#josephine
for Joscephine Gomez
I quietly closed the door behind me and stepped inside
Where several souls had preceded me.
A painter stood by her easel by the south door,
There was a poet seated at her desk.
A Buddhist scholar stood before an open tome
and a lyric soprano softly hummed her warm up patterns.
Just then another soul entered the room and asked,
“Who are these people and how did they get here.”
I answered, “they are all called Joscephine
and they have come from the stars
bearing gifts to heal us, encourage us
and light our ways with kindness and wisdom.
May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM UTC
Give me a smile, that I may build on your assurance,
Kiss me, that I may have to thy kind heart entrance,
Love me less, and see how tumultuous life could be,
Give thy command, and see my loyalty to thee.
In thine absence, mine heart cannot from thee depart;
A moment's departure would rend my world apart.
I recall that very day I beheld thy face;
A lasting memory I will forever retrace.
That Sunday when thine eyes did my emotions disarm;
The day mine heart responded to thy Love's alarm,
The day you sat upon mine heart's epicentre,
To govern my feelings from their very centre.
Josephine my love, I bequeath my self-will to thee,
Let me thy world share, and make thine own tumults mine,
And come in to my own world, for all I have is thine.
Dec 15, 2022
Dec 15, 2022 at 4:56 PM UTC
To what shall I liken thee?
An angel in realms above,
a mermaid in Oceans beneath,
a costly stone in the fiercest
contention sought for,
or even a costly diamond in the
earth's elusive epicentre buried?
Your beauty is a turning point
reference in your amazing book
of chronicles.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Oct 2, 2021
Oct 2, 2021 at 10:04 AM UTC
I've never liked my name,
so I tell you to call me Josie.
The O, an arc over the roses of my childhood
the garden in the front yard
where I fell asleep listening to Ravi Shankars' sitar.
Slipping, dead to the world, among the night blooming jasmine.
A beautiful thing.
Tonight,
future uncertain,
the stone weight of your head, adrift in dream on my hip,
feels a comfort to my blues.
A beautiful thing.
Napoleon for his Josephine,
can feel
the breath that you leave heavy on my thigh.
A beautiful thing.
Nov 2, 2019
Nov 2, 2019 at 2:48 AM UTC
Yesterday israfael came again
Took a lovely soul,
and made earth weep
Rest well Josephine,
give that blissful smile to the Lord.
Jul 7, 2018
Jul 7, 2018 at 7:25 AM UTC
Laying naked in bed
Confusion filled heads
Your moaning sounded like Gods voice
Reminding me that I'd one day visit hell
And when you left me
I finally understood what he was talking about
May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM UTC