Best Sympathylonging Poems


Let Not Time Dim the Silver

A red rose
on the page 
of my age

imitating the dance  
of morning wind, as it ripples 
my spirits in waiting

Smell the breath 
of youth and pass it unto her 
the light of time 

for when yours dim 
you shall enjoy hers, glowing
on a sun-kissed stone

Carve love that you’ve never tried 
freeing it, from the pocket of your thoughts
on this red rose, longing for a grasp

‘Tis alone wish
of a lonely heart
and if the wind can hear it...

why can’t you?

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Oceans divide us but I can feel the throbbing,
of his heart where sadness is now dwelling
His trembling lips whispering a sweet smile,
but his eyes betraying a sorrow and heavy sigh.

My fingers longing to reach and touch his hand
and to share with the loneliness of this man
It pains me here that I am helpless somehow
when I want is to stand next to him right now.

(written on December 2, 2010)




Author's Note:

I have written this short poem for someone special.
I'd like to express through this that I was with him 
at times that he was deeply mourning.  I thought 
of sending this to him but I never did. He may or may 
not be able to read this at all. I will leave it to fate. 

With the L.O.V.E.
Teri

We Would Still Seek

Dance in the darkness, my sweetest nocturne
While the trees swing their billowing arms round
And you sing to the sky without a sound
To shake from slumber, each flower and fern.
You call to each shadow with hungry eyes
Penetrating each ghost hidden in leaves.
An aching, longing sigh for what you’ve seen
Always rooted beneath the vacant sky.
The Earth spins around underneath my feet
But your loneliness kept me bound to land.
Caught deep in your world, captive right in hand,
But we need each other to feel complete.
With voices so raw we can’t even speak;
Even if they could hear, we would still seek.


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