Rapturous joy, sets my spirit alight,
Gliding in free-flight, with shear delight,
The frolicking, rollicking laughter, fills the air,
With dancing and happiness beyond compare,
My heart is aflame, no fears in sight,
I'm blown away by sheer delight.
Fire burns my heart is aflame;
The burning desires substance;
Constant are those, burning flames;
I'm ablaze amazed by the cinders;
Ashes to ashes to death,
No longer breath?
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021
Its been a while,
Since iv'e smiled
You remind me of her.
That sounds bad,
But don't be mad
Because your heart is more pure.
Its hard to love
the push and shove
and how it gets so much harder
but seeing your face
and sharing your space,
makes me feel like it started.
This is different,
I feel strange. It's like my psyche has shifted.
Like an ape, all of the sudden becoming mathematically gifted.
My brain cells light up like charged tesla coils
My heart is aflame , and my blood starts to boil
But why? for who?
It's not her. It's for you.
No i can't explain it.
And i WONT detain it.
No rationalizations.
No words to describe it.
I love, therefore i am
My last thought at night,
and my first upon waking.
I love only you. My heart's
yours for the taking.
I offer myself in a
goblet of passion
and tender my reason
sans logic or ration.
For you're the reflection
I see in the mirror.
My heart is aflame.
All my senses are clearer.
My soul's gone from black
to a warm amber hue.
My love is a gift,
that was meant just for you.
My heart is aflame with a burning desire
You are the one who has awoken this fire
I've felt this passion right from the start
My love for you comes straight from the heart
Loves butterflies lead us into a slow dance
Moonlight and stars endorse our romance
I close my eyes but I can still see
The beauty of the woman who now kisses me.
Never in my life have I felt this way before
Our eyes lock when you walk through the door
Thought love at first sight was confined to dreams
You are the love of my life forever it seems
Laid on the sofa you yield to my caress
Expert fingers slowly remove your dress
Forever I'll remember this wonderful moment in time
The consummation of true love when two hearts entwined.
When I’m lying in your arms all I want is you
Making sweet love is all we want to do
Our bodies entwined for all eternity
Together forever is how we will always be
Written by Jan Allison & Darren Watson
23rd May 2014
Submitted to PD's contest Your Best Love Poem
My pen, a Parker, is deaf and dumb
Standing still it cannot hear or speak
When it comes between my finger and thumb
My urges of heart flow through its beak
When my heart is aflame with anguish
And my soul burning in agony and despair
When my body is crying for death-wish
Its symphony is loud and clear
It starts talking when my thoughts provoke it
It starts listening when my fingers press it
It starts gliding when my thoughts push it
And swinging when rhythm of my poems move it
It alone feels the laments of my soul
It alone listens to my dictates, my desires
It alone is abreast with my hidden secrets whole
It alone extinguishes my heart’s burning fires
My quiet little companion of solitude
How I adore you and long for you
My soul is filled with gratitude
You spill your blood on paper in varying black or blue
Promising to keep me alive when death does us apart
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Portugal, June 26, 2013
Winner in August 14, 2013 Contest Sponsored by Poet Destroyer A
Emptiness inside is all i seem to ever feel,
things around me are starting to become less real.
Living in my own world all the time,
to hide from lies that seem to become as bad as war-crime.
Sometimes i feel like i have to bleed just to know i'm alive,
waiting for someone that understands to arrive.
It's like my heart beats once every hour,
out of breath no strength, no power.
No strive or interest to carry on,
wouldn't make much of a difference if i was even gone.
The world would still be spinning,
and thing's would eventually again be the same,
already walking dead, my heart is aflame.
Burning with anger
for no reason at all.
My eyes sting with tears,
that i wipe before they get the chance to fall.
Does my heart have the courage to look within myself to find a light?
For now I have to bleed just to know i'm alive,
So i wonder if my heart bleeds to prove i'll survive.
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