January Desire Poems

You make me feel so…
I just can’t find the words to express.
My poetic ingenuity, fails me thus.
Maybe I should just try my hand at painting.
Let’s...

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Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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Red is the flavor of passion and desire
The taste of a kiss that sets your soul on fire
Red is the spice that tingles your tongue
Heat...

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Author Dana Redricks
January 23, 2024

I hear the trumpet, its resounding blast drawing near,
The King approaches, nothing in this world remains as clear.
The stage is set,...

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A Cruel Twist of Fate

Silent rendezvous
Destiny’s cruel twist of fate
Lost chance forever


Love’s Chance

Whispered in the breeze
Meeting place but I’m alone
Love’s chance slips away


Empty Bench

Time slips...

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Baiting 
a feeling

Passion 
is tracked

Luring
the moment

Setting
the trap

Eyes
look upon you

Cage
set on fire

Death
in the ashes

Preying
— desire

(The New Room: January, 2024)
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I had leaned on the bar of the balcony, when suddenly
My eyes and my mind have captured, from far away
A silhouette creeping down the steps...

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When We Woke, Suddenly Thinking We Had Died And Went To Heaven

O' that aroma, jasmine fragrance from her hair
She virgin goddess I an uninformed young...

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poisoned pawn
temptation
look again

fears bemuse
desires spike
fearsome storm

mindful eye
tranquil heart
is immune

28-January-2023
Tricube...

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lament not
what’s downstream
be here now

desire not
mere objects
bliss beats beep

God’s life pulse
resounding
throbs within

25-January-2023

Tricube...

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When there be no agenda on the shelf ~
Taking God's hand, life plays out by itself

24-January-2023...

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In the anchorage of the mundane mind, 
detached from the principled roots
by the dislodging drive of sequential desire,
untamed instincts envelope the senses.

As the needle of...

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If we but cease to cling
to that that comes and goes,
simply by being still,
all’s enabled if we
surrender egoic will.

If we but cease to cling
to thought...

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We’re in a movie, so let us enjoy ~
Stagnate nowhere; let not desires decoy

19-January-2023...

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We offer no lodge for desire or fear ~
What's there to seek when there is no one here

17-January-2023...

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