Best Dampness Poems

Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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'Tis now known why the Willow weeps, 
a tragedy of love, its memory keeps.
For once a young man and young maid, 
on tender grass, beneath...

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The endless rainy days and nights
Leaving cold dampness in the air
Only grey clouds within my sight
Any form of happiness feels so rare

My thoughts and dreams...

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In the dampness of those unslept sheets I find my solace 
between the linear moments when you held my breath 
and the last time we...

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The Good Girl

Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car,...

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Shades of pink paint the sky
gentle waves kiss my feet
return again to the sea
seagulls cry

Sun rises to bring the day
the dampness of the night
fading away
a...

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We stroll beneath the Eiffel Tower,
          Caught amidst an autumn shower,
     ...

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in autumn’s dampness
a moth of fervent purpose
     becomes another's-
  diamond lattice glinting
  before a hunter’s moon...

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they warned me
against extremes
intensity must not be indulged
"Flying in between
is your safety scene
not too high
not too low
don't look too longingly below
don't fly too close
to the...

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She sat in the moonlight, her back to the bay,
Absorbed in thoughts of her own destruction.
A fortnight ago she had come to the rock;
At the...

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Aye and ’tis a bonnie glen

And for us the Laird’s enclave

Dinna fush the soldiers’ menace

‘Tis this moment that He gave.

And we gaither ‘neath the stars

And...

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This you see is a draft
Minds little notes of lines and verse
In dribs and drabs
In prose, I stab and stab

Repeating oft said words
Expressions rehashed to...

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A is for alertness so you know what's going on.
B is for the brain freeze you get before the dawn.

C is cardiopathy so you can...

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The Magic of this Night


My precious love, my sweetest joy, please come to me this night
Make my beating heart your own to set my world...

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