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Robert Purvis Dec 2012
Porcelain moonlight
Through these winter clouds
Silver light shining
Through wispy doubts

The moon casting
Tones of sobriety
Clearing my head
Of intoxicating
Melancholy attitude

Here I am
In the silver light
Casting a silhouette
Over the carefree purity
With doubts and anxiety

And so I bathe
In this silver
Shower of light
Pure and undefiled
Robert Purvis Dec 2012
Once proud
Sullen trees
How sadly hang
Their sullen leaves

Long lived
This mighty oak
But soon it is
To finally croak

Memories sweet
Memories stale
If only it could
Share it's tale

Hark! How it would sing
And how it should weep
A life well lived
His wisdom deep

Lonely now
But not before
Companions plenty
Alas, no more

One by one
Birds took flight
All flying south
To warmer light

And so left
The cheery children
But so remained
The loyal Falcon

For him
Life was dear
And for this tree
He did care

Oaken memories
Days of joy
His best friend
Was but a boy

This boy was young
He couldn't pretend
Doomed he was
To outlive his friend

All he wanted
Until the End
Was to be there
Through thick and thin

His last winter
Has arrived
Death of a tree
It made us cry

On this night
The sun set right
The spirits ready
To perform the rite

Deep chanting
Whispering wind
The tree was ready
No sin left to rescind

Shining brightly
The silver moon
And with the tree
It did commune

Softly singing
In charming harmony
Playing proudly
His past so truthfully

Colors faded
Leaves fallen
The trees final day
Has come and gone
First draft....maybe revise it later?
Robert Purvis Dec 2011
3 things
a man creates
happiness
a profit
beauty

every day
we choose
to create

every day
we sacrifice one
for another

profit for happiness
happiness for beauty
beauty for profit

it is a strange
and difficult task
to balance
the three
but to be a man
demands balance

to sacrifice balance
to sloth and greed
is the greatest crime
a man can commit
upon himself

so every day
we choose
Robert Purvis Oct 2011
You whisper in my ear
I blush at your idea
I beam ear to ear
Don't lie
I know you are too

Fifteen minutes
That's all that fate allows
It's ok
It beats regret

Slip through the door
Skip the elevator
Stairs are faster
Out to the cool night air
Fate is brisk

Down the block
Take a left
Cross the street
Pass the dorm
Across the bridge
Here's the place

The moon gleaming
Off the pond
Where the only witness
To our moment of true passion
Is the geese
So elegant and calm

Pulling you towards me
Sweet embrace
Feel it?
My heart racesĀ 
Who's is faster?
Lean in
Hear the breeze?

Fiery heat
Our lips meet
Life is soo sweet
I must be asleep

I'm in another world
Passion unparalleled
Rapture unimaginable

Times up

And just like that
A moment of passion
Is lost to the ages

Though...
Tis better than
A lifetime of regret
An ode to 15 minutes of rapture
Robert Purvis Aug 2011
Relativity
Sensibility
If you ain't got perspective
And you ain't reactive
Then you aren't proactive

These words only have meaning
If you make them meaningful

Advice
should be a vice
Get your daily dosage
So in your old age
You can be part of the new age
The thoughts of many
Has wisdom uncanny
If you ain't ready
And you aren't steady
Then you lose yourself
To the crowd
Robert Purvis Aug 2011
Beauty isn't the number
on your bra strap
Nor the number on your IQ test
Hell it ain't the number
On your bank statements either

Not the number on your waist line
Or the amount of teeth you have
Not how many people
Laugh at your jokes or have your number

Beauty is the room in your heart
The space you allow
For all people
All creeds
All religions
All colors
All living things

Beauty is the respect
You have for yourself
And others

Beauty is the strength
To stand up for those
Who are being tread upon

Your actions
make you beautiful
Not your body

Your beauty is what you make of it
Robert Purvis May 2011
Soft
Sweet
Sensuous
She beckons me
with a wave of her hand
Graceful
Seductive
The skin of her chest
Warm against my own
The Flurry of Romance
swelling and engulfing

Her eyes hiding behind
Tender locks of hair
Golden as the sunset
Her eyes glisten
In the moonlight
With the glow
And fervor
Of a true
Woman

I dissolve in the moment
Consuming every passionate
Second
Of this dream

I whisper in her ear
Soft words of passion
The words only I
Can tell her
She let's out a giggle
The kind that sweetens
Even the most bitter
Of hearts
With a smile to match

I melt away
To a world of dreams
One I wish never
To wake from
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