with tit-for-tat,
we met for fierce chit-chat-
tête-à-tête, fingers fought
pat-a-pat, rat-a-tat,
with drum roll dice
I tell my wife’s choice of spouse is fine,
She feels as if she is on cloud nine.
I tell I’m a zero in this art,
She thinks she’s so smart ~
A wife so benign!
Two strands as of d n a, cellestialy frayed, in heavens test' no sleep now digressed.'
By power unrivalled, shot through space
Glistening in attraction, from jupiter to
Venus they race..Twirled in cosmic gusts
Severe.' There is re-contact.' A winding..
Where the finish beckons, seared' past sunbursts flaring
Severe.' Transmution of energy, in the rifling run, tighter in oscillation, two again become one .'
A face in the crowd
Eyes meeting slightly
Approaching to speak
Beaming so brightly
Love is immersing
Transfixed by the romance
Kisses are fleeting
Embraced in this last dance
Hearts will be broken
Resulting in tears
Beyond reparation
Facing their fears
Line of Inquiry: In form polarities merge in the heart
The distant sun glows through the clouds
on a November day as if a candle in a room
I feel vibes of someone I once loved
She’s now, elsewhere in another town
I am the sun
I am the clouds
a chorus of word unsaid
This is my time I say A cat lies at the top
of the stairs as my well-lived life plays
in my mind Downstairs a housemate sleeps
and I find it is hard to live with someone
I am stillness of the morning
I am the story waiting to be told
the day that lingers outside the door
A voice says I have lived many lives
It says I have many more left inside
The tragedies and joys of years linger
the woman in college who was there for me
My heart bears memories
the friends with me in spirit
a moment of silence so loud
that trees outside whisper
as leaves turned color
rustle in gusts of wind
In the amidst of calm and chaos, we sat
Side by side, for the last time
Holding onto the quiet whispers, of where we are at
As we let the moment sublime
We built our castle, as each grain clap
Our laughter in sight, our hands in rhyme
Knowing the tide would wash through that
Yet loving the loss, worth the climb
We watched as the ocean reclaimed our work of heart
By that, it's time for us to part the line
Though the waves might've pulled us apart
Our promise stays to build a sandcastle one more time.
Benign Bliss Burn
The kindling catches where opposites meet
light shadow bitter sweet the indrawn breath
before the plunge my ribs crack open like a seed
split by its own green urgency this is not death
but something rawer the body saying yes
to its unmaking watch how fire gentles
what it takes the way August burns the valley brass
and still the grasses bow grateful every particle
remembers its first fusion that stellar Yes
before the cosmos learned the word for No
So when your hand finds mine in the downpour
when the charge between us grounds and grounds again
I recognize this the lightnings tender violence
the hearts insistence that all breaking is a door
we are the rain becoming steam becoming rain
each form a forgetting each forgetting deliverance
The blaze says soften the wound says more
and breath by breath I learn the ancient discipline
of burning without smoke of heat that holds no scorn
of standing in the fire until the fire is worn
Benign bliss burn
Latent as the spring bulb, cowering neath the snow
Yet ardent as the puppy plays, the growing inner glow
What is this wakening energy, where have these thoughts been hiding?
Internal fire, ferocious flame, your secret now confiding
I finally open my eyes
Perhaps for the very first time
There is a calmness buried here, that I had long forgotten
My lost long friend, I do depend, to you my door is open
The shout of silence stirs me, it’s echo kills the drama
I don’t resist, I still my lips, and to love’s flame surrender
The end of darkened duty
The untold whispered beauty
Interconnection, no distraction, let the suffering leave
I face my fear, hate engineered, the call of doubt relieved
My glowing grace, I amplify, illumine natural story
Hell’s chapter closed, His tome composed, in essence and of Glory
Languid love learn
Benign bliss burn
Honey light pools
in my collarbone
this slow golden ache,
like swallowing laughter
backwards until my ribs hum.
Someone should bottle this fever,
this sugar-bright bruising
where joy pressed too hard:
tender and electric and mine,
all mine.
Line of inquiry:
“In-form polarities merge in the heart
One that became two becomes one again
Breath by breath feeling bliss ignition start
God’s grace in-pours as we dance in the rain”
Finally God has answered passionate prayers
Was alone until I met you in my heart on a dare
As two souls in the beginning emerald excited
We became one, merged so denim delighted
Rain like melodies fall as if to bless baptize
I feel as if I’m from a rib in your side
Breath by breath we have taken sacred step
Engaged to marry with our Father’s help
Ignition silver starts in our synchronized heart
Making a commitment in the light despite dark
"In-form polarities merge in the heart
One that became two becomes one again
Breath by breath feeling bliss ignition start
God’s grace in-pours as we dance in the rain”
One
Meets one
Three emerge
Three lives joined but
Separate in ways
One emerges to meet one
One meets him and finds she's loved
Yet, those two lives encompass more
All the ancestors that were before
Does the weight of them bare down heavily?
In-form polarities merge in the heart, One that became two becomes one again. Breath by breath feeling bliss ignition start, God’s grace in-pours as we dance in the rain. Not passion’s blaze, but a quiet flame. the kind that hums beneath the ribs and bone. It doesn’t consume; it reclaims, turning ache into a sacred tone. In the hush between pulse and name, only love remains, utterly alone.
Line of inquiry:
“In-form polarities merge in the heart
One that became two becomes one again
Breath by breath feeling bliss ignition start
God’s grace in-pours as we dance in the rain.” By Unseeking Seeker
I admit my ignorance
along sovereign omniscience...
as heart confesses skepticism
midst unbelief's attack
on two-flesh-becomes one...
Since despite exhortation to open heart again
human nature struggles
carnality persists with lustful enticement
wrestling against my conscience
conquering will to defy
romantic exuberance
due to adversaries' allurements...
until guilt succumbs toward
submission and surrender-bliss~~~
Now, I know along lovingkindness forbearance
that God's nay is His blest yea
for my triumphant best upon His compassion's zest...
Indeed, joy reigns when we care and share
as peace prevails when we reach-out without doubt and pout.
Listen to her sing
Shameless
Wearing the dress
I got her years ago
From a thrift store
In Vegas
It's yellow and red
Its awful
She pulls it off
Shameless though
Inspiring as she sings
The song is so bad
The Shame Song
By Alexandra Blakely
She starts undressing
And moving towards me
I feel my face turn red
And she disappears
My limbs unlax,
stress leaking from my body and
collecting like a basin of a
candle’s freshly melted wax;
One inhale of the plastic casket,
which burns judgingly in my back pocket,
is enough to dredge up the relaxation
my dreary, dramatic life has lacked,
smacking me in my temples
with a dopamine-injected hand.
An inhale, a flurry of smoke,
smolders holes in my lungs
until it constricts and chokes
me, until its disguised benignant nature
reveals its true form;
Stimulants create my deliquesce,
allowing my brain much-needed bliss,
but in a fine, descript disclaimer
written in purposefully disappearing ink, it’s
benevolence whispers addiction.
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