I want to be closer
As close as your breath
The heartbeat that separates
The living from death
A touch as electric
As life flows, it seems
This story is written
In pages and reams
I want to feel whispers
So near they are warm
Assurance and promise
The shelter from storm
Safe, caring nuzzle
Intimate speech
Gentle and loving
No poem can reach
Caress of a mother
A hug from a friend
The presence of hope
That no fear can contend
I want to be mindful
Hold the words in my head
For the silence of closeness
Says far more than is said
"I've had to be silent for so many years,
as I've learnt their ears are no longer open,
even within their act of care,
I've always been silent towards their own sounds that are empty towards my mind, as not even one has heard my words to have entered their minds to care."-Ds-
With love conspire, dispersing joy
Agendaless embrace
Come on one and all, don’t be coy
Life no puzzle to lace
Each moment to moment
Invite the bliss current
Enhancing joy quotient
Our heart afire
With love conspire
28-December-2021
Quietus
Let us conspire with pulse divine
To stand here now erect
Head and heart, with love throbs align
Geometry perfect
If we choose, we can be
Here now instantly free
In playful, blissful spree
For joy aspire
Let us conspire
03-October-2021
Quietus
The Truth They Command
What they say! What they do! What they consume!
The truth will out, what they conspire
About the events they make transpire!
What their ideas are. The plots they scheme thru
What they own and using their power.
Can never be questioned, never found out,
How they are hidden. They keep mysterious,
But with thought, it’s ripped from the oblivious:
As simply it is, they are them, excluding us.
********. ********. *******. **********
(c) sally Young Eslinger 1/2/2021
Sunrise, Heaven And Nature Conspire!
At sunrise, when morn breaks into sweet day
Darkness,eases into another far lost realm
Light returns to splendor in its bright way
Sun-ship glowing,celestial giant at the helm!
We that rise up to see this wondrous event
soak in its beauty, holding its glory fast
Our future embraced and our past thus spent
each day's memories and hopes sail at last!
Heaven and Nature conspire to give that gift
hours await to explore life's great dreams
Darkness fled,giving again blessed day shift
full of promises riding magnificent streams!
At sunrise, when morn breaks into its sweet day
Earth gives man more time to love, dance and play!
Robert J. Lindley, mid-70's
Old sonnet, perhaps mid/late 70's.
Had no date on it.. Certainly was at an
optimistic time in my young life.
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