Your glance thrills deep to my marrow,
As if struck by love’s tingling arrow
your gaze hides a love
entrenched deep within your heart
peeking through the veil
a shy glance that holds my world
like dahlia blooms all seasons
Loving From Afar
Staring at you even only from a distance
Is enough for me even without a chance
Your presence I always got from a glance
Making my heart comes out to dance
Suitor of a dream, catching a midnight
Sailor in the sea, waiting for a twilight
Breaking the horizon, nearly left to right
Loving from afar is like losing on a fight
The hundreds of but, what if’s, and maybe
Are the cycles of love and what it can be
It may be romance, subtle, or tragedy
Just like loving you without knowing me
But no courage to show the feelings inside
Doubts are dominating with fears alongside
Beats of the heart doubled like a riptide
But I will always here loving by your side
An angel glanced at me today
and as an angel's glance should be
it pierced my cloistered heart so deep
so ceased it for a moment's beat
and yet it also raced, this heart,
that angel owned since yet we met.
For whether 'tis the early dawn
or present clouded sunset days
my angel owns me with her glance
It was just a glance, a spark that locked me in the prison of my thoughts,
a hazy dream that repeats every night like the refrain of a lost soul,
never close, yet never far, you were a constellation illuminating every corner,
I found you in crowds and empty rooms, your face lived in every reflection of my gaze.
You were never truly there, but I was, feeling the vibration of your every smile,
in the silence of my tears was born the echo of longing, a symphony of silent suffering,
you remained a stranger, an unsolved enigma, I unraveled like a dream at dawn,
you never saw me, but I built sandcastles around an ephemeral smile.
Sometimes I laugh at myself, other times my eyes betray my heart like windows to a hidden world,
it wasn't love, but just a search for meaning on a distant, illusory horizon,
a labyrinth of the soul in which I got lost seeking you, seeking myself.
The deepest pain is not that you left, but knowing you were just a mirage,
a dance of shadows on the wall of my soul, leaving behind an eternal void,
an echo of a presence that was never real, but burned like a falling star.
One glance at your face
Saw your eyes,
outer space.
Saw your smile,
heartbeat race.
A Perfect mixture,
love by a glance.
I watch you walking,
You caught me by surprise.
I almost dropped to the floor
looking into your eyes,
the whole world stopped.
I need to give you a try.
A Perfect mixture,
love and eyeing.
Gods creativity is at display,
You drew this girl with a pen of flame.
I looked again and there she reigned.
A Perfect mixture,
loves now ingrained.
She’s pretty like a house in Spain.
My heart took a picture,
now she’s framed.
And now it’s a matter of time,
I can’t get you out of my brain
My love please just be mine
Perfect mixture,
love in mind.
I’ll try my best,
Please give me a try,
Don’t let this love fail,
I don’t want to cry.
Oh no, you said no,
is it my face?
Oh no, you said no,
this feeling I can’t shake.
But just know i’ve tried.
I would’ve returned for one last dance,
but because I meant nothing,
you gave him a chance.
A Perfect mixture,
love by a glance.
As I conjugate my verbs I lock eyes with the one person I want to see. If I catch her looking back is she looking at or through me?
Her scent assaults my nostrils and I can feel the sweat begin to pour. If she sent her scent my way does she want to send me more?
Could I begin to understand flirting if I view it as a game? If I lose the game I was taught does the teacher take the blame?
I've tried to understand the opposite sex, but to no avail. It's very lonely in my head and my heart is just as frail.
CBT helped in no way as I'm just as sweaty when I try to tell you I feel the same way.
Love caught in a glance
Is amidst admiration
And breathless anticipation
A desire to have and hold
Let love flow like a river
From infatuated eyes
Covered by vulnerable heart
To keep close
And not let go
looking down on you
you're crashing waves foaming
in anger you roar
They say you'd know it,
In first glance,
It's a game of chance.
But we weren't even friends ,
Back then,
When i use to call my usual bluff,
And all my friends roll their eyes,
Saying "girl,that's enough".
Back when,
I never noticed what color was his shirt,
Or what does he do or doesn't ,
They say you'd know when it's love,
I never not.
I didn't.
When he passed by me,
Or became subject to my eyeline,
When I made fun of his friend,
Or when he spied mine.
I never knew it'd be so fun,
I never knew I'd be in so love.
And then he landed in my life,
Like a feather fallen from sky,
And I couldn't say "I can't ".
Since then it's been like a dream,
Like I've forseen,
In my wildest predictions.
They say you'd know it,
In first glance,
It's a game of chance.
But we weren't even friends,
Back then.
For last glance
The family lined up to say
Their good-byes and that's
When a blind man
Comes to close
He falls and knocks
Over the casket
The dead man rolls out
Onto the floor, then opens
Up his eyes and
Then tells the blind man
To watch where the hell
He’s WALKING!
Every second
an infinity happens
—in relativity
(West Philadelphia: January Archive, 1973)
would be wonderful
what we saw was at first glance
they must have seen me
Many are the present tense;
Mostly humbly passive glance;
Morbid finds casual stance;
Mainly passing visions glance;
6/21/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2023?
She dances she glances
Beyond her shoulder
She peers
Looking back
Her beautiful smile
She poses in the mirror
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He stances he chances
Hoping she’s bolder
He cheers
Bold attack
His heart to beguile
He beckons her come nearer
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