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130 · Jul 2019
Moon 'n' Star
Oh, my lover, my love, how do I begin
to tell you my heart's broken open again?
These tears flowing freely all down my face
as I sing at your table, "Amazing Grace."

Could you possibly know what you're doing to me?
The sweet depths of feeling your love has set free?
My heart overflows and my eyes fill again,
I haven't felt this way since I don't know when.

Oh my lover, my love, I have come home to you,
It seems that our hearts' dreams of love have come true.
Could it be that this joy will not pass away,
but keep growing deeper, day after day?

Oh, I would be the star that your moon would embrace!
Let's dance together through oceans of space.
Let's share together our gifts from above, these
gifts from the heavens, our songs of true love.
Copyright 2019 by Michael S. Simpson
All rights reserved by the author.
In memoriam Michelle Collier - R.I.P.
129 · May 2021
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When  it is over between us
I'll read our lines again
but I'll never read
The End
129 · Feb 2022
Why do I
still miss
those eyes
of yours?
I'm
trapped there
even by your
careless
glance.
128 · May 2021
Moonshadow
Surrounded
by a multitude of
stars
moon never turns her
face
away from earth
ashamed
of her
dark side
126 · Aug 2020
Moondance
I sat down to work
until the moon
kissed me.
Then we
danced!
126 · Feb 2022
One
One
Not only
the two of us,
but
everyone
who trusts
God
is one
with us
What will
our children do in the morning?
Will they wake with their hearts wanting to fly,
the way wings
should?

Will they have dreamed the needed flights and gathered
the strength from the planets that all men and women need
to balance the wonderful charms of
the earth

so that her power and beauty does not make us forget our own?

I know all about the ways of the heart-- how it wants to be alive.

Love so needs to love
that it will endure almost anything, even abuse,
just to flicker for a moment.  But the sky's mouth is kind,
its song will never hurt you, for I
sing those words.

What will our children do in the morning
if they do not see us
fly?
This poem was written by Rumi, a Sufi mystic. This translation is from
"Love Poems from God," edited by Daniel Ladinsky, a Penguin Compass book.  I hope God doesn't sue me!
125 · Feb 2022
When I'm alone
I start thinking about
how I would be
if I stopped thinking
125 · May 2021
Choices
You were my best
one. Then why
wasn't I yours?
123 · Feb 2022
I Hope
you have
stopped
criticizing
and
have started
working
123 · May 2021
Good Mornings
This morning feels
beautiful
because you are
here
humming your sweet
melodies
122 · May 2021
My Child
I will teach you to
fly with your dreams
by soaring in mine
122 · May 2021
Autumn Diaries
Gold
leaves
rustle
underfoot,
dropped
from parched
trees that can't
hold their stories
any
longer
122 · May 2021
I'm Not
Don't think I'm a creep
I'm just more like you
than you dare to admit
120 · Mar 2022
Today I saw
the Wizard
meet with
the King
to tell again
the ancient legends
as the sun slips
down
119 · Feb 2022
Okay, Harry
Be magical
and a little
weird
while you
recalibrate
your
magic wand
119 · Mar 2022
Free
Fill the voids,
heal the pain,
walk in the Spirit
once again
119 · Mar 2022
Winter Hearts
Wrapping myself
in our
warm memories,
I let your absence
shiver
next to
the glowing embers
of our love
119 · May 2021
Sometimes
Sometimes
in your eyes
I feel something
connecting us
from
beyond
118 · Mar 2022
The Voice
of your eyes
spoke to the ears
of my heart
118 · Aug 2020
Cyberspace
One in a million who's
at home within your heart--
Why must we be so
desperately far apart?
117 · May 2021
The Steps
The second step
is to pray
to God.
The first step
is to
believe
that he hears you.
115 · Mar 2022
Gratitude
Nothing was helping
me to be positive,
so I asked
gratitude
to uphold
my
attitude.
115 · May 2021
Today
I was
judged
for my actions,
drained
by futile explanations,
and
drowned
by
others'
expectations.
113 · Mar 2022
Knocking
splitting silence
with
devotion
112 · Feb 2022
To Life
Learn to be
thrifty
and yet
be generous
to life
111 · Mar 2022
Untitled
Let your lips know the
feeling of being wanted and loved,
deep within a kiss
110 · Feb 2022
You know
You know you are
falling in love, when
you're falling
up
110 · Mar 2022
Today
I saw
someone
in the mirror
taking me
to the past
to forgive myself
at last
109 · Mar 2022
Excited
because I am back again
I can still breathe your love
into mine
106 · Mar 2022
All I want
is
you
under my blanket
cuddling with me
listening to the rain
outside
104 · Oct 2018
Poetry / Sunburn
Writing poetry is like peeling off sunburned skin:
you tease off the biggest patch you can find
yeah, there! where the itch drove you out of your mind
then next where the skin gets thinner, and clings
what comes off starts shredding, and won't say a thing.
You peel what you can and scrub off the rest
(the thinner the skinner the obscurer it gets)
your poem is what's still burned into your chest
Copyright 2019 by Michael S. Simpson
All rights reserved by the author.
100 · May 2021
It Swings
When the moon sings,
the stars dance,
the heavens shout,
"Glory!"
99 · May 2021
Pyrrhic Victory
I think I have exorcized
the demons in my closet--
I burned down the house.
98 · May 2021
What We Gave
When it is all over
between us
we will always have
what we gave
to love
93 · May 2021
Some Mornings
I feel
your voice
melting my heart
when
we rise together,
singing.
92 · May 2021
Evening Reflections
Don't be overwhelmed by
loneliness,
for God is with you now
to hold you tight
90 · Aug 2020
Things You Want
The things you want
aren't always
what you get
you have gotten things
you can't forget
but I will make you
a giant bet
that your best things
haven't come just yet
88 · Aug 2020
Freed Heart
Easily my tears do flow
remembering times past
I'm happy now to
shed these tears
free to feel at last
87 · Aug 2020
The Way We...
The way waves whisper
the way the sand answers
the way that we
make love
87 · Aug 2020
Karma vs. 69
Karma is like 69:
what you give is what you get.
Karma doesn't distract as much
---at least it hasn't yet.
82 · Aug 2020
Fireflies
Fireflies gather
in the darkening night
to dance by the glow
of their own light
49 · Sep 2018
I believe
I believe in Jesus now
I believe in Jesus now
I'll tell you why
I shout out loud
that I believe,
I do believe
in Jesus now

For I have seen His holy face
I have received
his wondrous grace
All my sins He has erased
I believe,
yes I believe
in Jesus now

My Savior looked me in the eye
His love and power told me why
every knee to Him will bow
I believe,
yes I believe
in Jesus now!
Hear the good gospel music? Sing along, and even better: believe!
Copyright 2021. All rights reserved by the author.

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