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Trees reach up
The leaves reach out
The roots grow deep

Thus is my love for you

Plant your feet in my soil
Taste the salt of my soul
Place your future willingly

Thus your love for me

Sing the chorus of every leaf
Waving in a tempest tossed
The choir in green goes aloft

Thus our love is forever more
i is small and breathless
to wit when gazing at sunsets
or a tiny reflection in those green eyes
may cause a lapse in
correct english that glance may
pause my second favorite *****
from beating
I get a lot more short
or longer more
off key poetically
and gasp breath holding
when you hold me.
after cutting timber
at the top of the hill
I waited for you
not long enough for the magpie’s
wing-feather to fall from the conifer
and then your silhouette
along with the sunset
struck me
and drawing closer
your smile
drawing closer
Martin Challis © 2011
www.martinchallis.com
 Nov 2014 Shrinking Violet
ryn
Give me a minute
To read the stars
Lamenting in their stories
Their laboured twinkling far and sparse

Give me this moment
To stumble and swoon
My branches reaching for
The faraway moon

Give me a while
To be one with the universe
Hear the colliding planets
As they spill their mournful verse

Give me some time
To plot my rightful place
Within my uncharted galaxy
And collapsing space...
 Nov 2014 Shrinking Violet
tori
every year
when the leaves have fallen
and the sun has disappeared
you find your way back to me

snow falls from the clouds
and into my mind
freezing all consciousness
and forgetting common sense

it seeps into my heart
and fills the cracks you made
each crevice
filled with naive hope
despite the cold bitterness
that is upon it

it fills each lung
the left
and the right
until I can no longer breathe
without you by my side

and each year
when the leaves have fallen
and the sun has disappeared
you find your way back to me
winter in your veins;
and I follow blindly
thinking this time,
things have changed.
A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head,
                    A girl mad as birds

Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
                    Strait in the mazed bed
She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds

Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
                    At large as the dead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.

                    She has come possessed
Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall,
                    Possessed by the skies

She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust
                    Yet raves at her will
On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears.

And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
                    I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.
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