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Love Glimmer -

I've been listening to your eyes 
for what feels like eons,
noticing how the rain cries
unto your purposeful lips,
excited also, by the sounds of your
beautiful breaths in the smooth sunlight,

Tapping the pool of love blood,
rippling rose restless
to the edge of a frozen bloom
where the youth of our love wonder stood,
speaking to one another through playful madness,
tempting tragedy to resume
so to confess innocence in the fire flood
of the raw poetry pulsing in divine mood,

I find you in the fragrance of warm faith 
and your eyes sing of sorrow unsold to sin,
palmprints upon our hearts bespeak a dangerous heat 
that says love born of longing will never be safe,
for a moment we rue what's true about heartbeats lonely and thin,
You pull me within a hue of genius and clue of spirit discrete 
revealing a teaching of soul engineering 
where the meaning of living
is loving the bleeding
of pure beauty fleeting  -

J.A.B.  02-19-2025

Copyright © Justin Bordner | Year Posted 2025

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Kelly Deschler Date: 6/18/2025 5:54:00 PM Isn't it amazing how the eyes can speak without saying a word... Wonderful writing, as always... So good to see you and read your work again, Justin :) Login to Reply

Alesia Leach Date: 4/11/2025 2:24:00 PM Stunning, inspired to flicker back: Flicker Back I read the language of your flame in whispers the world never taught me where every breath leaves ash on the soul and love glows just before it burns. You speak in storms, in echoes of rose and ruin, where every pulse is both prayer and dare, and I find myself not lost, but undone. The beauty is brutal, but oh, how it sings this art of bleeding bright beneath a twilight of truths too tender for silence. I don’t fear the flicker, I answer it. Login to Reply Justin Bordner Date: 4/12/2025 12:54:00 PM The phantasmagoria of your flicker is a gallery of gemstones on the pulsing walls of my intellect Alesia...Justin

David Crandall Date: 3/5/2025 9:24:00 AM wish I could write this way...like the last three lines Login to Reply

Ink Empress Date: 3/3/2025 6:07:00 AM This is such a soul stirring poem dear justin, I wrote for your contest too inspired by the line, its a very evocative line, and youv written so well for your own prompt. I love especially the line “ and your eyes sing of sorrow unsold to sin,” that speaks volumes, the sacredness of seeing beyond and the innocence that floats within, how well youv depicted! This is truly a very touching poem and i love your assonance and alliterations! You do them very well! Pleasure reading you today. Sending you light always Login to Reply Justin Bordner Date: 3/3/2025 10:22:00 AM Your excitement and insight pleases me very much Poetess. You possess a very unique talent. Love knows your language...J.A.B.

Laura Breidenthal Date: 3/2/2025 4:04:00 PM Instant fav here!!! - I've always been in love with your words, Justin - your mind, the way you sense, feel along the lines. I'm still reeling as I write this, my mind spinning. "so to confess innocence in the fire flood of the raw poetry pulsing in divine mood," Gorgeous lines - brilliantly divine light-inducing piece. I also love "love born of longing will never be safe". - ahh Justin - you are so good at the "soul engineering." Always, Laura Login to Reply Justin Bordner Date: 3/3/2025 10:07:00 AM You are Love's lasting pulse Laura, you are that beauty becoming ever new...Justin