

Oceans blue to red
So much blood shed
Arteries cut
Carelessly abrupt
It’ll never be enough
We watch them draw their last breath
Scarlet spreads death
Through lands and through seas
An inglorious disease
Pained to the core
Scarred and sore
Long suffering abusive acts
Our planet finally cracks
Earth cries
And we call ourselves wise
139 · Jan 2021
Prayer to Nature
Kenya83 Jan 2021
I sing my silent prayers, in them includes you
My body shivers, not from the cold, I kiss the morning dew
The trees, they grant me endless love, through the frequency of truth
Tears well in my eyes, I stand and face this life,
of roots and dying leaves, not a moment is there grief
My conversation with the trees brings me peace
139 · Jul 2018
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
137 · Apr 2019
Destiny
Kenya83 Apr 2019
And then my dreams started coming true
Walking bare feet on this pathway to you
Untamed ways, un-manicured trees
I climb in my mind to the peaceful canopy
You smile brighter than the moon
And finally mountain tops bring teardrops
But the superficial ways of a terrible trade
Means your heart is left suspended
Our suspended hearts connected at last
But I talk about your eyes too much
And how your beauty has me speechless
Like deep valleys and rolling hills
Your image thrills and the world beats
With luscious greens and lovely blues
You give me goosebumps
And I’ve not yet mentioned your eyes
I can’t let it lie
I’m falling deep but it’s a voluntary leap
I can swim
Oceans are my destiny
136 · Jan 2018
Dusk
Kenya83 Jan 2018
I needed to rest my kaleidoscope mind
Stop still, realign thoughts entwined
The sun is well set, the sky a lovely blue hue
Daylight has gently retired, generously awaiting night time to turn up for his shift
Street lamps distort the natural flow of time
Birds are singing a beautiful high pitched rhyme
Looking out of the window it could be dusk or dawn
Are the birds confused and singing for a new day
Or singing sweet lullabies
Enticing the silver moon out to play
135 · Mar 2018
My Religion
Kenya83 Mar 2018
My boots crunch in the frozen snow
I feel cold but home
I look up at the trees, in the canopies
It’s like relief
It’s my religion
Nature and the bright white skies
The bark, the leaves
The sounds of peace
Inhaling the gift of purity and life
Flawlessly, effortlessly without pride
Exhaling demons and suffocating feelings
Cleansed and nourished
It’s how I flourish
Nature
It’s my religion
134 · Mar 2019
Words
Kenya83 Mar 2019
You told me to imagine all of my dreams
Ecstasy came and doubled them
I crave every delicate detail over and over again
I fill in gaps with ambience, touch, taste and smell
Words are powerful as hell
133 · Jun 2018
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
133 · Dec 2019
Romance at the Shop
Kenya83 Dec 2019
She said she would admire your lips. Feed you honey and blueberries until her heart stops.

She said “One look from you fires my day. One smile from you, I can take on the world. One whisper on my soul and I die, ‘la petit mort’, over and over and over.”

She told you “Ah, your sweet breath - your tone - your truth. Recital of the dictionary would sound delightful from your mouth.“

She said, “tell him I see him. Tell him I see the child and the man. The confusion and the wisdom. The frightened and the bold. The darkness and the light. The battles and the truth.”

She said, “can’t you feel me? I am with you always, in the depths of your heart. But if you meet me, please leave the dictionary behind. Come with your mouth. Your hands... your guitar. Or come with nothing at all. I’ll love you anyway.”
She said she would admire your lips. Feed you honey and blueberries until her heart stops.

She said “One look from you fires my day. One smile from you, I can take on the world. One whisper on my soul and I die, ‘la petit mort’, over and over and over.”

She told you “Ah, your sweet breath - your tone - your truth. Recital of the dictionary would sound delightful from your mouth.“

She said, “tell him I see him. Tell him I see the child and the man. The confusion and the wisdom. The frightened and the bold. The darkness and the light. The battles and the truth.”

She said, “can’t you feel me? I am with you always, in the depths of your heart. But if you meet me, please leave the dictionary behind. Come with your mouth. Your hands... your guitar. Or come with nothing at all. I’ll love you anyway.”
131 · Aug 2017
Lust Drips
Kenya83 Aug 2017
The candle burns low
As lust drips
Dark shadows cast
And flicker
Your ardent hands entice
With
Tempting touch
As moorish lips discover
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